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Comment Re: I didn't hear a lot of talk from your side (Score 1) 201

Right it was allegedly abandoned (though no evidence has come forward for that), then for some reason the hard drive was given to Rudy Guilliani? Does that strike you as a normal thing for a repair shop to do with private property?

Regardless, there was nothing really news worthy on the laptop other than seeing Hunter had a big schlong. There's no reason for the news to cover this more than a "huh this weird thing happened", but people that are susceptible to Russian propaganda believe it was the smoking gun in some vast conspiracy which meant Joe Biden shouldn't be elected. It was a poor attempt to try to do another Buttery Males scandal that worked in 2016, but most people didn't fall for it a second time.

Comment Re: I didn't hear a lot of talk from your side (Score 1) 201

That's a great example. Lots of people that ended up voting made Hunter's laptop their top issue because that was a big fake scandal that Russia pushed. Normally sharing private photos from a stolen laptop would result in criminal charges, but Republicans/Russians worked hard to normalize that in a last ditch effort to swing the election.

Comment Re: I didn't hear a lot of talk from your side (Score 1) 201

It's pretty well documented that Russia runs troll farms spreading propaganda and pushing messages - AND that people are listening to them. You can keep sticking your head in the sand or come to realize that there are people (no not everyone gullible enough to vote for Trump) swayed by Russian influence.

Comment Re: Python is scripting, not a programming languag (Score 1) 85

Sounds like you're confusing "high level language" with "Scripting language". Python is used in lots of large scale projects behind the scenes. Just because it's easy to develop in and frequently used in data science doesn't make it less a language

The main difference I see between a "real language" and "scripting language" is that the scripting language is executed through an interpreter. Python falls into a bit of a middle zone here as the main python file is typically interpreted, but included modules are compiled.

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