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by wassenaar10 6y ago
> I'm not sure what your point is. I agree that all of your examples are just further cases where being sloppy about innate vs. learned differences results in bad policy. My point is that there is a pretty clear tendency for people
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
I don't think you read my comment, which makes it clear that "Modern progressivism has apparently solved that issue already." was meant facetiously.
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
Modern progressivism has apparently solved that issue already. I'll demonstrate: Whenever statistics show an imbalance that benefits men, say in earnings, prestigious jobs, or positions of leadership, then the modern worldview dictates
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
1998 here. Had a programming class in high school in which the teacher gave us a lot of free time to work on whatever interested us. I made dozens of games in Java during that time, mostly pretty simple ones, but by senior year I had writte
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
He said this in 2011, 3 years before he got paid $2.5 billion
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
> Isn't this a bit like saying "I'm for medical marijuana being legalized, but meanwhile I support any and all enforcement of marijuana prohibition and I don't want anyone to receive medical marijuana"? I would d
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
It really has nothing to do with the Russian people, it has to do with the Russian government and its agencies. I don't think anyone but you is conflating the two here.
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
> In your fantasy you basically stripped the Russians of all humanity to the point where they would intentionally poison a river with highly dangerous nuclear waste to stop a NATO conference and basically kill off an entire city. That&#x
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
CZ is a really good company. Colt, on the other hand, hasn't been good in decades. It will be interesting to see what they do with the acquisition.
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
> But it seems like you feel like you're "in the community, but not of it". There is an implicit distinction between you and your household, and the "locals". If we're talking about a larger city, for exampl
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
To be honest, this sounds like "stoned-ape theory" tier speculation without evidence, so it's good that it's being downvoted. This sort of thing is honestly super annoying. You like to use mushrooms recreationally? Great
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
> do please define what qualifies "systemic racism" It means whatever it needs to mean in a pinch.
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
> am I supposed to think it’s a problem that German companies are being managed by native Germans Yes, you are supposed to think that now for some reason.
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
Reading source code, especially source code that you're not familiar with, is a crucial skill for any programmer. I've found annotated source code to be an extremely useful learning resource, personally.
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
Somehow still more readable than actual J code
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
I will wax poetic about Kotlin to any programmer that will listen. To me, it feels like a language created by seasoned Java developers who were tired of the tedious parts of writing Java.
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
> Is it possible for the cause-and-effect to be backwards? A change in socially acceptable behavior causing the testosterone drop? How exactly do you propose that a change in socially acceptable behavior in the span of about 40 years had
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
Microplastics in most water supplies, hormones in most meats, and the western diet in general being high in sugars and simple carbohydrates seem to me to be the most likely culprits. It's also possible that other sources of pollution,
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
> getting into a Python code base was the most difficult one, because of the lack of typed method parameters Yup, this is probably my main issue with Python. I love writing it when I'm working on personal projects, having to read ma
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
> Either way a platform that freeley allows the organization of violent mobs has no place, and neither does anybody who supports it. So all social media then
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
Perhaps westerners could learn a thing or two from this attitude.
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
CPython is what's slow, not Python itself. The main reason CPython is slow is that it's purely a bytecode interpreter and it makes no use of AoT or JiT compilation unlike the JVM, CLR, or V8 JavaScript engine. If anything, the rap
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
I don't know why people still think that overpopulation is a genuine threat. If anything, there's a genuine threat to industrial societies in that their birth rates are almost all sub-replacement. This is true for countries in Nor
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
It's more a matter of people misusing the terms than any sort of "scale" shifting. Officially, the term "low-level language" still only refers to programming languages whose structure corresponds directly to that of
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
I'm pointing out your lack of knowledge on the issue, which is an order of magnitude more of a contribution than you spewing your Dunning-Kruger level take on the history of the conflict in Afghanistan. You seem to think that a small n
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
> Kabul in the 1970s was a groovy, swinging place with women in miniskirts and men wearing tie-dye (as was Tehran). Imagine thinking you have a coherent picture of what the culture in Afghanistan and Iran was like in the 1970s just becau
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
I would argue that a runtime that makes heavy use of JIT compilation ceases to really be an "interpreter".
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
OpenRCT2 is a good example