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by repolfx 8y ago
The UK, famous for bland food? The most popular dish in the UK is curry. The relative lack of spicyness in European food vs British food is very noticeable.
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by repolfx 8y ago
The graph labelled "Punching above its weight" is a graph of comparative yields, which looks very impressive for the Dutch.
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by repolfx 8y ago
He means trade barriers against cheap food from developing countries like Africa. The EU blocks such imports with high tariffs mostly to protect French agriculture, but it has the advantage of allowing the Dutch to invest in super high tech
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by repolfx 8y ago
Because they tend to get promoted by feminists, and then used to attack and shut down project members who aren't. Look at the NodeJS incident for an example.
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by repolfx 8y ago
The distinction you're looking for doesn't exist. The two sentences would be considered equivalent by anyone who isn't wildly over-attuned to political correctness issues.
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by repolfx 8y ago
I'm not even sure why you're arguing about this. The OP's point was that negative generalisations can be true. You haven't disputed this point, only reacted badly to a particular example whilst admitting it's indeed
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by repolfx 8y ago
There clearly is such demand. However, all such services require partnership with other services, that's the nature of a modern economy - there's always a supply chain. And the sort of liberals who are systematically trying to shu
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by repolfx 8y ago
That would be a good argument if Gab didn't also keep getting shut down, deplatformed and generally targeted by lots of activists who would love to erase it from the net entirely. The goal of the sort of people doing this is that there
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by repolfx 8y ago
Really? How many anti-feminists are there on Hacker News? Very few, I'd say, especially as such views tend to be immediately downvoted and flagged into oblivion. There are however plenty of people who are disturbed by the systematic w
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by repolfx 8y ago
And also, it's not clear he got fired or laid off from Sports Illustrated. It sounds like he may have chosen to leave.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Glad you liked it! :) You may well be right about the interplay of what society 'wants' vs technology choices. After all, git and GitHub competed in a market against totally centralised and proprietary version control systems, and
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by repolfx 8y ago
No, shunning is about building the power of the group doing the shunning. Which is why you see universities getting crazier and crazier, as students and academics learn they can obtain power 'for free' by merely virtue signalling:
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by repolfx 8y ago
Huh? There has been a camera API since the very first release of Android and it's been systematically updated for the entire history of the platform. What do you mean by "real uniform API for accessing the camera", exactly?
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by repolfx 8y ago
The EU doesn't and shouldn't have a monopoly on cross-Europe cooperation, so, I don't think your attempt to see irony there works.
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by repolfx 8y ago
All the comments here are about journalism or politics so I'll start a thread about technology instead. The article says this: this kind of power hoarding exists only because of insufficiently farsighted design of the early web ... W
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by repolfx 8y ago
You shouldn't need to wait 30 seconds on any change to a Java app. It supports incremental compilation. My own projects usually take 2-3 seconds to recompile and launch, and they're large.
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by repolfx 8y ago
I've heard that before but is it confirmed anywhere? If so it doesn't seem like a very good analogy. In GoT the characters almost all ignore the white walker threat because they don't believe it exists . But most people do a
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by repolfx 8y ago
Whilst that's one way to phrase it, the underlying differences are deeper and more to do with perception of the span of human nature. For instance the apparent love of conservatives for 'respect for authority' is not actually
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by repolfx 8y ago
But in what ways is it implemented that doesn't lead to this? Most countries with material wealth that are advertised as being "socialist" or "social democratic" are actually bog standard capitalism, perhaps with a
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by repolfx 8y ago
What do you mean by mild? I did a study and had an AHI of 28, my doctors put me on CPAP. I'm not overweight and the machine is set to give hardly any pressure but it still seems to eliminate the issue, at least according to the machine
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by repolfx 8y ago
I guess my point wasn't specific to the UK, but rather that quite a few countries have had dramatic and society-redefining events happen to them without experiencing a large number of revolutions as a consequence. So we can't say
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by repolfx 8y ago
But you could paint such a dramatic story for many parts of the world. At the start of the 20th century the UK controlled so much of the world they said the sun never sets on the British Empire. It led the industrialisation of the planet, l
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by repolfx 8y ago
Do we see less? Or are the serious ones never reported. Breaches of health data are not exactly trackable back to the source, assuming they're even abused at all.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Hedge funds don't profit from generic 'instability'. They profit from correctly anticipating market movements, which isn't the same thing. Apply a truly random force to market prices and hedge funds will average out to b
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by repolfx 8y ago
Being fine with the status quo is not the same thing as being "against a better working environment for everyone" and is wildly, insanely far from being "literally pathological" - your words, not mine. Please, reflect on
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by repolfx 8y ago
The problem is not the promotion criteria. That's fine. After all, promoting people for successfully completing projects is hardly a stupid or irrational way to reward people. The alternatives are all worse. The problem is there are to
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by repolfx 8y ago
But that's a strawman position nobody has. Can you point to anyone who has literally argued "Today I want to stop the workplace becoming better for everyone"? It never happens.
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by repolfx 8y ago
What does the last sentence mean, exactly? The word meritocracy doesn't refer to an actual formalised class system, anywhere or in any time in history. This appears to a flawed attempt to seem balanced - meritocracy is good when it mea
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by repolfx 8y ago
Sure. Here are some citations if you want to do further research. A word of warning. I've found that there is a shocking rate of lying about these studies, both in other academic papers and the media. Moreover you have to read the pape
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by repolfx 8y ago
You're assuming those stats are correct. I've seen very different stats that say the problem is huge. But realistically, regardless of what the stats are, if you read news stories about powerful men being shot down through false o

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