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rbanffy
194,607karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
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I have been referring to myself as a communist more and more.1
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It seems like the US has priced itself out of those wars.
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I believe GP was being sarcastic.
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The word you are looking for is "stragedy"
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All things considered, it appears it's working as intended by the administration.
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We all know Operation Epstein Fury has been an extremely successful employment of weapons of mass distraction.
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The US made about $68 billion just by kidnapping Venezuela’s president (and making sure the successor would be next if she didn’t allow the sacking). For something that required intelligence work and …
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> most effective coercive tool that money can buy And how well is it coercing Iranian government right now? It is proving itself not only ineffective, but also ludicrously inefficient in terms of m…
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All change is mourned. This is nothing but market logic pursuing low costs, extracting work from gradients of wealth. In Hollywood the gradient is low compared to other “exotic” locations such as Toro…
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I for one would love to have a deskside CPU-heavy box under my desk.
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Soft power would have gone a long way towards furthering US interests in the Middle East. Unfortunately, it seems too late for that. By the time a new administration's diplomacy reverts the curre…
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On the flip side, at least the press is not hammering the Epstein files and the lack of any prosecution for the crimes documented in those.
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> human or otherwise This is a fascinating idea. > and even archeological evidence is lacking. A couple million years and your surface will be forever lost under a subduction zone. There is litt…
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Not really. It refers to a single civilisation. Other societies existed in the neighbouring space and time.
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> Now moving tons of cargo hundreds of miles, or even half way around the world, is trivial and relatively rapid, but in ancient times you're looking at moving small amounts of cargo extremely…
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> I don't think a few years is enough to erase all trace of human intervention The weather there is quite brutal. Roads need tons of maintenance to remain passable. This is one of the reasons …
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The Spectrum is an interesting machine and definitely Sir Clive is a very British counterpoint to the very Northern Californian Steve Jobs. The only thing I hate about the Speccy is the color palette.
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This paper, btw, popped up here 22 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871932