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by deciplex 11y ago
His reply to this comment is totally out of line and I see he's been rightfully banned. However the comment you're replying to was just a poor attempt at humor, not a personal attack: > Explain Lisp to people not by treating
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by deciplex 11y ago
No.
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by deciplex 11y ago
It never ceases to amaze[1] me that whenever the left gets close to getting their voices heard in any broad sense, you start seeing these sort of polemics attacking them for not practicing absolute tolerance and freedom of speech whenever a
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Sugar is sugar You seem to be knowledgeable enough about nutrition in general to also know this isn't true. There are different kinds of sugar, so what are you getting at here?
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by deciplex 11y ago
The courts often suck, but the answer ought to be to fix the damn courts, rather than the default knee-jerk answer of American politics: "let the market decide".
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by deciplex 11y ago
> I'd love to see some independent org do an independent review of the strength/merit of the claims of each arbitration case, and whether there is still bias "accounting for that" If only we had some independently-fun
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by deciplex 11y ago
I'm not sure your observation is at odds with the assertion made here. We could sexualize mothers while keeping the taboo on mothers themselves being sexual i.e. desiring sex. In fact, the sexualization could even feed off that very ta
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by deciplex 11y ago
A two income home is like putting valuable data in a RAID-0 HDD array.
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by deciplex 11y ago
I think your reasoning is somewhat an artifact of bias in science fiction in the first place. You see presumption of FTL all over the place, and so it's depressing to consider that it is very likely a hard impossibility, because it rul
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by deciplex 11y ago
That book seems to be exploring in part the very concept I outlined in my post: that concentrated wealth will subvert a democracy.
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by deciplex 11y ago
The basic idea of how we do democracy is more-or-less sound. Democracy is pretty robust to different implementations e.g. federal democracy, parliamentary democracy, etc. If democracy has an Achilles's heel it is probably concentration
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by deciplex 11y ago
xpost from the other thread because I'd welcome any insight on this: What confuses the hell out of me regarding the TPP - and maybe it's just because I'm in the HN/Reddit echo chamber on this - but if the TPP is so damn
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by deciplex 11y ago
What confuses the hell out of me regarding the TPP - and maybe it's just because I'm in the HN/Reddit echo chamber on this - but if the TPP is so damn important to reigning in China in the 21st century or whatever, then why
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by deciplex 11y ago
> So you don't care that all of humanity is living objectively better now vs. the rest of history. You just care that some people are filthy rich and you don't like them one bit. Sort of, yes. But my issue with this is not that
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by deciplex 11y ago
One nice thing about having such outsized concentration of wealth is that once the rest of us get totally fed up with this shit, it is much easier to confiscate.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Not a whit.
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by deciplex 11y ago
If nobody really uses the apps eventually the money runs out. Let us know when the US government isn't spending hundreds of billions each year on mil-ind boondoggles.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Exactly - the work they're doing might be technically complex, but from the point of view of most of the rest of the economy, they may as well be chasing tumbleweeds.
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by deciplex 11y ago
If that's all it takes then we may as well push for a global state.
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by deciplex 11y ago
> ... and in what sense is "the sun is the center of the universe" not completely wrong? In the sense that you can make a lot of really accurate predictions about the motion of the planets, with a heliocentric model. For that m
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by deciplex 11y ago
Could be, but fwiw for a little over two of those years I had a full beard, long hair, looking pretty rough, etc etc. And, as I mentioned, even times when the cops could and probably should have given me a hard time, they did not. wrt mov
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by deciplex 11y ago
Gaijin is not an abbreviated form of gaikokujin, and neither term is really a slur. There aren't a lot of words in Japanese that are unambiguously slurs, like there are in English. That said, there are words that, when used, are used i
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by deciplex 11y ago
I've been here for thirteen years and have never had trouble with cops. Not once been stopped apropos of nothing and asked for ID, inspected for whatever, etc. If anything, I've been in a few situations where the cops should hav
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by deciplex 11y ago
If banks often don't bother with it I don't see why anyone else should have to :-)
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by deciplex 11y ago
Yes, and some people commit suicide over bullying, who might have been saved had they been encouraged to fight back a bit and punch some asshole in the face. Physically fighting back does not make bullying okay, but it might be the best a
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by deciplex 11y ago
Japanese business suits are made of very thin material and actually wear pretty well in the summer. You're probably right that they don't wear as well as traditional dress, but it's not nearly as bad as you're probably t
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by deciplex 11y ago
> At least these protestors actually used tech to "disrupt" something, unlike the startups which use the term as doublethink. Yeah, they disrupted a totally harmless event put on by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the J
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by deciplex 11y ago
> I've never seen it defined in a way that doesn't seem ripe for this kind of abuse. That's because any definition of it is ripe for abuse, because out of a very specific context it's a dumb idea with no basis in fa
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by deciplex 11y ago
I don't know if you're serious.
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by deciplex 11y ago
You'd have to fuck up pretty hard on your taxes to ruin your life the way being caught with certain drugs can do. I'm not sure any drug offense can compare to a parking ticket. Legalization itself is partly a moral issue, as the s

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