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by Latty 10y ago
A poor excuse. To label the two things the same implies they are equal, but they are not. Your statement implies the left should be holding back to stop the right from countering. Imagine if we had not abolished slavery simply because it co
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by Latty 10y ago
Except I know plenty of experienced Python 2 users (like myself) who moved to 3.x and like it. The point being made, I believe, is that the only reason to prefer 2 is if you are locked into it for historical reasons. The differences are sma
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by Latty 10y ago
You think that just because I disagree with you I haven't looked into it? While what you are describing does sometimes happen, the idea that it's the primary mode of operation, or even a significant one outside the fringe of the l
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by Latty 10y ago
I've seen this a lot recently. 'identity politics' is an odd thing to accuse the left of. While the right continually fights to disadvantage groups of people (or keep them disadvantaged), they claim the left is focusing too m
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by Latty 10y ago
I've written a fair amount of Elm, and I still find it awkward. One issue is that I feel like I end up having to go back and add in brackets more than I would with the C-style syntax. I'm not sure if that's just the way I thi
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by Latty 10y ago
I actually think that's a terrible idea. `0.x`v versions are precisely the time to try and get this stuff in, before you end up locked into it forever.
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by Latty 10y ago
> The availability of hardcore porn to young adults is a genuine problem It is? Teens are going to be interested in sex - porn is probably the safest way for them to explore that. Yes, clearly porn is a fantasy and has issues to do with
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by Latty 10y ago
And that's a likely scenario? You actually have them on different bits of hardware or something? It's so arbitrary - why not split it further, what goes where? If you want to achieve splitting important stuff off to special storag
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by Latty 10y ago
Sure, but there is also a huge amount in the rendering engine that can't be changed, which is the issue.
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by Latty 10y ago
That's a misinterpretation. Trump may appear to be slightly left of Pence, but 'middle ground'? No. Trump is still in favour of horrible stuff (and clearly by having Pence as VP, he is enabling those views as well). Trump is
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by Latty 10y ago
I said worse. Popular? Maybe. His views and plans are abhorrent, however - him being president would result in more damage than Trump, I imagine (although it's hard to say - Trump has more variance as he has been less clear about what
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by Latty 10y ago
The dumbest thing is, even if you wanted to make this joke (not saying it's reasonable - clearly saying you are going to kill someone is not OK by any stretch of the imagination, and should be called out for what it is), killing Trump
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by Latty 10y ago
I mean, sure, but I'm not sure why you say '"volunteers"' - they are exactly volunteers. Yes, extracting labour for free from volunteers can be the sign of something shady, but with SE I don't really see that e
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by Latty 10y ago
Except for all the crap about "targeted advertising", it turns out that if you run a site like StackOverflow, you can more accurately target adverts to your average user by curating the adverts than by letting some system try and
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by Latty 10y ago
There is no limit - the only issue is if your questions are marked as bad. If you ask questions that are answerable and work on StackOveflow, you can ask as many as you like.
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by Latty 10y ago
Voter suppression is much easier to pull off and much more effective if only two parties can ever get into power. If more parties are in the running, or parties have less dominant control, gerrymandering and suppression is much harder to do
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by Latty 10y ago
It's definitely not an easy thing. Freedom of speech doesn't mean a freedom from consequence. Your two points, the first seems like a fair comparison to me. There is a line in most people's minds between policy they disagree
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by Latty 10y ago
That is definitely a huge issue. More proof that FPTP and the Electoral College are fundamentally broken and not really democracy.
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by Latty 10y ago
Well, I don't believe that was his intent, but someone who voted for Trump reading that email, who believes that white men are being persecuted, probably does. Leaving them scared, and entrenching them. It's a huge mistake to phra
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by Latty 10y ago
That the rights of minorities come at the cost of the white male.
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by Latty 10y ago
Sure, that's true. Still, I don't think it's going to help do anything other than push the idea that white men are under attack, which is the lie that to me, seems to be fuelling the Trump train.
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by Latty 10y ago
"Come and cuddle" isn't really the same thing as not firing someone. I agree with your second point - but I don't see how that's solved by firing them - again, it's just going to reinforce the idea that "w
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by Latty 10y ago
I don't think it's elitism, it's people simply living in a different world. If you have been left-leaning, you have been living in a world where Trump's policies are scary, racist stuff that belongs way in the past. If y
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by Latty 10y ago
My view is that plenty of Trump's support is white people who believe they are under attack - there has been a push for some time that every gain for the rights of minorities comes at the cost of the majority. Those people are falling
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by Latty 10y ago
Sure, but what is the limit? To a lot of people, abortion is directly equivalent to murder. Should it be expected that they say "If you are pro-choice, hand in your resignation?". I don't have a good answer, but just supporti
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by Latty 10y ago
Clearly, this email was a terrible idea. People have a right to their own politics without it affecting their career. That being said, the statement sounds terrible when summarised like this. The email was (to my eyes) clearly intended as a
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by Latty 10y ago
Arguably we are at a point where good (here meaning effective) CG or Art should be able to replace such a thing without any real child being abused or having their privacy invaded, which would be preferable. Of course, in some countries, th
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by Latty 10y ago
> I'd say ISPs to start with. In the UK, BT still hasn't rolled out IPv6. BT have at least partially rolled out support, as I have a v6 allocation on a BT broadband service.
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by Latty 10y ago
StackOverflow code is under a license - cc by-sa 3.0. They were planning on clarifying this by moving to the MIT license, but there was some pushback on that and they are holding off for now at least: https://meta.stackexchange.c
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by Latty 10y ago
If it wasn't for the moderation, it'd be a swamp of terrible just like the forums of old.

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