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Until we get any tangible proof of life outside Earth, there is no difference

Vote. It's literally the best thing you can do, apart from going into politics yourself

What are you talking about, it powers a lot of people I know

Now think what ingesting a smartphone would do to your body. That's a very silly metric

> english happens to be spoken all over the globe due to a big goofy empire that went places Why do you think Latin was popular?

> I live outside Seoul, and the infrastructure gap is about 10 to 20 years behind That actually sounds like a business opportunity, if there is a steady stream of people moving out…

In Europe? A lot of people live in apartment buildings

Life in general would be a lot simpler and nicer in a perfect world with perfect (whatever it means) people in it

Are from the Alsace region or maybe your ancestors are? If so, maybe not so secretly

Not even humans can do that, you're literally asking for something beyond AGI

The difference here is that in a functioning democracy people have some control over their government. All the institutions are specifically built to be transparent and work for th…

There are several large parks that resemble forests and are barely touched by human activity in Moscow as well. Can't say I liked walking in them very much when I was still living …

Some time ago I would've considered that a joke, but this year NS has been about as reliable as DB, so I might actually consider that option

> if not a heat pump Most heat pump installations in Europe are air-to-water systems fitted to use the existing piping in old homes and is used only for heating. Such installations…

Genuinely curious, what alternatives were there in the 2000s? Did dependency on Russian gas doom German manufacturing or did it provide it 20 additional years of artificial life su…

Is it actually simpler, though? The unfortunate reality of this world is the fact that C++ is not the latest standard of the language or the newest shiny library, it's all of them …

> There is basically only ever one country in the history of ever that has been able to do that I guess you mean the British empire? Or Dutch? Maybe Spanish?

To be fair, you don't need to implement exceptions in golang because they already exist in the language, they're just called panics

It's actually pretty common for local payment systems to exist, it's not just Brazil. I've seen such systems in Europe, Asia, Africa and I'm sure they exist in other places I've ne…

> If you’ve ever tried using type erasure for something more complicated than std::any or std::function, you’ve either written 100+ lines of easy-to-mess-up code or reached for a b…

Are you calling an entire generation of programmers idiots? Do you think they didn't know about C, Smalltalk or Lisp? C++ was the most popular language in the 90s because it was th…

Or "high lede" in English

You're wrote those words using technology built in C++. Just saying

> I always underline ш and write a line over т Interesting. I think this style completely died out in Russia, I wasn't taught it and never really seen it outside of some old letter…

> The Russian language itself comes from Old Bulgarian / Old Church Slavonic, as does Serbian and other "Slavic" languages. That's some interesting nationalistic propaganda, never …