ben0x539

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by ben0x539 10y ago
Uh, yeah, right-wing extremists murdering people is pretty much what I posted about.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
It depends, generally I think it's a good idea for communicating what is acceptable in the community, but for single-purpose trolling accounts it might not help as much.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
I think there's two separate things to consider. On one level there's the immediate individual occurence of harassment where I agree law enforcement should step in where applicable, instead of putting that responsibility on the pl
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by ben0x539 10y ago
> If you push the alt-right to exclusively use their own walled gardens, to concentrate in their own unmoderated, subverted echo chambers, that's when you should be very terrified because that's when you birth actually scary gr
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by ben0x539 10y ago
I agree that that hiding opposing points of view isn't optimal. But there's a lot of nuance between hiding them, and not giving them a platform. The points of view of the President-Elect aren't in any danger of disappearing f
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Flagging a post for the shortcomings of the commenting platform seems a bit harsh.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
The argument of "they're out to eradicate me and people like me" works better against Nazis because they're documented to have been doing that at scale. It doesn't work so well against people who've traditional
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Yes, if you replace the core of an argument with an abstruse strawman, it's a different, worse argument. That isn't particularly convincing. Equating ethnic identity with a genocidal ideology is kinda fucked up, though.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
I'm not throwing away the humanity of Nazis. I'm acknowledging that their goal in life is to eradicate me and people like me, and that anything I can do to slow them down might save a life at some point. Time spent fixing the lawn
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Yeah I'm not saying people with abhorrent opinions don't deserve human rights. That doesn't mean tolerance is all about being cool with your hypothetical Nazi neighbor. I'm pretty sure whoever came up with that declarati
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Nah, tolerance means that you gotta be ok with people from different religions, ethnic groups, w/e. The opinion thing isn't as important.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
"virtue signalling" is the politically correct way to say "political correctness" these days, right?
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by ben0x539 10y ago
How many words should one have to use to question snopes' credibility before it comes acceptable discourse? :(
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by ben0x539 10y ago
pinboard is a bookmarking website with a funny twitter, not the gestapo. people giving other people shit for supporting bad ideas is a fairly important part of the marketplace of ideas. do you draw any line where support of abhorrent politi
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Eh, arguably from ecosystem effects, other people's votes count a lot too. I don't think I'd want to be the sole user of best init system in the world!
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by ben0x539 10y ago
As someone who lives overseas, I'll happily forgive him. I imagine I'm not alone in this.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Maybe that's why Hearthstone was such a success, models and art for all the characters already existed!
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Have you made positive experiences with linking fairly long Wikipedia article to people who disagree with you?
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by ben0x539 10y ago
I'm kinda weirded out by non-idempotent `to_foo()` methods...
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by ben0x539 10y ago
I guess it's cool that Rust is getting zero-cost futures, but they have a long way to go to catch up to C++'s negative-overhead coroutines!
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9531822
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Darn. :P I was only thinking of the standardized ones, but you're correct, of course!
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by ben0x539 10y ago
no version of C++ ever added new comment syntax that a previous version of C++ didnt have, tho
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by ben0x539 10y ago
We have those in Europe? I had no idea, sign me up!
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by ben0x539 10y ago
I think we should lay the blame for that with source-based compilation systems.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Obviously C compilers should be written in Javascript, since everybody already has a Javascript engine installed.
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Why should they wait and not try to find the next big project right now?
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by ben0x539 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio... suggests that quotation marks are valid here (which is clearly the most important aspect of this dispute)
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by ben0x539 10y ago
On Windows, does Rust currently require/use (nontrivial features of) the C standard library in addition to the C "win32"/"winapi"/w/e libraries?
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by ben0x539 10y ago
Yeah, can't be a very good phone if you have to scream to be heard!

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