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by dongslol 10y ago
No, everyone knows racism is obviously bad. What we're back to is having to prove that what the opponent is proposing actually constitutes racism. One argument I hear is that Islam is fundamentally incompatible with the West's val
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This works similarly to paradigms in science. Most of the time people don't actually define paradigms; it's implicit in the general experience of being a researcher. People similarly have a commonsense understanding of what hate,
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I'm talking here about the alt-right, e.g. Milo Yiannopoulos' crowd, who self-profess that this was partly why they voted for Trump. People for whom this election was largely cultural, and saw Trump as a "fuck you" to th
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by dongslol 10y ago
I agree with his stance on this, and I think Trump and his latest executive orders are awful, but I also think that at this point, "hatred," "bigotry," and "racism" should be excised from public discourse. The
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I suspect the motivation behind this website is the suspicion that he won't follow through on his promises, thus yielding an opportunity to discredit him.
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I'm impressed by the thought, care, and craftsmanship that went into this, and all the more so because it's such a seemingly mundane tool. A better bugtracker UX. What makes this a secretly interesting or important problem?
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by dongslol 10y ago
Profanity is about emotional honesty. Swearing implies anger. Replacing "that fucker beat up my friend everyday" with "that ill-intentioned person beat up my friend everyday" is emotionally inaccurate.
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Charisma / Power(paulgraham.com)
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To provide another view: I rarely had chores (other than generally to keep a basic level of cleanliness) and didn't get an allowance. My parents were divorced, so this kind of "family life" is pretty foreign to me, but I neve
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Lots of affluent people still raise kids badly. Being affluent is a necessary but not sufficient condition of what the author describes, and that seems to me the gap the article is trying to span.
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Everything you just said was true, but it's interesting that from the article, you thought anyone disagreed, or was implying otherwise.
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On engineering teams you don't want constant negotiation. The psychological chess that people play when they negotiate salary doesn't yield a better product. What you want is people collaborating dispassionately to always choose t
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Oops, I didn't know that!
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That's a very interesting insight, but isn't it also true that Newton decidedly left theology out of calculus and mechanics? What distinguished his three laws was that he chose not to explain, for example, the motion of something
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by dongslol 10y ago
I think you are agreeing with the author, who is trying here to refute the misconception that Newton was simultaneously a brilliant, grounded, impartial truth seeker who discovered physics and a batshit conspiracist who dabbled in alchemy a
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The problem with crowdfunding (he says) is not that it doesn't work for companies, who'd love if it worked, but that users can't make independent judgments. They're overwhelmed with too many choices, and revert to the ju
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by dongslol 10y ago
You don't even need an actual website. I just type 1.2.3.4 and it always redirects fine for me.
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Oh, oops, sorry!
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He didn't say he didn't.
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Christopher Hitchens also thought invading Iraq was a good idea.
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As a college dropout, I have nowhere to go but the Bay Area, where many startups don't care much about credentials. Everywhere else does.
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So, do you actually see something wrong with/missing from their data?
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Are you the guy I overheard on the train today repeating the phrase "...our Java resource says..." during his phone conversation?
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by dongslol 10y ago
I find it completely unbearable to use React with plain JS. I have to use at least Coffeescript and if possible Livescript or Clojurescript. Vanilla JS is just too clunky. The problem with JS is there are too many patterns in the code, like
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by dongslol 10y ago
I always found the "coder monkey" idea amusing. Programmers are the ones who have the ideas. Your intuition has to be fed data, and the best source of data about what programming can accomplish is having programmed. When I mee
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by dongslol 10y ago
I've thought of using one of those to map a parenthesis to each foot, for Lisp.