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by lightgreen 6y ago
Seems to be far fetched statement. Women (and men and everybody else) were objectified since the beginning of the history. But during 20th century this objectification took different forms because of general improvement of women rights and
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> Cannabis was named "marijuana" by American newspapers for the express purpose of associating it with Mexican immigrants Again, this is just silly. This is finding connections where there are none. Drug users rarely use medica
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> Please tell me how harsher sentencing on crack cocaine compared to cocaine is not the dictionary definition of racism. > statistically crack cocaine is used more by black people Again, if some action has different effect on racism,
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by lightgreen 6y ago
If it was black who were incarcerated the most because of drug laws, it doesn’t make it racist. Moreover, even if you know upfront that black people will be incarcerated the most because of drug laws, it doesn’t make that war racist. (Moreo
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Sure, because everything in the US is about racism these days. The world is very simple and easy to deal with when every problem is explained by one reason. Some people believe the reason for everything bad is racism. Others believe it is J
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by lightgreen 6y ago
I would hope CEO to protect someone saying “be safe from rioters and looters in BLM marches”, but that won’t happen. It’s easy to protect someone who is supported by the majority.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
The largest difference between Zig and Rust is Zig does not have memory safety. This arguments is more important than all other differences combined. Because when writing very large long living projects, memory safety is the most important
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Unlike Rust, Zig does not provide memory safety. They have runtime checks (unlike Rust compile checks) which are at least slower, but likely still don't guarantee memory safety (did not dig deep).
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Talking like "There is a small percentage of far-right and wealthy that largely ignores social distancing" is extremely disingenuous. I was wanted to just point to that. And generally discourage from assigning labels like "fa
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> people from the left break quarantine rules it becomes front page news It got to the front pages not because of breaking quarantine per se, but because of their hypocrisy: they wanted quarantine for everyone except themselves. GOP poli
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> There is a small percentage of far-right and wealthy that largely ignores social distancing There's a small percentage of far-left and wealthy that also ignore social distancing (like SF Mayor). Let's not point finger and fur
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> You just know ads are coming No, ads exists mostly where people are not paying. Vast majority of paid products and subscription services are ad-free.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> When politicians are elected, they should be given the opportunity to actually govern on the agenda they ran on. That is a reasonable argument against filibuster. I may agree with it or disagree, I don't know where I stand. But th
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Even if some drug is addictive and dangerous, it does not need to be banned. Society should treat citizens as responsible adults, not as children in kindergarten requiring constant care. Yes, some people will fail to fight with addiction, u
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Never listen to people who write doomsday predictions on Medium. If they are so smart, they should go buy stock options against the company, they quickly become enormously rich. Money talks, bullshit walks. Intel stocks show Intel is doing
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> In any case I do believe the filibuster should be eliminated if Republicans That is very dangerous reasoning. Filibuster should be kept or eliminated regardless of political preferences and current majority in congress. If the system s
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> on mobile I use GitJournal Is it good? On mobile the common case is to launch an app and immediately see/search the notes. Or type something, close the app and assume notes are synched. But git pull and git push are not blazing fa
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> markdown note apps sync with Google Drive Can you recommend the app please? I migrated away from Evernote when it started to have too much features, and was no longer convenient note taking app. I'm using Apple Notes now, which is
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Not a huge update, but refc codegen is interesting: dependency on scheme runtime is no longer needed. This makes Idris 2 feature-equivalent to Idris 1 I guess.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Previous commenter forgot to insert <sarcasm> tag.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Oppression is a bit strong word, I'd say downvotes promote groupthink. People with opposing worldviews simply stop commenting after receiving downvotes (and especially when banned from commenting for some time because of downvoting). C
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Reddit is interesting: its default (?) sorting is by controversial. Really bad universally unacceptable comments get buried. But comments with mixed upvotes and downvotes ("controversial") are shown higher than simply upvoted comm
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> Falun Gong is a notorious cult, it's like a Chinese Sciencetology Is that fact? Not that I really care: I would protects church of Scientology if they were persecuted same way as Falun Gong. Just curious. > It damages the actua
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by lightgreen 6y ago
This might sound like a joke, but I believe spreading that info about Uyghurs to your friends in social networks might be the first thing to do. Western governments do nothing about this situation because voters do not ask/pressure the
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> Fuck these fascists Not far from where I live there's China embassy. 24 hours a day 7 days a week next to the embassy there's a guy sitting, just outside during summer and inside a tent during winter, and there's table w
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Usually original tweets are just shown in the feed, but if you click on the tweet body, it will explicitly unfold the thread, if I got what you are asking.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
While people should be nice, maybe it's time for Signal to hire a professional community manager. If developers do support on such forums (who else would be disappointed by unilateral demands?), it is a productivity killer. Telegram ha
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Paywalled, cannot read, sorry.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> No one acted violently after reading your comment, but people did act violently after reading Trump’s Twitter. Consider this example. John fired Andrew from the job. And told him, please do whatever you want to get your job back. Andre
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by lightgreen 6y ago
In now deleted comments someone said gab.com uses epik.com. That’s very strong recommendation. Thanks!

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