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by sievebrain 7y ago
The Java 8 streams library can auto parallelize things. That's the main reason it was created in fact!
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by sievebrain 7y ago
You can actually use Kotlin on iOS, look at the jetbrains samples for Kotlin/Native. You still need to use the iOS frameworks of course but all the genuinely OS independent code can be shared.
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by sievebrain 7y ago
JavaFX is fully open source, it doesn't need licensing. It also supports hardware acceleration, embedded usage on Linux, animation framework etc. Also, fits well with kotlin.
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by sievebrain 7y ago
I'm not sure that refutes anything. One of the hallmarks of far left views is the intense infighting between rival factions that seems to accompany them. Far left types attacking each other despite agreeing on nearly everything is not
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by sievebrain 7y ago
Monbiot still has a regular article there, he's as far left as it gets. Maybe a holdover from the past but the Guardian is still really keen on nationalisation, regulation, state control over everything, the EU etc. The modern left doe
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by sievebrain 7y ago
Many of their competitors have been profitable for a while now. There's no incompatibility between capitalism and "real journalism", the problem with the guardian is in fact their complete disinterest in capitalism - hence be
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by sievebrain 7y ago
Of course, they won't be able to be consistent. Will they be shutting down people who have spent years peddling lies, hate and conspiracy theories about Russians to west coast anti Trump liberals too? Obviously not.
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by sievebrain 7y ago
It's very expensive. Site isolation in Chrome explodes memory pressure on the system. Language enforced confidentiality is a lot less resource intensive.
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by sievebrain 7y ago
That isn't "facts"! There was tons of evidence at the time that the women were lying, the charges were dropped because there was zero chance of any conviction given their behaviour. How quickly people forget! Reasons the wome
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by sievebrain 8y ago
I think with software specifically it's less dysfunctional in the tech industry.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
They changed their tune since. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1073341/brexit-news-dover-...
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by sievebrain 8y ago
LaGarde is obviously going to claim she was right when she was actually wrong, there's no incentive for her to change course at all. But look at the guardian article. The IMF says under "long negotiations" the UK would be in
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by sievebrain 8y ago
What do you think WW2 was exactly, if not a literal attempt to conquer it? You're arguing with a straw man. Nobody claims the EU had to do anything, it can ban people who live there from buying British things if it wants. But the idea
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by sievebrain 8y ago
This is the first time I've encountered people using the word monopoly incorrectly like this. I'm not really minded to just roll over and accept wrong usage because a few other people object - the usage is wrong so they need to im
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by sievebrain 8y ago
You didn't look, maybe? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/18/imf-says-br... The entire global establishment of "experts" united together and made a series of predictions that w
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Farage isn't an MP and parliament is dominated by remainers loyal to Labour or the Tories. You make my point for me.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
That's an interesting description. Last year UK growth beat Germany, France and Italy in Q3 (don't know q4 figures yet I believe). It looks like the eurozone may be heading for recession given falling industrial output in Germany.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
I didn't read much into that story but from what I recall, the company in question has no ships yet because it's new, but can quickly obtain them and is run by shipping industry veterans. Regardless, I don't really know why,
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by sievebrain 8y ago
The idea that food and medical supplies will disappear is completely wrong and has already been debunked by, amongst other people, the head of the NHS. This is especially true because being in the EU actually increases food costs due to the
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by sievebrain 8y ago
It wasn't redrafted until it was acceptable. It was passed as is, but as a massive series of "amendments" that effectively rewrote the entire previous document into the new one.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
So far every expert prediction about Brexit had been wrong. The UK was meant to be in a deep recession by now, remember?
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Let's phrase it like this. There would be nobody in parliament or government talking about a second referendum if remain had won. In fact it'd have been taken as a mandate to immediately pass more powers to Brussels, see the PESCO
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Maybe there can ... in another 40 years? You seem to be ignoring the rather large difference in time being proposed here.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
This Rubin story isn't about sexual harassment. Some woman dated him and then decided she was "coerced" (how?) into doing something she late regretted. Given the modern notion some women have developed that they can change th
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Countries do go to war with countries they trade with. People were saying record high levels of trade would prevent war ... in Europe, right before world war 1
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Ad hominem would be if I tried to dismiss an argument with an unrelated attack on someone's personality. In this case I'm not even talking about their personalities or making unrelated accusations, just reporting what happened. Re
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Thanks anyway. HN readers can't handle the idea of a woman lying at all, really.
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by sievebrain 8y ago
Not a big fan of vox but this is a nice article, such reminders are always welcome. It is however unfortunate that the journalist feels a need to start with the usual silly bashfest - democracy is dying you see, except for this graph in our
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by sievebrain 8y ago
You see the same in most governments though. A surplus is rarely banked. Instead a budget surplus is immediately spent on structural spending like increased wages. A ballot measure to force the government to give back budget surplus is a sm
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by sievebrain 8y ago
No. I never bring up the topic with them not do I express any opinions about the veracity of such stories in front of them. But hey thanks for the ad-hominem that suggests my friends don't trust me despite knowing nothing about me DanB

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