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by jaccarmac 6y ago
> there's no there, there Flynn lied not to protect the contents of the conversations, but to explicitly deny a deal which was discussed. That is a "there". Besides, Flynn is a small part of a small part of my original arg
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
My prediction is that you will try to weasel around by defining "collusion" as repeatedly more specific, but: - Papadopoulos admitted to lying to the FBI about Russian contact - Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI about the content
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
Give me some links to mainstream news stories which go beyond exaggeration, then.
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
> Russia-gating Was exaggerated, but resulted in multiple guilty pleas and convictions of Trump associates and campaign workers. On the other hand, the election fraud theories are utter bunk. As predicted, all of the mistakes which have
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
The projects may be on time and under budget, but from a citizen's perspective the transportation situation in DFW is excruciating. Endless construction, confusing junctions, deceptively labeled toll roads, and an NTTA site that won&#x
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
"But it’s important to understand the problem with the Times: it is not that the facts it reports tend to be inaccurate—though sometimes they are—but that the facts are presented in a way that misleads." Shall we make sure that th
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
But I never suggested that Trump supporters should have their employment or wellbeing threatened for their support of Trump... I am merely making the point that support for Trump could reasonably be part of making one's colleagues feel
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
Which human rights does my position violate? Please, enlighten me. YOU do realize that human rights don't include a blanket prohibition on people treating you differently due to your political opinions? Also, how do you reconcile these
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
> In what sense do you mean they "work"? They reduce the ability of extremists to radicalize young people, for example. On a platform level, banning certain actors makes my life better because less fake news will show up in my
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
Ah yes, and of course whether or not something is a threat depends on intent. And who could be a better judge of intent than ... throwaway894345. Who I'm sure has an incredibly nuanced way of determining intent that doesn't boil d
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
> Acting to assuage your immediate concerns without consideration for the long impact on the political discourse is foolish. On the other hand, deplatforming people and removing their resources does work in some cases. Others may disagre
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
Do you grant that some people may feel differently about the politics of Trump, or should we shape our cultural norms (after all, that's what we are talking about when we mention "cancel culture") around what YOU think is rea
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
Nope, but I believe there are a lot of horrid people who supported Trump. Providing these three supposed anecdotes serves only to muddy the conversation and peddle the "cancel culture" myth. Do people get fired for stupid reasons?
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
Clearly I need to spell this out more clearly. Do you believe that support of Trump should be without consequences? I don't have the details of the three cases discussed above, but the lack of detail is exactly the problem: It paints p
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
Do you think that political engagement is a game with no consequences, or do you think that there is a point where it would be reasonable to feel unsafe around someone with particular political views?
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
Don't overgeneralize: The page you linked explicitly lays it out. Corruption Perceptions Index. Each word is important. In addition, think tanks have biases and TI is no exception. Do you think that the "experts and business peopl
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by jaccarmac 6y ago
"Transparent" vs "opaque" governments strikes me as a false dichotomy. There is certainly a spectrum of transparency and I grant that the United States is more transparent than China (at least from my perspective inside
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by jaccarmac 7y ago
Glancing over the implementation it looks like you would have to add list manipulation ops to get macros to work, since there's no quote. So, not hard, but not trivial.
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by jaccarmac 7y ago
Sometimes you want to have people behave in a way which reflects higher ideals than mere legality.
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by jaccarmac 7y ago
Sounds fascinating, got a source for that? Seems to dovetail with the research re: happiness and net worth not being correlated after a point.
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by jaccarmac 8y ago
Did you read TFA? Because it's about pimps grooming teenagers, not consenting adults.
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A New Alternative to CFGs and Pegs, with Code for Pharo Smalltalk(npapoylias.gitlab.io)
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Vendoring with Quicklisp, Make, Git, and Nix(mr.gy)
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by jaccarmac 8y ago
Yep! Even now it's not quite as bad as identical program structure. I mean, the high-level is fairly similar, but even now individual functions can look significantly different. Emacs' C is already largely written in a high-level,
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by jaccarmac 8y ago
Byte-compilation isn't disabled. The slowness is due to a couple things. First is the bindgen layer between Rust and C slowing down certain calls. Porting so far has been wide rather than deep, so Rust code ends up having to call C soo
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by jaccarmac 8y ago
I've read one of these articles and bookmarked the other. They give some introduction to the problem space, with pictures. I'm no expert though and can't rate their accuracy; Just know they helped me feel a little more confid
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by jaccarmac 8y ago
Last year's post has some details on the organization of the Racket codebase and why some of the layers are being moved to Chez. https://blog.racket-lang.org/2018/01/racket-on-chez-status.h...
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by jaccarmac 8y ago
The sibling saying "ship the VM and image" is correct; Note, however, that Pharo is working on making this process more transparent. See https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher for an example of a del
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by jaccarmac 8y ago
Keep in mind that study used an existing registry of twins. Families who adopt are not necessarily representative of the wider population.
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by jaccarmac 8y ago
> This version is [in] some ways worse My impression too, admittedly as a non-mathematician. The Damore invocation is especially damning. When I dredged this up I couldn't help but find it funny that the standard of "suppressio

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