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by lhnz 11y ago
Quite satisfying to see somebody decry the elite's IQism (something both the right and the left are guilty of), insult Trump and his voters, and call the mob out for the chimpanzee-like pleasure they partake in. ____ I don&#x
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...? You are aware that all of this drama relates to the creator of Neoreaction, right? That vein of the Right has little to do with Trump rallies. It's this kind of stuff: http://thefutureprimaeval.net/ (and more gene
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In this particular case it's the radical left that is irate, so yes. Also, in general the radical right (when this is used to refer to neoreaction) tends to just opine with long blog posts where they capitalise words like Tradition, Ci
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> public figure by promoting racist violence is absurd There haven't been any instances of this that I've seen - I tried to describe the offending paragraph as best I could here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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He seems like a nice, reasonable guy. I actually think that he's more tolerant than most people, and that the radical left could learn something from him.
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It all comes down to this argument [0] in which he attempts to defend the offending opinion that has been linked to everywhere ("Why Carlyle Matters" [1]). I agree with the commenter that he does seem to be trying to deflect as he
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I think "conduct vs beliefs" is the right metaphor by which to make these sorts of decisions. After all, we talk about a 'Code of Conduct' and not a 'Code of Belief' (the latter, in my opinion, would edge too c
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by lhnz 11y ago
This is a good primer on "neoreaction" [0]. To tell you the truth, what makes it a good primer is that it doesn't begin to describe the so-called solutions to democracy (this is where it gets weird/awful, as you see peop
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You are right about what you see in the mainstream but I have a different perspective. It is my opinion that media scapegoating is a symptom of people with poor economic opportunity and declining institutions giving attention to anybody tha
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> depends on terrorism killing enough people to destroy our way of life Demographic and therefore cultural shifts do not only occur when a majority population has a high number of killings. They can also occur when immigrant populations
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I tried to explain to somebody else here [0] already - "[This establishes] a frame in which stressors are measured solely by their impact on fatality. The extra attention given to terrorism relates more to the conservative fear of losi
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Sorry for being unclear. My point is that the article and subsequent comments by you and threatofrain establish a frame in which stressors are measured solely by their impact on fatality. The extra attention given to terrorism relates more
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> The article never made this point. All it said is that they kill more people. If that was the case they would not have mentioned terrorism. The comparison to terrorism exists because it makes the article travel better between members o
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This doesn't mean toddlers are more dangerous than terrorists. It means there are more toddlers. I don't think the internal logic of the argument works anyway. Do people react to terrorism solely because of the perception of prese
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Do you know of any projects on GitHub that do this?
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Yeah, but the The City is a tiny pebble in comparison to London. I'm sure there are plenty of places in London that size that are dominated by one industry (though none with their own laws.)
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Don't you worry that a lot of people would die if the social contract was to break down or is this an acceptable loss to you? I understand that you might expect something better to rise from its ashes, but it seems like in the short te
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> Let the sham that is the social contract collapse and reveal the exploitative nature of capitalism for what it is. So basically you just want to watch the world burn? Peculiar to hear this moral stance from a position of high self rega
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They were Java developers so I think they were coming at the interview from the perspective of Java developers. I wish I'd known this beforehand as I could have markedly improved my answers by bearing this in mind and explaining myself
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Just the other day during a JavaScript/React interview I was asked how a HashMap was implemented. At this point it's only being used for its Computer Science signalling value. JavaScript doesn't even have true HashMaps, and i
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What I mean is that the objective definition of Quality is abstract and not very hard to pin down. However the way that people use it is to refer to concrete 'qualities' that groups of people coordinate around measuring and these
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Quality is something you qualify, quantify (measure) and optimise for. For example, consider a team that wanted to hire people that they considered 'Empathetic'. Firstly they would need to define what they consider good signals of
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Is this a reason to vote Brexit? I would like to be able to vote out any political party that is entering into such an agreement, but if it's the EU's bureaucracy itself I have no democratic way to do so. (I'm asking this sin
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People want to be happy, it doesn't really matter how. Often they don't really know themselves. But they're quite sure it'll happen if only they were able to become more impressive. They will be happy once they are promo
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Yes, I think so. I'm being unfair really, it's just that 'first principles' always makes it sound like somebody thinks of themselves as Euclid or Elon Musk. It's nice to hear somebody else's perspectives otherw
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"I think its important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy." -- Elon Musk Maybe this guy is the next Elon Musk? Jokes aside, isn't reasoning from first principles about going deeper and deeper to un
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I transitioned from Python to Node and from Node onto the whole stack. I think a lot of people did this. There are presumably still a lot of people that see benefit in being able to write one programming language across their whole stack.
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I don't mean to discount the anti-censorship narrative. I'm merely pointing to another narrative that also exists and is gaining mindshare - demographic issues in tech, inequality caused by tech, tech ignoring government, people i
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It's not so surprising. A lot of people have been jealously watching on as 'fat cat' 'tech bros' eat into their industries. Now there are signs that the market will correct and that technology companies will not con
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Certainly not very compassionate, but is it true that the homeless in San Francisco have a drug problem that is making the area unsafe? Is nobody trying to treat or house these people? Shouldn't people take this piece and use it as fur

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