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by repolfx 7y ago
No, quite a lot of scientists have made such claims about coral reefs over time. Not all and some have refuted those claims too, so the media is certainly to blame for presenting a false consensus. But for example: https://watt
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by repolfx 7y ago
Was there ever a dream of the internet promoting specifically left wing democracies? I don't remember any of that in the early days. Surely the opposite - a lot of early hacker culture was libertarian in nature. You seem to simply de
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by repolfx 7y ago
Both links say the same thing - one old man, an expert on the history of the CCP, says Xi Jinping has a low level of cultural intelligence. They don't support the idea of this being a widespread notion.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Uh, do they? How do you know? The opinions of mainland Chinese about their government are completely worthless; they simply aren't allowed to disagree or learn about the world in a neutral manner. For example, the Chinese government ha
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by repolfx 7y ago
No, there's really no sane way to interpret that statement as being insulting. The entire statement was about swine flu, pork production and other very obviously pig-related things. Only a terribly incompetent mistranslation could have
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by repolfx 7y ago
Also the UBS pig incident: https://fortune.com/2019/06/17/ubs-china-pig-paul-donovan/ That one wasn't even anything apparently political, just absurd snowflake-scale sensitivity on the part of a who
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by repolfx 7y ago
Might seem persnickety, but criticism of mainland China can't be racism because Taiwanese are the same race and people aren't criticising them for this kind of thing (because they don't do it). It's really not even criti
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by repolfx 7y ago
That sounds like a recipe for entertaining case law! "I plead not guilty your honor, for whilst it's true that we wish to overthrow Polish democracy and install a supreme leader for life, we would call him King! Long live the king
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by repolfx 7y ago
I was wondering if we'd end up in argument by Wikipedia :) We're discussing language here, maybe we're not making fine distinctions a political scientist would make, but let's check a thesaurus: https://www.th
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by repolfx 7y ago
Only if powered entirely by non-emitting power sources, which requires you to assume nuclear power creates no pollution. Not much CO2 I'll give you that, but no pollution, not the case.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Sure, but so is Mojave. It'll be some years before Apple stops shipping security updates to older releases. Until then app vendors saying "don't upgrade macOS" is no different to Java developers saying "don't r
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by repolfx 7y ago
I don't really recognise a significant difference between a (real) monarchy and a totalitarian dictatorship, to be honest. Words change over time - North Korea isn't normally described as a monarchy but it has hereditary leaders w
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by repolfx 7y ago
At that age wasn't he barely an adult anyway?
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by repolfx 7y ago
Marx didn't specify many details about how a communist society was meant to be run, but he did specify quite clearly how it was meant to be created. See the numbered list at the bottom of the Communist Manifesto: https://www
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by repolfx 7y ago
He made predictions with dates in them, if I recall correctly. So his predictions can never come true because those dates have passed.
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by repolfx 7y ago
China is still kinda like that. To make an internet company you need a license (not allowed without state permission) and that company is still in reality owned by the state. It may do whatever it likes to it at any moment, like insisting p
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by repolfx 7y ago
I would note Chris, given your insistence on all this, that your own project Graal is still shipping on Java 8 despite that being many years old. You're now working on moving to Java 11, which is itself already obsolete. Imagine if tom
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yeah, but 64 bit doesn't give your users anything usually, so it's a tax that is more of a drain on smaller software shops. Especially consider that lots of programs and especially games have a spike of sales when new and then sal
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by repolfx 7y ago
A lot of apps over the years have exploited the fact that kernels used to sit above the 2GB address space boundary to encode data into the high bit.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Well, charging for it. Yes, they'd lose a big chunk of the userbase who value it a little bit but not really. But is it worth, say, $1/year to most users? Probably! And Reddit has 330 million users. Even if your conversion rate at
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by repolfx 7y ago
But even given all that negative sentiment a solid free press is a good thing and should be protected. Yes it is, but I haven't seen people like this CBP officer suggest that the solution to their concerns is taking away press freedo
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by repolfx 7y ago
Do you actually know such filtering/discrimination takes place? Or is it more that liberal/leftists simply don't apply for CBP jobs in the first place? Unemployment is low - why would people who think borders are evil volunte
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by repolfx 7y ago
And so does Oracle. You usually only pay if it's in production. But again - at some point there needs to be some mechanism to catch people who don't pay. All other alternatives seem to be more aggressive and worse.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Both French and Japanese HSR were/are financial black holes that bankrupted the relevant railway companies. French TGV is nice but again, stations are often far outside the city centres. Compared to flying (profitable on its own) it&#x
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by repolfx 7y ago
You're assuming HSR is a "good" decision versus the alternatives, but who's to say it is? Further down this thread is a link to this video called, "Why is China so good at building railways?" https:/&#x2F
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by repolfx 7y ago
Not really sure what alternative people would prefer here. DRM to ensure it doesn't run at all unless it can contact a license server? Complete with licensing related outages? Oracle's approach here isn't especially unusual a
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by repolfx 7y ago
I don't hate Brexit so let me try to counter-balance your views a bit, which seem to come straight from the pages of the Guardian. if you listen to the transport professionals, hauling companies etc. who actually do cross between the
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by repolfx 7y ago
They probably didn't go into coding. Some of them will have gone into other customer service roles. It's not like they had to be an expert in banking. A few may have gone on to more general office jobs with titles like, "Mark
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by repolfx 7y ago
I don't know that actually. Can you please prove it with data? I studied the industrial revolution quite extensively at school and I follow AI research today, reading individual research papers. It's not clear that we're goin
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by repolfx 7y ago
Mmm nope, they could replace the workers with more expensive programmers. So it gets into a question of how many office workers can you afford for the price of one programmer. Often not at all obvious, especially as programmers can often

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