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by jpcfl 3y ago
> you've just told me that it's OK to kill innocent civilians, including children No, I did not, and the fact that you believe this is just proving my point. You’re being unreasonable, and no amount of explanation is going to
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by jpcfl 3y ago
Not trolling. Just trying to understand the details of the situation, which you boiled down to: the US bombed civilians because "bad guys were hiding among the guests," which I highly doubt is the case. Although maybe you're
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by jpcfl 3y ago
I’ll pass. If you’re unable to see the difference on your own, I’m afraid I cannot help you. Besides, we are way off topic. This is not related to the dismissal of an employee because of his tweet.
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by jpcfl 3y ago
Okay. If you're going to make a point based on an event, I would recommend making some effort to get the details right. It's hard to have a discussion that isn't grounded in truth. AFAIK, the US and Israel make explicit effor
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by jpcfl 3y ago
I believe you're talking about the 2008 missile strike on wedding convoy in Yemen while Bush was in office during a firefight between US forces and the Taliban. I do not think the US officially took responsibility for that attack.
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by jpcfl 3y ago
> And that's an exact analogy here Not even remotely close.
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by jpcfl 3y ago
> I'm sure their intentions are very different but it's dehumanising to say it's apples and oranges. Relax. It's a figure of speech. It means, "these two things are different." It in no way dehumanizes any
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by jpcfl 3y ago
> Cancel culture is cancel culture. But what's the idea that makes it bad? It's not over a protected class which we do deem worthy generally but over political views which are not uniformly considered protected. I think it&#x
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by jpcfl 3y ago
It’s comparing apples and oranges, since Hamas deliberately targets Israeli civilians, while using Palestinian civilians as human shields. Many Palestinian casualties are Hamas’s fault, not IDF.
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by jpcfl 3y ago
> a really extraordinary example of completely unnecessary misinterpretation of his intent I mean, that's par for the course when talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It almost invariably devolves into extreme rhetoric.
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by jpcfl 3y ago
Holy hell, he was fired for posting a joke on Twitter? In particular, a joke that is meant to call attention to a lack of sympathy for victims of war? Cancel Culture is undoubtedly having a profound chilling effect on free speech. If only t
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by jpcfl 3y ago
Sounds awful. I hope the rest of your journey went more smoothly. I just heard a story of a Venezuelan family who made it through the Darién gap relatively fine, but once they got to Mexico, they were detained by a man claiming to be a Fede
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by jpcfl 3y ago
> steals I believe the correct term for this is "reallocation."
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by jpcfl 3y ago
I don't think he met any of the people in the portraits personally. He said he learned of these people and their stories through social media, at least the ones we talked about.
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by jpcfl 3y ago
I know several people who have made the foot journey across the Darién, and have heard many horror stories about it. When I was in Bogotá last year, I met a Venezuelan man selling art painted on Bolivares. Inflation is so bad in Venezuela t
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by jpcfl 3y ago
I would recommend reading the Hamas charter. Not the revised one circa 2017, which softens the language, but the original charter circa 1987, which was in place when they were democratically elected by the Palestinian people in 2006.
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by jpcfl 3y ago
Yes, allowing clients to control allocation of a struct is a crucial feature of any C API, especially if it's going to be used on embedded targets where heap is unavailable or restricted. The pattern I like to use for this is to expose
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by jpcfl 3y ago
True. I should rephrase to say `const` strongly suggests that a function does not change the observable state of a variable.
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by jpcfl 3y ago
> const does not guarantee that the memory at the location pointed to won't change I didn't say this. I said a `const` function tells the reader that the state of an object doesn't change. Another reader correctly pointed
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by jpcfl 3y ago
Parameters and functions No const. Please don't. `const` is incredibly valuable, not only to the reader, but to the compiler. Take for example: int Foo_bar(Foo const* self); Just looking at this signature, I know that callin
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by jpcfl 3y ago
I prefer to use typedef's for opaque structs to emulate classes with all private fields, and use 'struct' for plain ol' data structures. Classes should only be accessed via functions, while structs can be accessed direct
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by jpcfl 3y ago
Tbf, Reddit is pretty hostile in general.
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by jpcfl 3y ago
You are not. But every time I bring up the unpleasantness and absurdity of compulsory tipping, people seem to assume I'm stingy. I live in San Francisco, so the surcharges added to my bill are often: * tax (I think it's 8.625%
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by jpcfl 3y ago
Yes.
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by jpcfl 3y ago
There is little to no social contract here. Anti-social behavior abound, and practically nobody does anything to combat it.
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by jpcfl 3y ago
So which is it? Did I never comment on the policy, or did I declare blind support for it? Do you really think I know _nothing_ about the policy? I've had enough of the insults, the assumptions, and strawman attacks. I don't see an
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by jpcfl 3y ago
Okay, I feel like we're talking about different things. Again, I never commented on the specifics of the policy. I just said the plaintiff's position is weak, and that they have a duty to keep their pornographic content away from
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by jpcfl 3y ago
> Your description of Pornhub's "duty" is an abstract notion that you're refusing to connect to any practical real-world implementation online. It's called a thesis. We haven't delved into any of those detai
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by jpcfl 3y ago
You’re entitled to that opinion. I am of the opinion that porn companies should not be able to freely provide their content to children with impunity. Parents and device makers should provide censorship solutions, but that doesn’t absolve p
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by jpcfl 3y ago
> you came into this conversation speaking pretty boldly about Pornhub's motivations and about the strength/weakness of the case I came in saying that their stance that they should not have to ID their customers because there a

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