danharaj

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1. 1861.▲
   The liberal response to right-wing militias; an abolitionist’s perspective(abolitionistdynamite.wordpress.com)

   4 points by danharaj 11y ago|3 comments
2. 1862.▲
   by danharaj 11y ago

   Can't be the only one who omits subject and copula in informal English communication..
3. 1863.▲
   by danharaj 11y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality Think about how many concepts are social fictions that everyone takes for granted as real. Hyperreality is already here in more subtle ways.
4. 1864.▲
   by danharaj 11y ago

   > I think the expectation that "people should be good to me just because I was born" lies at the root of much distress. Reality can be harsh: if you don't have anything to offer them, most people don't care much about
5. 1865.▲
   by danharaj 11y ago

   s/underfunded/misfunded Money that is wasted may as well never have been used.
6. 1866.▲
   by danharaj 11y ago

   I think snark is appropriate. If you asked the children what they want, you would get accurate answers. If you asked the teachers what the children need, you would get accurate answers. Instead, we ask (and get answers even if we don't
7. 1867.▲
   by danharaj 11y ago

   > We think of this as a problem only of the urban and suburban elite, but in traveling the country to report on this issue, I have seen that this stress has a powerful effect on children across the socioeconomic spectrum. I didn't r
8. 1868.▲
   by danharaj 11y ago

   Well, gee, I don't know! What part of "sit in this room for 8 hours a day until we cut the umbilical cord, then get a job and contribute to society so that you can afford to live and maybe retire one day. because otherwise you are
9. 1869.▲
   by danharaj 11y ago

   Do you think no labor can occur unless someone owns its product? I mean, that's the implicit conclusion of bourgeois ideology, but it's ridiculous when made explicit.
10. 1870.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    We don't need startups. The only reason why we "need" startups is because you can't get anything done in this society unless the property owners and capital holders get the majority of the profit. I bet a lot of people p
11. 1871.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    > However, through the author's experience; it seems that in a strange way Lyric is gifted with having the ability to realize different perspectives, which is something that some people can't seem to do. It's a skill that
12. 1872.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    The article mentions that they heavily relied on open source software. Ever developer that contributes to open source enabled their success directly or indirectly. It's worth pondering.
13. 1873.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    As a heavy user of Haskell professionally and personally, I think you are a great person if you write a binding to a C library. Any C library. So long as you do a reasonably thorough job. Covering the entire surface area of the library is f
14. 1874.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    That was an entertaining read. The comments are worth it as brief glimpses into the wild west of consumer chemicals. I'm glad most of the toxic exotic compounds in my life are safely held within a laptop's plastic casing.
15. 1875.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    There was a time when heart attack symptoms in women were misunderstood, too. It seems to be a recurring pattern in medicine.
16. 1876.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    Mathematical physics is important even if it doesn't produce theories that have direct relevance to current unexplained phenomena. String theory has been an enormous contribution to what we know of the mathematical structure of quantum
17. 1877.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1490160/ Apparently ~2.7% as measured by this study in 2005. Surprised I could not find department of labor statistics on the question. I would say that it is very
18. 1878.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    Idk what to tell you other than that you should check the definitions. A unary function is a special case of a binary relation and in general an n-ary function is a special case of a n+1-ary relation. Edit - Maybe this clarifies it: When we
19. 1879.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    > It's human nature to want to control things I don't think that's justified. I don't even know what it means. Am I ceding control to a computer when I use software? I love using software to take things out of my cont
20. 1880.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    > Examples of binary relations are binary operations (like +,–,⋅,/) on N,Z,Q,R,C,Rn, … etc. (where defined), since functions are special cases of relations, or, the order relations <,≤,>,≥ on R, for instance. A function of two
21. 1881.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    I didn't say rent seeking only occurs in capitalist systems, only that it is a consequence of the premises.
22. 1882.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    That is a laughable definition. Let's just define our favorite economic system as "the system where the best things happen". Capitalism is merely a kind of economic system where the means of production are controlled privatel
23. 1883.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    If unions could compete with each other for workers' influence they would behave better within the market economy. They used to. It was a boon for businesses to be able to make their shops single-union.
24. 1884.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    Neuroscientists also believe that all mental behavior can be correlated with physical processes, but you will not see this belief justified every time it is brought up. In research level geometry you will not see the definition of manifold
25. 1885.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    I think you're being overzealous. Literally all of one's actions are predicated on the environment one is in, and we live in a society where the less money one has the fewer options one has. Someone with your extreme attitude is j
26. 1886.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    I think it's really gross to consider anyone an investment, a piece of 'human capital'. I read a book recently by Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos . It's about how modern ideology tries to redefine human beings in this wa
27. 1887.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    I really don't think any of those were silent takeovers.
28. 1888.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    I was rejected for grad school after submitting half-hearted applications and now work as a fullstack Haskell developer. I didn't even know I would find it as satisfying as research.
29. 1889.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    "Science fiction" is also an artificial ghetto that historically was used to segregate "science fiction" from "literary fiction". It's funny to see the same process being repeated.
30. 1890.▲
    by danharaj 11y ago

    The New York Metro Area might be a helpful model of regional cooperation. It has its own growth problems but the New York Metropolitan Area is home to 20.1 million people as opposed to the 7 million who live in the Bay Area and involves gov