belfalas

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by belfalas 4y ago
> Do you genuinely not realize how absurd and downright offensive the strawmen you're constructing here are? Do you? You haven't actually responded to any of the points I've made, you're simply insisting that becaus
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> What they don't teach you is that the government aggression towards natives didn't actually "stop" until Kennedy (and even then I'm still in doubt) It is still very much in progress. Native American activists
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by belfalas 4y ago
I'm not sure why you're bringing another poster into this or why you bring up a strawman Louvre. But it does seem like you are pretty committed to your belief that wiping out culture is okay as long as it is non-Western. I wish yo
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by belfalas 4y ago
Got it. So as long as we preserve a few key specimens we can torch the Louvre guilt free?
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by belfalas 4y ago
Yeah, in the United States as well pretty horrific things were happening right up to the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study (I'm of course not saying that bad things stopped happening aft
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by belfalas 4y ago
If someone bombed the Vatican or the Kaaba would you consider that a very big deal?
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by belfalas 4y ago
I am not an Australian but I've been to Australia and have Australian friends and colleagues. "Racism" is not quite the right word for what's been done to the aboriginals, it's more like the genocide committed again
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by belfalas 4y ago
Reminds me of Microsoft Encarta as well, I spent so many hours using that as a kid.
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by belfalas 4y ago
Hydration is a big one for me, especially drinking one or two normal size glasses of water before a meal. Helps regulate the appetite. Also, not very secret since I got it from an interview with Salma Hayek but it really works: don’t eat me
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History and culture.
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by belfalas 4y ago
I am not sure what argument you are trying to make or if you are just being snarky at this point. In any case, it seems we disagree and won't come to an understanding. So, wish you the best and take care.
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by belfalas 4y ago
Funny, in my mind "business object" is the least important thing out of what I wrote. Imagine it's the 1990s and you are coding some hot thing to drop into cgi-bin. My list now changes to be: * An HTTP request * A perl scri
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by belfalas 4y ago
> Naming Things, Immutability, Idempotence, Behavior/Workflows/Transactions/Business Processes, Distributed Systems, Cryptography, Algorithms and Data structures, etc. All of these things are footnotes and implementation
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by belfalas 4y ago
Your question is not quite the right framing. By the time you hit "Staff level" you should have learned that programming language and framework are simply window dressing on top of the fundamentals. The fundamentals are things lik
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by belfalas 4y ago
One more: in Russia it’s legal to beat your wife. Look it up, it’s very recent.
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by belfalas 4y ago
You mean besides freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and democracy?
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by belfalas 4y ago
Same, America and the West are significantly different from places like China or Russia. It's not even close.
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Whoever those others are…they are irrelevant.
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I’m not at all saying it is right or that I support it. I am simply saying that it is a fact. Some years ago they made a movie called “A Day Without A Mexican” to illustrate this point. The shadow economy powers the visible economy.
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by belfalas 4y ago
No, certainly not for the case you’re describing. The ultimate root of evil is our economic systems assumption that there always has to be growth and that it can continue unbounded. That only occurs in one instance in nature: cancer.
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by belfalas 4y ago
In many ways the article feels like it's documenting kids with the freedom to have an opinion. Looking at the pictures in the article, it feels like a pretty uniform demographic. And in New York City, no less. Also, they idolize Chris
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by belfalas 4y ago
Very true, but consider this: these jobs are better than whatever the immigrants are leaving behind. And US foreign/trade policy doesn’t exactly prioritize assisting the global south in becoming strong and independent. For what it’s wo
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by belfalas 4y ago
This is a good reminder of why legislation is a good thing. We can’t rely on peoples individual ethics alone.
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by belfalas 4y ago
"Admins run the world, never make them angry." :)
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by belfalas 4y ago
The Vasa Museum is all about the ship named Vasa - the ship was a fantastical failure, the museum is doing quite well as far as I know. :) (The museum spends a lot of time documenting "how could this have gone so wrong?")
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by belfalas 4y ago
Vasa is almost a must-see recommendation for folks working in an engineering/project background. It was such a spectacular failure and for reasons that will likely feel all too familiar for anyone working in enterprise.
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by belfalas 4y ago
I wasn’t laid off but when I left my last job it was during the pandemic. My employer made it super easy since the IT folks tracked everything. They simply sent me a FedEx slip, I took it to my local place, they put my laptop in a box, end
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It's attractive and in many ways better, but never forget: the dark side is insularity and 'no outsiders.' When you don't have the relationships or are actively excluded by virtue of being from a lower social class...mod
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by belfalas 4y ago
Super cool, thank you :)
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by belfalas 4y ago
> I would really like to see something like a vr-based hand gesture based midi app: wave arms like symphony conductor, put some colorful shapes in 3d space to anchor movement/provide visual feedback, etc. I love this - hopefully w

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