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Comment Re:So the Iranians should bet on 'no' (Score 2) 187

the part where one side admits that Hamas and the Ayotallah are really the bad guys

That phrasing implies that their opponents are the good guys. Real life isn't as simple as fairytales aimed at pre-adolescent children. Hamas and Khamenei have both performed indefensible actions, and so have Netanyahu and Trump.

Comment Re:He invented quicksort in college (Score 3, Informative) 32

That's not how he tells it. He says he invented it after independently inventing insertion sort and realising that he wanted something subquadratic. He was "in college" in the sense that he was a postgraduate student. Mergesort had been published more than a decade before, but it had the disadvantage of not being in place.

Comment Re: Finally (Score 2) 240

When you say "Argentina", what do you mean precisely? It's had a lot of militaristic dictatorships followed by at least nominal democracy, but I assume you're referring to the most recent one. However, the Falklands war was more a symptom of the collapse than the cause, and didn't lead to an invasion of territory controlled by Argentina before the outbreak of war. I can't understand why you consider it a "clear example". I'd put it in a third category: militaristic dictatorships which collapse involuntarily under domestic popular pressure. Salazar's Portugal would also go in that category, whereas post-Franco Spain is a missing example from your second category.

Comment Re:cool and all but.... (Score 1) 58

Programming isn't coding. Programming is the activity of making programs: coding is expressing data in the form expected by a process. While it's true that programs are data, coding is a pretty small part of programming and a much larger part of certain data entry jobs. (To take an extreme example, there are jobs advertised which primarily consist of coding medical records in HL7).

Comment Not London, but... (Score 2) 100

I grew up in a village with four pubs for about 3000 people. My parents have moved, so I haven't been back for about 15 years, but it was down to one pub then. I think a big factor was the bypass, which also killed off the local antique shops. Back in the day people driving through the village might stop to browse the shops and have lunch: now they barely realise it's there.

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