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by wrren 5y ago
Apart from the slippery slope problem, which is absolutely a factor in the evolving lanscape of social justice, these changes usually require cognitive overhead and engineering effort to switch to. Ultimately, the positive impact is totally
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by wrren 5y ago
'Connect to an existing node' is likely implemented using ERTS ( http://erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/distributed.html ). So you're basically connecting to the runtime of the target node. The securi
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by wrren 6y ago
Some, yes.
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by wrren 6y ago
Over a long enough timeline, all languages converge on the Erlang feature set!
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by wrren 6y ago
You're leaping to an incredibly negative assumption of the speaker's intent, and then onto a form of punishment for that person. I think the "assume good intent" approach is more appropriate in these kinds of situations
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by wrren 6y ago
That's not an accurate analogy. These platforms were happy to cater to Trump over the course of his presidency because he enriched them, this is not some moral stance they're taking now, it's the output of a cost-benefit anal
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by wrren 6y ago
Being on Substack solves the problem of censorship by way of one's editor or organization. It re-introduces the problem of unedited journalism; i.e journalism that isn't passed through a degree of peer review to ensure rigour. It
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by wrren 6y ago
It's likely that the author is running Windows 10 Home edition, which is probably more aggressive than the Pro version about annoying users.
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by wrren 6y ago
I'd be extremely wary of adopting any new Google product given their tendency to abandon things that don't achieve immediate success.
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by wrren 6y ago
Because it's an expression of a corrupt system where CEO pay is public, and thus it's easy for candidates to negotiate, but employees are strongly discouraged from sharing their own pay data or are prevented from seeing the compan
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by wrren 6y ago
Yeah, I'd also side with the CEO in terms of his Twitter reply, but not with shutting the site down. I think the OP going to complain on Twitter is going overboard; it's not as though he didn't get any warning at all before b
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by wrren 6y ago
A key difference there is that paying for your own military directly benefits your interests, whereas countries can engage in a race to the bottom with carbon removal wherein they rely on others to shoulder the burden while still enjoying t
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by wrren 6y ago
Matt Taibbi's had a few good articles on this recently. Some excerpts: "Cancelations already are happening too fast to track. In a phenomenon that will be familiar to students of Russian history, accusers are beginning to appear a
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by wrren 6y ago
I didn't say they were less important, just that they're more easily solved.
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by wrren 6y ago
People expressing their opinions about one's ideas is not cancel culture: it's when critics go one step further and try to destroy the person they disagree with. Many people have lost their livelihoods and even more are afraid to
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by wrren 6y ago
The current practices and thought-processes of social justice advocates are hyper-conformist in my opinion.
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by wrren 6y ago
Because there's a mechanism for changing that government: the upcoming presidential election. Whereas changing a cultural movement like the one we're watching unfold is a lot more difficult.
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by wrren 6y ago
Because we live in a society.
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by wrren 6y ago
Even a dictatorship can be put under pressure if enough of its subjects take a stand. The relationship between employer and employee is a continuous negotiation. Facebook has put something new on the table: we expect you to look the other w
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by wrren 6y ago
The idea that Elon Musk would stop producing electric cars or solar panels in the event that he was made to stop questionable management tactics within his companies is an odd one. I realise that the U.S' regulatory appetite isn't
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by wrren 9y ago
Sure thing boss, and maybe I'll drag the country over and connect it to the mainland and then see if I can seed the place with valuable ores, oil, etc. That'll solve the problem
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by wrren 9y ago
As an Irish person, I consider this perspective to be hilariously naive. Without tax incentives, our ability to attract foreign direct investment is massively reduced and the jobs that need to attract will instead go to mainland Europe. It
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by wrren 9y ago
I'm not sure what this has to do with the article; it doesn't make any judgements on women's suitability for careers in STEM. Where it does talk about ability, it points out that women are, on average, better at science and m
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by wrren 9y ago
Is Milo a white nationalist? I always thought he was just the Breitbart court jester. In any case, I don't agree with just discarding nuance in these discussions; "fully enlightened" could mean anything from his libertarianis
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by wrren 9y ago
That's hardly definitive. People really should be more careful about throwing around these extreme labels; it completely dilutes their impact when you apply them on a whim.
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by wrren 9y ago
I was responding to this element of the parent post: "The low point to me is how some (reference in the article) feel justified in leaking conversations and personal details of their coworkers to the likes of Breitbart.". Tit-for-
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by wrren 9y ago
Something tells me it wasn't a conservative that originally leaked Damore's memo; I think it was likely a left-wing idealogue who're unable to tolerate alternative perspectives on the subject of diversity. And let's be c
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by wrren 9y ago
Why didn't they say "Bigots should be fired?". By inserting race or gender into the statement, you're singling out a group as being the only offenders.
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by wrren 9y ago
I like the syntax, but I have to say that I prefer JSX. The real advantage of JSX is that it's very similar to HTML and developers have been reading, mentally modeling and reasoning about HTML -> DOM translation for decades.
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by wrren 9y ago
It's a bit disingenuous to say that those who agree with the memo focus only on individual merit and not team fit. Regardless of the importance of diversity to a given organization, every good interview process will evaluate how well a

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