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Dude, we evolved on different continents for 50,000 years. We look different. Our bodies' biochemistry differs (different medications for whites + blacks for blood pressure). Why d…

> muh can't we all just get along Take the Hitler / Darwin pill: as long as there are separate entities and limited resources, they will be in conflict. Accept it, it's a part of n…

This video puts a lot of it together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0_Of0WGkEs He starts with science and reaches into speculation, but, there's real, interesting science in it.…

> baas Unironically, the origin of the word 'boss'.

Right - it should be harder to get money for less-productive specialty degrees in the humanities. Creditors would have to decide whether to risk their money, and become gatekeepers…

Can't read the specs, but loverpi.com has up-powered versions - notably, with up to 4GB memory.

In English there's 'silence is golden', but, lacks the 'silver' part.

Somewhere poor, where labor is cheap and people are still susceptible to bribes?

clang modernize? It'll do the small-scale fixes for you. But, though this was a while ago, it messed up the text when I used it. You could tell what it was /supposed/ to be, though…

So this is not the denouement, he's still on hiatus, the situation is not resolved. It's a real shame that Linus thinks that mouthing off at people is the same as being a Nazi. I f…

> An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula. It is more certain; and it's better style. To get the man's soul and give him nothing in return -that …

There's Framenet, a computational collection of frames. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrameNet https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal/

x = stuff while x: x = stuff

There was an article somewhere recently, of someone proposing changes to CPython for just that reason. Guido had already resisted several attempts at the kind of thing he was doing…

It's a competitive region.

Is this new? Here's a video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG9xMiFRQrs It's of a French woman defacing a mural in Paris that said 'French women belong to African men'…

I voted for it before reading it - it sucks. The title makes it sound like Glenn Greenwald is saying sorry - I don't see anything like that in there. His name gets a couple of ment…

I'll venture Radiohead's 'Reckoner': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wCJPm19XYQ

http://www.areweblazingfastyet.org is free - you'd better grab it before I do :). If you don't take it, I'll just make it return those pieces of the language shootout.

I've heard that DeBeers kind of runs the place. I don't remember where I heard that though.

> Will Rust always be faster than C? (By 'always' did you mean 'ever'?) That may be so, but their advertising gives the wrong impression. They should keep their claims muted until …

It's as 'blazingly fast' as Java: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan... or go: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan... Here's what…

That point about employees not having friends at work being at risk is true in my case - if I don't have friends where I work I don't feel at home, and am indeed more likely to lea…