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by c_crank 3y ago
The NAACP and other organizations existed at the same time as Jim Crow. The reality was that the extent of the racial oppression varied considerably based on geography. Many find the idea of current censorship more intimidating because it e
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Curiously, many large corporations seems to be full of employees who believe strongly in socialism of some kind.
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That link reaffirms that masks reduce particulates by some amount and offers no evidence this impacts the spread of respiratory illnesses.
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>Because their weren't user content platforms with the owner exercising post-publication editing, for technological reasons. The ideas that were censored were just never published (sometimes because those holding them were murdered
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When you want to track censorship in those days, you'd typically look for lawsuits. The US had blasphemy laws in local areas for a long time, but those were rarely enforced or taken to court, for example.
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It was an economic, political, and a moral concern. Free Soilers wanted the land for their own purposes. Expansion of slave states would mean expansion of a Senate group that would be in favor of reducing taxes and tariffs, an issue that al
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by c_crank 3y ago
Masks do reduce the spread of particulates by some amount. Reducing the spread of particulates by some amount has a negligible impact on the spread of COVID 19 and other respiratory viruses. To believe otherwise is, again, misinformation.
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The CSA seceded for the State's Right to Own Slaves. That much is obvious. The Northern response, as stated by Lincoln and understood by the majority of volunteers, was to Preserve the Union. That much is also obvious. Total abolitioni
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Fredick Douglass owned and published a newspaper that was not censored - when you look at abolitionist articles or early drafts from the Seneca Falls Convention, you are not likely to find a bunch of scribble marks or other equivalents to t
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The moral shift played a part in galvanizing enthusiasm for the war, but the Civil War ultimately was started by Northern statists who were adamant about maintaining a firm control over the North American heartland. Recall that the Emancipa
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It's not the same hammer I'm discussing. The equivalent would be censorship of pleas made in favor of homosexual causes, which the US is not particularly known for.
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Slavery wasn't a new thing when the Constitution was written. The divide between the North and the South was noted by several founding fathers as a nasty issue, and it was probably a mistake to unite the two territories in such a way t
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by c_crank 3y ago
Here's a link I found about Java RTOS in military software: https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/16708321... . >So you miss generics, even though Go has generics, because it avoids boilerplat
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People like Musk who self identify as classical liberals, or whatever the faddish term for that happens to be. Going by surveys, a lot of black people are against increasing immigration. Openly crossing that line is often justification for
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The belief that wearing general purpose masks would prevent the spread of COVID 19 was misinformation that festered for quite some time.
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If you go down that road of thinking, you'll end up noticing that those with the most power usually aren't the most rich. Power is power, and it usually involves some butter, but more guns.
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People are nostalgic for the days of the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers when people were fine debating their opposing views in the papers without dropping the hammer down on one side for being morally repugnant.
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The means by which Twitter could make money is by catering to advertisers, and those advertisers often had strict political biases. Musk complains about this often.
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The town square of the internet is failing at the same time that real life town squares are getting uglier. Food for thought.
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>Rust is not "functional ways", though, Rust carries a lot of design decisions heavily influenced from ML and OCaml. The type system and exception handling implements things that look a lot like Monads, but with a bunch of boil
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by c_crank 3y ago
Part of what makes C touted as a 'low level language' is the relative ease of inlining assembly.
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C presents a fairly honest representation of the low level mechanisms of x86 Assembly. The way Assembly has drifted away from actually CPU instructions is interesting, but not something a programmer will get much benefit from trying to deal
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Some of the worst bugs I have experienced are ones where code is executing without it being clear where it is executing. The front end stack is the most awful about this, where at any given moment all kinds of things might happen without no
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Writing C code is fun and enjoyable. C programs are typically fast due to the use of primitives and low overhead. C's set of tools and abstractions typically forces you to think about how best to implement a particular data structure o
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There is actually military hardware out there that runs on the JVM and not Go. That's a far stronger argument for its viability. >This is also the first time I've had someone make the argument that Go has more boilerplate than
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It means if you try to apply a free market system to a place without law and order, you'll have about as much of a mess as you started with. So the first step is to enforce governance.
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But to have a functioning free market, you need a basic functioning legal system, so people exchanging goods and services don't get robbed.
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The bare bones the market would create would depend on if people really want K-12 to be a glorified daycare or a useful tool for imparting knowledge. But having a financial incentive to function or go bust would mean you'd at least get
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The only incentive that works is letting such institutions crash and burn and be replaced. Even giant monopolies can end up losing money and going under.
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The use of those inputs isn't creating carbon, just transforming it. Carbon fueled fertilizer is also used for all other cereal crops under the sun.

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