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by toyg 3y ago
The article is funny and I agree with overall sentiment, but it's always surprising how people just forget Kosovo and Somalia. Clinton bombed a European country and doubled down on a hopeless mission in an African hellhole (before givi
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by toyg 3y ago
The Mafia always enjoyed some support among people who benefit from it, which is why they make this sort of populist move in the first place. That doesn't mean they are as legitimate as a proper democratic government. It's like sa
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by toyg 3y ago
Youth be youth, innit ;)
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by toyg 3y ago
I agree with your view, but if we put down our old greybeard hats for a minute - isn't it nice to see a new generation of people potentially getting excited about RSS? The parent comment is clearly by an optimistic youngster, who has j
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by toyg 3y ago
RSS advertises the content , but not the actual sponsors of such content (i.e. commercial ads). It's also pretty hard to make it track readers. That's why the likes of Meta and Google just don't like it.
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by toyg 3y ago
Indeed. Unironically, a lot of modern war material like "Band of Brothers" is relevant to management and leadership in vertical organizations - which is what most companies are, at the end of the day.
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by toyg 3y ago
Basically you're describing a lieutenant/sergeant relationship. The sargeant will try to give each private the same commands that the lieutenant would give, with necessary adjustments for the immediate realities of the field.
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by toyg 3y ago
Or - the graduation rate would stay the same, and schools would be asset-stripped so that most of those 38k would flow to shareholders rather than school budgets. There are plenty of examples of mediocre public services getting privatized a
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by toyg 3y ago
"EU politicians" don't exist. The EU agenda is set by national governments in the Council - including the German one, which happens to have produced important Commissioners like the current Commission President . The woes of
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by toyg 3y ago
The Commission acts almost exclusively on mandates extended by the EU Council (i.e. national states), which also nominates commissioners. EU Council effectively tells the Commission "Something should be done about X; write a directive
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by toyg 3y ago
That's just anglo spin, sorry - and pretty galling coming from a country where Fox News thrives and propaganda is rife (Judith Miller, anyone?). Same for Britain, dominated for decades by agendas set by Rupert Murdoch's properties
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by toyg 3y ago
I guess it depends on the hardware you had. On lower-spec machines, some games needed pretty much the entirety of one's RAM; Windows 95 obviously took some itself, so launching a game from it rather than booting to raw DOS would result
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by toyg 3y ago
iirc it went from 1gb to 4 to 8, then "unlimited" for a period, then again limited once they started charging for GApps.
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by toyg 3y ago
In 8 Mile , yes.
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by toyg 3y ago
Just watch EastEnders, mate.
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by toyg 3y ago
Well known in Italy in the '80s.
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by toyg 3y ago
That's not really true. You know about the Elgin marbles precisely because they're vigorously contested - unlike 90% of artefacts that left Greece, Egypt, Italy, etc in perfectly legal circumstances. It's true that colonial p
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by toyg 3y ago
In UK, quite a bit of art donated to smaller museums in the XIX century is now missing. Chances of curators and local workers helping themselves to these collections through the decades, are very high. Same for modern art in Italian public
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by toyg 3y ago
I restart once a month, when compulsory updates are rolled out, and it's hardly a sacrifice if user programs are half-decent (i.e. sessions are restored, something every good browser or editor can do these days). As for spyware and sub
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by toyg 3y ago
I still use 10 every day. I think detractors are mostly annoyed that its terminal facilities are still subpar out of the box (even with Windows Terminal).
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by toyg 3y ago
It's less the airfare than the fact that they would stand out. Fort Meade is a defence installation, people don't just "pass by". Most people in the area would have military connections and be wary of even-slightly-forei
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by toyg 3y ago
Which is kinda stupid, when the economy is based on people consuming . I guess Reagan's friends at that point wanted more money for Wall Street to gamble.
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by toyg 3y ago
I doubt eBay was originally built with PHP - when it was founded in 1995, the very first PHP version had been available for barely 3 months. I expect the original EBay was mostly Perl, which was the standard at the time. The others I don&#x
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by toyg 3y ago
You expect all people to have morals in the first place. That is an erroneous assumption.
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by toyg 3y ago
2007 was 17 years ago, and it was another world. This time 17 years ago, the iPhone had not been released. Facebook was still new and hot, the first big operation to be unashamedly built on PHP (!). GitHub didn't exist , opensource ha
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by toyg 3y ago
This is particularly true for financial matters, where everything is just a number; and particularly true for someone whose lifestyle won't be materially impacted by outcomes. It's just a game.
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by toyg 3y ago
You don't need to be a director to make money. He's not barred from being an investor.
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by toyg 3y ago
Indeed. This was one occasion in which he was caught, but what's the chance he's already done it in other situations? Was this the first time he was privvy to market-sensitive information? Unlikely.
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by toyg 3y ago
If you think sports don't involve faith, I think you're being naive. Sports have rites, involve hopes for a better tomorrow, and carry belief in the social value of certain behaviours (the discipline). What powers the typical foot
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by toyg 3y ago
Those communities still need some sort of faith to keep going. It doesn't have to be faith in supernatural gods; it could be in the destiny of mankind to surf the universe, or in the revolution of the proletariat, but it will still be

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