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Comment · 3 years ago
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 do you think brains came out the same? They didn't, and all the hard data, and all the evidence of everyone's eyes - how black vs white, or other populations, live, shows that. It's ugly, it's not nice, people don't know what to do about it, it's a can of worms, but it's true.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
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.

Comment · 8 years ago
> baas

Unironically, the origin of the word 'boss'.

Comment · 8 years ago
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.
Comment · 8 years ago
Can't read the specs, but loverpi.com has up-powered versions - notably, with up to 4GB memory.
Comment · 8 years ago
In English there's 'silence is golden', but, lacks the 'silver' part.
Comment · 8 years ago
Somewhere poor, where labor is cheap and people are still susceptible to bribes?
Comment · 8 years ago
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, and wouldn't compile. But it may be better, now.
Comment · 8 years ago
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 feel sure his daughter had something to do with it.
Comment · 8 years ago
> 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 is what really gladdens our Father's(0) heart. - C.S. Lewis, senior demon to a junior, 'Screwtape Letters'. (0) Satan
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago

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Comment · 8 years ago
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, from a desire to keep the CPython implementation simple.

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