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by axlprose 8y ago
So it's wrong to be offended at the possibility of mass-scale censorship just as a matter of principle? Search results are always going to be biased the same way that any media is always going to be biased. Have the regimes of the 20th
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by axlprose 8y ago
> Can you claim you're politically neutral if you are not willing to listen to people who deny climate change? If you're literally not willing to listen to any arguments for/against a hypothesis at all, then sure, you&#x
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by axlprose 8y ago
well, given that this article in particular is saying that increased inflammation signaling is associated with male traits, it'd be better suited for arguing that straight males (and possibly homosexual women) are the diseased ones
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by axlprose 8y ago
> any transportation option that incentivizes people not to own a car is good. Are companies offering to pay you to drive people around, with little barrier to entry, in a tough economy where it's getting increasingly difficult to
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by axlprose 8y ago
> Let me suggest this is a misunderstanding. I'm cool with that. Misunderstandings happen more often than people like to admit, even when speaking the same language; the interpretation of language seems to be universally subjectiv
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by axlprose 8y ago
You admitted that you don't speak fluent spanish, yet you decided to put words in my mouth about a post I wrote entirely in spanish, that was written that way because it was directed very specifically at the poster I replied to. I neve
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by axlprose 8y ago
Hardship is hardship regardless of where it's experienced, or by whom, it doesn't make it any less real, but it does take on very different flavors depending on the cultural context, and that can shape one's outlook a lot. Be
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by axlprose 8y ago
> does that mean we should stop shooting for equality as "close enough" the question is, which definition of "equality" are we even aiming for: equality of opportunity or equality of outcome? In reality, most people
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by axlprose 8y ago
La verdad es que no creo que valga la pena tratar de explicarle a gente de paises privilegiados como trabajan las culturas de nuestros paises mas pobres, hermano. Es algo que des-afortunadamente no se puede explicar, si no que se tiene que
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by axlprose 8y ago
What you just quoted literally shows Graydon saying that strcat's views were often correct. I wasn't commenting on strcat's tone/delivery because that's a separate issue, I was saying that it shows nothing about dis
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by axlprose 8y ago
This is an extremely disingenuous interpretation of events, and seems to be given for no other purpose than to shame the clear victim of an abusive business partner. This has nothing to do with how he worked with rust developers, and even G
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by axlprose 8y ago
There's even more context about how this CEO managed the business in a reddit thread in response to those tweets as well, which includes some detailed and revealing comments from the developer: https://www.reddit.com/r&
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by axlprose 8y ago
>I'm not sure you know what enslave means. People wouldn't be allowed to leave. Ok, apologies for thinking we were discussing a more mundane/realistic scenario then. However that kind of slavery that you're talking
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by axlprose 8y ago
>I fail to see how any of this is offensive. Because judging countries for not being able to meet standards its incapable of meeting is plain naive colonialist mentality. It's like criticizing a school yard basketball player for n
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by axlprose 8y ago
>"We'd rather not have them if they can't stick to those rules." Right, but the alternative in certain situations is having no businesses at all, as was the case in my home country. >Are you making the argument
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by axlprose 8y ago
>Please explain how. Assuming you legitimately want to know, and aren't just trying to ask a pointed rhetorical question, ok: >>Why not throw your trash on a neighbor's lawn? Because unless you like having other peopl
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by axlprose 8y ago
>Why not throw your trash on a neighbor's lawn? Why not enslave your workers so you don't have to deal with turnover and hiring replacements? Why dont you stop paying taxes so you don't have to do work to get the same amo
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by axlprose 8y ago
>Would you eat in a place like that? a vast majority of the food places in my home country were like that when I was growing up, and such places likely still make up a sizable portion of the food businesses down there now. I can't
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by axlprose 8y ago
as someone who didn't get diagnosed with ADHD until later in life, one naively optimistic take on this, is that perhaps it'll allow for teachers and parents to catch signs of the condition earlier in kids, and then be able to trea
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by axlprose 8y ago
The free market is also supposed to let businesses do just about anything legal they want to get more customers. So basically kinda like how it is now already. And just as you would expect in a free market, the consumers are reacting to the
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by axlprose 8y ago
Do you get angry at small brick-and-mortar businesses that print their logos on their walls/windows so you can quickly identify them as well? What if they have small signs on the sidewalk listing their specials so you know what they of
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by axlprose 9y ago
Indeed. One of my favorite finance talks is "A Breif and Biased Survey of Quantitative Investing" by AQR's Cliff Asness, which talks about what quant funds actually are. Link for those curious: https://youtu.be&#x2
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by axlprose 9y ago
Haskell's Yesod framework has a pretty solid ecosystem. It even comes with a free book: https://www.yesodweb.com/book
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by axlprose 9y ago
Would be interesting to test this out on SourceMage[0], seeing as how its package manager is written entirely in bash. [0] https://sourcemage.org/Intro
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by axlprose 9y ago
Yep, luckily there are definitely a good handful of interesting OS projects around. HelenOS[0] stands out to me the most due to its component-based design. Though I'm also looking forward to seeing how seL4[1] and Genode[2] might be pu
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by axlprose 9y ago
> Waterfox - dead Since when? It's last commit was 5 days ago: https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox
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by axlprose 9y ago
If your goal is utmost privacy like many of these projects are providing, you're already going to expect and experience some breakages regardless. Any browser is going to struggle against the top two behemoths, so I'm not sure why
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by axlprose 9y ago
It isn't just about the recent PR mishap, it's about a long string of events that have gradually tried their users' patience and erroded their trust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMALm1VthGY It's also
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by axlprose 9y ago
Perhaps from this tidbit where the politics were explicitly mentioned in the article: > Resmini’s statement comes just a few months after Discord took action against a number of nefarious ALT-RIGHT servers. One of the largest servers, C
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by axlprose 9y ago
> There has been no attempt to move the smallest parts of the ECOSYSTEM to provide replacements for base POSIX utilities. You deliberately cut out the part which states he's talking about the ecosystem of OpenBSD, in an OpenBSD

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