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by sukulaku 11y ago
> by employing 68% men and fewer than 50 black people in a company of more than 10,000 employees (to say nothing of the unholy spectre of gentrification) – Mark Zuckerberg himself continues to reproduce the inequality he and his wife ar
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by sukulaku 11y ago
I'm not sure if you meant it that way, but for the record: politicians don't create jobs - entrepreneurs do. The best thing politicians can do for the common good, is to get the hell out of the way and let productive people be p
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by sukulaku 11y ago
Gates managed to make people believe he somehow became a Saint after leaving Microsoft, even though he created and guided it to become pretty much the most evil IT company ever. People just don't talk about it anymore, so he's all
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by sukulaku 11y ago
The article is basically an advertisement for some Japanese guy's company.
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> First, there's no reason to only associate "Python" with "the language", it is an environment, ecosystem, etc. It's not interesting to narrowly focus on the efficiency of the interpreter. Sure, but that&#x
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by sukulaku 11y ago
That sounds like a useful way of looking at the reviews. I'll try it, thanks!
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by sukulaku 11y ago
Well, the word "bizarre" has a commonly understood meaning, but you somehow decided to use it to mean something completely different. That's a bit bizarre :P But the article is titled: "Why I Still Use Python for Hig
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by sukulaku 11y ago
Why is it bizarre? His point is that the article shouldn't make it sound like "Python is fast", because the speed actually comes from the libraries that have been implemented in C.
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by sukulaku 11y ago
Sorry but what you're suggesting basically just amounts to rearranging the chairs on the Titanic's deck. Besides, it's been "tried" already, in this form: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separatio
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> Develop systems that are structurally uncorruptable and uninfluencable as best as they can be, by having significant separations of power by design Oh kind of like The Constitution, for example? Obviously that hasn't worked out to
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> These scumbags were not scared of the consequences of what they were doing. That's because they knew there would be no consequences to be scared of.
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by sukulaku 11y ago
Your comment made my Spidey-sense tingle, so I looked at your history and found out you "like crime movies/drama for the allure of ruthless power " and work in the financial industry.. You're an interesting case though.
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> before you're allowed to respond to someone being wrong, you have to first be able to express their position in a way that they agree represents their view While we're at it, let's stipulate that everyone is only allowed
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by sukulaku 11y ago
TripAdvisor's reviews have the same problem, but usually they've been faked all the way up to five stars. It's ridiculous. And these days, it seems average restaurants are sporting the "TripAdvisor Certificate Of Excelle
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> Why are there vast numbers of technical blogs which simply copy content? > It's because these people want to raise their profile Sure, but aren't we talking about a website where course creators directly sell their mater
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by sukulaku 11y ago
Yeah, some content MAY have been plagiarized, maybe ! "We're sorry you FEEL THAT WAY about any inconvenience we MAY have caused!"
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by sukulaku 11y ago
Why would a "fraudulent instructor" not charge for the lessons he's 'stolen' from someone? Otherwise what's the point? It doesn't make sense, which means it's probably not true.
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> The people who make the choice to forego bittorrent and just post the pirated stuff for a profit. THAT... is my point. Yeah, that's a scuzzy thing to do.
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> What effect does "making it bigger" have? It makes the economy look better. In a nutshell, governments want people to think everything is alright, even when it's not. There's a massive bubble in US stocks, for examp
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by sukulaku 11y ago
I was using the word in an imprecise way. You could say "price inflation" and mean rising prices, or you could say "inflation" and mean an increase in the money supply. The price of money is the interest rate for borrowi
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> The asset markets are wrong. They’re wildly overestimating the value of our existing stock of real assets , and the output/income they’ll deliver in the future. See: “Irrational exuberance.” Bingo! Massive stock bubble driven by
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by sukulaku 11y ago
Writing the kind of thorough examination of these issues your post deserves would be biting off way more than I could chew right now, so I'll just make some random remarks instead. People pirating entertainment isn't exactly &quot
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by sukulaku 11y ago
For what it's worth, I thought the article was well written and useful.
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> If I start a business in Canada (or the US) I can expect minimal to no interference from the government I already acknowledged it's nicer to live in "The West" than in Russia for example. But if you start a credit union
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> I know what to do and what not to do under US rule. That's not a benefit of living in the US over living in China or under any other tyrannical rule. People under Kim Jong-Un's rule know exactly what to do: Avoid upsetting
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> Banks are not state-maintained. You can argue that 'too big to fail' means government support for them, but support is not control. That wasn't my claim. I said banks are a state-maintained cartel everywhere, and that
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by sukulaku 11y ago
You know they pretty much always break their promises, and you understand that your vote doesn't bind them in any way. You see things getting worse each year.. So do you not understand that voting doesn't actually solve anything
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by sukulaku 11y ago
> the banks would probably calculate that it would be cheaper and easier to manipulate the regulatory environment to inhibit credit unions than to compete on honest terms Would? No such calculation is necessary because banks are a stat
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by sukulaku 11y ago
How about just treating adults as adults? There's no need to "regulate" everything, and who's "we" anyway?
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by sukulaku 11y ago
Well, I believe React is the right way to do JavaScript UIs until something even better comes along. It's not about Facebook - it's about the design that promotes "functionality" and modularity etc. That's the big d

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