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> India now has a representative democracy

So did the Romans for 500 years

Do you believe it was an empire under the Mughals? If so, what's changed?

Are we saying a country with 1.4bn people, 22 official languages, 5 major religions, over 100 ethnic groups isn’t an empire? Before the Raj, most of it was the Mughal Empire (1500-1800). Before that, the Delhi Sultanate, pretty definitely an empire (1200-1500). The only thing missing is the nomenclature.

If you don't think the goal was violent insurrection then what, specifically, do you think the people were doing there?

They were protesting just fine outside of Congress, why did they go into congress? Why were they trying to find Nancy Pelosi? Why did the Capitol police think they needed to use deadly force?

I spent the first ten years of my programming career without a degree, like you. I got a SoftEng MSc at 30. It was worth it. Sometimes we just don't know what we don't know.

And they got Capone for tax evasion. Brushing off a conviction under 18 U.S. Code § 1752 -- which seems to be what people are being charged[0] with -- as "petty nonsense" is itself misleading, as it's the part of law that deals with "PRESIDENTIAL AND PRESIDENTIAL STAFF ASSASSINATION, KIDNAPPING, AND ASSAULT"[1]

[0] https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-ar... [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-84

A quick Google has about 40% of FARC as being women; do you have a better source?

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/09/fa...

> Actual public safety is an afterthought

Are we talking about the people who participated in a violent insurrection against the US, or is this another group?

If you want to have nice things (eg: a democracy) then you can’t be letting people who commit some mild treason off just because they’re dumbasses who got caught up in the moment.

The next yahoo who decides they want to try and block the peaceful transfer of power needs to 100% understand that they will be prosecuted.

> Therefore I suggested SubVersion

This author has much to teach us about evil after all

Almost sounds like they’re providing a utility, and should be regulated

The best time to have your email on a personal domain was ten years ago, the second best time is now.

Trivial to register a domain, setup Fastmail, and then download all your Gmail one-off and then ongoing. Over the next year or two, correct the email address people have.

How do Apple, Amazon, and Netflix operate like this?

Cloud computing feels like one area we have fantastic competition in, even if there are only 3 major players (with one or two smaller ones). Feature and price competition between AWS and Azure is fierce, and if you’re dumb enough to have any trust at all in Google as a supplier then there’s even GCP.

I’m sorry for you dude, that sucks

I am partial to the Zoe studies, as their cohort seems to be large, stable, and include people who haven’t been infected.

Write-up: https://covid.joinzoe.com/us-post/long-covid Paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.19.20214494v...

I used to live in a Muslim neighbourhood with a wide variety of malted drinks for sale, albeit not advertised as beer. Seems humans just like the taste. When I lived in the Caribbean you’d see Supermalt everywhere too

Have you tried a shandy? Easy to order in a bar, easy to make at home, and if you use a sugar-free mixer then you’re cutting the calories in half too

> some get paided per interview

I guess over a large enough number you’ll find people doing anything, but with a long history with the recruitment industry in a couple of countries, I’ve never seen this. With good reason too: there is no end to the number of fake developer CVs I could generate.

> some you have to pay

In many countries that’s illegal, and I’m also yet to see this in the Real World

It’s pulling data from https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/global_...

McD SF is paying you $35k[0]. For 2018 figures: «A $35,000 income in the United States has enough buying power to put you in the 82nd percentile globally for per-person income. Within the United States, your income falls around the 20th percentile.»[1]

0: https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Mcdonalds-Crew-Salary-...

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/global...

No, recruiters get paid for placements, not interviews

Most rich governments are a lot more chill about dissent.

Good. As someone who moves around a lot esp to countries where I need to use a VPN, this bullshit is the bane of my life

Wikipedia has him leaving in 2008, what am I missing?

I was excited to hear I was being awarded the “CAR Hoare” prize from the same institution, only to find out it was a measly £200, if we’re doing humble brags

> it's been pretty clear

Do you mean something other than “my guess is” here?

That’s a weird framing. One party would introduce single-payer in a heartbeat, the other demonises it. Let’s not pretend we’re talking about “government” as a whole here, rather than the GOP

> United Healthcare framed the maneuver as a way to contain costs

Profit in 2020: $15,403,000,000

The US has some very technically advanced adversaries who’d happily share their data with the Taliban