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by damnyou 7y ago
You're not a huge fan of mass immigration if you're not a huge fan of mediocre immigrants. I'm not just saying this to be facetious. There's a huge pressure on members of any marginalized group (women, immigrants, LGBTQ)
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by damnyou 7y ago
It's very common for racism to be replaced by slightly less terrible racism! The most obvious example is how slavery was replaced by Jim Crow laws, segregation, and later the prison system.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Yes, that's what I mean by racist intent. Turned out some of the actions done with racist intent (focus on family-based immigration) backfired, while others (per-country limits) worked out perfectly.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Yes, states do all sorts of awful immoral things. But blanket punishments go against the post-war consensus regarding fundamental human rights. Not comparing the backlogs to Japanese internment, but if you look up the history of immigration
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by damnyou 7y ago
As a society we decided a long time ago that blanket punishments based on country of origin are immoral.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Thanks for talking about this seriously. > most HN users on all sides would. Such a rift would kill the community. What good would that do? Who are you excluding today with your actions? How do you know it would kill the community? I act
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by damnyou 7y ago
I want to understand this fully. You care more about me pointing out the obvious political context we live in than about the person downthread literally comparing being gay to pedophilia. Will you, in your capacity as a moderator for one of
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by damnyou 7y ago
Why only in their spare time?
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by damnyou 7y ago
Or maybe the intellectual capacity required to do well in tech also makes it more likely one would recognize instances of social injustice. It's just pattern matching after all.
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by damnyou 7y ago
"Apolitical" means no speech or actions to change the status quo. That is fine if and only if the status quo is fine.
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by damnyou 7y ago
The fundamental problem of tech companies is that they need to keep two groups of people happy: whoever is in power, which is the bigoted right at the moment, and employees, who are generally not bigoted so on the American political spectru
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by damnyou 7y ago
It's called position-taking and it's the most important (in terms of consequences) part of politics.
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by damnyou 7y ago
A lot of this depends on how evenly people suffering are distributed through society. One reason queer rights caught on so quickly is that LGBTQ people are evenly distributed across racial, ethnic and class boundaries. A rich white kid is e
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by damnyou 7y ago
The thing that distinguishes human brains from computers is that the software one runs (or is forced to run by circumstance) causes the hardware to change over time.
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by damnyou 7y ago
The discussion is about a Windows build node — you can't even run MacOS on typical datacenter hardware! These are just the incentives that capitalism creates. Microsoft's abusive ad practices, Apple's abusive hardware lock in
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by damnyou 7y ago
A great craft recognizes how important good tools are.
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by damnyou 7y ago
They would hopefully have realized that Rust is a much better language than C++ and not taken that attitude.
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by damnyou 7y ago
There is no such thing as a bad programmer, only bad tooling. C++ is bad tooling.
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by damnyou 7y ago
And not the same as the Rust ecosystem today.
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by damnyou 7y ago
You still have to deal with both the #1 and #2 worst ideas in computer science — nullability and inheritance.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Well, this sort of meta-decentralization applies to all currencies including Libra. I think you can either say that no currencies are decentralized or that all currencies are. In practice any currency gives up some axes of decentralization.
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by damnyou 7y ago
That's not my definition of decentralization, sorry. Censorship resistance is but one of many necessary requirements for me. Another requirement is that no single entity should be able to mine more than a small percentage of coins. A t
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by damnyou 7y ago
I assert with exactly as much evidence as you (zero) that it is the extraordinary claim. Show me a so-called "decentralized" coin that is designed to not just be dominated by a handful of miners. It's a natural consequence of
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by damnyou 7y ago
Thank you for recognizing that calling a cryptocurrency decentralized is an extraordinary claim.
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by damnyou 7y ago
I think that can be problematic in some cases (third party browsers on iOS) but video games are not that important.
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by damnyou 7y ago
Who are you to police me for saying that it's evil? You're welcome to your opinions, and I'm going to have mine. As you said, freedom of choice. Personally I think that modern fractional reserve banking and the Fed are great,
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by damnyou 7y ago
There are no decentralized cryptocurrencies. Like all other so-called "decentralized" coins, Bitcoin rewards economies of scale. That means that it tends towards centralization. Though of course Bitcoin has its own unique problems
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by damnyou 7y ago
If it's on the official site it doesn't violate the ToS by definition.
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by damnyou 7y ago
There are no decentralized cryptocurrencies. A decentralized cryptocurrency would not reward economies of scale the way Bitcoin does.
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by damnyou 7y ago
You're right, but at some point support will be dropped for the older Macs and an Apple proprietary security chip will be made mandatory. DRM will kill the Hackintosh dream. How sad.

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