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Nix and NixOS probably wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the anime pfps :)

> In the end, people tend to believe what they want. Agreed. My point about complexity vs. simplicity does not apply to people who are coming in with strong, preconceived notions. …

I would say something like “unions are more often good than bad and without them your children would today probably be working a 996 schedule”.

I get your point, but I think confusion requires complexity. Otherwise how would it be confusing?

But “Black = bad” is not a simple argument because you cannot make that argument without backing it with a bunch of convoluted nonsense (complexity). Likewise with illegal immigrat…

Funnily enough, your comment introduces complexity into what I see as a fairly simple argument. Also, I love how you pulled communism out of nowhere. A centrist would nod along wit…

Precisely. Bad actors desire complexity because it leads to indifference. The “good” side therefore needs to fight that complexity with simplicity and empathy. “Unions can be corru…

I engage in online discussions for one of two reasons: 1. To present a viewpoint to readers through debating with one or more people. Crucially, in this scenario, I am not interest…

Let’s just agree to disagree, although we will never know for sure given that Biden is a self-avowed Zionist who chose the path of unconditional support.

> In short, it's complicated. No, it is not. The US has the power to sanction entire states & cut them out from the global banking system overnight. Look at what Cuba has suffered …

Your analysis will be downvoted, but it is absolutely spot on. One day, everyone will always have been against this.

You can argue all day long, but at the end of the day, the US has immense ability to exert pressure on Israel, starting with withholding UNSC vetoes. The Biden admin pulled no leve…

I have lived in Japan. > Wouldn't wanna live there permanently. Wouldn't want to have been born Japanese. So I take it you understand that there is no free lunch.

I have always found the adoption loophole to maintaining a family business hilariously smart. I also understand why it’s not something common outside of Japan. Selling your family …

There is nothing inherently special about Japan or Japanese people. You can pull similar examples from many other countries.

I am assuming that Fil-C introduces orders of magnitude less overhead than ASAN or Valgrind. Also, it’s probably fast enough for apps to be deployed in something like a staging env…

But the runtime cost of Fil-C means that - in most cases - your actual production application will be compiled with a standard C compiler. This applies not just to your code, but t…

How is Fil-C’s wrapper approach different from someone (not necessarily the Rust stdlib) implementing a safe wrapper around a particular syscall? mmap is a bit of an outlier becaus…

“But Morocco didn’t exist!” - addressed in another reply, see sibling. The UN argument boils down to Spain lobbying the UN early on (post-WW2) at a time when Morocco and other Nort…

Yep, it’s always justified by the fact that Morocco never existed and therefore has no claim. But applying this logic universally would change the world map, not to mention that th…

It would also be great if Ceuta and Melilla returned back to Morocco, and if Western Sahara in turn gained its independence from Morocco. As an aside, I have always found it ironic…

Or intentionally repatriate colonial administrators who oversaw torture of misbehaving natives and place them in cushy government positions back in the metropole. Or repeatedly ele…

The middle ground I go with is to structure the pool using datasets and zvols, and then periodically backup the critical ones using zfs send. For example, I can live without my mov…

This is the case virtually everywhere thanks to FATCA, unless the country’s banking system is OK with getting punished. It applies not just to US citizens, but also to US permanent…