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by danharaj 8y ago
That's not what populism is. Populism is when an elite claims to speak and act on behalf of the people without real input from them.
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by danharaj 8y ago
The only purpose of my example was to show that in general the implication that ease of use reduces to convenience is false. I used an obvious counterexample . In summary, to imply that I think your assertion that it's about con
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by danharaj 8y ago
> This conversation isn't about equal access. You're right. It's about workers rights. I'm telling you that I think construing the ability of workers to effectively organize as a convenience is also an insulting sta
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by danharaj 8y ago
You know, unless the difficulty of doing without it makes it infeasible . Mobility impaired people lobbied for curb cutouts waybackwhen because it would make it easier to use sidewalks. I think that situation obviously shouldn't be
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by danharaj 8y ago
Because then they wouldn't be SWATting people then, they would, idk, order 10 pizzas to the place. Does this really need to be asked?
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by danharaj 8y ago
The author's point is that you wouldn't expect to see quantum gravity at any scale we could feasibly probe for the next few centuries. If one can't come up with a theoretical justification for such an anomaly then perhaps tha
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by danharaj 8y ago
I'm pretty sure Plato had been complaining about this stuff. I suppose we didn't use to have those problens before civilization became a thing.
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by danharaj 8y ago
It's already the case that you can ascribe any quality to any group by fiat and so therefore any criteria for being intolerant can be abused in the way that you say. There is nothing you can do to preclude dishonesty and sophistry.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Determining the etiology of a problem sounds exactly like taking responsibility. I think you wrote your post with a mean-spirited attitude.
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by danharaj 8y ago
The plank in your eye.
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by danharaj 8y ago
> Hmmm. Time magazine, the morning newspapers and CBS/ABC/NBC evening news was much more middle of the road than today's Drudge/Huffpost, CNN/Fox and google/reddit (and HN) type ideological bubbles. More str
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by danharaj 8y ago
Those are ingredients you listed. I'm talking about prepared meals. Most vegan restaurants that aren't Indian around here use such ingredients to imitate non vegan dishes.
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by danharaj 8y ago
I don't know! If I knew then I wouldn't be wondering about the possibility.
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by danharaj 8y ago
I'm neither but I have been vegetarian for extended periods of time. When I've lapsed out of vegetarianism it's been because it's easier for me to throw together a satisfying meal with meat. If I take about twice as long
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by danharaj 8y ago
Think of the difference between Indian vegetarian food vs. tofurkey, imitation bacon, etc. There are vegetarian cultures that have refined their cuisine over thousands of years to be nutritionally adequate and delicious. Western vegan food
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by danharaj 8y ago
When I cook, I cook around my choice of meat. If I'm making something vegetarian I have a completely different mindset. Compare the use of vegetables in American cuisine versus vegetarian Indian cuisine.
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by danharaj 8y ago
That's really cool. Although I wish there were more vegan food that didn't try to replicate non-vegan textures and flavors. Imitation can only be playing catch-up. The best vegan and vegetarian food does its own thing.
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by danharaj 8y ago
It's a sheaf! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheaf_(mathematics)
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by danharaj 8y ago
> but correctly indicated that government officials are not personally responsible for the costs of litigation, the tax payer is. Literally not the case. I like how you said I misinterpreted the words of the original post but then repeat
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by danharaj 8y ago
That is literally not the case. Not legally, not morally, not in any reasonable sense except in a certain vein of political rhetoric which has no basis in reality. The government has no fiduciary duty to you or any other citizen or any tax
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by danharaj 8y ago
That's not what I'm talking about. The government doesn't spend other peoples' money. It spends its own money. Tax revenue is money people owe to the government. Once the government has it, that money is the governm
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by danharaj 8y ago
> they are playing this cruel game with other people's money. This meme about taxes needs to die.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Are you a cancer researcher?
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by danharaj 8y ago
> when will developers put their weight on the scale? In my experience, amongst software developers, contempt for politics is common and the politics that is most popular tends to be hyper-individualistic and unacquainted with the idea o
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by danharaj 8y ago
No, not really. It's still rather vague to me. Could you give me a concrete example?
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by danharaj 8y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by danharaj 8y ago
There's nothing wrong with bacon and eggs. A vegetable would be nice tho.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Wait, did you read her actual scholarship, or the summary of it given in a... New Yorker article? The pompous middlebrow dismissal strikes again. In this moment I am euphoric.
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by danharaj 8y ago
It's a pain in the ass to write functional code in python because the syntax is not optimized for it. A functional programming language makes lambda and (partial) application as cheap as possible, which Python does not.
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by danharaj 8y ago
How is your anecdote at all pertinent?

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