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by calibraxis 10y ago
There is a history here. Please read: 1. https://web.archive.org/web/20100220100027/http://clojure.or... 2. https://web.archive.org/web/20140704050611/http://clojure.o
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by calibraxis 10y ago
I heard on the Cognicast about them working on clojure.spec over the weekend. Elsewhere, Alex Miller offhandedly mentioned his sleep deprivation: answering questions and writing accessible documentation. In any prolific, underfunded work, t
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Critiques from Clojure users should really try tradeoff analysis, as Hickey advocates. Which means I should analyze the costs of what I advocate, not just the benefits. For clojure.set/intersection (CLJ-1682?), Alex Miller clearly ment
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by calibraxis 10y ago
I did not see the link to the intersection issue. Is it this? ( http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1682?page=com.atlassi... ) So "nonsense values" returned by `intersection` means it returns a seq when
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Her analysis may not apply to women in general, but only to fortunate subgroups. Discrimination compounds at intersections. So the game becomes much harder for Latinas and African-American women.
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> it may be hard for at least some of the attendants to interact with you without prejudice And vice-versa. The poster couldn't help but publicly write: "We hate the Gazan government". At least this individual will bring h
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Good point. It should also tell us about the US's own highly bureaucratic, test driven educational culture. http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/03/anti-intellectualism-... Dan Falcone: Yeah, I’ve seen
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Corporations and state are interlinked. For all intents and purposes, there's no clear boundary between them. (Especially since corporations are creations of the state, and heavily influence state policy.) I agree the French government
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The US could simply let the Kurds in northern Syria wipe out ISIS. They have the track record as the world's best ground force against ISIS. But Turkey, the ISIS-friendly NATO partner that's bombing its own cities, wants to oblite
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by calibraxis 10y ago
> even my European co-workers make fun of Americans for these things Are they not ashamed to ridicule those with some cultural advances? (Laugh about our backwardnesses, not innovations.) Do they also chuckle at those more advanced scien
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by calibraxis 10y ago
> Slotin instructed one of his colleagues to lay radioactivity-detecting film badges around the area, which required the scientist to go dangerously close to the still overheated core. Many managers and coworkers are so unthinking about
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> These fundamentals usually consist of economic indicators and various measures of incumbency. I looked at a couple links, and couldn't quickly find the exact "fundamentals" he refers to. For instance, do they include cam
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More of my fellow Americans should read up on the IWW. Which was far more serious about workplace democracy than those relatively right wing, corporate-friendly unions that the US promoted. > But it seems odd that you define talking abou
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by calibraxis 10y ago
> democracies don't fight each other The US & UK overthrew Iran's parliamentary democracy, and installed the Shah. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat ) The US is the world
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> “There’s outrage fatigue,” Mr. Donohue said. “You can very easily leave people feeling helpless, which can then lead to being disengaged.” An anthropologist analyzed despair fatigue. And discussed journalism's role: How could suc
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by calibraxis 10y ago
One is possibly absorbing other paradigms, like you can do language design too, even if you're "just" a user. Take Clojure for recent examples: core.logic, core.async (which gives you Go-like channels). These are distributed
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Yes, and it holds true in the adult world as well. For example, extremely few people get to work on the most important problems their minds can imagine. Like these people discuss: http://thebaffler.com/videos/graeber-th
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Interested people should see this team-up by anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow: https://vimeo.com/145285143 They're writing a book on the topic of the origins of inequality. One interesting t
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Glad. Thought you abandoned it too. Only place I know offhand which groups many of those particular not-very-common books together.
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Watch if they refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance to the national symbol, punish them for transgressing private property moral codes... if we have so many armed bureaucrats, they might as well be constantly judging everyone.
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Let's commit a small rudeness and step away from the airy theoretical. - The US is so unsafe, you can get armed bureaucrats reaching into your ass in public and feeling your hemorrhoids. ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Fine to me. Better to "err" on that side, as a signal to hate groups who fester on reddit. Furthermore, you can take it as self-mocking irony, if you prefer...
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Thank you! Cautiously excited. Hopefully the moderation tools will be excellent: - Private groups, for anonymity. - Maybe limit upvoting privilege (to certain users?), if it's used in a strange attack.
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I don't know, it may be the current intellectual culture's speciesism that we often think that. For instance, they may have many modes of perception better than math. Or even if they have a "math" sense that's oddly
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by calibraxis 11y ago
Here you go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFbj3PQynD8
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by calibraxis 11y ago
I think it's somewhat similar to your workplace. No one I know hires people based on purely technical criteria. If your new hire goes around being racist your coworkers, that's a problem. (A conf is not just about talks.) In addit
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by calibraxis 11y ago
That last paragraph would sound unpleasant if it replied to me. :) That poster can take solace that they're in good intellectual company: "In fact, I can remember a lot about elementary school, the work I did, what I studied and
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by calibraxis 11y ago
Video (Clojure/west): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53lcg7EGYM4 [Edit: Just got turned private. If/when it returns, it’ll be here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaLlzGqiPE2QRj6sSOawJRg
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by calibraxis 11y ago
This article reads like so much propaganda. Probably every post-apocalyptic movie about the US shows it descending into warring right-wing militias, many ambitious enough to make a state. Many surround themselves with pseudo-patriotic react
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by calibraxis 11y ago
It'd be great if you have evidence that Moldbug is an ex-con who underwent rehab for his racism! If not, would you really invite someone with a record of stabbing people at conferences? Who writes literature advocating murder, etc? (

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