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  1. And also, so as a half Jew I should apologize for what exactly?

    Apologize for killing Christ. :)

  2. Re:just apologize on Auschwitz Museum Releases Software To Rewrite Holocaust Nomenclature (thestack.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's a quantitative difference, not a qualitative difference. The Poles were really, really bad to the Jews. You can say the Poles weren't as bad as the Nazis, and that's true, but......

    Just apologize and move on. Really, it's easier.

  3. Re:just apologize on Auschwitz Museum Releases Software To Rewrite Holocaust Nomenclature (thestack.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's not a lie, Polish mobs were literally killing survivors of the concentration camps. See this for more detail.

  4. Re:just apologize on Auschwitz Museum Releases Software To Rewrite Holocaust Nomenclature (thestack.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In the US, we had concentration camps for Japanese, and they weren't nearly as bad as the death camps in Poland.

    I feel really bad about the concentration camps for the Japanese, even though I had nothing to do with them other than living in the same country 50 years later. If a Japanese person asks me, I will happily apologize. The concentration camps were a lousy thing to do, we shouldn't have done them.

    Same with the drop of the nuclear weapons. Even if you think it was better than the alternative, you can still say, "I'm sorry we did that, I wish it hadn't happened."

    Sometimes you just need to accept that things sucked back then and move on (ie, don't do it again).

  5. just apologize on Auschwitz Museum Releases Software To Rewrite Holocaust Nomenclature (thestack.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a little disingenuous to blame Germany for it, because Polish mobs were killing the survivors from Auschwitz. The Jews didn't leave Poland because of the concentration camps, they left because Poland was trying to kill them.

    Poland should just apologize and move on. We all have done terrible things in the histories of our countries. No point trying to hide it.

  6. Re:Inaccurate article on ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer To Reality (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    I've heard of reactOS, but I didn't realize the project was making such good progress. Kudos good job and my congratulations to you and your team! This is some nice work.

  7. Re:Support for Windows 10 APIs? on ReactOS 0.4 Brings Open Source Windows Closer To Reality (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    And even then, Mono does a reasonable job emulating .Net's framework.

  8. Re:Huh? on Programming Languages For Coding the Physical World · · Score: 1

    I can honestly say I've never used PHP, but I'm sorry you had to go through that. I hate it when programmers change APIs for no reason.

  9. Re:Huh? on Programming Languages For Coding the Physical World · · Score: 1

    If you are doing something trivial, maybe they're overkill,

    In those cases, sqlite can be a nice compromise, not too heavy, but easier than creating your own file format.

  10. Re:YAA (Yet Another Anomaly) on Last January Was the Hottest Global Temperature Anomaly In Recorded History · · Score: 0

    I know what I don't find convincing and that's the single paper effect.

    What you think isn't important, because you obviously don't know how to search for papers.
    Most likely you read realclimate.org or some other blog, and parrot what you read there. You have no capability of thought and research.

  11. Re:It really is about security, not repair on Apple vs. the Right To Repair (bloombergview.com) · · Score: 1

    Where outside of China are you going to find the components and the equipment to repair any of these electronics, anyway?

    I usually get them here.

    the tiniest slip of your all-too-human hands and you've ruined a trace on a different circuit.

    Soldering isn't as hard as you make it seem. With practice, even someone with shaky hands like me can do small circuits.

  12. Re:YAA (Yet Another Anomaly) on Last January Was the Hottest Global Temperature Anomaly In Recorded History · · Score: 1

    Well yes.
    There have been several attempts to explain away the problems with the climate models, as you correctly mention, but none of them are very convincing.

  13. A post of reason in a sea of confusion

  14. Re:People still care about Havard? on Harvard: Prospective CS50 AP Teachers Must cc:Microsoft On Training Applications · · Score: 1

    All the same, if you graduate from Harvard, you will have a decent education.

  15. Re:YAA (Yet Another Anomaly) on Last January Was the Hottest Global Temperature Anomaly In Recorded History · · Score: 3, Informative

    The global warming models have error bars

    The error bars weren't wide enough.

  16. The only real question is - will basic income be done right?

    Most likely no. Especially given how little data we have on the subject.

  17. Re:Probably won't work in the US on VC Firm Y Combinator Launches an Experiment In Universal Basic Income (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Time limit too short on VC Firm Y Combinator Launches an Experiment In Universal Basic Income (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They will only be paying people for five years. If someone paid me for five years, I would be constantly worried about what would happen at the end of five years. I wouldn't want to re-enter the workforce with degraded skills, etc.

    But if I knew I would be getting that money for the rest of my life, it very likely would affect my habits.

  19. Re:Hey, whiplash, can we not have diversity storie on Brown CS Department Hiring Student Diversity, Inclusion Advocates · · Score: 1

    It's really important. Even if you hate this Brown plan for some reason, it could still have a huge affect on your life (and career) for a long time.
    That is why it's News for Nerds.

  20. Re:Word: being bought by google actually sucks. on Google Is Shutting Down Picasa In Favor of Photos (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You missed the humor in the first place. In the second place, you missed that "Embrace, Unextend, Extinguish" is exactly what google did. The bought it, they made it worse, then they got rid of it.

  21. Re:Self Defense on Debating a Ban On Autonomous Weapons (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Truth be told, you'll never laugh as hard as you do when you might not see the end of tomorrow.

    I believe it.

  22. Re:Word: being bought by google actually sucks. on Google Is Shutting Down Picasa In Favor of Photos (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You really, really, shouldn't have written a long post trying to explain Embrace, Extend, Extinguish without trying to understand the post you were replying to. And I'll admit that it was not particularly well written, but your understanding was way off.

  23. Re:Word: being bought by google actually sucks. on Google Is Shutting Down Picasa In Favor of Photos (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    They've adapted the old Microsoft method (adapted, of course, to make it not evil):

    Embrace, Un-extend, Extinguish

    Of course, it could just as easily be chalked down to incompetence. But it really raises the question: why did they buy it in the first place?

  24. Re:Self Defense on Debating a Ban On Autonomous Weapons (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    "It's good that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it" - Robert E Lee

    If war were like Starcraft, I would join the military.

  25. Re:Them's the breaks on Did a Timer Error Change the Outcome of a Division I College Basketball Game? · · Score: 1

    Also, if you're going to spend time on it, you're better off improving your skill, rather than complaining about refs. It will win you more games.

    If the game came down to .5 seconds, your team wasn't clearly better anyway.