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by farright 10y ago
The contempt stems from political correctness. Political correctness isn't some superficial outrage, it's the genuine belief that people who don't hold progressive beliefs are bad people who need to be punished. Trump can&#
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by farright 10y ago
When you said "I'd probably punch the dude in the mouth if I had to deal with him and his attitude in person." I assumed you were including his political views. I hadn't accounted for you just being a generally violent a
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by farright 10y ago
The fact the so many progressive's response is to want to "punch the dude in the mouth" is exactly the kind of oppresive political correctness Trump voters are rebelling against. These scenes probably garnered even more suppo
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by farright 10y ago
It's a number of things: Going against political correctness by voicing controversial but popular views on immigration and Islam. Populist economics in a recession after two terms of Obama. And of course a yuuuge charisma.
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by farright 10y ago
Just my opinion, but Theranos looked like it wanted to combine (1) new technology to perform tests with less blood, and using pin pricks instead of blood from the vein and (2) business process improvements to streamline collection of blood
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by farright 10y ago
Is it just a coincidence that this comes right at the end of Obamas tenure?
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by farright 10y ago
I'm honestly not seeing an relation there. The problem is that both follow a very non-uniform pattern and so it's hard to even define what a "correlation" would look like.
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by farright 10y ago
Like incompressible fluids, electricity is hard to reason about because we work in a limit that does not obey local causality. The entire system must be solved simultaneously, and there is not a well defined "input" or "outpu
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by farright 10y ago
I've never used Julia but it reminds me of Go in that it attempts to replace Frankenstein systems that mix low level languages and high level languages/scripts, with a single modern, high level language with sufficient low level f
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by farright 10y ago
While we're on the subject of voter intimidation, there has been constant intimidation of Trump supporters throughout this whole campaign[0]. And at the same time, Democrats had a deliberate campaign to incite Trump supporters to viol
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by farright 10y ago
I think this is where were supposed to invoke the intersectionality fairy.
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by farright 10y ago
Even though the question might imply that illegal immigrants should vote, Obama's answer certainly doesn't. I've seen the fully answer and his answer is along the lines of "Children of illegal immigrants who are born in
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by farright 10y ago
Question: if other groups are so proud of rejecting people in tech, why should people in tech be expected to be welcoming towards outsiders. The way I see it, if you get to have your cool hip location for yourself, we should get to have ou
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by farright 10y ago
The problem is people are taught from an early age that it's good to be an activist which means to focus on convincing people of a certain policy or viewpoint, instead of stating one's own reasoning. You'll often see &quot
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by farright 10y ago
As a woman in tech, I would feel uncomfortable using a format named after a famous rapist.
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by farright 10y ago
Politics of debt explains everything if you only care about the short term business cycle. In terms of the business cycle, the author has a point. The bond mark has been deemed "too big too fail" and so creditors will always ge
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by farright 10y ago
The problem is Chomsky claims that the "professional and scientific elite" are compromised by their role in society, and end up taking up self-serving political views that seek to preserve this role. So the natural question is wh
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by farright 10y ago
Chomsky has interesting ideas whether you fully agree or not. On language, human language has intricate rules that we can't fully explain in terms of the underlying neurobiology. But Chomsky's assertion that this implies some sor
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by farright 10y ago
And be confident! Interviewers love confidence.
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by farright 10y ago
You're assuming that startups are hiring people who would otherwise be top devs at big companies. I see no reason to think this. Not all developers are equally good at their job, and if we see some getting paid effectively much more t
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by farright 10y ago
Same goes for throwing around terms like "ignorance". You need to make an actual argument. Also not a throwaway, I'm here to stay. And please stop with the rude comments[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by farright 10y ago
bingo. Just like with the white working class, it's not particularly helpful to tell people "the system will never give you a break" if that isn't actually true. For every fashionable article on how privilege perpetuate
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by farright 10y ago
You're completely missing my point. Did you read the whole post or just the first sentence? My point was that people shouldn't be punished for saying reasonable things, but currently they are.
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by farright 10y ago
FTL is a big problem for hard sci fi. What we know about the physical world is amazing and beautiful, and it's hard to see novels butcher it by adding in FTL. On the other hand, without FTL the theme of every novel becomes "I tr
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by farright 10y ago
The polls show that the tactic of defining things you disagree with to be "racism, mysoginy, and general hate speech" isn't working.
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by farright 10y ago
The fact that people would face "consequeces" for making these political statements is exactly why Trump has been so popular. People are afraid to say even innocent or true things because those will result them being branded as &q