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On the other hand, I've always found the Scott Expedition very... illuminating. They had 2 proto-snowmobiles. One fell into the ocean when they were unloading it. The other one had a mechanical failure shortly after the final team departed the last camp, and Scott didn't bring the engineer with him because an officer of higher rank threw a pissy fit that the engineer was going but not him. Only one of a rather long list of poor decisions.

Amazing, thanks. I swear, these sleazy guys are always into A) Cars and/or B) Bodybuilding.

My 2c as a catalan speaker. Apparently cunt is related to the latin "cunnus" (wedge). We also have a vulgar word related to cunnus for vagina, "cony". Its use is not as offensive as cunt, but it is up there with "puta" (whore) as the worst things you could say to a woman. However "cony" is also used in a sexual context: "Et vull menjar el cony" could be translated to "I want to eat your pussy".

Of course we have other obscene words for vagina. One of them is "conill" (rabbit), which is apparently related to "cunniculus" (burrow). The analogy between the action of the animal when hiding and the sexual act seems clear, but however this one is almost exclusively used in descriptive contexts: "L'hi he vist el conill", "I've seen her pussy".

"Conill" is also used more innocently. A young girl (~4yo) who is playing and running around naked could be affectionately called by female relatives "conillet". "Ai el conillet!" as in "oh, the little rabbit!". The goal here, I believe, seems to be not really shaming her to get dressed, but to make her aware that she is naked.

The animal analogy (?) would be similar to that of beaver, I suppose. But of course no mother would call her naked girl little beaver.

Maybe it's just me, but I find it fascinating how languages converge and diverge, and how we find hilarious and imaginative ways to describe the world around us.

Are you really gonna leave us like that?

I guess you work in farming? Because that's a whole lot of straw men you got up there.

Coincidentally enough, "qui menja caragols per Sant Joan, té diners tot l'any".

Translation: if you snails on Saint John's Eve (June 23rd), you'll have money all year.

I'm pretty sure he's suggesting that sex tourism is the reason RS visits/has visited Indonesia.

It's not just that they don't know how to evaluate: often they don't even know what they are looking for.

"In that case we must evaluate whether the law is just or necessary"

It is a common view that a degree of redistribution is necessary and desirable, and the social benefits are rather clear.

Even then, there are some spectacular failures at penalizing tax evasion. There are known loopholes in the Spanish and EU tax system that remain unclosed because...? Also, for comparison I'd like to point out that the fiscal amnesty enacted by the Popular Party in 2012 was evidently unconstitutional, but somehow it was not until 2017 that the Constitutional Court settled the issue. It took this court about two hours to reach a conclusion regarding Catalan independence laws.

So if the goal is to have a progressive tax system, but political parties and the courts fail at even following the current laws, what should a reformer aim at? We've seen multiple leaks about tax evaders (Falcianni, Panama papers). The information contained in those leaks was illegally obtained. Does that mean they were also unjust and illegitimate, and therefore disregarded or condemned?

Not sure how these facts fit in your legalist perspective, and I don't understand the insistence in equating legality with justice, unless, as I said, one is benefiting economically and culturally from unjust laws, but doesn't want to feel like the bad guy. "Are we the baddies?"

Laws and their use are not inherently just, legitimate, necessary, effective or reflective of society. Often laws provide advantges to segments of society at a cost for other segments. In that case we must evaluate whether the law is just or necessary. If the segment of society that benefits unnecessarily or unjustly from the law refuses to be held accountable, then civil disobedience by the affected segment is to be expected. There are countless instances of social and legal change achieved through disobedience instead of "following the law".

The fact that something is illegal doesn't really address the issue of renewing/maintaining the legitimacy of a social organization. If anything saying that something is illegitimate or unjust because it is illegal suggests that one benefits from the status quo.

Curious username...

> everything that does not in the most direct way result in value added is demeaned, discounted and cut.

Correction: everything that is not _perceived_ to add value. The amount of bullshit and inefficiencies that are rewarded with exorbitant salaries is simply astonishing.

> modern, real-world apps are generally far more advanced than just a glorified CRUD app.

... are they?

Could you elaborate on this experience? How did the city deal with institutional reluctance/resistance?

The way I interpreted is, this torture culture is not a recent development. It already existed during SJ watch.

If I had to do interviews I'd do this and something complementary to this: bring a piece of code you're especially proud of. What problem were you trying to solve? How did you try to solve it? What options did you discard? Why did you discard those options? What resources did you use? How do these concepts/solutions relate to the CS theory you learned in school/your own?

I had a similar idea last year, but clearly I'm not talented nor experienced enough to do it. Congratulations dude, this rocks.

Do you know that wojak meme where a crying guy is wearing a happy mask? That's how I felt playing tux racer in the mid 2000s

If a game is marketed towards PC and multiple consoles, I expect the game to run equally well on all platforms. This isn't the case. Stop relativizing the issues, please.

The other day I read an article about "uncovering tax fraud with algorithms and AI". The innovation: examining tax records not just from an individual perspective, but from a family perspective. Essentially a split-apply-combine. AI!

Why waste money hire best engineers when more ram does trick?

> My native binaries are mostly limited to said web browser, some work communication apps, dev tools, maybe a notes app. Nothing remotely interesting to advertising companies.

Translation: "I've got nothing to hide".

It took me multiple F5s to get it...

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I'd be extremely surprised if this bounty was anything else than misdirection and bait.

Event the url is relevant...

PPPSS. (Previous Poster's Point Still Stands). You could have cash buried in the desert and the IRS wouldn't be able to take it. Bitcoin is a way with both advantages and disadvantages to hide money, but it doesn't teleport you to another plane of reality where you're immune to the violence of the state.

This happened to me very recently. It was a meeting with five people and I asked for some information. But when she started answering I realized I had phrased my question poorly, and as a result she wasn't really addressing my actual concerns. When I tried to interrupt to clarify my question, she slightly raised her voice to drown me out.

So when she concluded her explanation I had to go "sorry, what I actually meant to ask was ...".

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