earnestinger

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by earnestinger 1y ago
It’s unknown. It can equally be possible, impossible or not worth it. Interstellar rocks crashing at you with velocity of 0.1c might hurt a lot. I would not like my government spending 99% of everybodies income for 100 generations, just to
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by earnestinger 1y ago
To solve the issue we must answer several questions: What’s the alternative? How much it would cost for whole class and members of classmate families?
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by earnestinger 1y ago
Yup. Java 1.8 is humongous leap to the right direction.
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by earnestinger 1y ago
I’m stll waiting for the revival of the cousin, underhanded c contest.
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by earnestinger 1y ago
Why court system is relevant for the currency? I assume British courts can enforce contracts that deal in dollars.
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by earnestinger 1y ago
Eg. Some brand used in a movie. Usually brands pay for that screen time, but it’s not very obvious that it’s payed advertising.
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by earnestinger 1y ago
Real men would dig Route 66 canal instead of Panama.
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by earnestinger 1y ago
No idea. Read only is good enough.
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by earnestinger 1y ago
Reasons why: Corporation does not care about life per se, it looks at impact on profit. Corporation has option to sue offender into oblivion (by thoroughly writing contracts)
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by earnestinger 1y ago
Parent is perfectly right. > cultural shift toward being selfish I enjoy ice cream so damn all other opinions :)
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by earnestinger 1y ago
Or more education.
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by earnestinger 1y ago
I think you are missing the forest for the trees.
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by earnestinger 1y ago
I do understand that it was not the first first salvo. And that blockading policy and financing of anything but fatah and bunch of other stuff influenced today situation. But you must admit that oct 7 was unusual escalation. Which now ar
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by earnestinger 1y ago
If there is a lot of malnutrition, population numbers will change without migration.
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by earnestinger 1y ago
> Once one side of a war becomes dominant, it just ends. Sorry for being pedanto, but other side must stop resisting for war to end. Guerrilla warfare is quite usual when there is great power imbalance.
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by earnestinger 1y ago
I think the parent meant there were no shooting before the genocide started. Jewish resistances were reactive to nazi actions. I.e. there was not even a possibility that nazis were defending. While somebody from Palestine side did fire the
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by earnestinger 1y ago
Not sure I get your point. Try the same, but opposite argument. Something like: Would you wear a t-shirt saying “Palestine is treated unfairly” to oct7 memorial or airport/border crossing?
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by earnestinger 1y ago
> and that many people who express that sentiment wouldn't be expressing it if the powers were flipped That is definitely not true.
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by earnestinger 1y ago
Are you really of this opinion or are you trying to incite replies? :)
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by earnestinger 1y ago
Link was used to establish that this concept is usually called “gender”. (I felt there was a dispute on that; might be my projection) Regarding anecdotes: In my native language all objects have grammatical gender (feminine and masculine). I
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by earnestinger 1y ago
I enjoyed Project Hail Mary a lot. Would you recommend me “the Abyss”?
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by earnestinger 1y ago
I’m pedantic: s/rational/romantic|idealist|not-cycical-person/
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by earnestinger 1y ago
Except for all the languages that actually call the grammatical concept: gender Edit: see German example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender_in_German
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by earnestinger 1y ago
Lot of languages assign gender to objects. One should control for foreign language knowledge.
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by earnestinger 1y ago
People who hold them, sued Bob Ross’s son for using “Ross” i.e. his last name. Slimy people.
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by earnestinger 1y ago
My view of Uncle Bob is that his advise is attempt improve the average situation, even if taken literally as a gospell. It’s better that everybody do route tdd, than no tests at all. It’s better to have all methods exactly 3 lines of code,
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by earnestinger 1y ago
Let’s do that. Still, this hash table, would be doing reasoning?
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by earnestinger 1y ago
I bet it was “bash” (with sed and rsync)
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by earnestinger 1y ago
Hypothetically. Imagine a simple, but humongous hash table, that maps every possible prompt of 20000 letters to the most appropriate answer in current time. (How? Let’s say outsourcing to east asia or aliens…) Would you say such mechanism i
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by earnestinger 1y ago
On the other hand: nobody can formally refute that a stone is reasoning/thinking. Lack of definition seems to be ideal substrate for marketing and hype.

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