alexro | 10 years ago | on: Visual Studio Code is now open source
Not to nitpick, but VSCode is not the same as Visual Studio
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alexro | 10 years ago | on: Visual Studio Code is now open source
Not from MS, but a good IDE is MonoDevelop
alexro | 10 years ago | on: PyPy.js – PyPy in Your Browser
>> It's pretty horrible. How did we get to this point?
Because ads... are more important to get right than other stuff /sarcasm
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
It's only a sticker for gays as it doesn't serve any purpose to them. They are pretty good being just in a partnership.
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
Usually in such a way that when the parents get older their children would care of them, isn't it?
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
It is an exception and was a source for many jokes and lots of drama in literature, wasn't it?
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
Does it make more sense to change Visa laws to allow more flexible relationships? Would you then not need to be 'married' and just use your partnership status?
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
So why didn't people go out, pick up some orphan kid and give him whatever needed to be 'inherited'?
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
That's the problem - your abstraction is leaking, whereas the man/woman/kids abstraction of the marriage is not.
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
So you talking about gay rights but at the same time you refuse billions of people who lived and live outside of Biblical views to have their own views on the subject?
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
So are you saying that millions (and now billions) of Chinese and Indians who never had Bible and were absolutely poor used marriage to pass inheritance along? Also there were thousands of tribes who never had to worry about inheritance but who have traditions for marriages, no?
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
Exactly right - this will count as a tragedy and there is lots of research aiming to help such people to have kids.
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
You confusing legal with cultural. If you go around taking about marriage only few will think about gay relationship.
And in any case there is simply no real value for gays to become 'married' other than getting a sticker.
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
So who is picking up one aspect of the complex relationship here? If I get together with an AI in the future you'll call it marriage too?
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
Is it a better way to use different terms for when people get together to have kids and continue the family and when they just 'want' each other?
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
Cultural means that everywhere where there is a similar culture the things will mean the same to people.
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
You can call computer a calculator since it does indeed 'calculate' stuff, but you'll be in a minority. Computer's got so much more than a simple calculator, same with marriages - it is much more for a man and woman in every country in the world.
alexro | 10 years ago | on: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
It doesn't make sense to call gay partnership a marriage. Marriage is a strictly defined cultural phenomenon meaning a relationship between a man and a woman with the original intention to continue the family by having kids.
alexro | 10 years ago | on: The European Commission is preparing an attack on the hyperlink
Don't you think that the whole 'democracy' model is flawed from the top to the bottom? If there were no good candidates offered to the public, how would the public choose a good one? And if a good one would somehow emerge, it is trivial to 'catch him' with a pack of heroin or being related to 'enemies', isn't it?
alexro | 10 years ago | on: Five hours with Edward Snowden
People think Facebook and other social networks help them run faster... except they run in the wrong direction.