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by xtian 10y ago
I think the thing to remember is that people interested in tech are the ones who experience these problems first. For example, most of us experienced ad fatigue, clickbait fatigue, and social media fatigue years ago, but now these are all m
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by xtian 10y ago
Business wants to maximize profit. It supports justice and fairness to the extent that they aid the production of profit and absolutely no further. A just legal system may be imposed upon businesses, but the desire of each business is to tr
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by xtian 10y ago
`brew install bash`
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by xtian 10y ago
For the vast majority of apps, SOA is detrimental to productivity and maintainability. For some cases it is the right choice but I don't think anyone is arguing that these are the cases for which AR was designed. Can't you recogni
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by xtian 11y ago
> If a majority of a society wants only to barely survive, rather than improve themselves and/or humanity, that is a problem itself. Yes, thank you. There might be lots of problems implementing basic income in our current society, b
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by xtian 11y ago
Supporting your children extends beyond giving them a genome and physical sustenance. Genes haven't been the primary avenue of change in our species for at least a hundred thousand years. The significant things we pass on to future gen
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by xtian 11y ago
Is that a fact? Or is it learned behavior? This sort of lazy, defeatist appeal to some rigid notion of human nature is a pernicious refrain in any discussion about real change. The only thing you can say for sure about humans is that we pos
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by xtian 11y ago
Livelihood is something we build together, not something granted from above. To forget that is to cede all personal agency and integrity.
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by xtian 11y ago
The question really becomes: how long are we going to tolerate the US government acting in our names and with our resources in a way that most individual citizens disagree with? Does anybody actually want to erode their own privacy or send
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by xtian 11y ago
As it stands, the American populace has been expertly prepared to engage in our political process to the fullest extent possible. That is, to spectate the circus act for a while, and then with great certainty and condescension, choose one o
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by xtian 11y ago
Actually I believe these problems are fairly common. I've seen them mentioned before and I experience them myself. I think it has to do with integrated vs discrete graphics in Mac laptops. Disabling transparency in the accessibility op
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by xtian 11y ago
> We cant really ban that. Why not?
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by xtian 11y ago
I'd say the argument for FP in general is not that it allows for the expression of thoughts that are impossible to express with for, while, if, etc., but rather that functional programs are still able to be reasoned about at the point
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by xtian 11y ago
The more the political arena is dominated by money and marketing, the more people will use that language to make their voices heard.
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by xtian 11y ago
Yeah I didn't mean to imply radioactivity.
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by xtian 11y ago
Most meat and produce is irradiated, yes.
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by xtian 11y ago
Oh ok, so that's what the subsidies are preventing.
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by xtian 11y ago
Happy to replace it with a different word if you'd like.
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by xtian 11y ago
Actually, it might not be yours; neither of those statements are true. Investigate how much the U.S. government spends on farming subsidies per year and then consider the fact that nutritious food which isn't loaded with pesticides, ho
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by xtian 11y ago
The industrialization of agriculture has made clear inroads on the problem of world hunger and has markedly increased the quality of food from the time when all farming was manual labor.
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by xtian 11y ago
I'm struggling to discern your point here. I'm not arguing for the infallibility of official institutions, but how often do you imagine one mob can succeed in holding another mob accountable for its mistakes?
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by xtian 11y ago
It is an argument against vigilantism because there is at least some process in place to hold the official justice system accountable for its mistakes.
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by xtian 11y ago
That's interesting, but none of the complaints the poster you're responding to brought up had to do with matrix multiplication or garbage collection.
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by xtian 11y ago
Yes: this is precisely the issue that most people seem to be ignoring. I traveled in Europe a bit last year and was amazed at the affordable options for travelers. Between nicer hostels and hotels that offered small single rooms with a comm
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by xtian 12y ago
Enjoy your heroin!
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by xtian 12y ago
node-sass (which uses libsass) is now on par with the Ruby version as far as I know.
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by xtian 12y ago
I have fairly extreme views on marketing in general, but I don't think its existence contradicts anything I said above.
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by xtian 12y ago
It's the codification that begets the complexity.
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by xtian 12y ago
I think you've struck upon the fundamental issue when it comes to substance legalization: we've made the U.S. government the arbiter of safety. People think, "If it's legal, it must be safe." That isn't a true
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by xtian 12y ago
React isn't a framework.

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