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merdreubu

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    Comment #23137777

    https://github.com/Geequlim/ECMAScript

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    Comment #20661536

    [flagged]

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    Comment #20316620

    >Clearly the disabled citizens should just crap at home Disabled citizens are clearly better served by waiting for the oversized "Super Commission of Wheelchair Access" that takes …

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    Comment #20316501

    Nah, I didn't call you __ALL__ communists because I was replying to a single douche who translated "I wager" to "I proved" while claiming I "carefully selected" a youtube video. In…

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    Comment #20314475

    >Which you "proved" by carefully selecting a single anecdote? I CAREFULLY SELECTED a single anecdote... did you miss the part where is detailed why toilets (as in more than one) an…

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    Comment #20313105

    >There's a lot of public infrastructure around. The vast majority of it was commissioned by politicians. The vast majority of it is just there, mentioned a few times in the local r…

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    Comment #18417397

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o Persistence hunt in the Kalahari.

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    Comment #17955262

    >If Sweden can evolve from an impoverished hellhole to being the epitome of modern civilization in a century, why can't the same thing happen to Syria? Or Sudan? Or Myanmar? I thin…

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    Comment #17210860

    Maydanets, 4000 BC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni%E2%80%93Trypillia_cul... Talianki, 4000 BC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni%E2%80%93Trypillia_cul...

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    Comment #16881827

    The state may be gone, but the Somali Islamic and clan structures of governance remained in place, and they are deeply tyrannical and anti-freedom to the core.

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    Comment #16480222

    >to keep Dart's makers employed I find it hard to believe that the people who built Strongtalk, Java's HotSpot, Chrome's V8 and (lastly) Dart, would have trouble finding employment…

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    Comment #15977200

    It was Macromedia that made Flash, not Adobe. Adobe just ignored it and is now killing it. Edit: Adobe also killed 2 other brilliant Macromedia products, right after acquisition, F…

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    Comment #15624178

    > As a person living in a former communist country I find it quite amusing that after the communism was replaced by capitalism population increase went from a steady increase to st…

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    Comment #15618384

    >I don't see how you'd equate communism and nazism. They are both abject totalitarian ideologies that produced obscene levels of human suffering. >how did you come with 100 million…

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    Comment #14996446

    Except Dota is not balanced so that heroes have the same win rate (LOL does that and it's a boring uneventful game for large stretches of time). Dota is balanced also taking into a…

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    Comment #14952612

    There's also a fair amount of Jonathan Haidt influence.

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    Comment #14801984

    At the same time it's not hard to imagine how much better the world would be today if Macromedia was not sold to Adobe, and Adobe was not scared into abandoning Flash by the concer…

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    Comment #14609989

    https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html

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    Comment #14176297

    >does not strike me as being especially Soviet Czechoslovakia was not part of the Soviet Union.

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    Comment #14097367

    I think the development of VS Code was kind of an accident. They built Monaco (the editor component) for Visual Studio Online, then made it a standalone text editor as a side proje…

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    Comment #13511444

    >Witzel comes across as a deeply racist person. I am told that he told an Indian person that "Hindus cant get a chair professorship to study Indology because they will be biased!".…

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    Comment #12910539

    Yep, shutting down speech because of "security concerns" is not banning, like what happened to many conservative speakers (Ben Shapiro at DePaul for example).

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    Comment #12908807

    >Do you have examples of the left in the US banning free speech for those that think differently from them? https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/783426266380668928

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    Comment #11764737

    You get a lot from Erlang VM. Among other things: by far the best VM instrumentation out there, rock solid stability, fault tolerance and hot code loading, exemplified in this litt…

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    Comment #11633084

    http://nerves-project.org/