mrcrumb1

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by mrcrumb1 4y ago
I said this in another reply but the comment I replied to was referring to "unapologetic white males"
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by mrcrumb1 4y ago
The comment I replied to was referring to "unapologetic white males"
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by mrcrumb1 4y ago
Structural violence arguably causes death and bodily injury at a large scale. Surely you can see the difference there.
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by mrcrumb1 4y ago
Relying on entrepreneurship for your livelihood and retirement as you age sounds like it'll only work for a select few
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by mrcrumb1 4y ago
I grew up in a family of laborers and this feels very far from my experience. Can you do this through your 50s? Yes, if you avoid a major injury (your risk of this is high in these jobs). Even if you do avoid injury, your ability to do the
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by mrcrumb1 4y ago
> Brendan was not fired and was not asked by the Board to resign. Brendan voluntarily submitted his resignation. The Board acted in response by inviting him to remain at Mozilla in another C-level position. Brendan declined that offer. T
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by mrcrumb1 4y ago
I'm not speaking of anything specific. Clearly enough people dislike the experience enough to avoid using apps based on it altogether. That's not my view or experience of electron apps broadly, but I'm single user on a specif
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by mrcrumb1 4y ago
I understand why devs choose Electron and the benefits seems worth it overall and I'm glad it exists (and as you point out, a video editor might be an especially appropriate application for electron). That being said, it has a cost, an
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by mrcrumb1 4y ago
I don't have 100% control of my coworkers or library writers. Knowing whether a library or a coworker can hand me back an optional value seems like a pretty basic thing for a language to tell you
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by mrcrumb1 4y ago
Yes, but the ergonomics of working with nullable data in Java are generally bad, and you have to do it everywhere
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by mrcrumb1 4y ago
This line of thinking seems pretty prevalent but the way I see it, there's no such thing as carrying the relationship. If you're the one with the social need, the onus is on you to get that need filled. This generally means doing
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by mrcrumb1 4y ago
If only there were a language feature that could tell you which case it was and ensure you handled it correctly...
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by mrcrumb1 4y ago
I mean you can die on that hill, but I'd hazard a guess that nearly everyone considers SF a part of Silicon Valley
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by mrcrumb1 4y ago
Why do functional programming examples always use such short names? I feel like it adds extra cognitive overhead to trying to learn something that's got plenty of foreign concepts to grok.
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by mrcrumb1 5y ago
I don't see how it's a fallacy in this case; this is definitional in the construction of meritocratic admissions: the people admitted have more merit than the ones that are not. OP phrased it as a matter of effort, and I was just
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by mrcrumb1 5y ago
I'm not sure where you got the idea that I was implying anything about innate characteristics of racial groups. I was trying to point out that the picture the article and the parent comment were painting was too simplistic. In general,
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by mrcrumb1 5y ago
I tend to agree with you; I was pointing out that the comment I replied to was painting a pretty simplistic picture of why the admissions numbers might look the way they do, when in reality it's probably a more complicated picture.
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by mrcrumb1 5y ago
The narrative in the article is that race based admissions replaced meritocratic admission in this case, and the achievements that the Asian American students received were due solely to their hard work. If this is the case, then the obviou
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by mrcrumb1 5y ago
Your comment (and the article) seems to imply that Asian Americans try harder than other immigrant groups and Black people in the United States. Do you think that is a foregone conclusion?
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by mrcrumb1 5y ago
To be clear, we're talking about funding of the arts here. Without going down the rabbit hole of debating all of your critiques of the civil servant, if you really have this view of the public sector of the government of the US, then p
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by mrcrumb1 5y ago
The way you frame it is only a problem if civil servants are not part of society and that people don't have an influence about what the government spends money on, that is: you don't live in some form a representative democracy. C
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by mrcrumb1 5y ago
Are you suggesting that people rely on unprecedented medical advancements as a policy solution?
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by mrcrumb1 5y ago
Can you give me an example of a scenario where you would be in favor of restriction like the ones that have been implemented?
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by mrcrumb1 5y ago
Except that Atlanta still has problems with segregation today
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by mrcrumb1 5y ago
Am I misreading this or are you implying that if people had absolute rights to discriminate in their private interactions that racism would have disappeared on its own?
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by mrcrumb1 5y ago
AnIdiotOnTheNet said a lot of what I'd say, but one thing I'd add is: to lose the ~90 lbs that I did, I had to realize that I would just be hungry for a long time. If I had listened to my normal hunger impulses, I would have kept