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by sandisk5 10y ago
> Try googling "over-represented race in incarcerations", "over-represented race in police shootings" Why did you leave off "over-represented race in violent crimes"? > Michael Jackson tried to turn himse
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by sandisk5 10y ago
America is a very different place now than in 1946. I googled "most popular people in America" and Google shows me pictures and out of the top ten, half are African-American including Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, M
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by sandisk5 10y ago
Because performance isn't the only requirement and Java is fast enough. Correctness, maintenance, extensibility, developer productivity, tooling, deployment, and recruiting are all also important.
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by sandisk5 10y ago
> It also means that the main designer of the Scala language is not working on Scala No, it means that person is not working only on Scala, or rather the current implementation of Scala. People can work on multiple projects over the co
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by sandisk5 10y ago
If they all arrived at the same time each night (dinner) then new entrants may simply think that the others just got there and simply haven't changed the channel to the normal channel yet, perhaps they didn't see the remote or wer
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by sandisk5 10y ago
I'm no expert. Mandela cofounded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umkhonto_we_Sizwe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umkhonto_we_Sizwe#Bombings has a list of atrocities committed by them. During mo
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by sandisk5 10y ago
> Of course we don't call the Apartheid government "terrorists" for these crimes. Almost everyone agrees that the Apartheid government was horrible. Almost no one holds them up as a positive example. Conversely, almost eve
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by sandisk5 10y ago
> I'm presuming you're an American, seeing as you seem to equate being a Communist with being a terrorist. He said: Mandela was a communist and a terrorist. He's not saying what you're claiming. Mandela was a terroris
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by sandisk5 11y ago
(some-> article :author :address :city upper-case println) So that you don't print nil if some-> returns nil.
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by sandisk5 11y ago
> It seems like they've managed to starve out a good chunk of innovation on this front. If you look the way magit dialogs are handled, they're quite innovative and could be useful in many other contexts (like shell commands). M
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by sandisk5 11y ago
> An atrocious version of "fuzzy matching" (you have to separate terms with spaces, which are then turned into ".asterisk" (can't type a single asterisk in HN comments) and everything's concatenated into a r
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by sandisk5 11y ago
Use cases I thought of and I haven't even used it or similar plugins: You want to use Atom's Markdown preview of a reddit comment or a github issue or anything else that takes Markdown. You want autosave of a comment/input in
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by sandisk5 11y ago
> the general welfare (food, shelter, etc) Those are not the general welfare, they are the particular welfare of the person eating the food or living in the shelter.