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by pushpop 7y ago
I’m the U.K., most of the arguments made against the EU were either not related to the EU or even completely made up.
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by pushpop 7y ago
Just because there are other also causes of death it doesn’t mean we should just give up trying to prevent obviously avoidable causes. By your logic we might as well give up trying to cure cancer because more people die in road accidents.
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by pushpop 7y ago
I’m not suggesting every gun owning American goes out looking for people to kill. All I’m saying is guns were designed to kill. You agree with this yourself since you raised the point about hunting. I mean when was the last time you killed
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by pushpop 7y ago
That’s a logical fallacy. Killing some with a skirt is misuse. Killing some with a device that was purposely made to kill someone isn’t misuse. It might also be self-defence, man slaughter or any or a multitude of other things but you’re
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by pushpop 7y ago
I find it crazy that we, as a society, campaign for equality in one breath then invent completely fictional biological differences in the next.
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by pushpop 7y ago
Maybe; but it’s an educated one. People who see a distinction are operating on outdated and sexist sensibilities rather than tackling the anatomical differences behind the distinction. What if the girl is masculine and is flat chested and h
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by pushpop 7y ago
You could kill someone by drowning them in water but that doesn’t mean water should be illegal either. The distinction being that water and skirts are not weapons. They serve a very practical purpose. Guns serve no purpose other than to sho
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by pushpop 7y ago
Anything is a weapon if you use it like one. However some things are actually designed to be weapons. It’s insane that people make the kind of argument you make because clearly there is a different between something that isn’t designed to
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by pushpop 7y ago
Indeed. But nobody is advocating a ban of water pistols, potato guns or other toys. Just the stuff that are actually lethal weapons.
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by pushpop 7y ago
It’s not just Europe though. For example Australia has similar sensibilities too. Maybe a more accurate description might be: countries predominantly atheist verses countries which are not. Regardless of you want to define it, a female nipp
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by pushpop 7y ago
Apples aren’t specifically designed to kill people. You don’t have mass school shootings where dozens of kids are attacked by apples and suicides caused by apples are significantly fewer than those by guns. The two aren’t even remotely equa
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by pushpop 7y ago
You’re getting downvoted yet you’re making a very clear point of inequality. Maybe this is where the American (Facebook) and European (myself) cultures differ but here it’s perfectly acceptable for women to be topless in much the same way a
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by pushpop 7y ago
Whether it’s 10 years, 20 years or 30. I don’t think it makes much difference after 10 in terms of the level of relevant expertise you’d expect. Particularly when you factor in staff leaving, getting promoted, etc and new engineers joining
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by pushpop 7y ago
I don’t think a lack of a browser was an impediment for Plan9 nor Oberon when you look at when they were released. It was more likely the momentum was already behind UNIX and similar platforms. Enterprises already had solutions to hard prob
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by pushpop 7y ago
Apple haven’t been working on iOS longer than Linux has been around. It’s true that iOS is based on macOS which is based on NEXT (of various capitalisations), FreeBSD and a few other platforms. But Apples direct involvement starts at macOS
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by pushpop 7y ago
It depends where your benchmark is. Writing a browser that passes acid tests and supports all the standards (old and new) as well as the sites that aren’t standards compliant but users might still expect it to work; that is an insane hard t
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by pushpop 7y ago
The problem of starting again becomes harder with each passing year because you have more hardware to support, more complicated software that needs porting and higher expectations from users about what a modern OS should behave like. It’s a
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by pushpop 7y ago
Members of terrorist cells do. However they’re not terrorists until the actual act of terrorism.
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by pushpop 7y ago
Japan also drop the e. Japanese whisky is quite interesting though, some of the stuff is completely out there (eg using seaweed as flavouring) and other stuff could be mistaken for being a scotch. I seem to recall reading that a lot of Japa
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by pushpop 7y ago
The difference between Irish and scotch whiskies isn’t the smoky flavour. In fact most scotch isn’t peted. It’s the distilling process.
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by pushpop 7y ago
Is it really a “bug” if you’re writing incompatible code for Fish? Bug implies unexpected behaviour but I’d argue that Fish’s non-POSIX behaviour is well discussed, documented, and thus should be completely expected.
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by pushpop 7y ago
So true. So very true. I wish I could up vote this more than once.
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by pushpop 7y ago
> 4. MacBook Pro has 4 USB-C ports. Only if you get one with a Touch Bar - which are the more expensive end of the MBP range. However many users don’t like the Touch Bar. For myself, I used escape and the F-keys a lot and the idea of
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by pushpop 7y ago
Couldn’t read their article because I couldn’t even get passed their cookie consent page: > You can choose here if you would not like this session tracking to occur. Does this mean I’m opting in or out? To compound things the options a
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by pushpop 7y ago
> This reads as, "My personal preference is for people not to argue for their personal preference." Before you go on to argue for your personal preference. I haven’t argued my personal preference though. All I’m saying is tha
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by pushpop 7y ago
I get really sick of people arguing personal preference as if it’s irrefutable fact. I have written pretty sophisticated applications in more than a dozen different languages over the last 3 decades and yes, you’re absolutely right that Go
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by pushpop 7y ago
Presumably those people were British and referencing an iconic 90s kids TV character?
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by pushpop 7y ago
> Anyone can shoot any idea down by reducing it to a simple, innocuous sounding concept to make the other look ridiculous. Just as anyone can argue that any change to process is salami slicing even when nothing of any real value is being
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by pushpop 7y ago
Building a product is the easy part. Building the user base is what makes an evaluation. Just the same as anyone can start a fast food chain but if no buys any food in there the chain isn’t worth squat.
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by pushpop 7y ago
That’s pretty much what the GP said as well and platitudes about how we are constantly changing are fine but change isn’t the same as copy and destroy; which is what the upload process would be. That distinction is critically important. You

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