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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Take that argument to an extreme. If the majority of the country votes to suspend democracy, would you stick around? If not, then doesn't that imply that there exists a set of underlying principles that you believe are fundamental to a
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Or the single most important point to understand when it comes to government.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
The Bill of Rights cannot be. This is the fundamental difference between the US and other Western democracies. Consent to be governed rests upon said government respecting those inalienable rights that we have. Those rights are not grante
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
I think the problem is that a startup is a far riskier proposal for a marketer than a dev. For devs we have a safety net in the most insane job market the world has ever known. Launching a failed startup is almost a right of passage for us.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Kinda surprised Parisians weren't busy arming themselves to the teeth after the Bataclan.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
I've seen enough videos of the unarmed British police getting their ass handed to them by crazy Somali's with nothign but a knife to realize that yes, the police need guns.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
This is one of the statements I hear over and over from React devs that while technically true just glosses over the giant iceberg that is state management in React.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
I agree it's a bit like playing in the mud, but the more I work the more I suspect that's just accepting reality. Requirements gathering works wonderfully for internal projects with a fixed set of stakeholders and a well defined p
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Painting with a very broad brush here, but as somebody from neither location who lived in both for awhile, New England culture is..risk adverse is not the right word, I'd call them deeply traditionalist. New England feels like somethin
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Is it wrong I want to invest in your pitch?
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Also why DnD has different weps that roll 1d20 vs 2d10, 2d6 vs 3d4 etc. Some things are designed to be swingier with more crits but more critical failures, where others are designed for consistancy.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
It's a 20 minute lunch talk at Strangeloop. Lighten up Francis.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Much of it is sustained by people who are paid by employers who use said open source in their profit centers.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
A shame we don't have spoiler tags here, because I honestly do not want to spoil the talk for others who do take the time to watch it. The point of the talk is not the project he is launching, he is making a much deeper and more intere
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Dems shout while talking cash from the rich, look at the relationship Clinton had with Goldman Sachs. It will keep working as long as Democrats voters are dumb enough to fall for their "we're for the working man!" schtick.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Except that, at least in my state, there is an inverse relationship between teacher salaries by district and the education results (as measured by graduation and literacy rates)
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Unpopular opinion around here: teachers aren't underpaid, they are drastically overpaid given the utter lack of results they produce. Certainly much of the blame goes not to the teachers themselves but the entire public education indus
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
The third party domain specific apps built on top of MATLAB is their moat.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Think programmer hours are expensive? Go look at the price for Physics and Engineering PhD programming hours. Pretty much everything you would ever want to do related to partial differential equations or computational fluid dynamics has alr
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
I'm not sure if the Ruby market has ever been better from the pov of devs looking to get hired. There's now a ton of companies with established revenue streams based on Ruby/Rails apps looking to hire, while simultaneously it
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
That's 100% correct, it shows a lack of trust in myself, because I know that I am a failable person who occasionaly writes code under conditions of stress and lack of sleep and appreciates having my coworkers sanity check my work. Hone
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Here's one question not on the list: what's the Ada job market look like? As a web dev looking to deep dive on some non-web topic with the pragmatic constraint that it must be a hireable one, Ada seems promising but I wouldn'
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
How many atrocities does an ideology have to commit before people will admit that the ideology might be a problem?
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Hilariously from the pov of this forum, Sowell is pretty much a hero of the right wing, having been formally trained as a Marxist at UofChicago only to reason his way out of that position back to sanity and then make a career of trying to e
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
We're well past struggle sessions.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Don't even need to go that far back in history, here's a wonderful example from BLM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jCpUMUezzY
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Did you miss the part where after the banning, the teachers admitted they were teaching and would continue to teach CRT?
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Regardless of your views on CRT, the fact that teachers lied about teaching it to parents and then chose to break the law by teaching it after they were called out confirms that yes, they are intentionally trying to go behind parents back i
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
I think the bigger problem there is missing who the real customer is. Slacks pay-for features are targeted not at the users but at management, and management gets to dictate tools more often than not. Individual developers would absolutely
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Critical Race Theory, or the teaching that whites are uniquely the source of all problems in the world.

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