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by foldr 9mo ago
It’s a hand axe, Mark, not a felling axe.
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by foldr 9mo ago
That’s per person, not per unit area, and the figure for London is incorrect as per any information I could find.
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by foldr 9mo ago
> The code is not thread-safe as, if multiple threads attempt to use this lock, we could read invalid values of isLocked (in theory, and on a CPU where tearing could happen on its word size). The issue isn’t just tearing but also memory
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by foldr 9mo ago
The great thing about London is that it has diversity without segregation. So no, you won’t find a huge area of town where almost everyone is of the same ethnicity, but the diversity is still there. Race isn’t the only index. A higher perce
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by foldr 9mo ago
>the meaning of multi-words isn't the result of structure or word order Surely the 'word order' part must be a mistake here? Clearly word order influences the interpretation of sequences of English words. As for structure,
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by foldr 9mo ago
Hmm? These are mostly news reports of one person calling another person a fascist. Notably, one of the people doing the calling is Donald Trump! >Last week, after being found guilty of falsifying business records, former President Donald
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by foldr 9mo ago
Wage stagnation can happen without any kind of deliberate conspiracy.
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by foldr 9mo ago
I think the issue there is just that people in the UK have less immediate cause to protest than people living under the Iranian regime. The idea that British people are more afraid of their police than Iranians seems a bit wacky.
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by foldr 9mo ago
Surely you mean wage suppression (as in e.g. the unlawful agreement between Apple and Google).
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by foldr 9mo ago
Immigration is handled at a national level.
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by foldr 9mo ago
The point is that we are both basing our point of view on our accumulated experience of reading HN and then looking for examples to illustrate that point of view. It's a misreading of the discourse to complain that these examples aren&
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by foldr 9mo ago
You're really comparing these to the following headline? > The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management All of your examples focus on specific events and factual claims, not sweeping doom and gloom claims about the
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by foldr 9mo ago
I doubt you can point me to a recent story about US politics that spent four hours on the front page and had a similarly inflammatory headline. It would be as if this discussion were occurring under the headline "ICE thugs murder secon
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by foldr 9mo ago
There's more overall discussion of US politics for sure, but it tends to occur tangentially (as articles about US politics are pretty reliably flagged). To give a concrete example, the following article was not flagged and got quite a
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by foldr 9mo ago
>multiword chunks challenge the traditional separation between lexicon and grammar associated with generativist accounts This is just silly (the paper, not your comment). Do these folks really think they're the first people to think
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by foldr 9mo ago
The discussion on this thread has actually been fine, apart from one account that has been all over the place repeating absolute nonsense (consistent with their overall recent post history on political topics). Most of their posts have alre
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by foldr 9mo ago
"We haven't quite decided yet whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape."
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by foldr 9mo ago
C++ doesn’t really have an ownership system. You can use certain language features to implement certain kinds of ownership discipline, but the language itself doesn’t really have an opinion on who should own what. For example, the article t
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by foldr 9mo ago
All fair points. What I’m saying is that it’s no longer obvious that limited ‘censorship’ of hate speech and disinformation creates a greater danger than its objects. You’re making a positive argument based on real world facts that it is
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by foldr 9mo ago
It depends on how you feel about the current US administration. It’s there in significant part because of what I’d regard as disinformation and hate speech. It seems pretty dangerous to me, and there are historical parallels for that danger
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by foldr 9mo ago
Ok, maybe 'empirically' was a bit pompous. What I meant is, if you're saying that X is more dangerous than Y, then that's not a pure statement of principle, it's a claim about the real world. Right now, we're s
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by foldr 9mo ago
> If your reaction to "hate speech" is to get the government to remove the speaker from the internet, what you're doing is more dangerous, in the long run, than the speech you don't like. My natural sympathies lie wit
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by foldr 9mo ago
Certainly two engines would provide enough power in all scenarios, including take off. That’s a fundamental safety requirement that any airliner meets.
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by foldr 9mo ago
Err, your claim is that Renee Good was about to go on a Carmageddon-style killing spree and the ICE agent was concerned not for his own safety but for the safety of the general public? There are three key problems with this analysis: 1) It
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by foldr 9mo ago
You are conceding the point that it is not in fact normal in other parts of the world for the police to shoot the driver as a means of avoiding being hit by the car. Doing so does not even make sense from a practical point of view. The car
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by foldr 9mo ago
Additional examples of people assaulting British police officers using cars and not being shot.
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by foldr 9mo ago
That was an aside because I think inaccurate summaries of what happened in the videos should always be corrected, however bad MAGA want to post truth this. But the question we were discussing was whether or not it was normal in other countr
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by foldr 9mo ago
They’re arrested and charged with appropriate offenses, e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyg3j2kvzdo.amp Renee Nicole wasn’t driving a car at anyone, but regardless, it is stupid to shoot someone who’s dr
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by foldr 9mo ago
A lot of people are looking for fights. In saner countries the police are trained to deescalate situations like that, not go around picking fights with anyone who’s looking for one.
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by foldr 9mo ago
> I find it hard to believe that any law enforcement agents anywhere would tolerate these actions without similar response. It’s interesting that that’s your perception. In a lot to countries it’s very rare for the police to kill anyone

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