ameminator

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by ameminator 15d ago
Sometimes people down vote for no reason. Unfortunately, when one complains about it, they look like a whiner.
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by ameminator 3mo ago
I mostly agree, except for the blatant calls for genocide from the Israeli side, and the blatant calls for genocide from the Palestinian side. I honestly don't know who to support - neither side wants to live with the other, and it see
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by ameminator 3mo ago
While I appreciate your candor, words matter. I wouldn't call Israel an apartheid state if, in fact, it was two different countries warring to the death over not enough land. I think that situation is closer to reality, with the "
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by ameminator 3mo ago
While I actually have sympathy for people on both sides of the struggle, I also find it hard to answer "yes" to both questions, mostly because of how muddied the definitions of everything are. It's obvious to me, that both th
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by ameminator 7mo ago
Uh, probably it would have been a place to be avoided for a non-Arab
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by ameminator 1y ago
I don't disagree with you, but I think it's hard to convince the Israel government, since the last time Israel withdrew from Gaza (in 2005), a terrorist organization was elected and it resulted in multiple wars and waves of violen
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by ameminator 1y ago
First, 60-70% of Israeli Jews are of Arabic descent, not European. Second, while it's possible to complain about the circumstances of the creation of Israel, I'm not sure that doing so now, in context, offers anything constructi
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by ameminator 3y ago
Currently, housing availability is not a factor in immigration policy. Canada allowed over 1.2 million new residents last year. There were approximately 200k new houses built in that same time frame. Interpret this as you will.
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by ameminator 3y ago
Canada is in the top end of the OECD when it comes to building housing. The problem is that the rate of new house construction has been severely outpaced by population growth. Canada has the highest rate of population growth of any develope
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by ameminator 3y ago
As a supplement to this excellent breakdown of laser cutting, can I recommend the Guerrilla Guide to CNC [0]. To this day, it's the best reference I've ever read on small volume fabrication with a CNC machine and/or 3D printe
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by ameminator 3y ago
Spoiler: If the first person did not want to eat, he would have answered "No, we are not ready". Him not being ready is enough to negate the whole thing. He doesn't know if the both of them are ready to eat though, because
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by ameminator 3y ago
Aviation in general is very safe. However, there is clearly something wrong in Boeing's design and manufacturing process that's persisted for many years. I would not feel comfortable flying in any of the new 737 MAX's and wil
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by ameminator 3y ago
There are crazy over-engineered solutions with strict requirements and insane dependency management with terrible trade-offs and compromises. I've worked in the aerospace field before, so I've seen how terrible this can be. It&#x2
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by ameminator 3y ago
> They are also less productive when coding than the scientists because they care too much about the quality of their work and not enough about getting shit done. You can't solve the first 3 issues without having people who care abo
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by ameminator 3y ago
Believe it or not, you're argument strongly resonated with me. However: >It makes me wonder: is the topic so toxic that no conversation can happen at all? I believe that the topic is so toxic and emotionally charged that it's
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by ameminator 3y ago
It's not that I don't have an opinion (or even a strong one!) on this subject. The point is that everyone (and their mother) has a strong opinion, not only on the absolute morality of a side's actions, but on the morality o
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by ameminator 3y ago
I (and many other users of this forum) have expectations on the minimum quality of discourse. Moreover, I am happy this forum exists with its quality of discussion. I am interested in preserving this high level of civilized interactions. Ti
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by ameminator 3y ago
I'll let your comment speak for itself. We did give lots of aid to Ukraine and we somehow were able to have discussions about whether we should continue to do so, in a relatively civilized manner. [0] Somehow, when it comes to Israel a
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by ameminator 3y ago
In my experience, the "benefit of the doubt" has been lost in relation to this subject. I no longer believe it is possible to have any thread about this remain civil. It's tragic and a tragic subject, although I dispute the &
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by ameminator 3y ago
You're also absolutely right - I hadn't considered that point of view, and that we also shouldn't be "de facto" censoring subjects. I implore the community here to not ruin the general HN forum with the usual insani
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by ameminator 3y ago
I'm not sure the Canadian government ever pretended to 'fight for the people'. 'Rights' in Canada are completely different to what most consider a right and mean something very different to rights in the US. The Can
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by ameminator 3y ago
I honestly don't think this subject should be on here. I don't think it's possible for a coherent or respectful or even useful conversation to happen here. I haven't seen any conversation about this topic that hadn'
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by ameminator 3y ago
NTSB may want to consider regulating the size of new trucks and SUVs, which are disproportionately causing deaths and damage, instead of inventing new problems for themselves.
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by ameminator 3y ago
I don't understand why offering parents more choices in how their children are taught could be a bad thing. Maybe the public school system is failing its students. However, it always seemed unfair to trap parents who would otherwise ha
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by ameminator 3y ago
As a side note, as of today Firefox has something like 2.79% of the browser market, coming in fifth , behind Opera, Edge, Safari and (of course) Chrome. Firefox only comes slightly ahead of Samsung Internet which I have only just heard o
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by ameminator 3y ago
I don't disagree, but now imagine Quebec having deals with (for example) France and Switzerland and Ontario only having agreements with Italy and Spain (but only for medical licenses), while Alberta may evaluate accreditation on a case
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by ameminator 3y ago
This is actually a terrible deal in disguise. According to recent reports (which I don't have on hand at the moment), over 70% of immigrants to Canada are under employed or under utilized. While the federal government controls how many
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by ameminator 3y ago
However, one CAN do "object-oriented" programming in C. There are ways of modeling what a piece of data is (a struct with its members). There are ways of modeling how a piece of data can behave (functions operating on those stru
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by ameminator 3y ago
I've had vertical tabs in Vivaldi for a little while now. I hope you guys enjoy it over on Brave as well, they change how you use tabs. Strongly recommended.
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by ameminator 3y ago
Exactly, you should make your own judgement, based on your personal circumstances, including how agreeable you are. In terms of dating, when I engage in that, I aim for pure companionship. It always struck me as wrong to use another perso

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