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by tmptmp 10y ago
Thanks for the reply. I am not an American, so I didn't get it. Also, I didn't know that politely asking for clarification is a valid reason for downvotes on HN.
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Why compare with other nations? Don't you think the USA should show some leadership here? >>Also, what do you think should be done to encourage home ownership beyond the current scheme of making mortgage interest deductable for p
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>>Simon Peyton Jones is the mister Rogers of computer science. Can you please tell whom are you referring to here with the term "the mister Rogers"?
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Thanks for clarifying "end-user" here means desktop user. I did mean desktop user. It's so sad that the Debian community chose to ignore server users to achieve the goal of pleasing desktop users. Servers and many other users
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I am not against them considering the end users. But getting pushed around by "end-user" (please read desktop-user) focus is way too unacceptable behavior, especially for a community like Debian. edit: added clarification for end-
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You are quite right, as the overall Debian's stance on systemd was far from praiseworthy. They allowed themselves to be pushed around too far by the "end-user" (desktop-users) mentality of the gnome and few such other upstrea
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I want to point out another angle to this issue. The US tax system may be okayish but renting system is way too much flawed and is giving undue advantage to the dirty-rich few (read the top 0.1%). There should be some law (e.g. ceiling on l
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You are not qualified to tell others to not to judge what yet others deserve. Everybody is entitled to (and must) have a opinion and judgment on such issues. Having an opinion is an important function of education and it's an indicator
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Very good and apt reply. I mean there wasn't much of a "push" for her to perform as compared to an engineer. She was already making way too much more. But so do many a politicians. They just successfully sell themselves to &q
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>>just like evaporation as one end of a pump for plants on Earth is clearly no comparison to any motorized pump for volume But what if we need/want volumes? The way we can't (or don't want to) use trees/plants for
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Yes, it's sad that he would be put in jail for such a "crime" whereas the likes of the CEO of Volkswagen are actually being rewarded millions for much severe crimes in the name of punishment.
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Good post indeed. >>So don't look for "the general public" to hold anyone accountable about anything. That's no longer how this country works. Not in 2016, anyway. It's sad. With all the "information age
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>>This kind of claim is often made (often by smut mongers), but I don't remember (though may have forgotten) ever seeing any examples that really back up the claim. Can you list some? Let me try: Not just technologies, even relig
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>>Hold the people directly responsible to account, remove and replace if ineffective. And who is going to do "that"? and what if those who are responsible to do "that" don't do that? Then who is going to hold
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Good that you put some balance in his/her overly rosy picture. Hope he/she learns a bit from this.
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>>This leads me to wonder why cheating is so rampant in the sport? May be one of the major reasons is money involved. Cheating is one side the other is fixing: with aim to get more and quick money. In first case, i.e. of cheating, you
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I am not saying we should ignore people's job descriptions; in fact, I was responding to one comment in the thread that was trying to put equal blame on the EPA too. But I want to bring out an important aspect here: if the USA (mainly
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Then we can as well say that the whole general public of USA has failed. Because it is their responsibility (indirectly and ultimately) to see that the legal and enforcement machinery works as expected. Let's see how do they (the gener
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>>Epsilon. Was it not the case that people would have assigned very low probability to Fermat's last theorem too, at least before Wile's first version of proof? But then with Wile's first version, they would have assign
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Source for the figures? just curious.
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Extremely mind boggling work. I wonder what probability should one assign to the "p=np" statement.
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by tmptmp 10y ago
Great response Dr_tldr. One day vs two day shipping should not even be an issue to whine about. Tomorrow these socialist-minded activists may demand many such things (same day delivery, 1gbps internet and so on) in the name of social good a
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>>Many crimes are poverty-related theft for subsistence Is poverty an acceptable justification for crimes? If yes, there are many issues: how much poor one should be to justify this? how much rich the other person (whom the poor one r
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>>There is also the political pressure from some such leading luminaries as John "I can't feel my feet!" McCain to throw weapons at every problem. omg, it took me a while to decode that bunch of words, super power-packe
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>>While value judgment of any sort requires perspective I don't think it's wrong to prefer our own. Rejecting all value judgements of any sort would simply leave us without anything to converse about. You have raised a very
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>>Far more interesting is why a chihuahua with a walnut-sized brain is just as smart as an irish wolfhound that has a brain that masses about as much as a whole chihuahua! This is really interesting claim. If any expert on this matter
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by tmptmp 10y ago
Thanks a ton you all posters of these book names and links. Helped a lot.
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by tmptmp 10y ago
See [1] also [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia
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>>How do you think Hoover stayed in place that long? You can pull a great many things without needing to disappear people at four in the morning. Still Hoover or whoever in USA is no match for Mao or Stalin or Castro as far as their p
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Straightforward reason: English is now the true globally significant language. Another point, English is the most prestigious language in most parts of the world. In Asia, where I am from, English has already become or is fast becoming the

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