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by repolfx 8y ago
Note also the implicit assumption that Dorsey does this to pointlessly inflict suffering on himself. Much, much more likely it's to give him thinking space outside the office (a.k.a. the place where deep thought goes to die). I've
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by repolfx 8y ago
she graduated magna cum laude from Columbia and was a Fulbright Fellow Not being from the US I don't fully grasp what these things are (is Columbia Ivy League?) but all knowing this does for me is make me conclude these qualification
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by repolfx 8y ago
There have always been disinformation campaigns. Ironically, you're probably the victim of one right now - the belief that there is some kind of vast "disinformation campaign" active in the west is a conspiracy theory that is
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by repolfx 8y ago
But many companies and workloads don't "go viral" because they aren't VC funded social networks. They're big, stable companies in mature markets where competition means everyone is always looking for cost savings. I
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by repolfx 8y ago
Linux isn't the largest open source project ever! Look at Android - it incorporates Linux and then adds vastly more on top.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Not necessarily. The sort of dataflow analysis they're talking about is an inherent part of bytecode verification already. A more advanced version of it is done every time a class is loaded. JVM bytecode is designed to make this sort o
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by repolfx 8y ago
That's what Kotlin does. The only place NPEs can creep in with Kotlin code is: a) Interop with Java APIs (Kotlin doesn't force you to check every return type from a non-Kotlin call) b) If you use !! to cast away nullness. Good Kot
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by repolfx 8y ago
Just because you do not directly elect the commissioners does not mean that they are "unelected". In equally good faith, I'll observe that our disagreement is because I'm using the word "elected" to mean &quo
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by repolfx 8y ago
I doubt it. Parties and people who run for the European Parliament don't really have concrete policies or manifestos. In particular they can't run on a platform of repealing bad laws, because unlike in a real Parliament, they ar
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by repolfx 8y ago
Commissioners are not elected, that stretches the meaning of the word past breaking point. By that definition literally any government employee right down to sewage workers are 'elected'. Realistically the Commission are in char
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by repolfx 8y ago
In a democracy, random citizens can take over the government by winning elections. So where do you draw the line - if someone were to perceive an external threat where others were unwilling to speak up, and campaigned for election on that b
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by repolfx 8y ago
Yeah, and the stuff you work on is really cool. The GraalVM project is probably the most advanced compiler and VM infrastructure in the world and it's not in the old Sun parts, it seems to be pure Oracle. I have to admit, I didn't
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by repolfx 8y ago
It's the same with Greenwald. I read him regularly. I'm pretty sure ideologically and politically he's a totally standard left leaning journalist, but he is willing to attack anyone if they're being inconsistent regardle
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by repolfx 8y ago
Your last paragraph shows the entire problem with this concept. Whiteness is definitely a race. Thus saying "white people are evil" would seem to satisfy any definition of racial disharmony - how can it possibly depend on context?
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by repolfx 8y ago
Did anyone else notice that ZeroHedge is apparently now a site so dangerous that entire populations can't be exposed to it? ZEROHEDGE? Jeez, I've been reading articles on and off there for years and have never hurt a fly. What are
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by repolfx 8y ago
We can differentiate between how religions and the groups within behave in practice, which is why we can ban some terrorist groups using religion while not banning all religious groups How? Can you really define an utterly objective defin
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by repolfx 8y ago
That second example isn't "inciting violence", that's self defence! This should be obvious but how does your law work in a situation where, in fact, there is a war and there are people coming to kill us. Or are you naive
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by repolfx 8y ago
The problem is that this sort of move will make anti-vaxxing a bigger problem, not a smaller problem. A huge part of this sort of thing is driven by distrust of institutions, which has been in long term decline. Can you trust doctors or are
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by repolfx 8y ago
Kotlin has an LLVM backend these days and can compile to native binaries. It's more Swift-like, then.
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by repolfx 8y ago
It's even harder than that - APIs have expected performance characteristics, and APIs that involve string manipulation can change their performance when needing to work directly with UTF-8, e.g. working with file paths might become slo
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by repolfx 8y ago
Hmm. I guess there are conflicting sources and views on this. Your page says: "At its latest, the Transition is said to have ended with the first peaceful transfer of executive power, after the victory of the Spanish Socialist Workers&
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by repolfx 8y ago
Seems like a mix of things: • The culture of incentivising employees with equity stakes is mostly a US thing. It's not widely practiced outside the USA. ARM is a rare example of a British tech firm that gave out equity to early employe
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by repolfx 8y ago
It loves process, and it loves sticking to it. It's full of, ironically, idealistic technocrats. I used to believe that, but the problem is, there's a lot of evidence that the EU is a more classic style of bureaucracy - it stick
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by repolfx 8y ago
Not in the UK. All constitutional referendums have used 50%+1 including the original remain/leave referendum that happened a few years after joining.
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by repolfx 8y ago
UK Treasury and economists from all around the world have all come to the conclusion that a hard brexit is significantly more harmful than a soft brexit The problem is that these same people all came to the conclusion that on voting Leave
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by repolfx 8y ago
Classic Remainer logic. If Leave had won 61/39 it'd have become "for such an important decision it should have been 75/25 to pass". The reason decisions like elections use a simple majority is that otherwise it&#x27
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by repolfx 8y ago
I think what he/she was getting at is that "fair" isn't defined (by you). My notion of a fair workplace is one where people's pay and rewards are entirely determined by their skill and merit, as judged by the manage
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by repolfx 8y ago
Kickstarter is a software firm based in New York. There's no shortage of firms hiring in New York. Kickstarter employees who are unhappy would be able to easily get jobs elsewhere. However, observe that their goal is not to tackle abus
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by repolfx 8y ago
I'm not sure where you see the big difference. Dutch unions negotiate employment contracts, so it's easy to see how unions end up 'in charge of hiring, promotion and the content of your work'. Union power is ultimately r
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by repolfx 8y ago
OK, there's a lot to unpack here, but none of it supports your point. Firstly: the whole "DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run" is an urban legend. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache

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