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by sbmassey 12y ago
You could try Memrise or Duolingo, of which the first has large numbers of user made stacks, but which I usually find have enough errors or other problems as to become rather irritating to work with. Duolingo is awesome, so long as what you
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by sbmassey 12y ago
The extermination of minorities is a very popular tactic amongst people supporting social equality. Just look at the French revolution, for an explicit example, if you don't think Pol Pot and the other communists are really left wing.
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This would conflict with the generally accepted story, that the Greek general Ptolemy took Alexander's body with him back to Egypt, where it was used to bring legitimacy to his new regime.
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by sbmassey 12y ago
Libertarianism is at least as rational and self consistent as any other ideology, so Reason seems as good a place to read articles as the Guardian or whatever. Are you sure that you aren't in the thrall of some other economic religion,
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by sbmassey 12y ago
the main problem is putting democratically elected politicians in charge of state finances - of course they are going to get as large an immediate payout as possible, and not worry about the long term consequences: that is exactly what you
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by sbmassey 12y ago
It would be nice to narrow the timescale down a bit from just Roman era. Or, better still, to be able to look at how it changes over time.
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by sbmassey 12y ago
Why assume paying higher taxes than necessary to a government is moral? It is not as if governments are widely considered to be admirable ethical organizations. Just the alternative, really.
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by sbmassey 12y ago
Regarding c++, const foo * is the same type as foo const * . For consistency, one should postfix the const to the thing you want to be immutable, so foo const * is a pointer to an immutable foo, foo * const is an immutable pointer
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Microsoft Catapults geriatic Moores Law from certain death(theregister.co.uk)
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by sbmassey 12y ago
Ocaml arrays are in fact mutable in the same way as Swift arrays. In fact, if I recall right, Ocaml ref's are implemented as single item arrays. I imagine the point is to have a low level type describing an area of contiguous mutable m
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by sbmassey 12y ago
What is the evidence that elections select for merit?
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The history of Britain dates back to the Caesar's half-arsed invasion, surely. The history of the various British peoples seems pretty continuous from Anglo Saxon times onwards. I don't understand why citing particular 18th centur
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by sbmassey 12y ago
The replacement, given that people still believe in the idea of democracy, would be either elected by the people, or appointed by the political classes. Either way, they would be political insiders, and so would be identical to the Blairs a
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by sbmassey 12y ago
'polyporum' would be genitive plural 'of the octopuses'. The more usual nominative plural would 'polypi'
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by sbmassey 12y ago
Lets see how peaceful humans are after we've finished burning through the available fossil fuels. It's relatively easy to be peaceful while you have copious wealth.
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by sbmassey 13y ago
APL and vim have a similar outlook in that they both give their users a set of simple, easy to apply, and composable functions, that can then be used, in the hands of experts, to manipulate their underlying data structures with awesome supp
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by sbmassey 13y ago
Persian is also an Indo-European language with no noun genders: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_grammar
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by sbmassey 13y ago
It's all fun and games with the citizens basic income until the government hits hard times and has to think about what to cut. Having the vast majority dependent on income from a single, fallible organization is a recipe for disaster.
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by sbmassey 13y ago
Nothing to do with Frank Key's absurdist narrative "Ascent of the Mountain at Hoon", then? http://hootingyard.org/archives/9019
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by sbmassey 13y ago
The main problem, I think, is that web development usually requires lots of string processing, and the C standard library makes this complicated and opaque. Maybe Cello helps with that?
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by sbmassey 13y ago
Some disagree: http://uglybelgianhouses.tumblr.com/
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by sbmassey 13y ago
If the head of state is a proven liar, is there any moral reason to tell the truth to any of the organs of state you deal with?
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by sbmassey 13y ago
I use vanilla vim as a handy lowest common denominator editor when working on whichever random system I happen to be on. Emacs is for when you want to customize, in my book.
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The only way to stop this kind of thing is to restrict the size of your sovereign nation to a size where the citizenry can actually have some idea what their state is doing ... maxing out at a million or so, say: you dont see governments li
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by sbmassey 13y ago
Should other nations start watching out for space Vikings?
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by sbmassey 13y ago
Putting the &&'s at the beginning of each line makes the overall shape of the logic expression easier to percieve: you can prove they're all one big 'and' expression without having to hunt for the end of each line.
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by sbmassey 13y ago
In the same vein, "European" is not the same as "In Europe"
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by sbmassey 14y ago
why not just use 'where bar > foo'?
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Where is the Spring dependency injection stuff? You can't just hard code all your Factories in FizzBuzz.java, you need to specify everything using XML so you can switch Factories without going through a recompilation.
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by sbmassey 14y ago
So are you saying that the problem is that you want everything to be in a single "river of news", but that this means that low volume feed items get lost? To me, this is more of an issue with social networking than RSS: with Reader, you ca

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