ndarwincorn

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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
When was the last time you found a project organically on GitHub?
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
>convicted under Bush What kind of revisionist history is this? She didn't whistleblow until 2010. She wasn't convicted until 2013. Hell she wasn't even assigned to intelligence under Bush. I remember arguing with my famil
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
On top of what other folks have pointed out, you should look at how she was treated during her time in prison. It is to his credit that he made that particular wrong right by commuting her sentence, but as others pointed out his administrat
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Should have? Sure. Given how his administration treated Chelsea Manning idk why we'd expect that.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> If you do you value fellow members differently than non-members. This is where xenophobia comes from, nevermind the fact that however slice it (unless counting military action/colnialism as immigration, like you do) 'communit
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
We should make an effort to redefine how we use 'infrastructure-as-code', because right now Pulumi/Troposphere/Azure PowerShell and Ansible/Terraform/etc. are indistinguishable when viewed that way, despite the
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> a pretty purposeful expression of local and national desires I don't think local desires have anything to do with that. woah's explanation is much better than mine, and getting at the same thing.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Borders are an authoritarian tool of control, so allusions to empire and talking about a democratic society with a safety net being unable to handle open borders is bizarre to say the least. The entire point of the argument is that in aggre
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> You sound like someone with the ability to live anywhere, who consequently has little stake in their current "somewhere." And you sound like someone with the same privilege speaking from a place of paternalism. Restrictive bo
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> If markets are going to be free an open ,the.movement of.person should be too. Facts. Thanks for coming on here and helping balance the rampant xenophobia in this thread. Please know that some of us in the USA are aware of how our gove
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> the border of France and Germany, for example, is very real and those countries have different cultures. You'd be hard-pressed to identify a more artificial border in Europe than that one (maybe the former Yugoslavia). Curious if
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> it's hard to take this kind of opinion seriously The economic argument for free migration is identical to the one for free trade[1]. Do you find it hard to take free trade advocates seriously? [1] https://contexts.org&#x
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Probably closer to 80% :). I get the baited feeling. But you know as well as me that any sort of tiling interaction with Windows beyond snap left/snap right is progress.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Ah I realize how I misunderstood/how that was poorly worded, but I'm well aware of how i3 works, thanks. This may come as a shock to you, but some of us prefer our highly-tailored pre-configured tiling setups to the ad-hoc interac
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> You either have fixed layout ones or dynamic tiling window managers instead of 1 tool trying to do both. I must be missing something, because the 'dynamic' tiling window managers are 1 tool doing both fixed and floating (or s
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> Don't assume that your SaaS runs on the same network as your build machines. That wasn't the assumption. It's laughable because under any condition of where your hosting and build infrastructure live, you'll need to
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
I don't see any of those as reasons to commit dependencies to the same VCS repo your source control lives in. Your first point is particularly laughable. If your network connection to the internet is down and you're a SaaS provide
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Thanks man. What's especially insane about it is that most of the folks commenting and voting are members of the working class. Sure, they might have ill-gotten capital in the form of a deed (ignoring the likelihood that there's a
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
With a picture from 1881 at the top to boot.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
That was 10 years ago but by all means prove my point about empathy.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Though it's changed recently (and even more recently is swinging back to historical usage), historically the word liberals referred to folks that are generally corporate/free-trade friendly (Reagan famously claimed something to th
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
I didn't think empathy had much to do with the tough on crime policies that are bearing this fruit today, or the dehumanizing rhetoric rampant in this thread that justifies doubling down on those failed policies. Time and time again, f
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
For folks down this far, the prevailing hive mind in this thread is why when someone asks what I do for work here I try to distance myself from the rest of you as far as I can.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
My empathy is reserved for victims of the prison industrial complex (that includes your concept of victims, btw). I do see how your sort of hardline dehumanization of undesirables...sorry, 'tough on crime'...approach in the latter
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> Repeatedly letting criminals free to walk the streets That's a funny way of implying that everyone that the justice system imprisons are criminals in a world where we imprison 22% of the global incarcerated population despite acco
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
In a perfect world, no. In the world we live in, yes I disagree. Our criminal justice system further entrenches these problems. Before you claim that these petty crimes don't apply, the majority of folks in jail and prison are there on
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
The article is satirizing sentiment reflected in data gathered by Seattle U and reported on by the Seattle Times[1]. This was linked in that Needling article. [1] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/mean
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Please go ask the lifers at the May Day riots how they feel about the effective management of the city before all these darn transplants showed up.
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
Those of us still here that prefer empathy would rather you follow your 'fellow-minded' folks and just leave. Seattle's had this tension between the left and the liberals for a century. Traditionally you lived on the outskirt
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by ndarwincorn 7y ago
> Give people a choice which society they're allowed to live in. By this metric, this would be a prohibitively small WTO.

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