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by squillion 2y ago
The can comply or resign. Or strike.
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by squillion 2y ago
True, but condemning it as a war crime would do a lot to limit its use. Poison gas is also cheap and easy to deploy, but it’s rarely used because of the stigma.
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by squillion 2y ago
There were a lot of insinuations that Russia did it [1]. But fine, might have been six guys on a boat who dove 260 ft deep with enough explosive to cause craters "with a depth of 3 to 5 metres" [2] - in bad weather. What's no
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by squillion 2y ago
To be fair to React, this is 100% the developers' fault. State must be minimal, by definition.
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by squillion 2y ago
I've encountered all the issue listed in the post. The worst for me is redundant (overdetermined) state, that is, when a state variable is actually derivable from other state variables. It's pointless, confusing, and broadens the
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by squillion 3y ago
> Assume all people in the world die except 2 people... That's a great argument I had never heard before, thanks! The way I see it is that any given economy has an amount of real resources (labor, raw materials, know-how...) that ar
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by squillion 3y ago
It's not about monads, it's about effectful code, which is represented by special types (e.g. IO in Haskell, Eff in PureScript). Effectful code can call pure code, but not vice-versa. Since a program will have to do something , t
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by squillion 3y ago
This. The truth is that those clubs are more elitist than the opera house.
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by squillion 3y ago
> So you are saying that it’s Israel’s fault that jews are being subjected to antisemitism? Absolutely not. My point is that besides antisemitism (widespread, and disgraceful), the demonstrations stem from well-founded humanitarian conce
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by squillion 3y ago
It's true, there's a lot antisemitism in Germany. But besides the nice words and the threats of deportations, the government could do something more concrete that would demonstrate its good will. How about calling for a ceasefire,
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by squillion 3y ago
I read the daily Links post of https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/ It's mainly focused on economics and geopolitics, from a leftist perspective.
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by squillion 3y ago
The pictures with the finger at the end are even more confusing. They conflate the mapping from body parts to cerebral cortex (the cortical homunculus) with the mapping from the homunculus to some other part of the brain were the 3D environ
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by squillion 3y ago
After an explanation that without L/R crossing the body map in the brain would be flipped upside down, comes this revealing passage: "To make sense of the sensation [...] your brain would have to switch from one somatotopic map to
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by squillion 4y ago
> You wouldn't know it from today's frontend discourse, but the modern era has never been without high-quality alternatives to React, Angular, Ember, and other legacy desktop-era frameworks. "You wouldn't know it from
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by squillion 4y ago
Yeah, what a self-absorbed, giant jerk. He missed his daughter's competition but of course he'd do it again anytime for the lulz. BTW the basic facts might be true but the details reek of bullshit.
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by squillion 4y ago
> Why Heinz spent 185,000 hours redesigning this ketchup bottle cap I bet the new cap is also cheaper to produce. They'll recoup the 1.2 million soon.
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by squillion 4y ago
The anecdotes in this story sound perfectly plausible to me. I've been hearing this kind of stories for years now, and no, not from "republican" sources. By the way, there's no shortage of anti-woke leftists. Just one ex
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by squillion 4y ago
Of course it was. Setting standards involves competing interests, bargaining, power dynamics... Obviously the stronger party will have the upper hand. It's also funny how the article praises the freight container standard as kind of id
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by squillion 4y ago
I completely agree that Graeber's barter myth "debunking" is bullshit. However, even as a thought experiment, the barter story was never very enlightening - actually more confusing than anything. It suggests that money is a c
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by squillion 4y ago
The problem with this topic is that it's highly contested. Be prepared for foundational and often ideological controversies. You know, a lot's at stake. To get an idea of the mainstream and where the general mood is, I'd star