quantumofmalice

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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
As I said in a sibling comment, I view race as too broad a concept to usefully generate social identity, and the fluidity of the concept makes it slippery to deal with. Your second point is a good one, I will think more about it. That sai
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
I expect there to continue to be multi-ethnic cities and neighborhoods within cities, which is a fairly common occurrence throughout history, particular in capital cities of empires, which is what I would describe New York as. There is no
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
I don't believe there is strong evidence that a metaculture (really, multiculturalism) will survive and not devolve into squabbling ethnoses, particularly on the scale of the north american continent. It seems like smaller, more homogo
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
> Unfortunately one person suppressing their unethical behavior is inconsequential. If an opportunity exists, eventually someone will use it. This isn't solely a feature of capitalism. Any system is going to devolve into the stro
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
What bothers me is that this can be interpreted as a "New York thing", to quote Lorne Michaels, and I don't like going down that road.
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
> The industry of addiction treatment is haphazardly regulated, poorly understood and expanding at a rapid clip, bringing in $35 billion a year. Why not focus on the root company and family actually getting rich off selling the damned
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
> BitCoin looks like it was designed as a weapon intended to damage central banking and money issuing banks, with a Libertarian political agenda in mind—to damage states ability to collect tax and monitor their citizens financial transa
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
I had an account previously with karma in that range and never saw anything like that. Looking back at previous submissions, they appear to be historically oriented. Maybe the account got flagged as interesting on that account. On the oth
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
3 upvotes over three hours and it makes the front page? A murder story from the renaissance? What did dang mean by this?
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
The iPhone SE is more than enough phone for 90% of the people out there. I wish they'd make a smaller version of it.
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
> So, what matters with regard to the question whether the mind is an adaptation is not how complex our behaviour is, but how much change you would have to make in an ape’s brain to produce the cognitive structure of a human mind. And a
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
I know that is the standard history, I took economics at Berkeley and was taught all that. I simply don't believe that's the major factor. I think productive capacity and innovation are more important than international trade, b
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
> No, they should reflect on the fact that rich and powerful has united across the globe to enslave all innocent people without even giving them a chance to express their opposition. I think this is going too far the other way. I appr
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
Simplistic ricardian arguments for free trade ignore production dynamics over time, the asymmetry between the mobility of labor and capital, productivity infrastructure, global externalities such as ocean and atmospheric poisoning, asymmetr
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
This is not surprising: Japan is a high trust, low crime ethnostate.
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there are two posts on the intercooler site that specifically addresses this issue that I found very compelling: http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
> I didn’t mean that we need to tolerate brilliant homophobic jerks in the lab so that we can have scientific progress. Well, Sam, you didn't say that. Rather, the totalitarian left, exactly who the article was criticizing, sense
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
REST isn't appropriate as a description of JSON-based apis because JSON isn't a natural hypertext and thus makes HATEOAS difficult to implement. Most JSON APIs described as REST are really RPC APIs with a bit of URL layout taken
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
I have noticed that nothing that I say on HN, except for saying that the scientific evidence is that intelligence is mostly genetic and heritable, gets more downvotes more quickly than discussing secession. I think the topic has been succes
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
Allow me to be a bit autistic here: these APIs are barely REST-ful. They are effectively RPC, which is appropriate, because REST doesn't easily apply to a non-hypertext data format, which disallows HATEOAS. I wish XML-RPC hadn't
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
That's a reductio ad absurdum. There are reasonable levels of division well above tribal levels. Singapore is basically a city state, and I don't notice a collapse of civilization there. Territories with strong social identity w
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
There is a mechanism for dealing with this: secession. A lot of violence will be saved if we start agreeing to amicable divorces. I don't expect us to do that, so, sadly, I expect a lot of violence.
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HATEOAS is for Humans(intercoolerjs.org)
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
It doesn't have to. I've said this in a few other threads lately: I'm using intercooler.js which is basically HTML++ for a lot of my work now, and I barely ever write javascript unless I need a front-end plugin of some sort.
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
I hadn't thought of it in those terms, but I definitely agree. I also like that I don't have to decide up front that I'm going to write my whole app using it and can add it in later on where it makes sense. I don't kno
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
Turbolinks is OK, but I prefer intercooler for HTML-based apps because it gives me a lot more control: https://github.com/LeadDyno/intercooler-js/ I don't use it for everything, but it's great for a lot
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
I'm not big on Sunday retail either. I prefer the older tradition where most stores were closed on Sunday so people could be with their families.
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
There was a time when you could give a christmas bonus to the mail man. I wish that the delivery men were more consistent, I would love to be able to give them a cash gift for all the work they do for me and my family on a regular basis. U
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
There is no historical evidence that everyone always thinks the young appear selfish and without morals. Very often the youth have lead moral revivals (or panics, according to tastes.) I don't mean to be unpleasant, but the idea that
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
There is strong historical evidence for civilizational cycles.

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