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by Defletter 7mo ago
Would you be willing to give an example of this?
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by Defletter 7mo ago
> it takes centuries to completely override them. To completely override them? Sure, but that's an odd criterion since one of the US's biggest issues is the unequal protection of rights. I have never seen a society so rhetori
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by Defletter 7mo ago
Except that's not really true, is it? It may be the flavour-text of US tradition that the government is protecting your rights rather than bestowing them, but the outcome is the same. Nor is the US government particularly fastidious ab
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by Defletter 7mo ago
Have to wonder whether Jordan Peterson will incite as much of a panic about this as he did with C-16.
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by Defletter 7mo ago
Sure, just be aware of what you're up against: if religion teaches us anything it's that even concerted, systematic efforts over millennia to conquer human nature (eg: libido) still fail. But if you want to give it a go, by all m
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by Defletter 7mo ago
Oh that's just human nature: there's a reason why trashy tabloids continue to exist despite how public sentiment seems to universally agree that they're awful spreaders of rumour and insecurity. More people are Skankhunt42 th
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by Defletter 7mo ago
One problem is that such information can be useful for non surveillance purposes, for example: how they knew certain roads were congested before GPS was the mobile networks. I personally do not see anything nefarious about this, nor would I
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by Defletter 7mo ago
Fun fact, generalisations can still exist even if they don't 100% apply to literally everybody.
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by Defletter 8mo ago
Huh, TIL
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by Defletter 8mo ago
I have this two liner as part of my post-os-install setup script: curl -fsSL https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/linux > ~/.gitignore git config --global core.excludesFile ~/.
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by Defletter 8mo ago
This is something I struggle with on a semi-regular basis since I'm fairly interested in our constitutional history, so documents like the Bill of Rights 1688/9[1], the Petition of Right 1627[2], etc, are not old or illegible enou
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by Defletter 8mo ago
There is no "must use GC" mode, as far as I'm aware, but the footguns you describe only exist if the programmers opt-out of the GC. It's somewhat similar to using JNI/FFM in Java: it's possible to escape the sa
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by Defletter 8mo ago
I do wonder then how difficult it would be to mod games written in D
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by Defletter 8mo ago
Would you mind elaborating on this new replacement system?
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by Defletter 8mo ago
> Does it need an article for saying it? Not for nothing but The Art of War includes really insightful quotes like "If you do not feed your soldiers, they will die."
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by Defletter 8mo ago
It's pretty frustrating when something advertises itself as open source and yet there's no link to its source to be found. There's even a footer that says "Polis is powered by support from people like you. Contribute he
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by Defletter 8mo ago
Why is WASM a miserable platform?
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by Defletter 8mo ago
Heh, this reminds me of that study that showed people would rather give themselves painful electric shocks than be alone. https://www.science.org/content/article/people-would-rather-...
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by Defletter 8mo ago
Are you an anarchist by any chance? Because the logical conclusion to this argument is why anyone can "force" anyone else to do anything.
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by Defletter 8mo ago
You seem to have vastly misread his comment in your defensiveness: 1) his comment is not a concealment or a justification, it's an elaboration. This is more than mere semantic nitpick: he doesn't need to justify anything to yo
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by Defletter 8mo ago
Since you're so eager to construe his support for peaceful protest as support for civil unrest, I therefore think it's fair if I construe your defence of ICE to mean support for their extrajudicial executions and the people who dr
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by Defletter 8mo ago
> D has a GC and it’s optional. This is only true in the most technical sense: you can easily opt-out of the GC, but you will struggle with the standard library, and probably most third-party libraries too. It's the baseline assum
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by Defletter 9mo ago
Socialists governments do have taxes, yes, but to suggest that tax rate alone can define socialism implies to me a deeply misinformed understanding of what socialism even is.
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by Defletter 9mo ago
> Elections really do happen in the UK and really do determine who is Prime Minister. Different person, but while this is true , it's also true that the Prime Minister is not elected: they [ordinarily] emerge as being the leader of
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by Defletter 9mo ago
BREAKING NEWS: conservative blames "socialism" for the ills caused by conservatism People thinking that New Labour is left wing is both frustrating and amusing. There's constant in-fighting in the Labour party for a reason.
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by Defletter 9mo ago
This kind of stuff is fascinating because it's the state interacting with itself. The Queen was powerless to reject his request, he being the leader of the government who governed in her name, whose prorogation was overturned by judg
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by Defletter 9mo ago
Surely there has to be some level of "getting stuff done"/"achieving a goal" when /making/ things, otherwise you'd be foregoing for-loops because writing each iteration manually is more fun.
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by Defletter 9mo ago
I yearn for the mindset where I actively choose to accomplish comparatively little in the brief spells I have to myself, and remain motivated. Part of what makes programming fun for me is actually achieving something. Which is not to say yo
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by Defletter 9mo ago
With all due respect, all you're doing here is presenting me with even more implication and innuendo. You are making a claim, you should be able to substantiate it, otherwise just be transparent about it being an opinion. You originall
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by Defletter 9mo ago
Yeah, I'm failing to see how this is an example of "people [wanting] to discuss the over representation of some ethnicities in sexual assault clusters, but couldn't because of [hate speech laws]" . The article makes no

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