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    Comment #38807736

    The subtle point I read in GP is the historic correlation between storage systems and data structures. Your point is equally valid in that this correlation is not indicative of non…

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    Comment #38807555

    Let’s be pedantic here and get all religious over the words “Science” and “hard”. Computer “science” has a difficult conceptual problem with caching. The optimal cache, this scienc…

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    Comment #38773085

    > I suspect the private desire to please oneself motivates apathy to a strict morality forbidding that self-pleasure. More so than any supposed rationality; see atheists and religi…

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    Comment #38769330

    Bertrand Russell came to mind when I read this. I remember reading some story featuring a flustered Russell at the dinner table with his wife Dora, her baby (by another man), and t…

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    Comment #38764203

    TLDR: “‘Pre-emotive genocide’ is not genocide”.

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    Comment #38759049

    Let me see how this works: For Palestinians to say the want to be “free from river to sea” means the “genocide of Israelis”. But, amazingly but unsurprisingly, for Israelis to say …

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    Comment #38757350

    > [elite’s HR issues] We share this thought. My pet theory regarding the recruitment efforts of this class: two broad fronts, one to drive the herd and the other to pick candidates…

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    Comment #38757247

    Yes, this was France.

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    Comment #38756959

    Thank you for your correction & very interesting info. I overly generalized the matter as of one societal changes that led to class mobility.

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    Comment #38756765

    > For example, the phrase "from the river to the [sea]" is considered hateful by many, so it was taken down. That’s convenient. Zionism, the ideology and its propaganda, “is consid…

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    Comment #38750297

    I never said Sam did. Sam’s just a made man. Interested in this theory of middle class controlling the world. My personal yardstick is: “whose interests are most served by the syst…

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    Comment #38750017

    The argument: Rich people control the world. Rich people own the media. Rich people run boards. Rich people built up cults of personality. Influencers to lend credibility for their…

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    Comment #38721360

    Person A using the couch for its intended function (a place to sleep over) vs B who is using it also for social function with possible slight degradation in faculties (drunk), lowe…

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    Comment #38695891

    Thanks (and good luck with the project!)

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    Comment #38690828

    Neither assumption holds. RabbitMQ is built on top of OTP. MQTT is a protocol which means client lang stack makes no difference. To be clear, I am not asking why not Rabbit instead…

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    Comment #38688623

    How does this compare to using RabbitMQ’s MQTT plugin? https://www.rabbitmq.com/mqtt.html

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    Comment #38688170

    The book Ancient China in Transition - An analysis of Social Mobility, 722-222 BC (Cho-yun Hsu, Stanford University Press, 1965) discusses this transition in rather great detail. h…

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    Comment #38687906

    Oh, there is always SoftBank to the rescue.

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    Comment #38679721

    As an almost life long New Yorker it pains me, truly, to read this. People used to fear this city and that kept the “average tourist” (which includes super lovely people like my pa…

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    Comment #38679681

    This is all true. You also can ask for ice with your coke. This will endear you with the wait staff as they can not resist snickering and muttering “American ..”

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    Comment #38675579

    Two faculties are listed and the phrase implies the good working order of both. This then leads to the conclusion that the meaning is “reason alone can not determine all decisions”…

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    Comment #38664493

    SOAP is an object access protocol. COM is an component object model. How is SOAP providing a component model?

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    Comment #38642944

    Thank you.