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I agree with your point, just to add a little detail to your example- USSR & Co called themselves “socialist”. They considered socialism to be an imperfect intermediate state en route to communism.


> All Siblings are different despite having same parents, same upbringing, same environment at home.

I think none of these are the same because "everything flows". With each child the environment changes significantly. The first child doesn't have any siblings to grow around, then it exerts huge influence on the second child, the third child brings in yet another dynamic. Parents also change a lot with each new child. So, except for twins, nothing is really the same.


I don't think the claim relies on siblings' environments being the exact same. The point is just that the degree of intra-family similarity is almost always far greater than the degree of average inter-family similarity. To a reasonable approximation it's fair to call it 'the same' in the context of the comparison with non-siblings.


I don't think that's true - the difference between being an only child and having older siblings is much more than the difference between two only children in relatively similar (from a socio-economic point of view) families, I would say.

The way parents interact with their first child and subsequent children is significantly different, and the added interaction between the children themselves compounds these.


OK, but the claim is that siblings are different, despite growing up in the same environment, because they have their "own nature and character by birth".

I guess what I'm saying is that they might become different due to the environment necessarily changing in pretty significant ways for each of them.


Ah, perhaps I misread the argument actually. I agree, that's definitely an important counterpoint. Sorry about that!

Sadly I can no longer edit my original comment, since it's >=2hrs old, but hopefully this can stand as a self-correction.


> So, except for twins, nothing is really the same.

It's still closer than comparing to a different family with different parents.


Absolutely, but it seems to me that changes in the environment alone could explain the differences in character between siblings.


This seems to be the source code of the original: https://undone.se/misc/blastar.txt


> A website can track users across browsing sessions by storing a tracking identifier as a set of entries in the browser’s dedicated favicon cache, where each entry corresponds to a specific subdomain. In subsequent user visits the website can reconstruct the identifier by observing which favicons are requested by the browser while the user is automatically and rapidly redirected through a series of subdomains.

> The caching of favicons in modern browsers exhibits several unique characteristics that render this tracking vector particularly powerful, as it is persistent (not affected by users clearing their browser data), non-destructive (reconstructing the identifier in subsequent visits does not alter the existing combination of cached entries), and even crosses the isolation of the incognito mode.


>> German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called for creating a European Union army, stressing that Europeans can no longer merely rely on the U.S. for their security.

Source? She said that two years ago [1] but on Tuesday her defense minister sounded much less enthusiastic about it [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/13/merkel-joins-m...

[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/german-minister-to-macron-eu...


Snowden: It turns out "Hey Alexa" is short for "Hey Keith Alexander." Yes, the Keith Alexander personally responsible for the unlawful mass surveillance programs that caused a global scandal. And Amazon Web Services (AWS) host ~6% of all websites.

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1303829551999602688


I can't really tell if this is truth or fiction but either way your comment warmed my day.


But how many such comments would you need to read per day to replace panel heaters would you say?


Nice analogy. Although it's very unlikely that PHP will ever be as highly regarded as are C and Unix today.


I wanted to say that C is not really very highly regarded nowadays, but that only adds extra php-directed snark to your post, which is not wholly a bad thing.


Have you used modern PHP? Its a great language these days.


Awesome. So we can just scroll to the bottom and fish out some of the truths visitors from the future better be careful not to say.


> We could refer to the stack as LP (Linux Prolog).

Nice pun (not sure if intended).


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