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by testbot123 6y ago
> “Tear gas is considered a riot control agent because the effects dissipate a short time after exposure,’’ said Kelsey Davenport, director for nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association. “But even though the effects of tear
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by testbot123 6y ago
> I've been saying this about covid for a while, this is my main point. I'm not following this, and am not going to pivot the conversation to covid. > The article is about a police assassination in direct response to police
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by testbot123 6y ago
> I think anyone who wrongs another is ...wrong [...] Is there something wrong with that? No, but that is an overly simplistic reduction of the current situation in the United States, and any conversation around this situation requires
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by testbot123 6y ago
I think you're being downvoted because you're in a thread about police brutality and are attempting to frame this as the fault of the people being brutalized.
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by testbot123 6y ago
> your kind of rhetoric is directly adjacent to the standard communist revolutionary rhetoric employed across e.g. South America. Yeah, I'm a Marxist. I align with many (not all) ideas about proletarian revolution. > Amazing that
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by testbot123 6y ago
You're failing to understand that the ordered system of justice that you're prescribing only works for a small portion of (wealthy, powerful) American society, because the processes of that order are intertwined with a systematic,
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by testbot123 6y ago
Not in /Letter from a Birmingham Jail/ (1963), but he would later go on to state the following (1967): "Let me say as I've always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defe
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by testbot123 6y ago
"I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the Whit
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by testbot123 6y ago
To justify violence against protestors and to sway public opinion against legitimate grievances with law enforcement.
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by testbot123 6y ago
> hurting their fellow innocents Are you talking about property damage, or actual violence like police killing unarmed black folks?
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by testbot123 6y ago
You realize that radicals and those protesting are part of the "public", right? That their expression of grievances are part of "public opinion"? As for the people who are disgusted? Nobody cares. They're apologists
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by testbot123 6y ago
> Without further investigation, this graph can bait people into jumping to misinformed conclusions. Likewise with the data you've linked. Submission of data to the UCR database is completely voluntary and does not represent an accu
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by testbot123 6y ago
> When you need quick answers, get on a video call and get real-time answers Having worked with a distributed team (13 hours time difference) working on the same product under the same deadlines, it's not possible to just hop on a c
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by testbot123 6y ago
They're called "video news releases" (VNRs): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_news_release .
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by testbot123 6y ago
Couterpoint: encourage more people to use WebGL for trivial things! Learn new concepts, break old ways of thinking, experiment with half-baked ideas, allow yourself room to grow. Don't let people tell you that the web is one single thi
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by testbot123 6y ago
Oh man, try WebGL if you haven't already. If you're into math and writing highly-performant code, shaders/GLSL is going to be right up your alley. And you can make really cool and fun stuff with it in the frontend, too! http
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by testbot123 6y ago
Same reason I donate to NPR: to support quality journalism.
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by testbot123 6y ago
A lot of those old paradigms you've mentioned have just evolved into new forms, based on lessons learned. Moving from mixins to HOCs, for example, should be relatively easy because they're based on the same concepts [1] and are so
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by testbot123 6y ago
Feel free to pick a bone.
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by testbot123 6y ago
Immutability is used in JavaScript and especially React because it's a core computer science concept with real-world benefits, not because it's "sexy" or a fad. Arguably the largest benefit in React-land is being able to
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by testbot123 6y ago
> So its ok if local thieves and looters take the treasures with no thought of their preservation or provenance? No. But two wrongs don't make a right. > a methodical effort of record-keeping and analysis is wrong, simply because
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by testbot123 6y ago
This is somewhat disingenuous. They give the simple example below: $(".fooButton").click(function() { $.ajax("/update-foos", { method: "POST" }); }); and then give the "same" examp
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by testbot123 6y ago
Except Apple's design system has taken a backseat in the post-Jobs iPhone cash grab era, and becomes less and less consistent with every release. And we're saying that people who use Catalina are expecting a gold-standard, perform
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by testbot123 6y ago
Nope, also outdoor. If you're queuing up for e.g. shopping, you must distance and wear a mask. From the first article I linked: "Are you leaving the house? Facial coverings are required to be worn by anyone older than 12 while wai
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by testbot123 6y ago
This is a very charitable interpretation of Elon Musk's recent outbursts.
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by testbot123 6y ago
California had early, aggressive social distancing orders and large parts of California had/have manditory mask orders in place. Bay area: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/22/coronavirus-bay-area-...
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by testbot123 6y ago
Do I have the right to not be killed by people who are illegally disregarding stay-at-home orders? Doesn't someone killing me violate my right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
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by testbot123 6y ago
How about "drunk driving puts others at risk and you shouldn't drive a car when you're drunk."
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by testbot123 6y ago
The place with universal healthcare?
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by testbot123 6y ago
Honestly, if you're struggling with a config file for the transpiler (babelrc), one for the entire project (package.json), legibility (prettier and eslint), and type-checking (tsconfig), I have no idea how you're ever going to be

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