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by alternative_a 3y ago
The subtle point I read in GP is the historic correlation between storage systems and data structures. Your point is equally valid in that this correlation is not indicative of non-general applicability. Both points need to be kept in mind
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Let’s be pedantic here and get all religious over the words “Science” and “hard”. Computer “science” has a difficult conceptual problem with caching. The optimal cache, this science tells us, is indistinguishable from a fortune teller who i
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by alternative_a 3y ago
> I suspect the private desire to please oneself motivates apathy to a strict morality forbidding that self-pleasure. More so than any supposed rationality; see atheists and religion. That theory of yours has legs, imo. (see below ;) &gt
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Bertrand Russell came to mind when I read this. I remember reading some story featuring a flustered Russell at the dinner table with his wife Dora, her baby (by another man), and the other man. Now Russell had gone preaching and practicing
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by alternative_a 3y ago
TLDR: “‘Pre-emotive genocide’ is not genocide”.
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Let me see how this works: For Palestinians to say the want to be “free from river to sea” means the “genocide of Israelis”. But, amazingly but unsurprisingly, for Israelis to say they want to be “free of Palestinians” (who happen to curren
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by alternative_a 3y ago
> [elite’s HR issues] We share this thought. My pet theory regarding the recruitment efforts of this class: two broad fronts, one to drive the herd and the other to pick candidates. The first front permeates our head space in form of con
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Yes, this was France.
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Thank you for your correction & very interesting info. I overly generalized the matter as of one societal changes that led to class mobility.
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by alternative_a 3y ago
> For example, the phrase "from the river to the [sea]" is considered hateful by many, so it was taken down. That’s convenient. Zionism, the ideology and its propaganda, “is considered hateful by many” too. Actually, that happy
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by alternative_a 3y ago
I never said Sam did. Sam’s just a made man. Interested in this theory of middle class controlling the world. My personal yardstick is: “whose interests are most served by the system?” For example, “middle class” doesn’t want wars, revoluti
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by alternative_a 3y ago
The argument: Rich people control the world. Rich people own the media. Rich people run boards. Rich people built up cults of personality. Influencers to lend credibility for their long terms plans. Rich people then pick a rich friend or ‘m
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Person A using the couch for its intended function (a place to sleep over) vs B who is using it also for social function with possible slight degradation in faculties (drunk), lowering of social barrier (socializing). What you say is true:
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Thanks (and good luck with the project!)
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Neither assumption holds. RabbitMQ is built on top of OTP. MQTT is a protocol which means client lang stack makes no difference. To be clear, I am not asking why not Rabbit instead of Kafka. No. Why not just RabbitMQ with MQTT plugin instea
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by alternative_a 3y ago
How does this compare to using RabbitMQ’s MQTT plugin? https://www.rabbitmq.com/mqtt.html
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by alternative_a 3y ago
The book Ancient China in Transition - An analysis of Social Mobility, 722-222 BC (Cho-yun Hsu, Stanford University Press, 1965) discusses this transition in rather great detail. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journal
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Oh, there is always SoftBank to the rescue.
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by alternative_a 3y ago
As an almost life long New Yorker it pains me, truly, to read this. People used to fear this city and that kept the “average tourist” (which includes super lovely people like my parents btw) well away from the Big Apple. Oh how I miss those
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by alternative_a 3y ago
This is all true. You also can ask for ice with your coke. This will endear you with the wait staff as they can not resist snickering and muttering “American ..”
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Two faculties are listed and the phrase implies the good working order of both. This then leads to the conclusion that the meaning is “reason alone can not determine all decisions”. Now a mind in good working order may be confronted with a
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Thanks!
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by alternative_a 3y ago
SOAP is an object access protocol. COM is an component object model. How is SOAP providing a component model?
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Thank you.
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Thank you. I mentioned risk models in another comment. In your opinion, is nuclear energy safe from irrational (state) actors? For clarification, note that even hydroelectric energy has a risk factor that it can not be protected against irr
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Interesting you mention croissants. That bread is my litmus test of a bakery. Costco’s croissants are quite good for a supermarket outlet (and that price is amazing). Their baguette is also not bad.
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by alternative_a 3y ago
I can see that in urban environments and in the country cathedral and university towns also could provide information outlets. I know too little about German history to pretend to informed commentary :) but my sense of it is that the emerge
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by alternative_a 3y ago
We can’t know for sure (can we?) because that class didn’t document. But there are songs and related matter I suppose. I don’t find the idea that the serf/laborer class harbored “nationalist” thoughts to be very convincing, tbh. Concep
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by alternative_a 3y ago
Please. And you managed to shade generations “scared” (do you mean old folks?) to make a point. Make the case that the material from nuclear fission can be disposed of without any risk whatsoever to whoever is coming to inhabit this planet
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by alternative_a 3y ago
We’re discussing the notion of ‘environmentally clean’ energy sources. Your red herring of known dirty energy sources is the “FUD”. Nuclear is not environmentally clean. I remain mildly amazed that this is debate worthy.

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