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by calibraxis 10y ago
Depends, have you spent some of that long life fighting for those who don't have your privileges? (Assuming you haven't been unable due to intersecting factors like mental illness or poverty?) Noam Chomsky's an old white man.
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by calibraxis 10y ago
While developing, countries like Germany, Japan, the US, etc were accused of copying. Piracy. I suppose like artists learning by copying experts.
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by calibraxis 10y ago
> It is no less sexist to form a women's only club, but nobody sees fit to criticize it. I advise women who need advice for the specific gender obstacles they must defeat. (Obviously this is a perverse situation and the first order
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by calibraxis 10y ago
I get the impression that Jeremy Corbyn (in the UK) is much better than Bernie Sanders at helping build grassroots organizations that hopefully persist without him. I heard Bernie Sanders compared with Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Good point, I missed that. Among others, there's Rojava (feminist anarchists) vs. ISIS (fascist right-wing militia). Those two almost make Bernie Sanders & Donald Trump look identical.
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Depressing as hearing people in the British Empire wondering why Indians don't like freedom. Ironically, anyone who googles "Rojava" or "north kurdistan democracy" will discover people far ahead of the western power
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Another possibility is "he was about to do a mass purge of military & judges, & some of the military revolted in desperation". ( https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/754417469641617412 ) Could a
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Yes, take David Graeber, who's written extensively on Turkey and the extraordinary revolutionary Kurds: https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/700436062469038080 and https://twitter.com/david
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by calibraxis 10y ago
At least the coup leaders and the US State Dept are sending sensible signals. John Kerry's waiting to see who wins before committing (Erdogan frustrates the US, and many assumed the US would try to overthrow him), and the coup leaders
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by calibraxis 10y ago
For about a year, some openly suspected Erdogan frustrated the US enough for them to foment a coup. The US gov't loudly signaled its displeasure: "Early on, Obama saw Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the president of Turkey, as the sort of
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by calibraxis 10y ago
> Texas is America. No, Texas is in America, it is not America. (America was taken from the... so-called "Indians"... and Texas is something of a microcosm of that.) Furthermore, your earlier post was literally predicated on
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Yeah, it's amusing that the conquerors who incompetently called the people here "Indians" are somehow native to America. It's a bit like those people running around in "cowboy" clothing in what's now calle
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by calibraxis 10y ago
I do not know about any posters on this thread, but in general when a country undergoes a revolution, the families of former elites flee (generals, the wealthy, etc). In the case of Cuba, many exiles went to the US and even gained CIA suppo
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by calibraxis 10y ago
If you can get a country to likely bail you out, then "risky" loans are no-brainers. Because you externalize risks onto taxpayers. Example: why does Obama get heavy support from the finance industry?
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by calibraxis 10y ago
What are we talking about with "philosophy"? And what is "physics"? Are physicists featureless spheres unable to be "philosophers"? https://www.edge.org/conversation/a-philosophy-of-physics
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by calibraxis 10y ago
There's good arguments for their point. For instance: "When something goes wrong in a restaurant kitchen, and the boss appears to size things up, he is unlikely to pay much attention to a collection of workers all scrambling to e
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Yes, it's still homoiconic. I think vectors for argument lists is mainly a usability affordance. Which gives you aesthetics for free. (If you happen to find it more aesthetic.) > Common LISP and Scheme are not simple in this sense,
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Thank you, holy crap that's a good article too.
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Let's not blame Chinese learners for the US's political refusal to provide free university education. And when the US was developing, it notoriously thieved intellectual property, to Charles Dickens' dismay. (Because that&#x2
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Won't mention my overall opinion, though I have some knowledge. Just a warning about this particular point: "I’m Zach Holman. I was number nine at GitHub ..." "More than once I had been confusingly introduced as a founde
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by calibraxis 10y ago
"Hitler's concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history. He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the I
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Yes, the US government's founders explicitly hated democracy, and were slavers. Only after president Andrew Jackson transformed the language in a PR stunt (maybe like calling yourself "anarchist" nowadays), did people imagine
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by calibraxis 10y ago
I think you both can be right: "The US united to commit both genocide and slavery." When reading the parent post, I too thought it left out slavery. (Understandable, in a short comment.) As I understand, Europeans generally were
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Government subsidy (and occasional gov't supported monopolies like Bell Labs) is responsible for the software industry. This is very well-documented. Public takes the biggest risks, then rewards are privatized. Hence the economic impor
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Maybe not steal from your employees either! (Wage theft is common.)
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by calibraxis 10y ago
> By definition it can't. Please, we should not be so dismissive. "Great team" commonly refers to output, not internal organization. (At least if we use a charitable interpretation. And if we don't, we're in the
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Yep. Common as hell though. Not only do I know many who've explicitly told me about such attacks, but basic statistics indicates that many people we know have been attacked, regardless of them telling us. (Of course people often don&#x
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Could someone give hints/pointers that help me understand the following? "parsing non-command messages in each process ... not a strong attempt to intertwine a real language around the message structures (this very same thing hap
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Yes, its first stable release (1.0) was around the same year this article was written.
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by calibraxis 10y ago
The article's 7 years old. Clojure's first stable release (1.0) was released the same year.

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