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by pasabagi 7y ago
Eh - if you're trans and experiencing dysphoria it can be pretty painful when people misgender you. The whole 'did you assume my gender' thing is a sort of weird take on the fact that yes, it is pretty hurtful when somebody&#
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think personalities would probably be a more dangerous thing to attach votes to than parties.
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I'm also pretty optimistic about democracy. The problem with autocracies is that while any given dictator can be dynamic and capable, and the administration can work well for a while, autocratic regimes tend to stagnate because there a
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I sort of take the contrary view. I think 24 hour news coverage is inherently bad and cannot ever be good, because it doesn't give anchors enough time to react and analyse events, or viewers to digest and critically examine what they h
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Well, it is definitely one of those technologies where it doesn't pay to be an early (first decade) adopter. For all those people who wouldn't board a train, there were also people who didn't take their cocaine prescriptions,
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I have a 4004 print as a rug for my son. It's very pretty. Not sure if he'll like it when he hits the age to have opinions about such things, but I'll probably cadge it at that point.
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Honest question: when are loops not replacement for recursion? My (admittedly naive) mental model of recursion is basically a loop where you bring your entire stack frame with you (or less, in the case of tail recursion).
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think competent leadership is one of those unsolved problems, that has the added malus of being, insofar as we have some ideas, a tough pill to swallow for any given current leadership. Granted, most problems are manageable with excellent
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think this idea is a bit paradoxical - how then, do we ever change our views? I think people simply reject isolated facts that are inconsistent with the paradigm that explains the greater body of facts. Which is reasonable. Einstein refus
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I know that the watergate scandal was in the 70's, but it's generally held to be a landmark of great investigative journalism. A few years ago, it came out that 'deep throat' was actually Mark Felt, a former FBI director
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I didn't really follow the blockchain thing - but now I'm curious - is blockchain (as tech) essentially money with built-in metadata? The whole 'proof-of-work' thing seemed a bit potlatch to me, but building publicly-acc
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by pasabagi 7y ago
>(which seems highly dubious) Seems trivially true, to me. The european feudal system developed out of the late roman imperial system, that would have vicars and dukes, with the dukes representing secular military authority. Also, off t
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by pasabagi 7y ago
This is something I love about living in germany, actually. In the UK (where I was brought up) you're very used to the kind of absurd situations that develop from common sense not being applied to rules. If you talk to somebody in a po
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think there's a big diference - in DCSS, it's extremely important to know whether that 'g' you're looking at just some random gnoll, or crazy Yiuf. In dwarf fotress, it's pretty rare that it really matters. T
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by pasabagi 7y ago
>technology leaches the soul of an environment If you read Plutarch (iirc, not a classicist) you get to read probably the first example of this kind of mororse and reactionary bitching - he too was afraid that the times (they are a'
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I'm not sure german successses are anything to do with action on the part of the government. I've been consistently surprised by the abrupt reversals in policy - with border controls or school closures going from 'out of the
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by pasabagi 7y ago
They do tend to vote for tire-burning candidates, on the whole. I personally feel there's a sort of vicious circle going on between the social isolation of the elderly, the elderly consequently watching too much TV, then (on the whole)
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Stalin spent the latter half of his career killing all the talented politicians, whereas the engineers got left alone. Then the not-so-talented politicians that got left over (some of whom were not so bad) had to fight against a culture of
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by pasabagi 7y ago
It's a really fundamental tradition of french society, going back to the revolution (or even before) that you can think how you like. If you dislike this foundational principle, then you cannot say you like French society 'how it
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think leftism has a particular appeal for culture types because it's traditionally been the case (until 1980 or so) that capitalism didn't really have much of a place for culture - which was traditionally a poor product, and the
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by pasabagi 7y ago
>both Bangladesh and Ireland have benefited from British language, institutions, law, and culture. You must be joking. If you look at historical share of world GDP, or (most strikingly in the case of Ireland) historical population, you g
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by pasabagi 7y ago
On the other hand, I think the most important thing in making developers replaceable is the degree to which the codebase explicitly contains all the information relevant to it. Lifetimes are an additional, important piece of information tha
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I've never really dug into C++, but I've written a little bit of C, and I feel it's generally easier to write a given program in Rust than it is in C. I can see why Rust has its reputation for difficulty - the burrow checker
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Well, one thing is that people don't know the things they might have to hide. Many of the jews murdered in the Holocaust were basically unaware they were even jews, before they started to be persecuted for it. Hannah Arendt was one suc
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I don't really understand your post. Did you mean the US's mean income is double that of France's median income? I think[1] that's factually correct. I'm not sure if it's meaningful though. Also, my intuiti
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by pasabagi 7y ago
Driving is essentially a spiritual activity. By normal standards, it's insane to expect non-experts to maintain and operate heavy machinery, in public streets, half asleep or half paying attention. It's also a pretty absurd way of
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I guess I thought my 'vague statistics' were obvious and undeniable. If not, let's get concrete. Consider Union Carbide. They were responsible for the worst industrial disaster in history, with around 20,000 dead. They then w
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by pasabagi 7y ago
In general, but not in specific. Saying that a specific practice should be illegal is productive. Saying that a particular company is bad is not - they'll simply say, 'we follow the law'. And they'll be right. Then the p
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by pasabagi 7y ago
The vast majority of customers buy products first on quality, second on price, then third on ethics. The third point is very tenuous, since it relies on specific, reliable information that the producer is highly incentivized to obfuscate. I
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by pasabagi 7y ago
I think moralizing about companies is stupid. If a company makes moral decisions, and as such, is less sucessful, they're probably going to get their lunch eaten by their less moral competition. The only antidote to this is laws that e

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