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Genuine question: if you could tell Ben Franklin this, would you? I'm not even disagreeing with you, nor do I think there is a correct answer, but your answer and the reasoning behind it would genuinely interest me.

Is there an instance where "Phoenician" is not 100% bidirectionally synonymous with "Canaanite?" I've wondered why we have two terms for the same group. In this instance it is literally the same peoples and neither term gives, as far as I'm aware, any kind of specialized connotation.

> with a large portion of the population being dead set against better healthcare if it meant allowing Obama to be able to take credit for it.

This is a fiction people repeat with no citation. A large portion of the population wants m4a when it is explained to them. This "system" failure was specifically our elected reps - bipartisanly - ignoring the needs and wants of the people at the behest of their donors. The democratic process failure was when the two parties solidified.

It wasn't pitchfork wielding illiterate rubes (or whatever undoubtedly out of touch "data driven" parody of what an average person is we're operating with) trying to deny a Black man his legacy, it was that Black man's party collectively wanting to be reelected that gave us the "Buy Insurance Or We Fine You Through Taxes" Act.

Have you tried sCASP?

Why not? Honest question. I assumed it was his attitude toward his southern neighbor that sealed his downfall, both politically and in the court of public opinion.

Yes.

> Beyond the UK's experience, France’s actions in African countries when it adopted the Euro are worth investigating—they reveal a shocking side of EU monetary policy.

Can you elaborate on this? I know enough to know that I should not pretend to know anything.

What they meant through the imprecision of their language was that an election was conducted and he won by the rules of the contest, and now as the winner he is exercising authority commensurate with his new position.

I don't have much of anything in common with the incoming admin but even I can see what you're saying is true. This is a special privilege, not a job, that is being conditioned. If everyone keeps crying wolf we won't be as alert when something fascist does happen.

I can't prove that we did but I don't know that we /didn't/.

The specific details of the hiring process are in question. You are running away from grappling with the (increasingly likely) possibility that bias wasn't the (only) driver in hiring disparity.

But I don't want a pointy stick, I want a program that loads web pages securely and quickly and doesn't log my browsing habits and sell them to advertisers.

Having someone around to do the actual work is absolutely a prerequisite to a successful business. Too much time in management might blunt that understanding but I assure you it's true.

> Please don't jump on a hype train

> Give capital to another project because C++ is "dumb" and Rust is not.

I applaud you for disclosing your biases at the top but I was so hoping the disclosure wouldn't be a spoiler for the rest.

Shame, it's a brilliant film.

No, I'm annoying and split it up.

https://github.com/gatlin/precursor-ts

https://github.com/gatlin/precursor-ts/blob/main/src/ceskm.t...

Shameless self promotion: I made a toy CBPV language in TypeScript. It's purely for pedagogy. The idea is that the implementation is essentially an executable small step semantics, and the interop between language and machine is real purdy.

https://niltag.net/code/precursor

The Bretton Woods Agreement and our military probably do us more favors than our spending habits (which are enormous).

Neither of the mentioned religions fixates solely on "believing in a man in the clouds." You're purposefully reducing the spiritual and prose content of these multifaceted, vibrant families of traditions. The person you're replying to isn't suggesting these religions don't believe in omniscient deities, they're trying to discuss them beyond the juvenile, r/atheist flat "le epic sky man" level of discourse.

Mayans would go to war because they hadn't had one in a while according to my guide at Mayapan. At their peak Aztecs were sacrificing 80k+ people a year, usually war prisoners. This behavior is how the conquistadors were able to rally their enemies and topple them.

Whoever is the second-to-last foreign colonizer is forever to be considered a victim not responsible for any similar crimes committed on their part. This shouldn't be a reason to not care at all about the Maori, or other indigenous groups. Rather, perhaps there are others we should give attention and money to besides the most politically expedient groups.

> weren't armed when they went up

How has this claim been authenticated?

To continue torturing this analogy it's very likely your proverbial sibling was trained by the CIA in the first place.

You asked a pointed question.

They are getting at the point that as animals we can intellectualize all we want and will still have biological characteristics that fundamentally influence our behavior and culture.

I am sympathetic that pressing issues need solutions sooner rather than later, and that a lot of public good will was indeed spent on projects that have vanished into thin air with zero accountability. Is it not worth perhaps investing time and energy into fixing the stagnant, shitty processes that have lead to what I will agree (for the sake of good faith argument) are ineffective-at-best shitty decisions and policies? My $0.02: looking to simply abandon civic involvement and completely privatize the solutions?

We have experienced different realities. There is no point in trying to discuss this.

Is the unstated assumption here that Russia is mindlessly belligerent and going to attack any neighbor for any reason?

No they are suggesting the possibility you intentionally excluded, which is to make systems better but by other means.

> because companies believed they would be able to pull future goals forward.

And what justified these beliefs, to them?