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by magpi3 8y ago
Yes it is sarcasm
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by magpi3 8y ago
If a specific car make and model was presumably more prone to automobile accidents people would have the same reaction towards it.
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by magpi3 8y ago
Slaves were not slaves because whites were trying to save them from themselves. They were slaves because they provided cheap labor. Any other argument is just a rationalization, a story for slave owners to tell themselves to make themselves
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by magpi3 8y ago
When I read this article, I thought of growing up in the suburbs. The suburbs I grew up in are ideal for the adult who wants to have a large house and minimal contact with strangers, but they are something very different for the adolescent
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by magpi3 8y ago
I think the history of capitalism, communism, and economics as a field of study are all too young to make such an absolute statement. And don't you think that the birth of machine learning might change this equation just a bit?
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by magpi3 8y ago
> The rationale for taxation is the idea that you owe your government money by using up public resources (such as national defense, public works, emergency response, etc.). If this were the case, then everyone would be taxed equally. Peo
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by magpi3 8y ago
Adults realize that actions have consequences. Saying fuck you to someone might make me feel better in the moment, but what would it give me in the long run? I would be giving others the chance to view me as childish, unprofessional, and un
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by magpi3 8y ago
> Why is this article trying to make it seem like women are getting the short end of the stick? IMO it does not. It clearly states that the marketing campaign is targeted at both sexes.
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by magpi3 8y ago
An author posting original content is always a single point of failure. That's a problem based in the physical world and has nothing to do with the computer-based system by which they distribute their content. If revx email host gets s
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by magpi3 8y ago
> If a bank does hundreds of billions of dollars of transactions globally and several hundred million of those are tainted, the sanctions in question should be based on the tainted transactions, not the annual revenue or profits If the p
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by magpi3 8y ago
As was poetry. All storytelling can be viewed as an escape. But it can also be viewed as a powerful way to reimagine the world.
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by magpi3 8y ago
Doesn't HN use Racket? Edit: according to wikipedia Arc, which HN is written in, is developed in Racket
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by magpi3 8y ago
Sounds like a fairly accurate description of Charlie Brown to be honest. The wiki link for non-Americans who are unfamiliar with the character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown
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by magpi3 8y ago
You can follow it on Steam and they will tell you when it is available, no? A real question. I don't use Steam.
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by magpi3 8y ago
Relevant twilight zone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight...
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by magpi3 8y ago
Thank you
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by magpi3 8y ago
A bit offtopic but: has anyone used SML ( https://www.smlnj.org/ ) for anything serious? I fell in love with this language in University long ago (in the 90s), but I have never seen anyone use it in the wild.
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by magpi3 8y ago
It's corporations have rights to and if they want to have a global reputation, fighting for users' privacy makes business sense. Or at least so I would hope.
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by magpi3 8y ago
You should not trust any nation state that has influence over the corporations that build their processors, but the U.S. at least has a right to privacy built into the constitution that affords its citizens (can corporations) the right to c
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by magpi3 8y ago
I'm not a published writer, but my thought has always been that "serious" writers don't write less. They just publish less. And they publish less because they have a higher standard for their writing and their art (if I
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by magpi3 8y ago
I wonder if a blog entry by Roth would have sufficed as a secondary source. It probably would have. They need something to point to after all. It can't just anecdotally be noted that a wikipedia editor received an email from the author
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by magpi3 8y ago
> If you want to take what you've learnt here and go write a programming language in Racket, you're going to have to go and learn all of that stuff anyway. Why? The book is not about how to program and build languages in racket
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by magpi3 8y ago
> "It’s almost criminal to endebt a student $100,000 to be a painter or a performance artist" I agree and will never understand the students, parents, and faculty who choose to support such a system.
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by magpi3 9y ago
Well written and makes a lot of great points, however... I am no fan of Facebook, but you have to give it and other social networks some credit for giving communities - real communities - tools to organize. For example, we've rapidly g
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by magpi3 9y ago
>How do you account for the European "dark ages", for example? The lack of a printing press? From what I have read, the creation of the printing press is what helped lift Europe out of the dark ages and presumably prevented it
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by magpi3 9y ago
You mean you have been convicted of a crime. Very important distinction
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by magpi3 9y ago
Compilers are a great example of taking a very complicated task and breaking it down into simpler (though not necessary simple) steps. Just going through the practice of building one might change how you look at other projects you've w
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by magpi3 9y ago
If you're a capitalist, this is an amazing reason for valuing the blockchain. It looks just like a decentralized DRM mechanism. I have a lot more reading to do, but that is what I understand from what I have read so far. Cryptokitties
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by magpi3 9y ago
OP must mean GPG or something like that (where users control their own keys), but there is nothing to stop the government from holding you to demand your private key and the passphrase you use to unlock it. The only real answer is to avoid
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by magpi3 9y ago
A chilling read. I use WeChat because I have a few friends in China. I am glad I have read this. I have never talked to them about China's internal politics for fear that something like this might exist. Now I know it is worse than I e

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