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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
You're getting downvoted, but you're right: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/gun-control-mass-incarcer... The NRA is not a civil rights group for all gun owners.
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
It's completely ironic, the tone of the show is extremely anti-authoritarian (a huge part of the show is eviscerating "washington consensus" liberals from a leftist perspective as well as pathological sycophants in various po
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
I love Chapo and this interview had me buzzing for days after I heard it, it's one of the best calls to action for left politics I've ever heard. If anyone new to the show likes this, I recommend you start with episode 2 after thi
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
I MAY not BE.... FRANK SINATRA.... BUT IM.... PART OF the pack. EDIT: lol apparently not many others.
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Driverless trucks threaten jobs in 'Trumpland'(abc.net.au)
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Your App Isn't Helping the People of Saudi Arabia(theconcourse.deadspin.com)
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
I don't think there's anything ethical about stringing your employees along for 3 months without pay, regardless of how successful you may have been in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13140938
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
IANAL, and from what I understand the laws about pay schedule vary by state, so I'm not going to make some claim I can't substantiate. But my guess is if you're 5 weeks late paying your employees you're most likely commi
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Reminder that wage theft is estimated to cost workers over $50 billion a year, more than the cost to victims of all robberies, burglaries, and larcenies combined: http://www.epi.org/publication/epidemic-wage-theft-costi
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
It's not like political affiliation is the only example of ingroup-vs-outgroup conflict on HN. I think it's an incredibly weak argument to even pretend like this is somehow a distinguishing characteristic of political discussion t
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Tech is just as political as actual politics, so this explanation that political discussion "causes harm" / "war" / "emotion over reason" strikes me as incredibly facile. And frankly the notion that s
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Yes, the guy who had to be shamed out of attending a libertarian meetup with a heavy white nationalist presence has some extreme views.
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
> Now that I've substantiated my claim that welfare AND social welfare spending have grown tremendously, you're trying to move the goalposts. You ridiculed me with your snarky put-down when I made the claim, and it turned out t
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Yeah Orwell, the democratic socialist and Labour Party member, would have hated income redistribution programs. Orwell was anti-authoritarian, but he knew that the market left to it's own devices was just another incarnation of authori
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
> How about you act like a decent human being instead of making ridiculous strawman arguments against me? Love the calls for civility from the person proposing that anti-discrimination laws were bad. Also "the free baby market"
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
This is classic libertarian bullshit. Ask them how they enforce private property and watch the web of insane bullshit about how market intervention is "violence" unravels. Hilariously, the newest trend in libertarian thought is to
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Hoo boy. Can't wait for the Rothbardian argument from you about why a marketplace for infants is a good idea. Also love the revisionist history that welfare has in any way grown. It hasn't, in fact it's been scaled back drama
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
It seems like your assertion here is that Clinton's supporters skew low income because they're college students being subsidized by their parents and not actual low income workers or unemployed non-dependents. So while your own po
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Class is a set of wealth and income categories (or is in the US anyways, I can't speak for other countries). I'm not sure why you claim they're "correlated". They're literally the same thing.
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
That only (partially) explains the median income for Bernie voters, not Clinton voters: http://graphics.wsj.com/elections/2016/how-clinton-won/ Also I'm not sure why that's important, is your assump
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Any pushback from these people that starts with the fabrication that Trump voters are the working poor is basically not worth engaging with. They live in the same world as everyone else where it's reasonable to critique people who have
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Read the poll, this still shows that Clinton has a larger slice of low income voters. Also who do you think Trump's base is? The people who voted for him given a pick at any of the potential nominees for president, or the people who
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Because it's utter bullshit. All of the polling tells us the Trump voters skew higher in wealth and wages than Clinton voters and that hate for "the other" is largely motivating their choice. It's a narrative Republicans
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
The implication here is that Trump voters are working class people who have been drawn to Trump by virtue of their economic anxiety, concern about loss of their jobs via globalization or immigration, etc. The image in mind is coal or steel
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
I'm not saying you should not have availability. On the contrary, many strongly consistent algorithms actually have very good availability characteristics. The whole point of being distributed is often to increase availability. Algorit
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
You seem to be assuming that I'm a UX designer. I'm not, I'm a backend engineer. Just a note though: I wouldn't say something like "The internals of the system don't matter to you. It only matter to us, as the
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
Oh apologies, I misunderstood what you were saying! Yes, agreed, this is a good method for communicating what's occurring in weakly consistent systems to stakeholders. Definitely going to use this in the future.
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
There are a couple ways you could do this, though according to jerf in a comment below, banks often don't implement transactions as commutative. Most commonly things like this are done by somehow reifying the operation as data and at
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
It's a cool metaphor, and I'm sure there are occasions where its easy to pass this off as innocuous. But inconsistent semantics can produce blemishes and bugs that can be difficult to anticipate and can very negatively impact user
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by knucklesandwich 10y ago
There are definitely solutions for handling this with consistency semantics that are something weaker than linearizable consistency. But they usually become expensive in other ways and loose a lot of the availability benefits to recover the

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