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by axguscbklp 5y ago
If you add up all of the political violence used by the two main power groupings against each other in the last year or so, I think it ends up being about the same. To me, the storming of the Capitol has roughly the same weight as all of th
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Most Bolshevik supporters would probably not have been willing to personally kill a landlord. Most Nazi supporters were uncomfortable with the idea of mass-murdering Jews - this is probably one of the reasons why Nazis tried to keep the dea
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
For most office workers, the office is to some extent a dehumanizing panopticon. Some workers do prefer working in the office, but employers do not primarily push for office work in order to make those workers happy - they push for office w
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
These statistics do not mean much if based on a politically biased definition of what "fake news" is. I count much of the mainstream left-leaning media's reporting on BLM-related issues as fake news because it is based on an
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Yes, there can be no suffering without consciousness. However, I do not know of any way to determine whether any being other than oneself is conscious.
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
Now that I think of it, I do think of it as 1-to-1 substitution, but it is not completely trivial - when transforming to machine code, you do generally have to keep track of where in the code you are to know whether to try to transform an a
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
I might be off from the standard definition, but normally I think of "assembly language" as meaning a language that can be transformed to machine code by using a simple 1-to-1 substitution. Using this definition, there is no way
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
>Clusters of cells can't be 'tortured in a lab,' There is actually no way to know whether this is true. About all you can justifiably say is something like, "if it turns out that clusters of cells can experience suffe
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by axguscbklp 5y ago
It is interesting how many of the responses to this here say some version of "our industry is mostly boring". That has been my experience of the industry as well, unfortunately.
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
Cheers! Thanks for understanding. >Let’s go together into a better future. Agreed.
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
Sorry, parent comment was unkind of me. I was just adding anger on top of anger. Time for editing the comment has expired, though. I am sensitive around ideas of censoring kids because I tend to be passionately against censorship in most ca
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
What do you think is a bigger problem for your children, Instagram or the fact that they have a parent who becomes absolutely furious in reaction to a pretty harmless Internet comment, using language like "I worry myself sick and drive
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
>"We put up with slow, bloated, and inadequate software because blah blah blah" - no, we put up with it because the market doesn't care about it. Yep. Company culture / psychology is also a factor. You can hire a bunc
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
To some extent I agree with you, which is why I wrote "they think". Most people's ideologies are based on misinformed understandings of history and science. Reactionaries are probably more likely to be misinformed than conser
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
The "hubris plus gumption minus diligence" mindset can be frequently found among adherents of all sorts of ideologies. If anything, reactionaries are likely to shy away from solutions that no one has ever thought of before in favo
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
I hope that you're wrong in the sense that I hope that it turns out it is possible for it to change for the better... but that line definitely reminded me of the software industry in a strong way.
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
I love going out and meeting new people and partying. I hate going to the office. Strongly preferring remote work is not just an introvert thing.
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
Should we regulate research into the technology? No, I don't think so. Should we regulate deployment of the technology? Definitely in schools, yes. As far as workplaces go, at least you could argue that employees could find different j
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
Jewish people are significantly overrepresented in positions of power relative to their population size. Should companies treat this is a cultural homogeneity problem and try to make it so that Jewish people are represented more closely in
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
Because if the company sucks, which most companies do, then probably almost no-one there actually cares except people who have a larger-than-salary financial investment in the company, people who have been there long enough that the company
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
Yeah it's strange. For example, Facebook has billions of dollars, thousands of developers, and they themselves created the front end framework that they are using - yet Facebook's front end is slow and glitchy.
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
Why do you think it would not be possible to build a website of such quality without frameworks? On a separate note, I think the dashboard is alright but I wouldn't call it excellent. It's a bit slow and some things, for example m
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
Even if you develop capabilities API-first, you don't need an SPA, though. You can create some backend code that consumes your API and in turn serves separate web pages to a front end.
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
>Fighting for the other persons right to speak their thought is a good and noble thing as long as the other person doesn't fight against your right to say what you like and as long as their words don't turn into actions. >Pe
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
Well, I think that they wouldn't be able to solve the tech problem even if they completely solved any and all team problems, so as far as the end users are concerned it doesn't really matter much whether they can solve the team pr
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
I think that unaccountable police are a big problem, but I feel that I cannot support the BLM narrative even though that narrative might end up making police more accountable. For one thing, it disgusts me when I see this narrative pushed d
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
I'm not trying to conceal my opinions though, I'm actually undecided on the matter.
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
I don't watch sports to be reminded of a shared nation that we all belong to. Yes, the anthem is political. Not just in the sense that "everything is political", but rather more than that.
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
Throw the patriotic and military-worshipping stuff out too. It annoys me as much as the "social justice" stuff annoys me. Perhaps more. I'm in principle opposed to the patriotic and military stuff, although I'd probably
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by axguscbklp 6y ago
Also, the nature of most schooling goes against using it to teach critical thinking. Most schooling is forced on the students. It is difficult, though not impossible, for a system that coerces people to also teach those same people critical

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