throwaway19972

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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> I never understood why people are so stubborn about hating on orm. Objects are just bad abstractions for representing database interactions. They never map cleanly and any attempt to cover up the incoherence introduces further problems
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
What does the word "politics" mean to you if it does not describe the four bullets you listed that strike me as very political, like basically the essence of what politics is? Or was this meant as satire and it just went way ove
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> You think it would be better to have an open boarder? Yes, absolutely. Talking about "defending" your country from economic migrants is like "defending" your country from having a strong economy. Meanwhile, border s
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Does "strong typing" now just mean "static typing"? Afaik both lua and python are already strongly typed. Javascript is not and I have no clue about ruby.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> Seems to me if you see someone crossing the border illegally that’s only really useful if you can apprehend them before you lose track of them. Will nobody acknowledge how ridiculous a concept absolute security of a border is? Nobody w
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Is there any culture on earth that prioritizes idealism over "pragmatism", if we must use that term? What does this even look like?
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> Everyone is reading this as intentional anti-competitive practices Who cares about intention? Anti-competitive behavior is anti-competitive behavior.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> Letting antisemites back on the platform, never punishing people literally spreading terrorist propaganda. Surely we can engage in this topic without resorting to blatantly inflammatory language.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> Landlords are disincentivized to ever renovate or improve rent-controlled units. This is already true in low-vacancy housing markets. Besides, renovating units with active tenants is extraordinarily rare. Outside of active units (among
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
I don't think that recursive grammar is linked to self awareness. Certainly not strongly. Many animals that don't appear to have ability to interpret recursive grammar seem to have self awareness.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Does any other living entity have recursive grammars? It seems uniquely human. It seems that the second link may indicate otherwise but I'm still pretty skeptical. This requires extraordinary evidence. Furthermore there may be a more p
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> Each man can sleep at night, regardless if the murdered man was surely deserving of death Surely this line of reasoning requires the presence of omniscient judgement (ie the abrahamic god) to make sense. Otherwise all gunmen would (and
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> For the same reason I find extremely odd that the hypothesis that animals don't have any form of language is even considered as a serious claim in introduction. I guess I've always just assumed it refers to some feature that&
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Yes. This is absolutely a win.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> friendly reminder that rent control causes vacancies like this This is simply an american myth. I'm not sure where it comes from.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
There are many answers to this question and few are as satisfying as the question implies.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> Should stealing be excused just because you're doing it to some wealthy entity? Absolutely! > The problem with the "it's OK to steal from them because they're in a position of privilege and I'm not" jus
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> A fair chunk of their output (that I saw) was commentary on other stuff (performers/performances/other) which is pretty much commodity content for easy consumption, not really art¹. In what way is this excluded from being art
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Great! Now let's apply this to ads and notifications!
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
There's more to art than simply producing commodities to consume.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Pretty much every dysfunction of this society can be traced back to this attitude. Social responsibility to other people beyond your own kin is necessary to produce a society worth living in. This necessarily includes taking up the burden o
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Who cares? Have you seen the profit margins at these stingy-ass companies?
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Perhaps because this wouldn't make sense in contexts where you're discussing what distinguishes the Boeing 747 from other planes. If you're comparing to, say, velocipedes, it makes a lot more sense.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Not to mention specifically with Scheme and continuation-oriented programming, the line between functional and non-functional programming becomes so blurry as to become nearly meaningless.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
> there was a reason for that smiley Fair—my bad, I can fail at reading tone sometimes. Would you propose the C abstract machine abstracting away endianness entirely as an alternative? My understanding is that deprecating support for exi
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
The marginal cost of that work is insignificant compared to the amount of equivalent work you'd have to put in for linux or bsd. Plus, little snitch is basically state-of-the-art in terms of ease-of-use if you're willing to put th
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Is there some end to this criticism or do you have some stake in dismissing big endian architectures?
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
"Modern" doesn't mean "currently widespread".
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
Certainly with that attitude! People these days truly have no imagination. Incredibly depressing. It's very difficult to have any hope for computation while we have to beg misanthropic morons for money.
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by throwaway19972 2y ago
I never got this sentiment. Corporations as viewed from the inside are wildly incompetent—and that's before you consider profit inefficiency. I suspect this would be a lot more obvious if it weren't for the last seventy years of i

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