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by rat87 2y ago
Why would the CIA council things? It would be president and state department. If we're talking about the Revolution of Dignity the EU and US sadly didn't care that much and generally advised the opposition to try to compromise wit
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He is. I mean he is rage and hatred. Is he stupid? No worse then dumb he's lazy. Hes smart at scamming people and selling himself but he has neither knowledge of how policy can theoretically improve people's lives and is too lazy
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Gulf of Mexico is what it has been called so it makes no sense to rename it. Names often dont make sense plus spain and later mexico used to control more territory along the Gulf coatline. Unless you want to piss of one of our most importan
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by rat87 2y ago
> in which the CIA more or less staged a Jan 6th in Ukraine to coup the legitimately elected government and install what was functionally a US puppet government If you start with groundless conspiracy theories it's not surprising wh
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or Next acquiring Apple for -$245,000,000
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Also I couldn't find the authors age but judging by the fact they say they still use an Amiga they're probably at least in their 40s(unless they're a huge retro fan)
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He demolished Blows argument so I don't think it's important to bring up age but it does seem like he is likely at least in his mid forties. The Amiga was popular in the late 80s > "The argument that software is advancing
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No https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... Of course not And if it were it wouldn't be something c or c++ related but all the banks and unemployment systems still written in COBOL
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It seems like ssh may be the problem. I feel like there should be a way to ask for a docker like experience when ssh ing. Tell it to use is specific APIs to prevent process or filesystem access outside a particular folder (possibly allowin
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It doesn't have brain damage because it doesn't have a brain. Its a tool that simulates human intelligence. The point is to keep a tool which simulates intellegence from being used to make things worse. The particular approach may
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As someone who has done a couple of python 2 to python 3 migrations I'm still surprised that there isn't someone big selling support/security patches for python2. There must be a lot of giant corporate python2 code bases that
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Why? It makes a ton of sense. Its been a while but I'm pretty sure decompilation leads to much higher level/understandable code in java/c#. Good enough to step into and debug libraries. And given how fragile/unreproduci
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Vanguard "owns" a huge chunk of everything. Vanguard runs index funds, most peoples retirements are vanguard buying small shares of an index fund representing all the big companies on the stock exchange
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> no Polish Jew would have survived the Nazis with this kind of information theft. I'm not sure this is a good is a good example. I believe a majority of Polish Jewish survivors were those who fled into parts of soviet union not oc
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by rat87 2y ago
I forgot to mention There's was recently a cool article on things to you can do with python decorators https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918846 Basically the python function is created as a regular python function
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In python everything is an object . I'm sure there are minor exceptions or arguable cases but that's also the case with Ruby. Most infamously with Proc. Classes are objects in python, usually instances of class called type or a s
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Let's be 100% clear on this Assad and Ghadaffi destroyed Syria and Lybia respectively being asshole dictators that caused revolutions and that attempted to stay in power by claiming over mountains of dead Syrians and Lybians. The west
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He wasn't "really bad". He was a hero but also a human with human faults
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We know who it was We have known for decades https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald Just because the government messed up the first investigation in a rush doesn't change the fact that they came to the
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Interesting truths? Maybe. Possibly some embarrassing things for FBI Or CIA. But nothing likely to satisfy conspiracy theorists. We know who killed JFK https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/671ky4&#x
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How is pythons object model less "logically consistent"? Multiple inheritance is dangerous but I'm not sure if its logically inconsistent. And it doesnt have the issue that ruby has of procs not being objects
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> considering it also funds civil unrest and regime change Non crazy conspiratorial source for these huge allegations?
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There's a difference between trying to improve stuff and wrecking stuff with no concern for the law. The later is a lot easier.
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The goal is to enable cronyism and corruption as well as undermine resistance to legally and morally dubious acts.
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I think rust was helped by being part of Mozilla and really helped when they got experienced devs (guys who made ruby Bundler) to build the Cargo package manager pre 1.0 https://web.archive.org/web/20221206052719/h
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Because that hasn't happened unlike Trumps actual crimes. Using fiction to justify Trumps real corruption is ridiculous.
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I think it may have been inspired by this Norm joke. Basically pointing out that the criminal act is what's actually the worst part and not just whatever is most annoying Norm MacDonald : Now do you think Cosby's legacy will
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That doesn't scale though beyond the most popular open source apps especially those in c/c++ Less popular apps or closed source apps don't work. Things with old dependencies won't work. Other language with package manag
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The civil service at least below the top rank is supposed to be a professional bureaucracy insulated from political firing and hiring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system > In politics and government, a spoi
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AI isn't some all knowing superbeing or oracle. And its not likely to become that anytime soon. Its a program for predicting what we want from a highly flawed data set. Garbage in, garbage out. Unsurprisingly many are worried some peop

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