travmatt

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by travmatt 9y ago
I don't know how you could ascertain the latter without the former. Especially if you believe, as I do, that healthcare could save lives and the less money means less healthcare. I'm not against conservative ideas - there have bee
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by travmatt 9y ago
I find your comment particularly indefensible given the actual facts involved. At the very _bare_ minimum, to pretend to give a fuck about the lives of the Americans about to lose their health insurance requires a cbo score and more than 1
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by travmatt 9y ago
""" On Self-Modifying Code and the Space Shuttle OS I was doing some reading about Metaprogramming and Self-modifying code at Wikipedia, a fascinating topic with many uses from optimization, patching, and genetic programming.
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by travmatt 9y ago
I'd imagine this is very useful for writing self-modifying or polymorphic code.
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by travmatt 9y ago
So you're saying that if Hillary Clinton was elected she would have instituted a Muslim ban?
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by travmatt 9y ago
My favorite are the people who shilled for Jill stein all campaign, saying democrats are no different than republicans - then blamed democrats for republicans stripping the ahca, saying they should have stopped them. Rania Khalek is a prime
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by travmatt 9y ago
i like the hubris it takes to assume you know exactly what to do in a situation you've clearly never experienced.
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by travmatt 9y ago
Knowing that fact sounds very useful...
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by travmatt 9y ago
I think the intention is more to create confusion and paranoia rather than construct any coherent viewpoint.
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by travmatt 10y ago
I think my brother and I watched that movie roughly 1500 times. Probably still know every word.
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by travmatt 10y ago
>Would it be crazy to say sitting on exploits is effectively "inserting a backdoor" That seems intentionally dishonest, no? If I disagree with a position I'm not justified in intentionally misrepresenting it because I feel
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by travmatt 10y ago
They are on the list next. Do you have any recommendations covering the Russian Revolution through WW2? I wanted to cover both before I start Hannah Arendt's work.
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by travmatt 10y ago
Related: "The Coming of the Third Reich", Richard Evans. I've been reading this recently, it's a very measured look at German politics, culture, and economy from Bismarck through Hitler. Utterly fascinating
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by travmatt 10y ago
It seems like you're letting facts get in the way of a perfectly good chance to be outraged over completely sensationalized hand wringing.
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by travmatt 10y ago
To be fair that's kinda the history of the United Kingdom.
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by travmatt 10y ago
My assumption would be around there. Who said slaves were "the majority" of the country?
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by travmatt 10y ago
The book "White Trash" by Nancy Isenberg explores the class views of all the founders, she excerpts a small portion of her work here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/
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by travmatt 10y ago
Jefferson also conceived of the lower classes as literal waste, that needed to be bred and put to productive use, just like the animals and slaves he owned. He wanted to import Germans to improve the breeding of the poor whites, because he,
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by travmatt 10y ago
It sounds like you're romanticizing American history to a great extent. As a reminder, the founders wanted to create a class based empire resting largely on forced labor, both through slavery and indentured servitude. They certainly di
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by travmatt 10y ago
Wasn't google a conspirator in Job's illegal scheme to depress engineer wages? I don't see what's shocking about the notion that a company that conspires to suppress wages may do so again.
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by travmatt 10y ago
I love the cognitive dissonance needed to ignore the 'court case has shown' but and instead find the need to attack a source based on its Alexa rating, ignoring the other sources who reported the same story. It's exemplary of
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by travmatt 10y ago
Wikileaks withheld a batch of emails showing a $2.2 billion transaction between the Syrian regime and a Russian government-owned bank, according to a Daily Dot report. If true, the report will likely have a lasting negative impact on Wikile
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by travmatt 10y ago
If Wikileaks didn't actively censor and threaten leakers of Russia related information you'd probably have some validity to your argument.
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by travmatt 10y ago
It's hilarious that you can non ironically can say America keeps its citizens blind and use China as a comparison. Then Russia as an example of the lesser danger as it is in the middle of several wars, and literally trying to export a
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by travmatt 10y ago
It's always been a bullshit and disingenuous argument, especially for the goal of defending Wikileaks. The truth is Assange is paid to hurt the US, and censor information that damages Russia. That's why he does things like publish
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by travmatt 10y ago
From screaming 'lock her up' to trying to cut deals. Life comes at you fast.
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by travmatt 10y ago
I'm designing a web app that doesn't need much actual backend, save some static data slightly too large to ship with the static files. I have nginx serving static files and proxying db requests to postgrest.
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by travmatt 10y ago
You literally described rent seeking activity
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by travmatt 10y ago
I saw that too and wondered if it wasn't an artifact of history - when I think of smalltalk I think of peter norvig and people of his stature. Maybe the high smalltalk developer salary means it's probably used by older and very ex
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by travmatt 10y ago
My productivity probably doubled when I started using the 4 window layout of sublime. I didn't realize how much mental overhead I was spending just flipping between open files.

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