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Until we get any tangible proof of life outside Earth, there is no difference

Vote. It's literally the best thing you can do, apart from going into politics yourself

What are you talking about, it powers a lot of people I know

Now think what ingesting a smartphone would do to your body. That's a very silly metric

> english happens to be spoken all over the globe due to a big goofy empire that went places

Why do you think Latin was popular?

> I live outside Seoul, and the infrastructure gap is about 10 to 20 years behind

That actually sounds like a business opportunity, if there is a steady stream of people moving out if Seoul.

> On top of that, there are no IT companies

Why don't Korean companies embrace WFH? Again sounds like a huge competitive advantage on the job market

In Europe? A lot of people live in apartment buildings

Life in general would be a lot simpler and nicer in a perfect world with perfect (whatever it means) people in it

Are from the Alsace region or maybe your ancestors are? If so, maybe not so secretly

Not even humans can do that, you're literally asking for something beyond AGI

The difference here is that in a functioning democracy people have some control over their government. All the institutions are specifically built to be transparent and work for the public good, at least, in some sense of the word. A corporation, especially a monopoly doesn't care what you think, you have no control over it and the only thing that really matters to them is their bottom line. Are governments perfect? Of course not. Are random corpos better? Again, of course not.

There are several large parks that resemble forests and are barely touched by human activity in Moscow as well. Can't say I liked walking in them very much when I was still living there, but I support the idea, it's good that they exist

Some time ago I would've considered that a joke, but this year NS has been about as reliable as DB, so I might actually consider that option

> if not a heat pump

Most heat pump installations in Europe are air-to-water systems fitted to use the existing piping in old homes and is used only for heating. Such installations can, in theory, be used for cooling, but very inefficiently.

Genuinely curious, what alternatives were there in the 2000s? Did dependency on Russian gas doom German manufacturing or did it provide it 20 additional years of artificial life support?

Is it actually simpler, though? The unfortunate reality of this world is the fact that C++ is not the latest standard of the language or the newest shiny library, it's all of them at the same time. Adding a new way of doing the same thing decreases complexity only if you migrate all of the existing code, which nobody ever does.

> There is basically only ever one country in the history of ever that has been able to do that

I guess you mean the British empire? Or Dutch? Maybe Spanish?

To be fair, you don't need to implement exceptions in golang because they already exist in the language, they're just called panics

It's actually pretty common for local payment systems to exist, it's not just Brazil. I've seen such systems in Europe, Asia, Africa and I'm sure they exist in other places I've never been to

> If you’ve ever tried using type erasure for something more complicated than std::any or std::function, you’ve either written 100+ lines of easy-to-mess-up code or reached for a boilerplate-heavy library like Boost.TypeErasure or Folly.Poly

Or you just used void* and went on with your life

Are you calling an entire generation of programmers idiots? Do you think they didn't know about C, Smalltalk or Lisp? C++ was the most popular language in the 90s because it was the best tool for a lot of jobs back then, people chose to use it willingly. Arguing that it only got popular because of PR is delusional, it had already gotten popular long before it got any corporation money behind it

Or "high lede" in English

You're wrote those words using technology built in C++. Just saying

> I always underline ш and write a line over т

Interesting. I think this style completely died out in Russia, I wasn't taught it and never really seen it outside of some old letters and documents. Interesting to hear it survived in Belarus

> The Russian language itself comes from Old Bulgarian / Old Church Slavonic, as does Serbian and other "Slavic" languages.

That's some interesting nationalistic propaganda, never heard that one before

Human rights? Personal freedom? The entire structure of society? The economy? The political system? Laws? Modern views on morality? Even science itself was created by philosophy, what is knowledge and how to get it is a philosophical question, not a scientific one. Every time you interact with other human beings you're doing through the lens of what philosophy and humanities achieved in the last millenia

If I remember correctly, what finally broke the camel's back was the new API that Google introduced. But I may be wrong

Do you only consider fundamental research in maths or sciences worth pursuing? Do you even realise how much of your everyday life depends on the results of fundamental research in philosophy and humanities?

You need a steady supply of new grads to keep the research going. How many exactly is a different question, of course

At least, Google has the resources and the will to support all their implementations in the long run. I don't always agree with what they do there, but at least I can be sure that it will still work ten years from now. At some point it becomes more important than implementation details