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by lilactown 6y ago
There is already a history of unpaid internships being abused in the USA, as they became the only way for people to enter an industry - entry-level labor became completely saturated by unpaid internships. This causes a whole host of problem
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by lilactown 6y ago
Heaven forbid!
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by lilactown 6y ago
Someone else elsewhere made this point: the widget makers are not generally capable of increasing their own productivity because they don't have access to the capital required. This method of organizing labor and value which disallows
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by lilactown 6y ago
What value does technology provide other than increasing labor efficiency? If tech helps me build 10x the number of widgets, should all of that surplus value only be captured by the technology owners? What about the people who build and ser
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by lilactown 6y ago
I am not necessarily saying that leftists are a panacea of altruist thinking, having washed away their colonial upbringing in their dialogues with a theoretical minority. ;) Rather, I understand leftist thought to be rooted in questioning h
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by lilactown 6y ago
I meant no disrespect. If I read into your reply here, I think you feel that I am saying that anyone who is "not a perfect leftist" is "shitty"? On reflection I can see how that would be interpreted. What I meant to wrot
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by lilactown 6y ago
I do actually agree with you. It is very easy to be radical in your beliefs (in either direction) when you don't need to interact with the people that they effect. There are plenty of "ivory tower" leftists. The difference is
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by lilactown 6y ago
Disproportionate power _compared to whom_? To take your example: on any given day, if I'm a female HS student interacting with a male teacher, the power differential is hugely in his favor. The teacher can fundamentally change the cour
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by lilactown 6y ago
I would add into this mix that the engagement algorithms social media uses to pick which posts show up in peoples timelines, go viral, etc. is very much a cyclic process that reinforces all of the social problems that you speak of.
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by lilactown 6y ago
I tried to couch my reply as not assuming intent on your part specifically, but rather my attempt at pointing out a pattern I have seen other people engage in and be subject to. When looking at this and your other reply to me elsewhere in t
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by lilactown 6y ago
First of all, note that I did not talk at all about parties. I talked about left and right. Historically, the parties that represent right and left (or how much to the right and left they skew) has changed; which ideas fall in the category
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by lilactown 6y ago
I agree with the spirit of your words. I think that the subtext of your post (or at least people that espouse similar things on the internet) is that this is the fault of a certain brand of American politics (left leaning, "SJW" t
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by lilactown 6y ago
I still believe that EDN[0] is one of the best general purpose data serialization formats - definitely a huge upgrade from JSON. It addresses most of the authors problems while _also having s-expressions_, e.g.: (foo bar baz) ;; this
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by lilactown 6y ago
We are not beyond carrying capacity. We have enough food and other resources to clothe, house and feed everyone in the world and forever if we could organize ourselves. Capitalism has failed us in doing so. We need a new way of organizing.
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by lilactown 6y ago
the bummer about reagent is that it allocates so many immutable data structures on render. I've not figured out a way to ergonomically write hiccup without paying this constant performance tax, which is felt on a lot of large reagent a
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by lilactown 6y ago
Whenever "Clojure startup time" comes up, people are quick to point to one thing: either it's the JVM "bloat," or that it's nothing to do with the JVM and is actually all Clojure. Here's a pretty good (if
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by lilactown 6y ago
yes absolutely. In my scifi utopia, the government provides a digital identity to each citizen as a social service :) One of the downsides of this is that it actually degrades privacy by improving private institutions (and the governments)
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by lilactown 6y ago
A lot of facebook's value prop for users is in what you're saying - not as a social media company, but as a centralized identity provider for the social graph. Perhaps a decentralized solution could still use a centralized identit
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by lilactown 6y ago
> What does it matter whether I'm one of the 49% who are making that argument in good faith? Because my time and energy is scarce, and so are other peoples. Why should I oblige someone who is arguing in bad faith the time and energy
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by lilactown 6y ago
In the socratic fashion, I would ask you: why are Chinese or Japanese people treated differently when they have very light skin, similar to white people? The answer is that it's not just your skin color but many other features that lea
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by lilactown 6y ago
I also despise the current state of public discourse for the very reason that stating that at the beginning of their post is necessary. It's impossible for us to know if the poster of the original point is posting in good faith or not
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by lilactown 6y ago
You're just dealing with a social problem that you haven't as much experience with. As you grow to better understand the interpersonal dynamics between you and other people w.r.t. race it'll be the same as learning how best t
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by lilactown 6y ago
If I was more of a hacker, I would spend time to get a Linux system just to my liking. I find myself chained to the Apple ecosystem mainly because it’s what I use day-in-day-out across all my other devices (esp. for work) and I just have no
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by lilactown 6y ago
Hm that’s interesting. In which case(s) does Thunderbolt 3 become a bottleneck? I do have a thunderbolt 3 monitor.
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by lilactown 6y ago
For me, sitting for periods longer than 20 mins makes my back hurt; so I alternate between standing, kneeling and laying on my back on the couch :P
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by lilactown 6y ago
I’ve recently purchased a MacBook Air to replace my Pro as my day-to-day laptop while coding on the couch, and been thinking of getting a Mac mini to handle the times when I want the extra power: for playing games like WoW or doing mobile d
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by lilactown 6y ago
They do a translation between CSS/flexbox and the native UI layer, just like on iOS and Android
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by lilactown 6y ago
Here's a rundown on mixins vs. hooks: https://reactjs.org/blog/2016/07/13/mixins-considered-harmfu... I haven't used Rum in anger, but I do use reagent at work, and there are compatibility trad
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by lilactown 6y ago
I use ClojureScript professionally, and I believe Hooks are great. Reagent, Re-frame all have tradeoffs that they've made to try and shoe-horn in a solution that Hooks cleanly provides first-class support for. I see a lot of other Cloj
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by lilactown 6y ago
I haven't used concurrent mode in anger yet, but I have used frameworks built on top of React that introduce their own async scheduler for rendering - Reagent, re-frame in ClojureScript-land. You end up with two issues IME with async t

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