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by moldbug 14y ago
You'll have to cast out that beam in your eye first. Cabrini-Green is no big deal? http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2010/10/end-of-cabrini-gre... Your choice: grow up without a "right" to vote (not actually a right but a power, and of n
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by moldbug 14y ago
Wow, enlightened white people. We sure are good at patting ourselves on the back, aren't we? Reality check: in 1962, every American city, north or south, with a substantial black population had a thriving black business district and a comm
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by moldbug 14y ago
I hope you enjoy your very pleasant, if initially surprising, stay in San Francisco, Cebu. Watch out for sea snakes! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco,_Cebu As someone who has done research in the field, did you read the Gizmodo
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by moldbug 14y ago
Great - independent, open-source defense lawyering. Make sure when you read a press release like this, though, that if there isn't a press release saying the courts have convicted an innocent man, there isn't a press release at all. Which
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by moldbug 14y ago
Alas, the reason I've avoided addressing your argument (as you put it) is that it would require me to be ruder than I'd like. You're being polite (to me), so let's see if we can work around that. Your whole vision of the way "the right-win
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by moldbug 14y ago
Decades ! ZOMG, decades. That's like, totally ancient. Can I stereotype you again? You've read a ten-page excerpt of Burke in your sophomore poli-sci reader. Like claiming to know all about Mexico because you once spent a week in Acapu
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by moldbug 14y ago
I didn't put the word horrible in your mouth. Nor did I make you suggest that American conservatives are deluded by dark, sinister forces which have cleverly led them to believe the evil things they believe. You were being patronizing, w
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by moldbug 14y ago
4. Because none of these people live in Germany: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw5pZpGh5Hg
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by moldbug 14y ago
You certainly sound like a citizen of the world to me. Are you sure you wouldn't rather consider yourself a citizen of the world? One of the strange things you might discover, if as an American communist ("liberal" being, of course, a euph
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by moldbug 14y ago
Bear in mind that whatever it is the enlightened citizens of your enlightened country (presumably European) believe today, that country was far more right-wing than America until (approximately) 1945. Indeed for approximately the last mill
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by moldbug 14y ago
Robinson Jeffers, from "Original Sin," 1946: The man-brained and man-handed ground-ape, physically The most repulsive of all hot-blooded animals Up to that time of the world: they had dug a pitfall And caught a mammoth, but how could their
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Ja'ar: journey into an al-Qaeda city-state(foreignpolicy.com)
1 points by moldbug 14y ago|0 comments
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by moldbug 14y ago
(I would certainly hope anyone who happened to agree with me would be far above downvoting for content.)
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by moldbug 14y ago
Because there's nothing hyperbolic about "theft and destruction and rape and torture and murder were routine." As we see, this kind of hyperbole is so normative in your social context that it passes entirely unnoticed. To respond to hyper
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by moldbug 14y ago
Thanks for the interesting conversation, jacobolus - but I'm pretty confident that you didn't spend your childhood in colonial society. I think what you mean is that you spent your childhood in a society whose class disparities were vaguel
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by moldbug 14y ago
Another great example is this freakazoid, whom I only just discovered in some parlor-Bolshevik writing from the '20s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Flores_Mag%C3%B3n In the Mexican Revolution you have the divide in America between
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by moldbug 14y ago
I'm not defending the Spanish conquest - it would definitely be cool if the Incas and Aztecs had been left alone. Not that the Incas and Aztecs were exactly paragons of respect for human rights, you know. (Or do you know?) I'm simply obse
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by moldbug 14y ago
It's very hard to find good English-language secondary sources on the period. Basically the choice is between liberals, who have a big axe to grind, and various Catholic whackjobs, who ditto. A comment above links to some of the latter. O
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by moldbug 14y ago
This is standard 20th century history. It's also the standard Communist line (Galeano, Zinn, etc). Its only correspondence with reality is the statement that everything wrong with Latin America is the US's fault. While this is true, ever
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by moldbug 14y ago
The App Store isn't evil because it filters. It's evil because it's a monopoly filter. If there were lots of competing App Stores with their own beliefs, filters, prejudices, ideologies, etc - no problem. Of course this is exactly the cas
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by moldbug 14y ago
Not only is poetry dead as a market, it's arguably even deader as a form. The profession of poetry is all about making the connections you need to get a book published, at which point you can work (for pennies) at a community college teach
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by moldbug 14y ago
Neighbor, please. "Most professionals" live and work within ten miles of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5MGJ87hPGw . If you worked for me and weren't comfortable with this kind of diversity, I'd cap your ass. Period. Tech culture
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by moldbug 14y ago
Almost all my relatives are dead. Including all who remember the Jackson administration. Some of them died justly, others not. I'm not an Albanian and have no interest in investing emotional energy in multi-generational blood feuds. Eg,
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by moldbug 14y ago
As a famous American statesman once put it: "Justice Marshall has made his decision - now let him enforce it." It's commonly supposed that the Supreme Court could void these illegal patents - could dissolve this entire illegal industry -
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by moldbug 14y ago
Awesome. It'll sure be nifty when 2029 rolls around and the patent expires, so applications can actually use the algorithm. (No, I don't have any information that an sFFT patent has been filed, but this would be standard practice at MIT). T
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Original Saturn V booster capped in Alabama drive-by(msnbc.msn.com)
3 points by moldbug 14y ago|0 comments
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by moldbug 14y ago
The OP is clearly a troll. The question remains interesting, though. My theory is that Haskell has a lot of usability problems. A programming language is a UI for programmers. Usability issues are always a sufficient explanation for mark
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by moldbug 14y ago
You'd dare to be wrong: http://134.173.180.115/berger/pdf/Halpern2007.SciSexDif.Pub....
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by moldbug 14y ago
There's only one small problem with your reasoning: the Lysenkoists called their work "science" as well. As do of course the other two. Unless you adopt a tautological definition, in which "science" does not include pseudoscience, "science
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by moldbug 14y ago
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2010/02/02/president-obam... http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2012/02/with-tiny-budgets-like... You're welcome. Actually, the funding for the actual climate skeptics who are actually fighting this goliat

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