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That's such a bizarre statement. Diversity was rare in London? Have you ever been there (I lived there for years).

London is quite possibly the most diverse city in the world.

Edit: I thought perhaps New York might be more diverse, so I hedged but it turns out Toronto is! I would not have guessed.

Because the Roman empire included parts of Africa, including importing their slaves.

There were black Roman soldiers posted on Hadrian's Wall in the north of England.

That's a better comment but

Societies throughout history have taken as a given their power to overthrow malicious governments when things hit a breaking point,

simply isn't true. People throughout history have simply accepted that society is the way it is and sometimes used whatever means they could to get to the top.

Revolutions have been very rare and usually ended up with the revolutionaries simply taking the place of the previous rulers. "Meet the new boss..."

Check out if my statements were accurate. I realise it's not ego confirming to be told you're wrong but you could really see it as an opportunity to learn.

You can't help me anyway because you know far less than I do.

You don't know what's historically accurate. You don't understand why there was a black community in Rome. You don't know why there was one in 17th century London. But you still think you know better than me bubba.

I'm agreeing with you. Rome was the centre of the empire so had every type of person just as London had as the centre of the British empire.

And I suppose New York as a major centre of the American empire. Multicultural cities are the rule rather than the exception.

Have you ever watched The Gladiator? How many of them were black? They were slaves.

Do you know how many slaves were black in the Roman empire? More than had American accents I assure you.

None of them spoke English either.

Yes but Musk is really astonishingly ignorant. I realise he didn't have a classical education but he's the kind of person who would complain about Othello casting a black man as the main character.

Possibly why cloud servers are 85% Linux, 14% Windows and 1% Other (including BSD).

My main shell isn't even bash, I go with zsh, but if I'm writing a script for general use I go with bash.

This is very true. It's why I try to keep my configs as close to default as reasonable because I know I'll be touching strange machines so best to know how it works.

Possibly more for DevOps than a dev.

It probably works fine in New England due to a dodgy regex.

It doesn't seem too egregious an error to assume "death recorded" means they were executed, rather than the opposite where death was recorded as the verdict but not actually executed.

Not checking newspaper reports of the period is lazy though and exactly the kind of thing I'd expect a journalist to do and therefore be the one to discover the flaw.

I tried to give this a fair chance but it's really an incoherent rant.

There is nothing of substance here. You don't like AI, I get. But it still exists and pretending that no-one finds it useful is utterly foolish.

Edit: I overuse the word utterly. Nice to identify one of my tells.

Types of technology - of which we can include intelligence - move along S curves, but it's more absurd to think that humans are near the top of that curve rather than right at the bottom.

There might be a thing beyond intelligence that we can't even conceive of.

I'm now imagining Bender's Yoga class. I suspect it would hurt.

If it helps, think of it less as Subsidy and more as Tribute!

Yes, houses are expensive, but it's not out of reach. You can afford a mortgage on the average home.

What does the person who fixes your toilet do? Or prepares your meal? Or basically lives the Fight Club life?

Thanks for your comment. It makes a little sense that the average person might struggle with costs in the US, but it doesn't make sense that the highest earners do.

To give context on my other comments, where I live in Scotland, median full time wage is around $55k.

You can live a perfectly comfortable life on that; you don't have to worry about bills or medical expenses, and you can afford to get a mortgage and buy a house (probably costing around $300k or so)

That's why I'm surprised about people from a richer nation saying they can't afford things.

Ok, I made my other comment before seeing this but I find it very difficult to believe you can't find something reasonable for far less.

If your net pay is $7000 per month you absolutely can afford to own a house, you're just being fussy about the house you want.

I've had lots of issues with the usb-c port, it keeps spitting out cables, occasionally doesn't connect properly.

You've probably got some fluff in the port. Scrape it out with a pin and see if there's a fair bit of crap comes out.

You owe everything to other people. What do we owe to each other is literally a joke question in things like The Good Place.

I was under the impression that it was more accepting the othodoxy of Galilean/Newtonian relativety and joining it up with Maxwell's discovery about electromagnetism.

So if the speed of propogation of EM waves is the same no matter your frame of reference (along with all the rest of physics) then the speed of light can't be relative (a conclusion that was aided by the Michaelson-Morley experiment) and what are the logical consequences of that.

If I'm incorrect in my understanding I'd appreciate any correction.

It's not less accurate. As commented above, the control knew they were being tested against the machine, so made sure to be super careful.

In everyday life the human is less careful, and the machine costs 1% of the human.

There's a massive difference between being perpetually employed and being fired for no reason at a job you've already demonstrated your ability at.

There is so much there that could be code golfed. I'm tempted to try when I'm back. Anyone done it already though?

Then they should vote better and know who their elected representatives are.

I'm not a worshipper of Mammon so I disagree that it basically all comes down to money.

I agree that many people are, I'm just arguing that they're wrong.