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541.
by woooooo 3y ago
Making things explicit isn't necessarily boilerplate.
542.
by woooooo 3y ago
The benefits from operator overloading are "I can show this to a mathematician and it looks like what they're used to". The downsides lurk in the corners of whether it's actually doing what you think. I'll pass.
543.
by woooooo 3y ago
You have a cite or link exploring this? I had thought tail-call optimization was a way to get inefficient recursion to parity with iteration, by turning it into iteration. I'd never heard of recursion being faster on its own. Is it a
544.
by woooooo 3y ago
Hang on, we agree on where the prisoner should go. Obvious slam dunk case. Why am I a fascist for it and you're not? Yes I am deliberately winding you up here but maybe you're overattached to some narrative points? It comes off
545.
by woooooo 3y ago
Yeah, I guess I was getting around to arguing about primacy of sex vs gender being stupid. Let people live their lives and then make the obvious decision when that clashes with the rights of others. The contrarian in me just loves riling pe
546.
by woooooo 3y ago
I agree, it's obvious common sense. What's interesting is that it was so hard to get there. Despite the answer being obvious. The article author suffers from the same problem, she keeps tacking on unnecessary attacks on what gend
547.
by woooooo 3y ago
Its a binary question and I see zero answer despite a lot of words. If you had to make that call, in that case, which is it? (For the record, the narrative I'm pushing here is "shades of gray" rather than "red")
548.
by woooooo 3y ago
But if you had to make the choice, in exactly one case? Convicted rapist, currently identifying as female.
549.
by woooooo 3y ago
Your second paragraph is a total dodge. I'm tempted to characterize it as lacking male-gendered terms.
550.
by woooooo 3y ago
How would you handle the prison situation? Convicted formerly-male rapist, now identifies as female. Which prison do they go to? Yes it's a cherry-picked example but it's also a test of absolute statements about bigotry. Maybe t
551.
by woooooo 3y ago
Thank you, I was afraid to post the same thing. Definitely transphobic at points but also valid at other points and still a very interesting read.
552.
by woooooo 3y ago
Cash alone doesn't work, you need the parenting, role models, nice local institutions and schools, etc.
553.
by woooooo 3y ago
Thank you, citizen, for staying on-topic! Would you like to know more?
554.
by woooooo 3y ago
That article IIc pivots on the key phrase "physical destruction". Look, internment isnt good either, why dig in your heels on the most loaded possible word?
555.
by woooooo 3y ago
Would you say the choice of the word "genocide" here is because it's the most accurate description of what's going on? Or is it chosen for rhetorical/propaganda effect without too much concern for accuracy?
556.
by woooooo 3y ago
I'm with you on everything here but its not like westerners have a monopoly on cash/connections being paramount. It's been true everywhere, all the time, even in communist countries that are supposed to make it impossible.
557.
by woooooo 3y ago
In practice, of course, cops will flick their lights on when they want to run a red light instead of waiting. So of course they drive through the park whenever they want.
558.
by woooooo 3y ago
It's specifically the phenomenon of rich 1-percenters trying to cancel each other that's grating. Is there injustice in the world? Clearly. Are these people insufferable? Also very much yes. In the tech context specifically, we a
559.
by woooooo 3y ago
Step 2 is the "find out" phase, the pattern is consistent for every fuckup I've been a part of. Noone wants to hear how obvious it was.
560.
by woooooo 3y ago
Step 1: Nobody likes hysterics or alarmism Step 2: Hey no need to point fingers here or say "I told you so", we're all dealing with this.
561.
by woooooo 3y ago
One thing the Nazis did, but not uniquely to them, was paint dehumanizing pictures of their enemies.
562.
by woooooo 3y ago
In addition to being ignorant of history, this outlook where only Europeans can conquer is ironically super racist towards non-europeans. Do they have no agency?
563.
by woooooo 3y ago
It's a major turning point in geopolitics, involving two political genius war criminals having a remarkably frank and honest exchange of views. They're batting around the idea of Japan going Soviet at one point. I was fascinated.
564.
by woooooo 3y ago
I dont know, it's probably mentioned but with nowhere near the emphasis you would like :)
565.
by woooooo 3y ago
Either way, no other country or organization gets that level of deference over here.
566.
by woooooo 3y ago
>aspects of fascism are not "just politics" Yes they are. You're engaging in binary thinking here. These demagogical patterns that Umberto Eco describes were in The Iliad, they've been tropes as long as we've h
567.
by woooooo 3y ago
I'm not OP, just lending some historical detail. They don't teach it in school here that the Marines sacked Beijing, but they definitely teach it over there.
568.
by woooooo 3y ago
US was part of the 8 nation army that sacked Beijing during the Boxer rebellion. Quite a bit after the opium wars, but unequal treaties were one of the boxers' primary grievances, so it's in there as a root cause.
569.
by woooooo 3y ago
No legal channels necessary for non-US citizens. The government just asks and the companies just comply, because why not.
570.
by woooooo 3y ago
Most of those points by Eco are just "politics". Rally around the flag, point to the external enemy, it's all pre-industrial, fascists didn't invent it. What was unique about fascism was the ethnic superiority and the u

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