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by ahelwer 4y ago
The general framework for understanding police unions from a labor perspective is that the primary function of police is to safeguard private property rights, specifically the rights of the owning class. In that sense they are structurally
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Unfortunately (as I learned from a commenter on this very website!) the paradox is easily explicable with classical EM wave mechanics unless you're firing & detecting single photons. This is the case with basically all quantum phen
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by ahelwer 4y ago
It's not like TLA+ is really pushing research frontiers, it's just a great language using solid established algorithms that works really well for modeling distributed & concurrent systems. Maybe they're unhappy with the p
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by ahelwer 4y ago
They're both good to know - PlusCal for concurrent programs with more sequential if/then/else/while/for-type logic, and TLA+ for more event-driven systems that receive inputs and react with few sequential steps. Lam
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I doubt people using the term global south generally believe that the west must be the solution to global power imbalances. At most they might believe their countries should stop meddling in the affairs of post-colonial countries and let th
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I wouldn't personally put that in the same category, but it does illustrate our comfort with arming & training nazis.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
You can Socrates this definition or you can recognize that it is a useful term for talking about global power imbalances from the latest wave of colonialism that resulted in the global order we see today. You do recognize and accept that su
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by ahelwer 4y ago
The point of analyzing structural incentives is that you don't need a conspiracy. Everyone involved actually believes they are fully and truthfully discharging their duties and fighting the good fight. None of them are walking around p
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Broadly refers to countries with a history of being colonized rather than a history of being colonizers. There certainly was a racial aspect to colonialism, yes.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Go watch CNN for an entire day and write down how many times Yemen or Palestine is mentioned compared with Ukraine. Come up with your own hypothesis about why this is. It's more complicated than just "government control", but
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Millions of people died in Indonesia, Vietnam, and elsewhere. It is absolutely on the same order of magnitude.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Religious or ethnic minorities being erased aren't shown on live TV unless it's happening in or being perpetrated by a state that your government wants to topple.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
The US funded, trained, armed, and supported with propaganda fascist elements in many countries that came to political power and committed mass murders, all for our benefit. Call it whatever you want. "Far from perfect", just lol.
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I recently read the book The Jakarta Method and it was extremely eye-opening. I'd previously heard a very abridged account of what happened in Indonesia in the 60s from Chomsky, but this book goes and examines how the same pattern wa
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by ahelwer 4y ago
Meta's VR tech is undeniably amazing. I picked up a quest 2 off craigslist and was blown away - wirelessly streaming VR games to the headset over wifi is the first time I felt the technology had actually arrived. The resolution is also
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by ahelwer 4y ago
One of the best books I read over the past few years was Democracy at Work by Wolff. I'm in my 30s now and have some real savings from working during my 20s, enough that I could conceivably have a go at starting a business to solve s
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by ahelwer 4y ago
I see this type of comment a lot - "if you don't like it then leave!" - and at best it seems to indicate a lack of vision. Change is possible! First, there are two possible motivations for saying the above: (1) The practical
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I suspect film might just be dead as an artistic medium that can be enjoyed by lots of people. I maybe go to a movie theatre once every couple of years these days, the rest of the time I watch things at home. It’s a hard ask to set aside tw
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by ahelwer 5y ago
My sincere wish is that you are someday held to the moral standard you currently apply to Russian citizens. I suspect you would not enjoy that day.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
If your humor relies on novelty and the novelty is gone, the humor is gone. It is different with story structures. It isn’t just those examples, though. Play the game or watch a video of the intro sequence and see for yourself. It’s just a
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Recently tried replaying portal 2. The graphics aged just fine over the past decade; unfortunately the same is not true of the writing and humor. Has a very reddit-circa-2010 vibe. I guess comedy is one of the more difficult fields in which
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Seems to negate the motivation for using a timespan datatype in the first place.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I prefer using timedelta (or TimeSpan for the .NET crowd) but I’ve run into a somewhat funny resulting problem: often these time values are read in from a config file, so now people need to know/remember the serialized time span format
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Funniest part is that the tagline and theme of the show was “what is the cost of lies?” despite itself taking ridiculous liberties with the truth. Just off the top of my head there was: * the “bridge of death” scene that never happened * ir
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Lots of FOSS developers support themselves with lucrative jobs or contracts they received on the basis of their reputation within the FOSS community (conference circuit, online forums, professional network, etc.) and otherwise mainly develo
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Stop thinking in terms of abstractions (countries, nations, sovereignty, citizenry) and think in terms of people. People born into, living in the area of the Earth currently called Russia. Those people, each the equal of yourself, are what
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I think you need to stop watching American cable news for a couple days. Acts like these will kill the open source ecosystem - an incredible achievement of humanity that showcases us at our best, working to help each other with limited indi
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Actually things are working quite well! These events remain remarkable news items. There are tremendous benefits to having an ecosystem built on trust and mutual assumption of good will. Transforming this into a scar tissue bureaucracy afte
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Kicking grandma out onto the street because she isn't meeting her quarterly Key Performance Indicators and is not net positive productive
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by ahelwer 5y ago
The difference between you and that person is one of material circumstances. You are not fundamentally different from them.

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