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by javert 11y ago
> And I’m really hacked off when that scolding comes from obliviously pretentious Older White Male Professors Stopped reading here, because the piece is obviously racist. If the author is trying to evoke a stereotype, say that explicitly
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by javert 11y ago
> Why punish workers and take their job due to strategic reasons beyond their control? This is blaming the victim (namely Tesla). The only blameworthy party is the Michigan government and Michigan voters as a whole. > The mobility we
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by javert 11y ago
The Soviets also got nuclear weapons, and they were never a threat to the US.
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by javert 11y ago
The US was never threatened by Hitler, so no, the Soviet Union did not save "the world." Moreover, had Hitler won, the Third Reich would have come inevitably to the same end as the USSR---probably more quickly. Slavery to the stat
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by javert 11y ago
I didn't say they have the high ground. I said they have the moral high ground. That is why they keep getting elected despite not actually being appealing to the middle class.
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by javert 11y ago
I hope Tesla immediately moves the business out of Michigan. They should not subsidize, with their taxes, a state that treats them, and its own citizens (who can't buy Teslas), like utter shit.
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by javert 11y ago
No, the reason Democrats take shots at Ayn Rand is because Democrats have the moral high ground in the public's view, and have for decades, and there has only been a single person to challenge that: Ayn Rand. She really is a threat. If
908.
by javert 11y ago
> This isn't always true. Right, but it's generally true. Do we really need to point out that there can be exceptions? Of course there can be. There are probably even factories in China where people are literally slaves. Is it
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by javert 11y ago
Yeah, I was probably over-broad in what I said, in the following sense. Ayn Rand has been the only moral defender of capitalism. On Mount Pelerin: > Its founders included Friedrich Hayek, Karl Popper, Ludwig von Mises, George Stigler,
910.
by javert 11y ago
> Why did working people understand this truth in 1915 but not today? I don't know. Because of Ayn Rand. You think I'm joking, but she's the only intellectually serious defender of capitalism in the 20th century, and her i
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by javert 11y ago
The people making shoes, iPhones, TVs---they don't have to do that. They could do whatever they were doing before that factory came to town. But working in that factory is preferable. The same thing is true for Uber drivers. You don&#x
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by javert 11y ago
Same here on laptop. "Hey Boss, I know a way to increase visits to our site by 6x..."
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by javert 11y ago
If you want to win the war of nit-picking, you win. You are right that the Constitution was not operative yet in 1788. > Unmarried women could own property, but under the common law doctrine of coverture, married women could neither own
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by javert 11y ago
What rights did women not have in 1788 that you would want them to have? They couldn't vote, but voting isn't a right. They could own property, for example. Once married, they became basically legally merged with their husband, bu
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by javert 11y ago
Americans had far more rights in 1788, as long as they weren't slaves [1]. And in 1788, people from anywhere in the world could escape to America (as it should still be). [1] Many Americans were against slavery in 1776, but it would
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by javert 11y ago
I am not an egalitarian. I am for equal rights. Egalitarianism is the belief that all people should be equal in all things . It leads to socialism, which leads (eventually) to Venezuela (for example) as people cannibalize one another.
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by javert 11y ago
> [Considers status of the Atlantic slave trade, position of women in society, etc., in 1776] > Um, no. Just no. It was the Englightenment that made the end of slavery inevitable. For instance, it is written into the US Declaration of
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by javert 11y ago
Every generation says the next generation is worse. It's actually true. Western civilization reached it's peak right around 1776, the height of the Enlightenment, and it's been going downhill since then. Every generation is w
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by javert 11y ago
Reichstag looked much better without the handicapped ramp. Couldn't they put it somewhere that wouldn't ruin the aesthetic of the building?
920.
by javert 11y ago
> Science describes reliable models of reality. Its language is mathematics. That's not right. It's language is... well, language. Including, but not limited to, mathematics. > Religion wonders about the ultimate meaning of
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by javert 11y ago
Becuase our language is not pictographic, it is alphabetic. So that is wrong. Reading a heart symbol as "I love you" is just as wrong as reading it as "I heart you." A symbol is not a word.
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by javert 11y ago
I find it totally cringeworthy. I read it, mentally, as "diasporastar." It's like if someone types "I <heart symbol> you," I read it as "I heart you," which is cringeworthy. Do some people not do thi
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by javert 11y ago
That's true. However, it doesn't really negate my point, it complements it. In this case, Apple could have a "test" that is: install the new OS under test on a machine, and see if performance degrades on other machines o
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by javert 11y ago
Because Ada programmers were too expensive (i.e., there weren't that many of them). At least, that's what I remember hearing---can't really vouch for it and I'd be happy to see someone else weigh in. Also, my understandi
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by javert 11y ago
I'm already familiar with those (which is why I mentioned it). Maybe you are just linking it for other people, in which case, thanks.
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by javert 11y ago
Actually, this raises an interesting issue. You truly can't speed up software dev by adding more people (beyond a certain point)---it's not just on late projects that it is true. But you can do that on testing. If you want to run
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by javert 11y ago
> Its absolutely criminal that applying a recommended update with security critical fixes in it should turn my computer into a DoS device for my local network. Let's be careful. Extremely irresponsible and horrible? Yes. Criminal? N
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by javert 11y ago
> This is another symptom. Perhaps it's excusable if there were preexisting libraries/codebase. Uh, what would you use? As far as I know, the choices are: Assembler, Ada, and C. We're talking about avionics code, here. C++
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by javert 11y ago
Funny because I only care about Linux on the desktop and I don't have this problem, either. He talks about a state explosion of packages and libraries, but in practice, I don't see that it matters. Yes, there is technically a stat
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by javert 11y ago
Unfortunately I think that is probably the attitude of the average Chinese trader---which is exactly why it turns out that way.

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