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by wikfwikf 4y ago
What do you mean when you say "French" or "non-French"? What are the words you are scared of using if you answered this question? Why won't you use them?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I asked ChatGPT to write a function which takes a year as input and determines whether or not it's a leap year - a classic basic programming question. It answered perfectly. Of course, there are lots of examples of this code. Then I as
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I think this phenomenon is actually something else: in the 1950s people who were commonly depicted as being part of society tended to have a house with a garden and a nuclear family structure where the husband, but not the wife, worked. T
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
You seem to be the one subject to taboos. You don't want to say what you mean by 'French' or 'non-French'. I am perfectly capable of understanding and discussing what can be meant by 'Frenchness', and what
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
But the point of the GP comment was that language has not 'evolved', but is intentionally being used in a misleading way here.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I understand your reluctance to answer a straightforward question: you know exactly what you are, and yet you are ashamed to admit to it. This is not the political culture of Vercingetorix, nor of Charles de Gaulle ;)
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
What do you mean by "non-french"?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Yes, and I'd rather go to prison in Munich than to Rikers Island.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
If investors see layoffs and judge that the company just became more valuable, either they are right or they are wrong. If they are right, then isn't the job of management, in a principle fundamental to the US economic system, to follo
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I have lived and travelled in France for around 40 years and I don't at all recognize what you are describing. Your claims appear to be based on suggesting that you (and, in a laughable falsehood, the wide range of opinion in French so
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Firstly, so that I can understand the strength of the correlation, can you pinpoint when "women were given freedom there" and what that consisted of? Secondly, regardless of the cause of the lowered birth rate, do you agree that
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
"the cultural norm of the country, as well as its "visual" identity has shifted from a european country to a (mostly) african one" This is delusional, and yes, I did read the rest of your comment.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I believe it was heavily inspired by QuickTest.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
One of the amazing things about Hypothesis is that it's very good at generating weird inputs that trigger bugs in cases when it would be impossible to test more than a tiny fraction of all possible inputs. There is very very clever cod
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Several answers on that page suggest that daily operation of circuit breakers is not harmless.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
It's difficult to explain credibility beyond the definition of the word, but if you have any purported reason "to think that poverty of young adults, narcissism, or lack of patience, is materially different and has a material eff
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Yes, but now you're redesigning a normal electricity setup for a large building like a school. This is the system that was, presumably, replaced by the broken IoT system, plus the absolute minimum of traditional kit outside of that.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
On the last par: suppose that it is true that a) 10 years ago people were less self-centered, impatient or poor than they are now and b) 10 years ago there were more parties. Does this form the basis of a well-evidenced claim that there are
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
This is a catalogue of irrational scare-mongering. Do you honestly believe that "housewarmings, birthdays, holidays, sports games, barbecuing, karaoke, ... parties ... for people joining the team, for people leaving, for projects kicki
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
You can't flip a circuit breaker every night and every morning. Firstly the school's safety code would not allow it. Secondly they are not designed for that. Thirdly, there are probably lots of things in a high school which need t
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The question was not 'what do you do if you need the toilet?' but 'what do you do about people who haven't got anywhere to go to the toilet?' By definition, if there is a public toilet accessible to you, or you are
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
It is certainly in the book.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
What are you supposed to do about people who haven't got anywhere else to go to the toilet? If you place them in custody, you might as well provide them with some basic housing that costs less than jail. They have literally nothing to
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Manhattan is not NYC. Most poor people live in the other 4 boroughs. Most wealthy people live in Manhattan (and Brooklyn).
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
This is far from true.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
This would be annoying for people whose credit card just happened to expire and who then have to deal with not having the service for a period, re-signing up, losing loyalty bonuses, etc.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
A Chinese company operates in the US, obeys local laws while doing the same sketchy things that home-grown companies do all the time and it's a 'national security issue'. US companies operating in the EU are expected to follo
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
It seems insane to me that the happy path involves you getting $70k. Working in finance, I would expect that amount as a bonus in any year where I perform well and the business isn't unprofitable. When I've spoken to people about
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
What about the First Amendment?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Do you really think that Elon Musk's contribution to electric vehicles is comparable to Jobs' contribution to smartphones? Steve Jobs worked on personal computers before they existed. He was recognized as a visionary with his firs

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