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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
What do null pointers have to do with the UNIX philosophy?
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
>Unfortunately, what still causes a significant amount of friction in our cities and prevents inclusive growth is the dominance of cash. What on earth does cash have to do with societal friction? I find it very eerie and unsettling, how
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Finish your stuff(250bpm.com)
232 points by Oxitendwe 9y ago|99 comments
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
It makes no sense to talk about means without ends.
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
It is one of the greatest failings of our industry that we are apparently incapable of constructing programs that are in any sense "complete" due to requiring vast amounts of upkeep just to ensure their most basic possible propert
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
I found this comment very fascinating and would love to learn more about the recent history of the two major American political parties, do you have any suggestions for literature on this topic?
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
>I don't know. Depression has been recorded for thousands of years, so either society has always been insane (quite likely), in which case it's not likely to turn around any time soon, or there are other causes of depression. S
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
What I have found through my experiences with depressed people is that the vast majority of them are not insane people in a sane society, but perfectly sane people in an insane society, people who have maladapted to their environment but wo
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Classifying Plankton with Deep Neural Networks(benanne.github.io)
3 points by Oxitendwe 9y ago|0 comments
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
I don't really agree. I think inclusivity is actually part of the problem - when society welcomes anyone and everyone, people sometimes end up feeling alone or alienated because they aren't around people like themselves, who they
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Everyone is going on about a "living wage", but what about the illegal aliens who live in America who make substantially less than that, and come here illegally with great effort to get it? Why would they do that unless it was pro
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Worst, or best ?
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
That's not a situation "we" as a culture/civilization/species face, it's a situation they face. The rest of us are perfectly capable of doing what our bodies are designed to do without doctors and scientists
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
What kind of infrastructure will this require? You'll need researchers to learn how such an object can be feasible, engineers to design it, people to construct it, parts must be ordered (some of which you might not even have the capabi
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
>there is definitely some degree of exploitation at play, just given the exchange rate alone. Arbitrage isn't exploitation. Why should someone pay more than the local rate just because they are a (relatively) more wealthy foreigner?
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Is your imaginary kid going to pay into social security? Pay taxes for the roads you drive on? Take up arms to defend your country? If not, then you have no standing to complain when people who contribute more than you are rewarded more tha
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
>Many sex workers have little choice But some do, why would you take away their ability to make money? Do you think they'll thank you for taking away their livelihood? > It also legitimises sex as a labour asset, increasing gende
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
What do you have against female autonomy? How is sex work inherently in conflict with "concern for human welfare"?
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Of course you were denied, he has standing to ask for time off (his kid) and you don't. Having children is incredibly important to society at large and it makes sense incentivize it, especially at the expense of people who don't h
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Why do you assume they should care? They clearly have a different value system than yours. If you don't like it, don't go.
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
It really tells us a lot about their values and priorities when they celebrate (by making doodles) people like that instead of, for example, Easter.
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Terrorist sympathizers are equivalent to racists now?
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
This was only established 4 years ago. It's not a big deal.
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
>Women invented computer science. Please stop pinkwashing history. Women did not invent computer science. Also, the gender gap only needs to be "fixed" if it is true that women have an equal interest and potential in computer s
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
Yes, surely a couple of years from now will be the year of "IPv6 on the desktop".
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
I think you're forgetting a little something: Russia . /s
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
One might argue the same point based on the fact that there even exists a book called "JavaScript: The Good Parts".
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
>What are the things that affect the case for open immigration? People worry about losing their cultural and ethnic identity. Nobody wants to be made a minority in their own country, no matter how much cheap labor they get out of it. &gt
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
I think you have a really good idea! It doesn't just solve the problem with open versus closed source, it also solves a different and much more fundamental problem, which is that people who work on free and open source software do not
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by Oxitendwe 10y ago
>You assume some people have a right to the infrastructure of a particular country, for example competing for certain jobs, while others don't. It's very hard or even impossible to make that case without referring to very subje

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