ianleeclark

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by ianleeclark 6y ago
Seems like a whole lot of accidents are happening.
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The false statement can't stand alone, it's always under a specific historical context.
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> IEx also has been improved to show the documentation for Erlang modules directly from your Elixir terminal. This is a really nice change for those of us who straddle both languages. I've done a fair bit of work with both ets and t
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> You're basically saying 'my mob is right and that's that'. No, I'm saying that it's perfectly fine to critique any system that wields power. Please read my message again. It says so directly. > The comm
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> Accepting profitable contracts from government agencies shouldn't be seen as political. There's probably an argument to be made that the profit motive has the ability to strip all other political motivations from a decision,
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> There has to be deference to legal or legitimized entities or this will not end well. You'd be surprised just exactly what you can legitimize. No entity, legal or otherwise, inherently deserves deference.
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
How is invading China rational? America can't even bother to decouple financially. In what world is it rational that a country lets its allies commit genocide in Afrin and Yemen, yet boldly stands against someone else. Good luck invadi
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
Back when the news broke originally about these camps disappearing thousands of children at a time, separating families, and the rampant sexual abuse, we got to have the fun conversation of, "is it really a concentration camp?" I&
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> So now we believe that lawyers and judges act in good faith No. In fact, I specifically listed instances where they didn't.
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> At what point do you stop believing in titles society gives people such as Judge, Doctor, Lawyer The judicial system is, in effect, highly dependent upon good faith. This can be seen with parking tickets being paid by the wealthy or no
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> You are essentially arguing against “innocent until proven guilty” and implying it’s okay for a global corporation to take a public stance against a minor before his court case is even finished. Their platform, their rules. Vote with y
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
Read my post again. I'm not saying the Nazis didn't censor.
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> The Nazis themselves were censored before seizing power, and some say it helped radicalize them. This is ahistorical. The only "censorship," they faced before they were granted power were in response to an attempted coup. The
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> That's not the problem, the problem is that a Student should NOT be a Customer but a Student. Then OP shouldn't point to some amorphous blob of "marxists," just because they're an easy enemy.
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There's a bit of irony that, in response to a commoditization of education, your response is to blame "marxists." If anyone, blame marshall field because the customer definitely isn't always right.
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> A non trivial number of the protesters are advocating for complete elimination of the police though. This categorically isn't defunding police, this is police abolition, and getting them confused is likely why you think it's
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> The whole "defund the police" movement feels very much in line with the "Luxury beliefs" Why do you believe this? It seems to me that reinvesting budgets spent on surplus humvees on more/better school counselor
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> I can only imagine the world they live in You know, you can go and read why they advocate for that position. You can do more than just imagine--more than just imprinting your own biases onto their position. It's just lazy.
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> The easiest thing to do is to simply not take electronic devices with you anywhere in the world, otherwise there is a slight risk of someone wanting to understand the information contained within it. I think people seriously misunderst
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They're very clearly not meaning an entirely different identity, but instead some sandboxed, non-personal phone space.
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> The cost to replace a single person in a company doesn't always allow for that replacement to be anywhere. You're doing the sleight of hand, but on an even more localized level: a single company hiring a single person. We&#x2
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> I wouldn't be surprised if wages do trend towards the average productivity of labours, but again, that would be far higher than barely surviving The cost of reproduction of labor is more than base subsistence, it's things lik
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> There are lots of people who are making more than minimum wage as required by the laws in their country. So this is obviously untrue. You're doing a huge sleight of hand here that's clouding your judgement, and it's that
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> Shocking that some people think this is acceptable. If freedom falls in the US, the rest of the world suffers too. This is incredibly melodramatic. To think that restricting a party during a global pandemic risks freedom more than, say
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> but if you believe the media uncritically you'd think that America is a hellhole with people dying on the streets from Covid-19 But, in reality, they're dying in their homes because Americans are too afraid of surprise hospi
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> You cannot have a nanny state and a free country at the same time. This is the sort of thing you have to accept and live with. You have to live with hemorrhaging 1000 lives daily to be free?
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No, the answer you'll get has an 85% chance of being, to the word, "Oh, I don't think I could ever give up bacon." I know that answer might seem a little far-fetched, but it will happen time and time again. Facts don&#x2
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> I suspect free people (consumers) see creepy stuff like cyber-dystopian Uighur genocide The information asymmetry is massive that I don't think this tracks reality. Many people just tune out news, others never notice "made in
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It doesn't seem that most people are willing to give up meat/certain animal products.
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> Attacks on paper & pen ballot systems are much, much harder to scale. As it turns out, you can just impose austerity.

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