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by newen 7y ago
The people who fund the politicians and media who talk about identity politics are the upper class. They would be incentivized to talk about anything but class.
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by newen 7y ago
People have been saying for decades that China is going to collapse due to some variation of them not being creative, flexible, etc. It's mostly a fantasy generated due to an internal contradiction of seeing a country with very differe
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by newen 7y ago
That's really a motte and bailey situation then, isn't it? You say that you are talking about eliminating inequality, but then you use that to argue that reducing inequality isn't possible while still allowing yourself to ret
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by newen 7y ago
Why does there have to be some permanent solution to a problem? There is no permanent solution to crime, for example. You just have law enforcement because we as a society decided that crime is bad. Similarly, if we decide that inequality i
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by newen 7y ago
But you are ignoring the difference in power that people have in this context. Especially in this age, when inequality is so high, it is naive to consider money to be an unbiased tool. Especially when we already live in a massively unequal
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by newen 7y ago
That's why people build movements, why activism is a thing. Money shortcuts all of that and gives undue voice to people with the most money.
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by newen 7y ago
I am sure people can debate for decades about where to draw the line. But many other countries have banned political ads and they drew the line somewhere.
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by newen 7y ago
Don't they park domain names? I remember trying to buy a domain name and coming across that name a couple of times.
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by newen 7y ago
Only reason I remember Pando was from the War Nerd moving to that site. Though they hid everything behind a paywall, so I didn't stay for long.
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by newen 7y ago
vecs.i.(j,k) = images.i.j.k This converts a 3D array to a 2D array, with the indices of the 2nd dimension being tuples. This syntax is really nice. If the array shapes are types though, then what happens when you have to read a ma
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by newen 7y ago
It's supposed to be funny
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by newen 7y ago
Should people be having children in a world that contains nuclear weapons? Or starvation? Or Nazis? What horror.
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by newen 7y ago
> entrepreneur You are not an entrepreneur if you work at a startup. You are just a worker, and more often than not, a worker who is not well compensated for the work you do.
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by newen 7y ago
Man yikyak was really popular in my university. It was great and people could express anonymous opinions, have discussions, have in group memes, jokes, etc. Then they had the genius idea of forcing names on everyone and it literally died ov
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by newen 7y ago
There are lots and lots of people who have claimed that porting to python 3 is easy. Stop twisting the truth.
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by newen 7y ago
Yeah. I don't like this obsession that so many developers have with adding features without end. I think it's mostly so that they can have something to do; don't think about the bigger problems, just have something to do so t
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by newen 7y ago
> ban assault dogs Unironically, yeah.
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by newen 7y ago
> those with lack of critical thinking skills as they are actually a minority Where do you even come up with this?
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by newen 7y ago
It's also with the understanding that that person has a consistent set of values, and wouldn't just drop all their values for a few million more dollars.
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by newen 7y ago
Not if you play chess. 1. d4 is played probably more than half the time in professional games. It can lead to lots of different openings, closed and open (but not at the same time).
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by newen 7y ago
Got any links to the research? Would be helpful to me and other readers. Thanks.
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by newen 7y ago
I was saying that the reason the IRS would audit richer people more is because they would pay more taxes even though they might have lower tax rates.
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by newen 7y ago
Lower tax rates, not necessarily lower taxes.
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by newen 7y ago
The first thread was better. http://rbt.asia/g/thread/S38087806
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by newen 7y ago
Haskell's type system is unsound? I don't know about this and if it's true then it is some rarely used case. Don't throw away types altogether because of some rarely used case... Types are very very useful.
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by newen 7y ago
It's their choice to spend their days watching football because there is a culture of anti-intellectualism. It's not as simple as it's their choice so don't criticize it.
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by newen 7y ago
So `tree` is either a `tuple` or an `object`? Seems pretty terrible in terms of typing.
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by newen 7y ago
Chess is already very difficult, combinatorially. Chess players learn patterns with the current pieces. Those patterns include patterns that work both locally and globally. When learning a particular pattern, chess players typically can gen
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by newen 7y ago
No, huge majority of those patterns are going to transfer over to the 10x10 board.
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by newen 7y ago
Yep, my experience was similar to yours and I miss grad school due to that flexibility. I don't know where else to find such flexibility while getting paid decently.

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