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efuquen

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    Comment #45235283

    And I would say the deficiencies in Profiles and the fact Safe C++ was killed is the technical decisions reflecting the culture problem.

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    Comment #42604880

    I don't disagree with some of the points are making here, but the main point of my own comment is your last sentence from above was mean-spirited and unnecessary. You want to have …

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    Comment #42604239

    > The folks that taught the author should hang their head in shame that their student is producing such rubbish. This is unnecessary and rude, you should hang your head in shame fo…

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    Comment #37579881

    In a previous blog post they basically said they will never make a Go 2, and also addressed a lot of things about compatibility: https://go.dev/blog/compat In particular they said:…

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    Comment #36264051

    Nice visual tool but wildly optimistic. Walk times to and from stations and during transfers can eat up huge amounts of time in a commute, and that assumes trains are running well.…

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    Comment #36263969

    Transfers take a very relevant amount of time, even during rush hour when the trains are running frequently. Aside from waiting on the train, which does not keep a strict schedule …

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    Comment #30579210

    What does the reason the police are doing it for matter? Isn't either action an egregious violation of privacy? Sometimes society has allowed these things for emergency reasons, bu…

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    Comment #30579127

    > You cannot compare these two levels of violence. The comparison is between two things, the police forcing you to give them access your phone for no explicit reason, or the police…

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    Comment #30548100

    > Yet somehow this is fairly obscure knowledge unless you're into serious game programming or a similar field. Because the impact in optimizing hardware like that can be not so imp…

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    Comment #28911411

    You loose one usb-c port to get all the others. I've never needed 4 usb-c ports at a time, but definitely have needed all the others. And one usb-c port is replaced by power, which…

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    Comment #27987221

    Because your risk becomes everyones risk. The vaccine is becoming less and less effective against variants and people talk as if dying or hospitalizations is the only bad outcome. …

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    Comment #27159245

    > Would that change if they, for example, demanded the release of prisoners of a specific political persuasion? How would that not be classified as a political motive?

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    Comment #27006832

    > On the contrary, as far as I can tell (i.e., based on information released by founders and employees), they didn't object at all to being called out on it. > What they did object…

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    Comment #23073253

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    Comment #21438550

    Honestly I don't understand @cciresi's position. As far as a I know anti-boycott regulations have primarily (only?) been used to prevent US companies from not doing business with I…

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    Comment #21235392

    If you read the article that does not at all seem to be the case.

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    Comment #20064731

    I get you wrote something to a limited audience and didn't expect it to be shared beyond. But you really should consider any communication with a 'a few authors' as something that …

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    Comment #19714867

    > More pressingly, when it comes to plant life RIGHT NOW, we're still dangerously close to CO₂ starvation levels. This is the most provocative claim you make and coincidentally the…

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    Comment #18226435

    ~200k in a small southern city if you adjust for cost of living is about equivalent to $500k at a FAANG in SF/NYC. When you know people who brag about how cheap their $2000 a month…

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    Comment #18034873

    > I think a lot of people use colourful language as emphasis. You do not need to curse in a professional environment, full stop. Letting a word fly out by mistake is one thing, it …

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    Comment #17995736

    > Anyone who's familiar with the NYC->BOS Acela route And that is literally like almost nobody. I bet less then 1% of anyone living in NYC or Boston metropolitan area have ever rid…

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    Comment #16640273

    > an unaffiliated service Unaffiliated? The company a customer that is paying Slack for a messaging service, that certainly isn't 'unaffiliated'.

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    Comment #16638600

    I think if he was against the sale he would have said that.

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    Comment #16638539

    > I don't get what changed? He made his billions. I know you mean in a more general sense, but I can't let go of the hypocrisy of this. He sold out millions of users to Facebook, b…

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    Comment #16594551

    Yes, exactly my point. Blaming 'unions' for this is simplistic to the extreme. As oyhers have already mentioned many places around the world with strong unions still maintain far b…