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The article itself is of course fine; what's "batshit insane" and heartbreaking is the blatant unfairness it describes. Newsflash - exclusionary zoning leads to exclusion, which often has its hardest impact on vulnerable min
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Many people want to live in Manhattan and Tokyo, though. High density comes with plenty of quality-of-life benefits, and need not even be to the exclusion of lower density elsewhere.
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Plenty of places in the U.S. have terrible public schools by developed-country standards. To the point where U.S. tertiary-education institutions are essentially required to compensate for the terribleness with ubiquitous remedial and GE
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"A C-with-borrow-checker" is a good-enough description of Cyclone, which is not that different from Rust and which was basically abandoned for Rust. Sure, Rust itself has a number of higher-level features, some of which are a bit
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I find it hard to believe that you can seriously describe Rust as "much more complex" than C and recommend Frama-C in the very same comment! The point of all that "complexity" in Rust is precisely to enforce the use of p
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This, basically. People should stop thinking about "composition vs. inheritance" and start thinking of implementation-inheritance and thus OOP in a strict sense as "composition plus open recursion". Open recursion (viz.
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This may have been a mistake by Ricardo, but not one that points towards less trade as optimal. Indeed, export-led development (implying more trade openness) is the one reliable way we know about of going from the "coffee beans&qu
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Democracy in the absence of individual liberty and constrained government simply doesn't work - it becomes corruption. While admittedly, few non-democratic polities pursue liberal values, the ones that occasionally did throughout hi
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The wiki ecosystem is relatively easy to decentralize - just start more wikis! The Wikipedia naming scheme is well known, so it's trivial to match articles about the same subject; and their content is released under an open license. T
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Fiction? What's wrong with just perusing gutenberg.org for that. If you really care about paying them for the e-books, they do take donations.
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> There were plenty of people who tackled this problem and who failed to make any headway. There was also plenty of meaningful progress throughout the 20th century at least, showing that the FLT was implied by other statements which woul
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Discussed earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20315895
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> US let South get away with this crap because it WAS beaten and peace and unity of the country was worth a lot more. To be clear about it, the US let the South get away with plenty of terrible things that they shouldn't have. But
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What's going on is that the complainant xirself is indirectly letting us know that xir complaint didn't have any ground to stand on. Xey went straight to the Foundation precisely as a ploy to bypass the community's well-es
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Do you have any source for this (that isn't just rampant speculation)? If these things are going on and actually impacting editorial work within Wikipedia itself, it sounds like we are due for a nice little Wikipediagate...
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No, but one can go to jail for contempt of court, or contempt of Congress.
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These Wikipedia admins are reaping what they sowed. The toxicity and ban-happy attitude in Wikipedia as a whole did not come from the Foundation (which is the internet landlord of the site anyway - if you don't like it, start a fork).
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> but the underlying assumption is heritage for white southerners. It’s a dangerous thing to honor. Actually, I've consistently been trying to make the point that the things being honored in this way do NOT include slavery itself. Y
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The UEFI shell itself is a lot like DOS. It relies on a FAT filesystem, and commands run under UEFI have full hardware access.
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It's not just any artwork, it's a piece of WPA art by an independently-notable artist. Yes, it's ugly (if only in the way it freely uses stereotypes that are considered at least somewhat offensive today). But so what. The
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While what was going on in the 1960s is indeed suspicious (though it was very obviously a time of political upheaval in the South as a whole, and this may have very well been what was being "reacted" to, more than civil rights the
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This connotation is entirely your own reading. Both politically-motivated killings of the sort that may have occurred during the Cultural Revolution, and cultural cleansing no matter how destructive or how close in its goals to erasing a
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The Reconstruction was badly bungled on both sides. Many Southerners even today object far more to what happened to the South "as soon as the war ended"[1], than to the war itself. This is not a justification of Jim Crow and the l
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> Traitors should not be honored And that's precisely why those generals were being honored; to proactively show that, despite them being on the losing side, we would not be regarding them as traitors! This kind of thing used t
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Even more directly, "White privilege" is simply a variation of "bourgeois privilege". The whole idea of "bourgeois privilege" however rephrased and antiquated "counterrevolutionary elements" as someth
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Well, they aren't wrong as far as that goes. I would simply remind them that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me add also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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> By the way PureOS seems a good shot. PureOS is not yet ready for prime time, but it will be very interesting to see how it performs compared to AOSP when it's released. And pmOS will most likely manage to support many PureOS comp
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> in the US, the letter of the law is all that matters This is very wrong. In common-law jurisdictions (which the U.S. is broadly-speaking one example of - some exceptions may apply which are not relevant here), judicial precedent is a k
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Even worse than that, there are in fact plenty of people who will systematically fail to show nervousness when lying, or more generally in socially-stressful situations, viz. psychopaths (in a broad sense, including Dark Triad traits more
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What exactly is stopping Emacs from improving its rendering and bringing it on par with "GUI"-like ncurses apps? They already support multiple on-screen windows, a global menubar and all sorts of "widgets" for interactiv

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