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by ue_ 10y ago
In 2009 the UK made illegal drawings of fictional characters that "predominantly convey" the impression that they are younger than 18. I've heard no complaints about it, either people people seem to be fine with making things
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by ue_ 10y ago
After re-reading it I can see it contains "allah", but I can't see why that would be filtered.
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by ue_ 10y ago
It's very interesting how numbers are stored, such that the MSB says if the numeric value would be equal to -(1-x). Apparently numbers are also all within the range -1 <= 0 < 1. So you get things like: 0 1100 0000 0000 0000 =
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by ue_ 10y ago
Books by Eric Hobsbawm and perhaps even Marx and related figures like Proudhon. They are from a European point of view, though.
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by ue_ 10y ago
That's very unfortunate for me, as a user and amateur programmer myself. It's even more a shame to see something become proprietary. I really wish people wouldn't do this.
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Do you have any evidence for this at all? I'm by no means a Maoist, but this is a McCarthyist "sinister Commie plot" level of conspiracy theory. Of course propaganda is one of the motivations behind higher literacy. But I do
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by ue_ 10y ago
I'm a little bothered by the "fulfill their economic roles quietly and efficiently" part. I don't know if it was your intention, but from my point of view this seems like you're saying to effectively shut up and get
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by ue_ 10y ago
With regard to libertarian capitalism, I agree with your selfishness analysis. I wasn't referring to that, though, I was more referring to certain rights and freedoms guaranteed for example by the US constitution, and the lack of them
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by ue_ 10y ago
Oh, I didn't mean this. I think I have made a poor choice of words. I was referring more to having various rights and freedoms, outside of the economic sphere, such as freedom of speech, or privacy, or free association etc. I'm an
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by ue_ 10y ago
That is hardly unique to Australia. Britain, Canada, NZ all have no problem at all with censorship, so much that they will even censor fiction. These countries, one of whuch I am a citizen of, have not a single strand of libertarianism in g
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by ue_ 10y ago
I don't mean to excuse the opinions he has on women, which I agree are deplorable, but I want to ask: what is wrong with being an activist for men's rights?
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by ue_ 10y ago
>You can spend all you life in theology and die unknown. You can do that in physics and natural philosophy too. What's your point? There are plenty of theologians. This idea that the only noble pursuit is scientific, which PG seems
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by ue_ 10y ago
Capitalism is also quite rational - feeding human greed while exploiting the proletariat. Initially, it can be irrational to take some risk, but beyond that, it's clean-cut rationality, and a business must behave rationally (considerin
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by ue_ 10y ago
I have known about this for a while, and it's so horrible. I've wanted to work in Japan for a while.
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I think it sucks, but that's because I'm a Communist.
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>Keep your mouth shut and blow off steam at the gym, bar, or therapist like everyone else. I don't think I've ever seen a bigger example of a statement against worker's rights than this. This is exactly something you'
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by ue_ 10y ago
"Fair" is subjective. But from a utilitarian perspective, I think still it would be fairer for the working class to own the means of production. From a Marxist perspective, a "free market" in which people sell their labo
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by ue_ 10y ago
>What if I and a group of other people want to organize and work together, in exchange for wages with fully voluntary other people? There's no problem with that, but the people working for you wouldn't be very clever - there wo
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by ue_ 10y ago
Thank you for the insight. I'm reading Marx at the moment.
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by ue_ 10y ago
> You have this awesome outcome, where purely selfish people are still doing the "right" thing. I don't think it's awesome. Sure, it may not be bad just because of the fact that it is selfish, but I do not think that
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by ue_ 10y ago
>So by your reasoning, all buyers are selfish just as much as all sellers are selfish. I don't disagree with this. But I think that there is more harm that comes from the corporation to the consumer than there is from the consumer t
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by ue_ 10y ago
> if I were to develop a machine that manufactures widgets in my spare time at home, that machine would have to be seized since communism is the public ownership of the means of product No. That's personal (not private) property. Th
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by ue_ 10y ago
I don't mean to say that everyone acts entirely for themselves, with no action motivated by kindness. I mean to say that in a sytem with multiple people trying to do the same thing you are doing (selling for a profit), you'll have
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by ue_ 10y ago
>You can't run business if you don't serve your customers well. Serving your customers well is entirely out of self interest, especially in large corporations; in fact, this is the easiest example of "every man for himself
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by ue_ 10y ago
>there are bounds checking when you access array elements through indexes I wish we didn't need bounds checking; the problem could be solved with dependently typed languages. Unfortunately Rust just panics when you access out of bou
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I talk with a lot of anarchists and perhaps the only ones of them who are truly in the spirit of "every man for himself" are an-caps and Stirnerists.
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>You don't automatically segfault if you exceed the bounds; instead you read arbitrary memory. GCC and clang both have sanitizers either built in or available for them. Sure, it's not default, but let's not act like there
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by ue_ 10y ago
Why does Rust still not warn at compile time and furthermore actually crash (panic) on OOB access if it has the checks you describe?
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by ue_ 10y ago
How is such a crash remotely safe, for example, in an aviation system? Or a hospital's main computer? A panic isn't safe, and if you are going to claim that it is, you can get the same safety in C using gcc and clang features.
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by ue_ 10y ago
There are tools you can use with C compilers that don't access OOB memory on OOB access. What's your point? I think I'd rather not have it panic at all. They were making a language from scratch and still didn't solve t

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