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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Because people who are ignorant about America obviously have nothing to say of it? I’m not sure what your point is exactly, but you sound like you’re making ignorance of global politics a good thing.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
The article makes no mention of “woke fundamentalism”, whatever that means, and there’s a lot of mention about QAnon and All Lives Matter, so I’m not sure what you’re getting at. Are you sure you read the article?
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
It is cultural imperialism. Just because the people participating in it do not notice that it is doesn’t make it not so.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I just like Apple’s App Store the way that it is. I’ve been through so many technology stacks and it I find their platform a joy to work with. The SDKs are coherent, very well-architected, extremely easy to use, and I have access to a user
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
How is the reportage of a true event not journalism at all?
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Protected, or just less noticed.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
> You would never dare vocalize these same threats and and accusations publically - and even if you did, in the pre-internet days, it would reach far far fewer people. It would reach far less people, yes, but we used to burn witches, too
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
You don’t know that you’re going to lose, and trends can be reversed. They have been before. We’re doing the same thing to the global pandemic now with all these vaccines.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
No disagreement here, we seem to just be interpreting the parent comment differently.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I agree, yes. I’m just reacting to what seems to be an excuse for what can be done at the individual level.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Of course it's not enough, but isn't that such a trivial, impractical point to make? What small act is ever enough to make an impact on a large complex systemic effect? That's why you need an aggregate of counteractions--and
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
This doesn’t make sense to me. Having concern for the environment and being conscious of your consumption isn’t some kind of mentally debilitating guilt that should keep you from functioning normally on a day-to-day basis. What’s the worst
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
There are good articles that make for good, thought-provoking discussions, and then there simply are bad ones.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
The phrasing is certainly provocative, but a truly conscientious person would pick a side on the basis of merit. There's hardly any point in reasoning with someone who's obviously looking to make a decision based on the emotions e
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I want it. There are people who don’t mind learning a new language if that’s the trade off for having to write services by hand, especially if the language isn’t so drastically different from what they already know.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
But what else could it be? You can’t just say that something has an evolutionary cause without also implying that the trait is for the purpose of survivability, which we associate with the notion of “good”.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
This is all a huge leap from what I said, which is that given action A, you can only either do it or not do it. That does not mean doing nothing at all and not thinking of other options, and that is why framing the disagreement as nothing m
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I think that people who automatically frame every disagreement into a narrative of “two extremist parties making false dichotomies out of every topic” are profoundly confused. Specifically in issues that are actionable (as most issues are,
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Or they could put it on the lock button like they did with one of their iPads.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I was actually referring to the pushback centering around the consent argument, but in any case: > You might be in a critical state and someone else really needs an organ from someone like you. How often does it actually happen that an o
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Organ donation isn’t a hot issue where I’m from and I imagine that most people here will like such a policy, but I’m honestly surprised by the push back in this thread. Why? The honest question I want to ask is: do people think that they st
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
It’s not premature optimization, it’s just boilerplate because it’s a pattern that happens so often. Besides, there’ll be less work if the requirements do in fact change, and there’s nothing wrong with accounting for the possibility of chan
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
It would be impossible for you to say this (circular) sentence and call something a “problem” if you didn’t think that there was some basis of right/wrong, which contradicts your top-level comment.
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
That awfully sounds anti-knowledge. Humans didn’t use to think that there was an order or correctness to all the facts that fall under science and mathematics today.
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
I’m an engineering lead and I made a rule of using the handleClick() style instead of updateDate() in our codebase. The reasoning is that the latter sounds more like an atomic, standalone function, whereas handleClick() may have some intern
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
Good for what purpose exactly? They’re not really taking accountability so where is the good that you’re talking about?
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
A vegan can take all the offense they want to take so long as they don’t take it out on someone in the office, because there are so many reasons why doing so is wrong (sowing division is one, as mentioned in previous comment) even if vegani
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
I don’t know how you understand accountability but people who have clinically-diagnosed mental conditions that keep them from having full agencies over their actions are out of the question. The online political discourse you are referring
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
> And diverse genders, but you should consider them all the same, even if we know we have diverse bodies, needs and behaviors. The point of having the knowledge that our bodies and needs are different as dictated by sex (not gender, if y
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by 3grdlurker 6y ago
Apple is not a moral arbiter of anything lol you remain free to do, say, think, read whatever you want, even beyond the Apple ecosystem. Whatever you can’t do within theirs, however, is well within their right to constrain because businesse

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