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by rukittenme 6y ago
> Nothing about my argument relies on racial language or philosophy. It does because you're relying on racial identity to determine who pays and who receives rather than who stole and who was stolen from. The matter of who did what
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by rukittenme 6y ago
The problem isn't remediation for an injustice. The problem is the overt and explicitly racial language and philosophy behind your arguments for remediation. The problem is the inability to remediate history. There is no such thing
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> The right of sovereignty of Native peoples over themselves and their lands, as recognized and respected by treaties signed onto in (ostensible) good faith by the United States, and natural law itself. Regardless of "whose" te
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by rukittenme 6y ago
The recognition of what right? How is it right to govern without consent ? Take a moment to consider that the world can not go back to 1950 as some Republicans would like and it can not go back to 1850 as apparently some Democrats would
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> Proximity in time and space add important context to the issue. It really doesn't and saying otherwise doesn't add anything to the conversation (see what I did there). Do you really believe the Russian and German empires shou
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by rukittenme 6y ago
Personally I disagree with their approach. A tax on an unrealized gain is a farce. But I do agree with the sentiment. Alternative forms of taxation need to be introduced.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
Many people (particularly in the lower income brackets) prefer to be paid in cash as opposed to equity[1]. Given the chance, most people prefer not to shoulder the risk of an equity stake at the expense of a reduced or non-existent salary.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
You've just discovered the problem with income taxes. A tax on labor favors capital. Good luck convincing any of your political allies that the income tax should be replaced with something more progressive.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
I mean are flat earthers really so evil that they need to be scrubbed from existence? If somebody is dumb enough to believe the earth is flat then they're surely not in any position where knowing the earth is round would be important
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> It is so easy to dismiss people, but seriously -- if millions are complaining -- just accept there is probably something there. Millions of people complaining about "Muslim terrorism" led to you being inappropriately placed o
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> We haven't done anything special to deserve a job more than they have. By being born to an area you have done something special. You have received the special benefit of local education and infrastructure, you have familial and s
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by rukittenme 6y ago
I think the GP would use your source to prove his point as well. An absolute disparity of 2.8x but it does not consider the level of violent crime a particular racial category commits. Your source also suggests unarmed white people are nea
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by rukittenme 6y ago
I think HN readers are smart enough to discern the relative difference in threat between redneck cops and a nuclear-armed, fascist state. Also if you think tech isn't concered about "BLM" then you haven't visited a singl
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by rukittenme 6y ago
It is. The single-threaded example comes before the "versus". The async example comes after. I should have been more clear.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
If you are I/O bound, concurrency has a use case. I don't argue against it. I'm pointing out that its pointless to write concurrent code if you don't expect a performance benefit from it. It's like multi-threading
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by rukittenme 6y ago
Signals are not dependent on concurrency. And you don't need multiple processes to implement a state machine. I mean think about it. Whats the difference between sending message A and then message B versus sending messages A and B in
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by rukittenme 6y ago
Whats the point of writing concurrent code if its not faster?
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by rukittenme 6y ago
This is great news for software engineers, IMO. More battery life (hopefully), comparable performance (hopefully), and lower cost (hopefully). Contrary to popular belief, I think Apple has embraced those three principles in recent release
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by rukittenme 6y ago
I respect your opinion but... If the police were not there my life would have been at imminent risk. And if the police show up their lives are at imminent risk. So the cops have to show up and they have to wear riot gear. I've ha
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by rukittenme 6y ago
I've had the opposite experience in Chicago. I live in a high rise in the loop. I was able to watch the "protests", "riots", whatever from above. I'm sure I'll get flagged but these are my honest impres
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> White people in ths United States riot to get haircuts. Loving the casual racism. Keep up the great work.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
Stop calling me an "ally". I'm a human being. I belong to the same group you do. You can appeal to me the same way you appeal to everyone else. Thanks.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
Its almost as if people can live in countries other than China and the USA. But of course, you're right. All criticism of the Chinese state must be couched in the language of America's own failures. They're just like us aft
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> Valuing 'original' is capitalistic invention. I think "valuing originality" is a human trait. Putting a monetary value on it is a capitalist invention.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> I'm not going to pay someone who works on-site vs. remote the same. Sound like you'll be bringing lower quality remote engineers into a lower quality remote environment. Don't be surprised when that strategy blows up.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
I love how most papers start with this contradiction. Really sets the tone.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> std::sync::mpsc, anyone?! Can anyone expand on this? I'm not well versed in Rust lore and have just used that module in a recent learning project.
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by rukittenme 6y ago
Great. This seems like a good place to wrap up then. I think we can both conclude that automated censorship systems will fail because they fail to capture "context clues, human judgement, imperfection, inaccuracy". And, I think y
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> Are you saying that the identity "genderfluid" is invalid, and one must pick one of the binary genders to identify with? Not at all. I think you've just misunderstood what gender fluidity is. Gender fluid is a class of
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by rukittenme 6y ago
> Would be hate speech based on gender identity, the immutable trait. Are gender fluid people considered under this definition? Having a gender identity might be immutable but gender identity is not static. It can change. That by de

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