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by ralusek 6y ago
Which is obviously pretty complicated. Take Hong Kong, for example. They much preferred the colony of the British to the Chinese.
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by ralusek 6y ago
There is no game of leftism? The game is for the oppressed class to take power from the oppressor class. Who fits into which of those classes is a contentious issue, though as I said, more frequently predicated on identity than anything els
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by ralusek 6y ago
I think the current primary strategy is to destabilize Western liberalism. Every tenet of liberalism is actively under attack, and successfully so. Individualism? Long gone, the name of the game is collectivism and your identity groups are
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by ralusek 6y ago
There is no consistent conception of the masses to the left. Traditionally, there is the labor class and the capital class. In the modern left, oppressors and oppressed are typically determined by identity group, but the game is the same. T
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by ralusek 6y ago
And would you describe things as having gotten better this last year? And I don't mean in the sense that you see less of what you think there should be less of online, because then of course it's gotten better if that's the v
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by ralusek 6y ago
I think his title should be "www" rather than "Sir"
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by ralusek 6y ago
Right. A PhD is proof that you spent years of your life theoretically advancing the boundary of knowledge in your given field. A knighthood is that an old lady thinks you're neat.
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by ralusek 6y ago
They're not just possible in theory, they're where my socks end up.
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by ralusek 6y ago
Unless things go horribly South, and they probably will, future people will have billions of hours of reference material by which to better understand us.
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by ralusek 6y ago
As long as Blender is in GSOC I remain happy...not that they need the help anymore.
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by ralusek 6y ago
There is no way to make the city work for everyone. The city has so many constraints on it, there is no way for everyone to be happy. For one, it's incredibly geographically constrained. Because it's constrained, housing supply is
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by ralusek 6y ago
NIMBYism isn't congruent with liberalism. Liberalism is an anti-authoritarian, market philosophy. NIMBYism is about leveraging authoritarian policy to dictate what others can do. If housing in SF were left to market forces, there would
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by ralusek 6y ago
Liberalism isn't a leftist ideology, why on earth would you expect a liberal to be a leftist?
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by ralusek 6y ago
The consensus on there not being an increase in the crime rate is that police are no longer responding to crimes...so there is no increase in the statistics of criminality...
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by ralusek 6y ago
I'm so sick of this ironic brutalist web design. That HTML blue. It's so frequently paired with that gross salmon color.
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by ralusek 6y ago
Growing distrust of institutions. General increase in postmodern philosophy, deconstructing concepts of inherent value. Stock market valuations increasingly decoupling from underlying business to the point that everyone realized we were jus
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by ralusek 6y ago
Woman says she's on birth control, isn't, and gets pregnant. Was the man raped? Man says he's a millionaire, but isn't. Was the woman raped?
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by ralusek 6y ago
I was going to ask the same about colored hair, facial asymmetry, hammer and sickles on shirts, and scowls.
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by ralusek 6y ago
What was the lack of freedom you experienced in India? Not asking rhetorically.
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by ralusek 6y ago
No practical identity smaller than the individual; a concept that has been a foundational pillar of liberalism until, like, 10 years ago. Collectivism of all kinds is destroying western civilization.
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by ralusek 6y ago
MedifriendRx | Remote | Full Time Software Engineer We have an automated dispensing kiosk for pharmaceuticals that can be placed in healthcare sites and managed by a remote pharmacy. The kiosk can handle dispensing of high-volume medication
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by ralusek 6y ago
Do you mind elaborating a bit? My understanding is that ECS would be providing data in a way not unlike most web applications do, such that building a React UI over that data model should be quite easy.
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by ralusek 6y ago
Markets are garbage collected.
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by ralusek 6y ago
It does. Real estate in many places has nearly doubled. Stocks are up to ridiculous heights. As is crypto. Silver doubled. All during a pandemic. There are only a handful of businesses which actually grew in value (purely online, Amazon, et
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by ralusek 6y ago
GeForce Now. I've known about these "cloud gaming" utilities for some time, but have always just owned my own hardware. I typically don't bother asking my friends to play games with me, because the only ones with a gamin
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by ralusek 6y ago
The part of critical importance is ECDSA (or any public/private key DSA), and p2p networks. With that technology alone, you have the basis for a functional decentralized currency. The blockchain assembly with proof of work, while an in
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by ralusek 6y ago
Proof of Work and Proof of Stake are not too different in terms of what it would take in order to control the network. Stake and access to computing power are both just functions of being able to assemble sufficient resources so as to repre
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by ralusek 6y ago
What's interesting is that all of the magic of crypto comes from: - Signed transactions being broadcast onto a p2p network - This network being visible to anyone who is interested The much less important part of crypto is exactly how t
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by ralusek 6y ago
It's just a public/private key generated. How would they ever find out who you are?
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by ralusek 6y ago
Echo chambers and problematic news feeds are completely capable of existing without AI. People are the problem. All you need is a simple algorithm that looks for content that has overlap with content you like, no AI necessary, and that is s

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