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by zarkov99 6y ago
Did you mean to reply to the parent?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
So what does exist? Oppression and power? And we should trust the people who believe that to fix the imbalances?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
He was prevented from talking at a conference because other speakers found his political opinions insufficiently woke. That does not bother you?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
There is nothing in what you posted that makes Bob Martin a sexist. He should attack, no one should kowtow to this self righteous mob. Its only cowardliness that is giving these people power.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Isn't it tragic that that stands out as objectionable?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
What? His remark regarding racial bias is reasonable and should not be grounds for barring from talking about programming in any sane, free society. We are going insane here. This isn't going to work, there is going to be a huge back
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Could you be specific? I am having a hard time connecting his dislike for SJWs to any danger of COC violations. This all just seems political intolerance to me.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
That excuse just does not work. Who are these fragile people who would be destroyed by Bob Martin's thoughts on programming? And why are they more important than all the other people who would want to listen to a guy that has been succ
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by zarkov99 6y ago
What? What is wrong with that? And what does the election cycle have to do with building software?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I have read some of his blog yes. Did not find anything wrong with it. Can you point to something racist or sexist you might have found?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
There was a bloomberg piece that looked at uhaul data and showed there is a net migration to Texas, florida, vermont, idaho from NY and CA. Something is happening for sure.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Fair enough, we disagree on that but I have no data to back my intuition up. Thanks for the civil discussion.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Would they really? How many of these people do you think would be happy to open their homes, or at least their neighborhoods, to a substantial number of poor, unskilled, uneducated and culturally alien people? The world would work a lot bet
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I disagree, I do think its a good example. Immigration has its pros and cons and smart policies can boost the pros and lessen the cons. Its very clear that immigrants can bring enormous value but its also clear that they can lower the wages
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by zarkov99 6y ago
An example would be attitudes towards immigration. The people arguing for taking in more poor immigrants or refugees typically do not live in the communities most impacted by their influx.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
To be clear, what I am referring to are people who would want someone other than themselves to be more generous to someone other than themselves . This a very common pathology in well-off, educated people. You get the virtue points witho
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I think you are on to something. Many people are happy to be generous with others time and money but less so with their own.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Other than lisp, which production ready languages do you think do it better?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I became interested in Jordan Peterson and the my Google feed noticed. The amount of fabrications that started popping in my feed, from famous outlets, opened my eyes to just corrupt the news media is. Its hard to overstate how despicable a
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I agree, its despicable. I would also suggest there is an enormous opportunity to make money for an organization that pursues and documents the truth, with integrity and to the the best of their ability. Society cannot possibly work if its
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Much of it is FUD, yes, but knowing that somehow does not help me tone it down.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
When has that ever happened to lowly stock holders?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
right, I understand that, and I accept that currently cash is trash and bonds are little better. But it is very unsettling to think that there is so little tethering non-dividend paying stocks to any sort of value.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Kids change that equation. All of the sudden you threshold for safety increases many fold.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
This has always puzzled me. As a stockholder what is the use of a stock that never pays dividends? What does ownership of a bussiness mean when you have no share of its profits?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
Why do you believe that? Isn't it possible that in high crime areas it would make more sense to focus on the police first, so that everybody, including school counselors, is not too afraid to go to work?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I would expect a slogan that is not so insane that that it constantly has be explained and interpreted by apologists. Lets cut the crap. Defund the police means defund the police.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
where are some of the grossly over budgeted police departments?
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by zarkov99 6y ago
How do we know that? Anecdotally I am friends with leaders in my local police department and they think proactive policing works.
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by zarkov99 6y ago
I disagree, I learned Vim in my 40's after decades on emacs. For a month it was awful, but I have since recouped the time lost many times over. Other developers on my team went through the same.

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