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by sbmassey 10y ago
It may not be in the EU's interest to give a good deal, but it is definitely in Europes interest to do so.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
I don't see why it is ironic, really: areas of low immigration can see what happens to areas of high immigration, so will vote against it, whereas for areas with high immigration it is too late
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Any links on the oldest writing in the world being found in Thrace claim? It seems pretty unlikely as, to my knowledge, the Thracians of classical Greek times were completely illiterate.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
I tend to read more in a stack than just linearly - looking up terms, taking notes, following links, then back to where I left off. That is what hyperlinks should be for.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Oh ok, sorry
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by sbmassey 10y ago
A home edition without support is $95, for the record Correction: that is the upgrade price, my mistake
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by sbmassey 10y ago
The syntax is consistent and works fine, and I'm not sure that changing the syntax so it looks like some other programming language is a good use of anyones time and energy
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Well it is just a fairly recently invented word, sure, but it is rather telling that it was apparently CNN that jumped on the word and used it to mean 'trivial fact'
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by sbmassey 10y ago
den Verstorbenen is dative plural I think: dative singular would be dem Verstorben.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
There are quite a few contemporary Anglo Saxon chronicles, especially from the time of Alfred the Great onwards. Arthur is a legend from way before all that stuff, though.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Any sort of thinking about what the code does or does not do is essentially proving theorems about it, is it not? It seems to me one does that all the time when debugging.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
If they want a building that will collapse, you should build it, of course. Doing otherwise would be negligent, and assuming your customers are stupid for wanting such a thing is unprofessional at best.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
You could disprove it by coting a single area where they are a widely acknowledge success, but that is of course impossible: even the Remain campaign was unable to come up with anything beyond vague threats of doom, which have now proven fa
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by sbmassey 10y ago
If it is in a single coordinated economic block, then you don't get the positive effects of different countries trying different things, and the good ideas being copied when proven successful. i.e. the same competition that actually m
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by sbmassey 10y ago
I can't think of anything the EU has been involved in over the last couple of decades that isn't accurately described as such: the Euro? the Lisbon treaty debacle? the immigration catastrope? Greece? Unemployment? Agricultural pol
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by sbmassey 10y ago
If Brexit gets brushed under the carpet, and the EU continues its legacy of greed, stupidity and incompetence in every area it involves itself in, then I imagine the next referendum will be a lot more bitter and painful, if not outright vio
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Did anyone in Nazi Germany really claim that the anti-Nazis were the real Nazis or fascists or something? Sounds unlikely somehow.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
It sounds like the underlying problem was that the original, elegant software implementation quickly turned into a ball of mud when other programmers started working on it. Wouldn't happen nowadays, of course.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
That dynamic is exactly why it is unattractive - rather than having a single government responsible for running the country, you get organisations that resort to passing the buck whenever anything bad happens. In the US and Germany, this wa
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Definitely - an independent Scotland can get the chip off its shoulder, dust off the statues of Adam Smith and become a decent nation again, EU or no.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
I think he's imagining a world where his map would somehow get an internet connection even way out in the boondocks.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Honestly I think we are just finally seeing the effect of the fall of mass media - there is no real replacement for the traditional establishment newspapers with enough gravitas to give anyone confidence in our institutions - even the media
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Yes, exactly. It is even pretty easy to find blogs from a gamut of different perspectives and aggregate them yourself. I don't know why anyone would get news from the likes of Facebook.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
On the other hand, maybe having multiple cultures might be a good idea if it provides firewalls against the spread of bad ideas, and allows competition between groups pf people with different cultural outlooks.
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Sometimes it is not just individual words, but grammatical structures which make things more succint. Latin has lots of such like your gerundives or your supines where you can express with a simple word ending what would take a bunch of wor
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Having more specific or less specific words is not necessarily a weakness or strength of a language - sometimes being able to express both happiness and luck in a single word might be useful, and I imagine it is easy to specify either one o
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by sbmassey 10y ago
Grandparent post
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by sbmassey 10y ago
€200,000 in Spain seems a pretty good wage
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by sbmassey 10y ago
You should update the Wikipedia article with your findings https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_As_She_Is_Spoke
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by sbmassey 10y ago
I fail to see how a worldwide China has any less local knowledge than a China sized one - it is not even a factor of 10 difference in population. Also, a cursory look at history would suggest that dictators have a lot more power to oppress

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