ianleeclark

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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> alt-right? Would that not be pretty neo-nazi and white supremacy esque? I don't really want to engage in the shit-slinging that this thread will inevitably turn into/has turned into, but: alt-right, by many accounts, is a res
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> `work_mem` is the amount of memory a connection has to, you know, do work. It's the amount of memory a connection has to do work per sorting/hashing operation. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/runt
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> The traditional socialist call to “seize the means of production” has thus been updated to something closer to “subsidize my cost of living” — a less revolutionary ambition, perhaps, but one that is no less myopic. If the core messagin
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> In a free market, if employees wouldn't do their jobs, they'd all be fired and replaced with ones who would. We live in a market economy with farm and oil subsidies. People can point to the free market all they like as some a
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> They require that anyone who works there has to be a member of the union and if they don't like what's going on the entire union refuses to work and to allow anyone else to work. Good for them.
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> They are already incredibly overcompensated workers They work incredibly socially necessary jobs and they are able to bargain collectively to increase negotiation power, so they seem to be compensated fairly.
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
I feel like you're missing something in your historical awareness. Hint: it has something to do with the kapo comment and the comparison of places like Treblinka and Sobibor to an Amazon warehouse.
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> Become a warehouse-kapo so consumers in Germany can receive their packages! Some casual holocaust trivialization on a Wednesday.
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> Uh??? No it doesn't. There's a huge skill discrepancy between senior devs and junior devs. Most companies take the bet that they don't need to train juniors to seniors, they just need to get them to some minimum level of
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> I don't sense what is so conspiratorial about it. You're attempting to insert agency to account for natural repercussions of how we live our lives and the nearly 750k deaths we've already seen. That's what is conspi
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> I am entirely serious when I say that I believe it is designed This is entirely conspiratorial. Subscribers are subscribed to this not through some advertising campaign, but because they already believed those people deserved to die.
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> In this light, the cancellation of Milo Yiannopoulos who was invited by the College Republican club is much worse. This isn't how I remember it. Milo thrived off of these confrontations and being "cancelled," but what re
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> Obviously this is absurd Default seems a bit more absurd. Gotta keep the machine running one way or another.
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> It's a mantra at this point that polarization has gotten out of control, but one of the biggest effects it seems to have is this reverse-psychology effect I've long thought the best way of reaching 100% vaccination in the US
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
There's a fair bit of antagonism and peculiar beliefs from what I saw. Referring to HN as "mostly Marxist" is a prime example.
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> First, we used not to blaim anyone without a due process....before you take a stand and blaime Israel, instead maybe you should argue to send inspectors to examine if the article is true, maybe it is not Israel or this never happened,
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
You're missing the Israeli nuclear program, as well. > Nukes are too serious to leave to the supervision of a political mission of scientists. I don't care if a country has nukes. I'm much more afraid of what will happen t
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> Here's another way to frame the same info: At least someone tries to prevent a war and prevent bad actors from obtaining nuclear weapons. We used to have inspectors to do such a thing. Now we're just left with an incredibly c
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> So what is Israel likely to do when Iran has a working nuke? There's a big assumption in this statement. Hopefully stop attacking them if the assumption holds up.
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> While German politicians still ask for the internet to be printed for them. Just as a funny little tidbit here, I've been trying to gather documents to apply for my permanent residence here in Germany. When I got to one document p
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
If you do such a thing, then you need to start worrying about local labor laws, vacation time, healthcare in the US, sick leave, etc. The gig economy works by circumventing these things.
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
Cloudflare dropped the Nazis because they started to claim Cloudflare was agreeing with them. The value produced by hosting Nazis is pretty low which is why they have had issues ever since. If, however, they were a lucrative clientele, rest
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> Some of it is that, but engineers tend to be more pragmatic and willing to change their mind with new evidence Going solely off the assumption this is true, which I don't entirely believe, the fact of the matter is: this is still
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> Which goes to the very point of having hard discussions about these topics that we aren't having. A bunch of programmers kvetching on a forum doesn't do anything. It isn't politics, it won't solve any of these &quot
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
Seems you weren't in good standing.
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/how-afghanistans-pre... We did.
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> So I need to read all ~30,000 pages of Zizek before forming an opinion. By all means, form an opinion that the man and his book and a half that you went through aren't for you, but I just think it's deeply anti-intellectual t
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> How many of his ~70 books am I required to read before forming an opinion? I like to follow the rule that I only talk about things which I know about. I think it's a pretty good rule. So I personally wouldn't talk about an en
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> Zizek is a performer. Most definitely and I think he'd agree. > There's not a lot of substance in his many (is he at 100 yet?) books. Which books specifically of his are you speaking about? > It's ironic that someo
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
There's no reason to be such a dick and accuse someone whom you have zero knowledge of of being a Wikipedia warrior, coming to do an internet maoist campaign, or whatever it is what you think I'm doing. The rest of the world gets

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