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by zarkov99 6y ago
So your criteria for righteously refusing to provide service is whether the individual had any choice in the thing that is leading to the rejection. So, that would make it OK to refuse service to say Muslims? My point here is not that Trump
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Can they? Imagine a christian baker who refuses to make a cake for a gay wedding, is it ok? What about a racist baker who only makes cakes for say black people? Or just white people?
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Man, I am sympathetic to the free speech argument and I agree that the right has been getting shafted in that department, but this does seem pretty close to the "don't yell fire in a crowded theater" exception. This was not a
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Thats the thing though. The hardware is so good that there are people who would run Linux on the Mac if they could, but since they can't they cave in and just run MacOS. I have an M1 and its so much better than my Linux XPS 15 that I j
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Or they could take significant market share away from Windows, possibly permanently, by offering increasingly more performant machines. Seems like a better move to me.
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Yes, I am one, but is Apple really better off selling more machines but having fewer people inside their eco-system?
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In he case of std::sort the C++ compiler can inline the comparison function when it generates the actual sort implementation from the std::sort template. In C the qsort implementation is fixed and must call the comparison via an indirect re
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Why is that? There are cases where c++ is faster than C, a typical example is qsort vs std::sort.
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I actually think we need both. Boys need a place to be boys by themselves and girls need the same. Nothing wrong with mixing it up, but you also need the opposite.
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Of course. This is obvious to anyone who has had kids of both genders. Boys and girls care about different things, play differently, react to different kinds of encouragement. And we need our boys to be the best they can be at whatever they
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I think we are looking at this very differently. For me the lack of humor is just a canary in the mine for authoritarianism and ideological mono-culture - the very opposite of the values that always attracted me in the tech scene. It seems
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Yes, they also should consider what part they had in browning the pasture they are leaving.
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People act differently when they pay for a service rather than get it for free.
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Scared is not the word. I am outraged that the community I belong to is so cowardly that it has allowed itself to be stifled and bullied by people with nothing to offer but their self-awarded moral virtue, a situation that I feel should be
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How does that jive with the incredible salaries of elite professionals, like computer scientists, lawyers, doctors, CEO's, when compared with the rest of the population? I think the importance of the labor vs capital divide is being ex
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Its always been like that, though admittedly Robin Hood has made the link even more transparent. I do not think that is the whole story or even the main story though. If you have a bit of savings today, there simply is no other place to put
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Where?
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What would cause such a meme, as you call it, to replicate in a community as progressive as tech? How do you distinguish what you seem to think is collective irrationality from justified and entirely rational rejection of an idea, that no m
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I did, and if anything I am even more certain COC's have degenerated into a plaything for narcissist, useless fools and we are better off throwing the whole thing out until we can figure out how to keep the psychopathic nannies away. T
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by zarkov99 6y ago
This is a great talk, thanks. There is so much potential in the idea of improving our artifacts. If you think about it it’s insane that we just use flat text for the most part.
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Jeezus. What is wrong with people? If this woke nonsense is not stopped we are going to chase away all the people who actually create things and be left only with the evil mediocrities that enforce COCs.
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I am an Apple share holder and I am thrilled. How did you feel when the first iPhone came out? Isn't this similar?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Fastmail is brilliant, better in every way than gmail. Great mobile versions, great web ui, super easy to import mail from gmail, super easy to setup local desktop clients to use it. I made the exact switch you are aiming for, for the same
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Do you feel the same way about the malfeasance that brought on the financial crisis?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I think the problem is this belief that there is something to fix at all. It goes without saying that there should be no barriers to anyone doing anything they want, but we have that already. Why is 50/50 in CS a goal at all? Who cares
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by zarkov99 6y ago
You are right, but what the hell is one to do? There are no credible media organizations with the resources of the NYT.
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It does matter. The NY has actually grown its subscriber base during the Trump years and remains a major cultural force. Witness the immediate take down of Pornhub after a single article in the NYT, after conservative activists had spent ye
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I was one of those international students. It was 50/50 Americans/Internationals when I went to grad school 20 years ago, I am not sure if that has changed. Perhaps for some of the internationals you reasoning applied, though it d
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I know. I only skimmed the article, but the title was too good to pass on.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I have a graduate degree from an R1 University. Perhaps you should back off a little on the personal attacks and substantiate your rebuttal with more than insults. My point was on the overall US University system, not R1 Universities , not

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