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by danharaj 6y ago
Serverless is just zoomer Common Gateway Interface for venture capitalists
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by danharaj 6y ago
Everyone is aware of the pedantic point you're trying to make and understood what that poster was trying to do.
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by danharaj 6y ago
Are you doing an early 2000's obtuse edgy teen bit? Quarantine got you bored?
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by danharaj 6y ago
> I don't see any issue with the usage. You refuse to see any issue with the usage.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Sure. Shitty politics in fiction still flies.
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by danharaj 7y ago
> Or would it strike you as pathetic attempt of me shoehorning politics into my work? We're talking about William Fucking Gibson here. Next you'll tell me you hate it when Ursula Leguin 'shoehorned politics' into her
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by danharaj 7y ago
That's a completely different game, then.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Why did Nature publish a proof that is widely considered to be fatally flawed, i.e. not a proof? https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11709 How did the Bogdanoff affair happen? The fact that bullshit i
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by danharaj 7y ago
"Paraconsistent logic" by no means points out any particular logic: There are a lot of logics that are called paraconsistent because they have models refuting ex falso. But I've yet to see one that was useful for anything or
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by danharaj 7y ago
I'm not even pomo fam I just respect things I don't understand until I give them a fair shake.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Ok, let's go back. “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who
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by danharaj 7y ago
> And this kind of idiotic thinking leads to a broken society where we are conditioned from childhood to pretend that all cultures are equal and that all differences are purely social constructions. You don't read the thinkers you a
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by danharaj 7y ago
This piece of writing assumes a very well read background on the authors it is discussing and I don't think it does anything but bait the hackernews middlebrow dismissal of postmodern thinkers.
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by danharaj 7y ago
> IMHO this is exactly why a lot of modern liberals are forced to try to de-platform neo-fascists and the like: they are unable to argue against them. Fascists don't give a shit that you think you owned them in a debate. A fist does
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by danharaj 7y ago
It's as if there's three classes of people involved in economic production, workers, managers, and owners. hmm i'll have to think about that some more. It really hits the marks.
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by danharaj 7y ago
All things considered it is working out pretty well.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Over the past 40 years the West has fallen into a deep capitalist realism which completely erases the contingent nature of our economic system. Debt and property are not basic facts of reality, they require stable, predictable economic rela
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by danharaj 7y ago
> * All logic is really just linear logic. Obviously it's all really just tensorial logic :^)
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by danharaj 7y ago
I know that you know this is a stupid point that can only be reached by reading Marx in the most obtuse way possible.
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by danharaj 7y ago
The capital that most Americans "own" is managed by a very small class of capital managers at elite financial institutions. The point is, who controls the levers of power, and whose interest are they operating them in? The distinc
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by danharaj 7y ago
I don't even know how this is controversial, and yet here we are. You said the M x word, I guess.
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by danharaj 7y ago
The US spread is a few weeks behind the other countries. People are projecting based on incubation time and mitigation response what will happen. The US growth rate is on track to make everyone else look peachy keen.
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by danharaj 7y ago
My position is based on the unpredictability of exponential phenomena and the fact that the healthcare system in rural areas has been in the process of being hollowed out for quite some time. The incubation period of COVID-19 (estimated med
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by danharaj 7y ago
Y'all need to understand what an exponential function looks like.
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by danharaj 7y ago
If I use the words that I think are appropriate for the obstinate middlebrow skepticism of HN in the face of an uncontrolled pandemic, I get flagged :^)
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by danharaj 7y ago
This is misguided. The capacity of the healthcare system in rural areas will be even easier to overwhelm.
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by danharaj 7y ago
When it's good we call it self-interest. When it's bad we call it cronyism. We define capitalism in terms of markets because we would rather not discuss the more fundamental question of who owns what. When capitalism produces spec
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by danharaj 7y ago
You think he went to lecture in Hanoi in the middle of the Vietnam war for shiggles?
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by danharaj 7y ago
There is evidence that hunter gatherers would take care of extremely disabled people. What do you mean by "didn't fit into the role assigned by their tribe"? What are some references on the body of knowledge you are confident
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by danharaj 7y ago
Mitigations in the US are taking too long. A lot of people are going to die.

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