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I follow all of that, sure. But I still don’t think you can blame either on “bottom of the barrel staff” given that the proximate cause appears to be much much closer to the money than them.

All this. It’s surveillance where your observation comes into its own tho.

mst doing some interesting work with babble, a babel for Perl 5. Hoping we get a typescript workalike in Perl.

From the install notes, can someone tell me why BoringSSL needs Perl to build?

I get asked for single characters of mine a lot

> I don't know what the story is in Apple-land

The walled garden is great and protects my privacy.

There is a “web” link on this article. If you click it, you’ll find a search engine link to the article which will give you access

We’ve also not convinced our peers to vote in anywhere near the numbers that the boomers do.

> That's tantamount to saying that life now is on balance worse than it was in the pre-boomer period

I don’t follow your logic there at all

my $self = shift;

can fuck right off.

Related:

> Internet and satellite communication had existed in the days of Mahabharata. How could Sanjaya (the charioteer of King Dhritarashtra in the epic) give a detailed account and description to the blind king about the battle of Kurukshetra? It means internet was there, the satellites and that technology was there in this country at that time”

> Mr Deb said that while European nations and the United States may claim to have invented the internet, the technology mostly began in India and was built by its people.

> "Internet and satellite system had existed in India lakhs of years ago. The richest culture belongs to our nation and I feel proud of it"

> That doesn't prevent launching a new ship.

Amen. I’d love to see a rebrand to Rakudo and Pumpkin, where the latter is Perl5 plus some long-overdue backwards incompatible changes, but also 99% compatible.

> the UK

Probably not for much longer, given the rather interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexplained_wealth_order

> the choice is a fake one

I can’t buy a Whopper at Pizza Express, the parent companies of both are owned by different people, both parent companies have different supply chains and the franchising rules for both are separate.

In what way don’t I have a choice? Because Compass are contracting the cleaning, logistics, and personnel (who, for what it’s worth, will go through entirely different franchise-mandated training)? Seems a bit of a reach.

> thousands of food carts and trucks

And indeed restaurants themselves in the UK, especially pub ones, will order quite a lot of their food partially prepped already

Sounds like a good reason to use a password manager and good backups to store them?

While I’m sure there are occasional counter examples, weren’t these largely from either war zones or with the cooperation of the host country?

I think killing a political dissident in another country that’s not actively at war is considered a bit beyond the pale by most democracies, doubly so if you’re putatively on good terms with them.

Mossad, alternatively: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-... — although the victim was far from either a dissident or turncoat.

I guess my point is that maybe they wanted the “unnecessary attention”

I conduct so much business via my phone email, and have an assistant doing most computer tasks. Wonder what would need to change to get me off a computer fulltime

Feels like they may be taking a leaf out of the Russo-Skripal handbook here, and making barely any effort to cover their tracks as a show of brazeness to other potential defectors/dissidents. Guessing some fallen-from-favour minor Saud is going to take the fall to keep things smooth between the two countries.

The grammar correction in Google Translate is a little too good. I was trying to create some broken Russian phrases to send a Russian friend, but I’d put in weird or bad English as an input and get very good Russian as an output!

> There are people who believe free speech is not the ultimate value

A right to free speech is a recent, American-centric invention, rather than a natural cornerstone of democracy, a fact that often seems lost on Americans.

Dude, it’s a profitable farm. The only main difference is how they allocate ownership and organise labour. Your criticism applies equally to all farms.

Why stop there? They haven’t even factored in the cost of developing agriculture from a hunter-gatherer society, or the cost of human evolution or or or

> since you have to inspect all cells to decide the order in which to evaluate them

I don’t think this is true; evaluation order of a cell with no dependencies or whose dependencies are already resolved shouldn’t matter

> Oxford or Cambridge in England may not be too expensive

They’re really not far off London prices, and because they’re in the UK, the weather sucks

> When you say "Experiment, find what works for you" keep in mind how offensive that is to people who feel they were lied/coerced into a taking drugs that in some cases ruined their lives.

Right, like suggesting people find employment is offensive to people who have experienced slavery.

> brushing this aside as "just a bunch of individuals" isn't useful

If it gets one person like me who was under the impression that SSRIs make you a zombie, to try them, then it’s useful.

People in Aberdeen might well get upset if you collapsed Doric into just being Scots.