xamolxix

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by xamolxix 2y ago
Meta is free to close shop (in the EU) if it's not worth it to them. Not all business have the right to exist.
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by xamolxix 2y ago
Magna carta only created rights for the oligarchs of the time, many of which have descents today with the same inherited wealth. You don't have to dig that deeply in the UK society to find the old aristocracy alive and well and still a
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by xamolxix 2y ago
Moreover, regardless of how large the sum is, when they took the policy they should have known if they could pay it? I'd have thought there's regulations on that.
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by xamolxix 3y ago
I just spent more than 5 minutes trying to get past the captcha (matching angles) but still couldn't.
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by xamolxix 3y ago
what is a harder drug than heroin?
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by xamolxix 3y ago
> It's wrapping the generator in a bash script that pipes the result through AWK, etc. Which is itself a generator
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by xamolxix 3y ago
Sure, I'm just saying the countries from the former soviet block and possibly others weren't in the empire business.
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by xamolxix 3y ago
> When people from former empires What about when people who were under the boot of empires (which is a substantial part of the people of the EU) complain about it? > it strikes me as sour grapes at best It's a legit complaint. N
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by xamolxix 3y ago
I got the same INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR (after a longer wait than usual) by asking it "why are you mean?"
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by xamolxix 4y ago
>> MAD is a terrible strategy What is a better strategy? >> and I dont think our Nuclear weapons serve the function many believe they do. What function do you believe many believe they serve, and what function do you believe the
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by xamolxix 4y ago
> Reference? here are some references, though not sure if this was what GP was refering to. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette... https://www.theguardian.com/
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by xamolxix 4y ago
maybe "null", can't think of anything else.
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by xamolxix 4y ago
> Debian is like Ubuntu but without all the cruft. Unfortunately for me, I only seem to like the font rendering in Ubuntu, any other distro I tried (and I habitually try lots) don't seem to get it quite right (for my taste anyway).
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by xamolxix 4y ago
> I had to google for how to install the non-snap version Out of curiosity, how did you do it? I ended up downloading the firefox tar from their website and setting that the default browser. Could not find any trustworthy deb packages.
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by xamolxix 4y ago
> workers can freely move west to east Can't speak for other eastern europen countries, but I'd not move back to the one I come from even for a bigger salary. I might have more money but I'd still have to live in worse con
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by xamolxix 4y ago
> What's the difference between "enforcing citizens rights" and "ensuring that the private org understands that the government of the people is in charge" The difference is that you can use "ensuring that t
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by xamolxix 4y ago
> The only difference between them is that one group was free to think about the long-term consequences of the treaty, while the other group was under pressure to pander. I agree that's the difference, I don't think it comes fr
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by xamolxix 4y ago
> It's supposed to be "you can't just..." Honest question, why can't you? Is it disallowed by law?
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by xamolxix 5y ago
I don't know what the likelihoods of either are but if I had to guess I would say that yes, hostile third countries are more dangerous than my own country. Also, I consider that I would have more recourse against an actor from my own j
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by xamolxix 5y ago
> The foreign actor has no jurisdiction over me. You can be subjected to blackmail and/or other hostile actions from a foreign jurisdiction.
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by xamolxix 5y ago
> I haven't anything like it in other languages Is that different from compiling one lib with --std=c++11 and another with --std=c++17?
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by xamolxix 5y ago
You are conflating "the way you are born" with "something you've done" e.g. something you can't choose with something you can.
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by xamolxix 5y ago
I disagree. Competition is good. Don't want to end up with every C/C++ compiler being a clang skin in the same way as (almost) every browser is a chrome skin. And for what it's worth cl compiles faster for me than even clang-
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by xamolxix 5y ago
What would the alternative be? Do nothing?
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by xamolxix 6y ago
> it goes neck to neck with C++. Sure, Rust or Go or C I hate to be that guy but 1) java does not go neck to neck with c++ unless you mean it can be in the same order of magnitude and 2) C++ is not slower than C or Go or Rust Note: by c+
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by xamolxix 6y ago
> That she is on the position is testament to the democratic dysfunction of the Union. I know almost nothing about her but my impression of the actual decision making in the EU is that it's fairly distributed (by design) and there i
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by xamolxix 6y ago
First time loading any of the examples it takes a noticeable time but it creates some cache files e.g. "e33b398b592a74de7cce1c9035ee8082-le64.cache-7" which seem binary. Subsequent loads are fast.
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by xamolxix 6y ago
> Well, I am not sure I call huge compile times a joy to use... I just compiled this on windows and a full build after cloning the repo took about a minute.
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by xamolxix 7y ago
> As for the fighter jets: how could they possibly help the situation? Shoot her? Shoot the plane down before it hits a building/populated area I would assume.
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by xamolxix 7y ago
> in the same way as agreeing to receive phone marketing should imply they can track whether you answered the phone. But agreeing to receive a snail mail does not imply consent to track if it was read. I feel that email is closer to that

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