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The church lost a lot of their influence as well.


You can die with the seat belt on in a car crash. Why wear it at all?


Because seat belts don't leave people with with side effects.


Sure they do. Seat belts cause injuries in crashes all the time. Sometimes (rarely) even more serious injuries than would have been sustained without one. Airbags even more so. Both will very occasionally even cause injuries outside of collision scenarios.

When seat belts were first mandated, there were lots of arguments about how it's safer not to wear one and government has no right to require it.


Puns on the name.


Magsafe is back


Or Viking Long ships.


How do you handle removal?


I haven't had a need to implement this but something like the following should work to provide the same* records regardless of insertion/deletion.

* data of the record may have been updated, but if there are 1,000 records total, paginating in either direction will always return those same 1,000 records regardless of insertion/deletion.

- Filter by created_at <= time the endpoint first returned a result.

- Utilize soft deletes, where deleted_at IS NULL OR deleted_at < time the endpoint first returned a result.

Any keys allowed to be used in the ORDER BY query should also be immutable.


Or, hopefully, they are releasing a new Switch with more cores and it manifested it self more often on that hardware. :)


As a player I feel that would be pretty cool. As a developer I would absolutely love it.

edit: this says something about priorities. It bothers me quite a lot how much I need to simplify the graphics for the switch versions of games I work on. It hardly bothers me at all when I play games on switch that the visual fidelity is lower on switch


...this sounds so plausible. So so plausible.


Guessing Russia is not taking a stand against IP or copyright at all. Just making it legal for them to steal from non-Russian owners. Don’t think they will remove copyright for Russian creators.


By definition it cannot be theft. Because of sanctions, the Russians wouldn't be allowed to pay for Western software anyways, so there is no difference to the bottom line.

Whereas if they pirate Russian software or software they can buy, there is an impact to the bottom line.

As a result it can be seen as a logically consistent position.


If I'm banned from a store, it's still theft if I take goods from that store without paying.


In this case the store doesn't exist due to sanctions.

So if you take goods from a store that doesn't exist is it stealing?


Because the store can't sell those goods. In this case the store can still sell the goods, and there is no lost revenue. There is not a single analogy to theft.


Software isnt taken, it's replicated like photographs.


I’ve yet to see any homeopathy advocates and conspiracy theorists attacking other countries. Stop pretending it’s the same thing.


This black & white view of good and evil is starting to get really tiresome. Is it the effect of modern movies/tv shows that causes this belief? In movies there's usually a clear/perfect/innocent "good" guy and a bad guy, but real life is rarely so cut and dry.

It is perfectly possible for there to be two different parties, each of which (to different degrees of course) make bad decisions that hurt innocent people. Being honest about this and calling it out is not the same thing as equating what the "bad guy" and the "good guy" do.


Well most people here are binary. Killing people and believing in astrology or homeopathy or whatever are not comparable. It’s not about good or bad. It’s about basic human morals and rights.


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I think he meant that in all countries, there are some people who believe in crazy things -- but that he didn't mean to make the comparison you reacted to


” I've been finding it very easy to empathise with Russians in this.”


Well you can move abroad


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