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by smsm42 3y ago
Because they have been deliberately excluded from participating in the discussion early on, so the only solace they have is watching the left eat their own. If the right doesn't get freedom, they'd at least enjoy their enemies get
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by smsm42 3y ago
I understand in the China case they didn't actually physically occupied workspace and prevented others from doing their work? They wrote a letter. I think there's a bit of a difference between writing a letter and barging into you
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by smsm42 3y ago
I think for somebody fresh out of Google and an RM for Python survival is not going to be a pressing concern. The streets aren't exactly filled with starving ex-Googlers. Again, getting fired sucks, but it's not exactly an atrocit
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by smsm42 3y ago
If there was some valid criticism, it'd warrant some engagement on merits. But it's not even that. It's just "I've got laid off from my extremely lucrative job, and probably will land a similarly lucrative job withi
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by smsm42 3y ago
> you do realise that ussr does not exist anymore O RLY?! That fact totally changes my whole argument... unless it was an example of a non-capitalist society and I never claimed it currently exists and the point was the comparison of liv
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by smsm42 3y ago
I love if though when people working for trillion dollar corporation getting high six figure salaries and probably more money in a year than average worker in most countries makes in a lifetime, casually dunk on "capitalism". Yea
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by smsm42 3y ago
Beginning? It's been beginning for at least two decades now. People havd been prosecuted for political speech by "tribunals", journalists arrested, bank accounts frozen, all that. They are sleepwalking into totalitarian night
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by smsm42 3y ago
No, it's not the specific policy. It's the general feeling that there's no representation at all happening. And yes, people would certainly would want to tear down the elites that don't even bother to listen what their s
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by smsm42 3y ago
> but it’s not the kind of social housing we might hope for—it’s mostly slum-like. It may be not what we hope for, but isn't it pretty much the same as what happens when the government builds it? I mean, the "projects" a
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by smsm42 3y ago
Not going to pay 50 bucks to read that article, but if the term "populist anger" is used there in its common meaning, it's not about "other side" at all. It's mainly about people feeling supposedly representati
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by smsm42 3y ago
Except it was. The parties have been calling each other every dirty word in the book since forever. You can sample how it looked like about 150 years ago: https://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2012/11/running-for-governor
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by smsm42 3y ago
I don't think it's a technical issue. The implementation is technical, but the implications are societal. Is the state allowed to restrict ISPs from certain forms of network management? How far the governmental control over ISP ac
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by smsm42 3y ago
Well, yes it is - but it's completely legal abuse and the society seems to be willing to tolerate it (and much worse abuses, evidently - like total warrantless surveillance absent any proof it's actually useful for anything except
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by smsm42 3y ago
Unfortunately, if you have a contentious issue which is decided by fiat of one of the sides being in power and not by mutual compromise, there's no reason for the other side, coming in power, to not change it back. Since, fortunately,
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by smsm42 3y ago
> when half the populations entire political identity is “whatever we think will make the other side angry”? I assume those are the guys who are voting for the party opposed to one you're voting for, correct? > actively stifling
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by smsm42 3y ago
If we ever could find a Superman who would agree to be a benevolent monarch, sure. The only problem is that Superman is actually a work of fiction (and even a fictional one would refuse the role) and real people have, let's say, not so
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by smsm42 3y ago
Looks like that's exactly how they got a full non-emergency year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report_of_the_Special_Committe... Of course, it didn't last long - as soon as the focus moved on, emergencies st
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by smsm42 3y ago
Legally, it means exactly that - the government wasn't allowed to do X, but they said the magic word "emergency", and now they are allowed to do X as much as they want, until they decide they are done. Of course, this means t
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by smsm42 3y ago
And lose the profits on electoral show every 2 years? Do you know how much money can one make on an election? That's be silly to give up all that.
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by smsm42 3y ago
We're in a permanent emergency now. Which is no surprise - if a mere voluntary act of declaring emergency lets the government do what they otherwise can't - why not declare it over and over? Check this out: https://en.w
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by smsm42 3y ago
I seriously doubt you can make PHP convert anything to that exotic charset automatically even with creative configuration, and pretty much sure it wouldn't do any of the sort in common configuration. What I suspect is going on is that
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by smsm42 3y ago
Or if you're not running PHP, since surprisingly enough PHP is not the only software using iconv() function.
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by smsm42 3y ago
Of course, it's ok to persecute my opponents, because they are the intolerant bad people, but it's not ok to prosecute me, because I am extremely tolerant and only prosecute my opponents, who, as we already established, are bad pe
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by smsm42 3y ago
Joseph Stalin's critics claim that he abused his power and should not be allowed to put political opponents into gulags. However, most Soviet legal experts see his brash tactics as legally sound, and furthermore justified by extraordin
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by smsm42 3y ago
With that approach, literally everything is in your head. Physics itself exists nowhere but in the heads of humans. Even "light itself" exists in our heads - it's just a mental construct that we use to describe certain kinds
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by smsm42 3y ago
Maybe "I have dead human parts in my bathroom" is not the best way to explain the situation and one would be served better if they concentrated on how to make the communication convey the intended message the best, instead of bein
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by smsm42 3y ago
That assuming the code was written that way initially. More often than not in long running projects pieces get moved around, refactored, functionality added and removed, and silent assumptions that were true before aren't true anymore
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by smsm42 3y ago
I've been working in the industry for decades, and most patents I've seen are either portfolio-inflating bullshit, or rent-seeking that blocks innovation for decades (like the infamous compression patents). I'm sure some peop
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by smsm42 3y ago
True. What is missing is the next step - looking at the code and figuring out why the weird thing is going on. In closed source, what'd happen is a call to support, who may or may not properly file a bug, which may or may not get to th
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by smsm42 3y ago
He wasn't a soldier coming back from the war though. He was an engineer, in the middle of court proceedings. Soldiers have their own problems (and VA regularly and consistently fails at helping them, as the shining example of governmen

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