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by ece 9y ago
Violence doesn't work for a political agenda. It never has. I am distinguishing between the historically offensive violent ideologies of nazis and racists, with the historically reactionary use of violence-as-a-tactic for antifa and bl
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by ece 9y ago
Overall, I feel like with the success of Go and Kotlin, having an easy to learn language definitely wins. Faster runtime speed might be a bigger 'market' than wanting fast compile times, which matters if you have a large enough co
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by ece 9y ago
Violence in defense is also not the same as violence in offense. Defending yourself or your group is the right thing to do, but you can overreact and be counterproductive to your goals. Fascism and racism have no qualms about using offensiv
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by ece 9y ago
Scala has scala-native: https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native Any myriad of FP (scalaz, cats), concurrency libraries (rx, akka) scastie: https://scastie.scala-lang.org/ scala.js: https:/&#
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by ece 9y ago
The use of violence as a tactic while wrong isn't the same as violence-dependent ideologies like fascism and racism. Both should be opposed in effective ways. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/opinion&#x
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by ece 9y ago
Being able to write asynchronous (multi-threaded or not) code so easily using FP is most definitely not a pitfall. Even in the most simple multi-threaded imperative programs, no compiler or hardware will give you almost any sort ordering gu
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by ece 9y ago
There is a point between a peaceful environmental or justice or equality protest and something as inherently violent as fascism or racism which was the mix in Charlottesville. Historically, fascism has always had an aspect of violence, and
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by ece 9y ago
Which part? I think even John Carmack in the video talked about the upfront thinking required for FP. If every CS student learned category and type theory like they learn complexity theory; and FP compilers could optimize type classes and a
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by ece 9y ago
It can only never happen if you use a lock correctly. In separate threads, this can absolutely happen in imperative programming. As a reader-writer or dining philosopher problem will show, two actors can try to do the same thing at the same
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by ece 9y ago
I think the crux of his point is really between constantly having to update state in a mutable way (with a decent probability of starvation and possibly deadlock) vs. pure functions, immutability and the async FP architecture he talked abou
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by ece 9y ago
But one actor can always read the state of the other actor, and modify their actions accordingly. The state of each actor is immutable, so each action taken based on the state is sure to be conflict free. As opposed to imperative programmin
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by ece 9y ago
This is the wrong question to be asking, antifa and blackboc by definition only show up at fascist and racist rallies. This is what this statement is about: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/nyregion/acl
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by ece 9y ago
He talked about a whole FP-powered architecture to solve this.
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by ece 9y ago
I wonder about the present state of the functional projects he talks about and is currently working on. A bit old, but good video talking about FP and static typing from a veteran perspective. Would like to see a conversation between Sid Me
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by ece 9y ago
Context: So the ACLU of VA filed against having the rally moved to a park away from downtown Charlottesville, and the Judge agreed going against the City. Yeah, this probably wasn't the best call in retrospect. Something other ACLU cha
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by ece 9y ago
Or they are just making their position clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action Trump is being sued for inciting violence as well: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_polit
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by ece 9y ago
I also want to mention there were probably specific reasons why the vote was so close in these states. Namely lead in the water in Flint MI, and Scott Walker ending collective bargaining in WI. PA vote is probably most reflective of the dec
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by ece 9y ago
Here are the results for MI, PA, and WI: https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/michigan https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/wisconsin https://www.nytimes.com/e
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by ece 9y ago
I am not sure how to help with your perceptions of campaigns and candidates, but their likely policies and cabinet appointments were there for anyone to see. Trump institutionalizing xenophobia is a degree of difference that is hard for me
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by ece 9y ago
Yes by definition, and I did define it as a presidential election flipping because of 3rd party voters in a handful of swing states. You're ignoring that Trump on the ballot meant any Libertarian was going to get a bump. Any other repu
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by ece 9y ago
By definition they helped Trump more in WI, MI and PA. Where MI, PA, and WI would have put Clinton over 270. Have there been any cases where Republicans would have won the presidency but 3rd parties were spoilers in a handful of states? I d
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by ece 9y ago
States handing out their electors according to vote would make the system non-racist.
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by ece 9y ago
This is the very definition of idealism and being naive about how much your vote matters, when you should give a thought to your 2nd preference and be pragmatic if you are in a non-safe state for your 2nd preference. Do vote trading with so
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by ece 9y ago
It mostly is if you lookup the definition of spoiler. Gary Johnson and Independent voters did also receive more votes than the difference between Trump and Hillary in MI, PA, and WI.
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by ece 9y ago
It's purpose was to have electors cast nationwide votes before mass transportation existed. In it's current form, it is completely a left over from a racist past. http://www.salon.com/2016/12/15/the-
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by ece 9y ago
People should be vote trading if they're in a non safe state. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/opinion/anti-trump-republ... No excuse to not do it until the electoral college is abolished.
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by ece 9y ago
I'm not shaming the fact that they voted, I'm shaming who they voted for. You aren't a responsible voter if you're not up to accepting responsibility for your vote. If you voted for Trump, hope he's making you happy
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by ece 9y ago
Seriously, downvoted for pointing out legitimate fact and reference to pragmatism?
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by ece 9y ago
Trump won because in MI, PA, and WI, Jill Stein received more votes than the difference between Trump and Hillary. 3rd party candidates in FL in 2000 and MI, PA, and WI in 2016 were the spoilers for the whole nation. Don't be an ideali
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by ece 9y ago
So, as a motive, one possibility could be the DNC orchestrated the DNC leaks to blunt the effect of trickling podesta/wikileaks emails if it was somehow an insider. Why become the news during a campaign where every moment Trump spoke h

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