throwlaplace

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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>where much more land becomes easy to use to for housing what are these revolutionary changes that will make the wild wild west more hospitable? is it public transportation? is it more investment in local schools? is it small walkable ma
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
so now we're down to "devs move to suburbs and poor people move a little closer" in order to improve the world? and you still don't think that this disproportionately hurts poor people? do i really have to do more work t
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
but now the poor people have to commute to the suburbs completely negating the environmental benefits lol
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
Great. Now map out for me what happens to counties that get the bulk of their tax revenue from property taxes and then use that tax revenue to preserve and improve the environs of that county? Just think about it for two seconds: how good i
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
No he's saying that less commuting will help the environment and that that's worth sacrificing poor people's jobs. I'm saying I disagree because if the goal were maximizing some kind of utility function then I have an ev
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
Every time there's an article on hn highlighting how a vulnerable/at risk/marginalized group of people is being put further at risk the typical response is exactly yours: selfish instead of charitable. They're not misera
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
What is the absolute number? Eg 27*0 is still 0 (note I'm not suggesting it's actually 0)
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>Not sure why this is getting downvoted because people are defensive when their own character flaws are reflected back at them.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
it's a commons because they don't contribute any of the content, not because they own the space.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>trying to optimize for intellectual curiosity Can you please define for us intellectual curiosity so that we can recognize it and its distinction from apathetic sophistry? Note that the oft-quoted rules aren't descriptive but presc
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>A protruding door handle affords to close your hand around it and pull you could easily have a bar across the width of the door that's narrow and protrudes and affords the ability to clasp it. no the real intent is to communicate t
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
... these code screen caps are inserted into presentations not demos?? As far as I know no audience member expects to walk up to the projector screen and minimize a window. The point is to prime someone's perception for how they should
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
It's an affordance - it signals immediately to the reader that the block of text is source code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance Best example of affordance is handles on doors: horizontal spanning the whol
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>Every human being is entitled to make claims God this is so tired. No one is questioning anyone's right to free speech. What I'm questioning is the value of that speech and the humility involved in making claims. That's i
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
there's nothing in the least bit thought provoking about it because it have any substance only claims (vague allusion to "memes" and undefined "Predictive Processing"). i wonder why that is? might it be because GP a
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>pontificate about this on an internet forum it's not about "on an internet forum" it's in general - why don't we all reserve judgement more? we all know the answer of course: because we're arrogant and beli
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>Politics doesn't belong in a professional environment. hmm i wonder if your boss feels the same way (i.e. that his/her business interests are completely separate from his/her politics). the idea that you're political
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
I'm at -1 downvotes on the above comment. There should be some kind of system that reverses this kind of denialism on the bastion of intellectualism we call hn.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
it's doublespeak - they weren't socialists >The term "National Socialism" arose out of attempts to create a nationalist redefinition of "socialism", as an alternative to both Marxist international socialism
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>The shadow hands of globally sanctioned socialist labor are all around us what a weird smear. who in their right mind really believes DPRK is the realization of any kind of socialism? i guess the nazis were socialists too then.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
Trump's voters are the opposite of class conscious since they fail to see (are discouraged from seeing) their commonality with other poor disenfranchised people (who happen to be black, Hispanic, etc). I also don't know Obama fail
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
I am less optimistic than you. Early 20th was vibrant class consciousness. I don't see anything like that now. What I do see is simply the fall out from 100 years of neoliberalism.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
But we never will be because the professional/middle class is a buffer between labor and capital right? That's the beauty of divisive class politics that pits the middle class against the working class - we're discouraged fro
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>a group of factory, warehouse, or service workers strike, then the business halts until the strike is resolved Well indeed I am suggesting a warehouse worker that we as software engineers support financially
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>Why not create a mobile app to allow all amazon workers to communicate and organize anonymously. Isn't it ironic that the internet, which should've been a boon to labor organization, has been quite the opposite.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>Honestly, you have pretty little real leverage. Warehouse workers are going to have to form a union and threaten to really shut down amazon's profits The way that unions fought capital in the early 20th was they went on strike and
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
but i'm not advocating for this? in effect i agree with you. i'm exactly pointing out that it's disingenuous to say that someone is protecting their family and that it does end up being just greed.
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
i don't get your point. are the direct offspring of a wealthy person more at risk or less at risk than that wealthy person's community?
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
>Most people are busy trying to free their children, spouse, and immediate family what you're basically saying is that most people are primarily concerned with their communities. that's true and it's not even unreasonable
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by throwlaplace 6y ago
i think a lot about this (more than i think about my research). i wholeheartedly agree not because i feel obligated but simply because i'm able to - my life is not precarious (it used to be) and others' lives are. i've argued

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