DagAgren

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by DagAgren 6y ago
> When people refer to racist views at SSC they don't mean that literally as a rule, they're just disparaging uncomfortable views about very well defined issues in social science and the like, that have zilch to do with superio
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by DagAgren 6y ago
> it works because we as a society have a visceral negative reaction to some labels. Do you know why we have that reaction? Because of millions upon millions of dead, innocent humans. That is what those ideologies lead to. We learned thi
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by DagAgren 6y ago
It's still unclear to me what the benefit is, though. The drawbacks are obvious - I have to wear a headset, I lost the physical interfacing, both in terms of input interfaces and in terms of being able to, say, just a put an e-reader d
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by DagAgren 6y ago
It definitely will not have the relative resolution of a physical monitor.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Yeah, but all the things mentioned are things that require my full attention for longer spans of time. I don't need separate displays for them, I need one single good display.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
> we're experimenting with the idea of an app that has a comic reader, book reader, Reddit client, art viewer, video player Why? I have all of those on my computer without strapping anything to my head.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Regulators were definitely not asleep at the wheel. They were apparently actively defending them, for instance by attempting to sue the Financial Times for reporting on the irregularities.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
It is, in fact, not useful for communication, because it does not honestly communicate anything. It exists only to undermine people who try to call you out on making bigoted remarks. It was coined by ESR, and is popular mainly with people w
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by DagAgren 6y ago
You really don't understand how logical fallacies work at all, do you.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Feel free to provide me wrong by showing a non-libertarian source that takes this term seriously.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Ah yes, Wikipedia, with one source form a libertarian propaganda rag. Very reputable. Nobody but libertarians looking for excuses for racism use that term, deal with it.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/... Still not seeing it.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/kafkatrap?s=t https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kafkatrap https://dictionary.cambridge.org/spellcheck/english/?q=kafka...
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by DagAgren 6y ago
"Kafkatrap" is a meaningless term, beyond "stop calling me a racist just for saying racist things". Acting like it's an accepted logical fallacy is ridiculous. It's a term ESR made up because people kept rightl
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by DagAgren 6y ago
He also chose the word "kafkatrap", a word coined by a notorious racist.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
> The implication is that some external knowledgable entity communicated with the patient The implication of the actual article, if you read it to the end, is the exact opposite.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
The article also mildly makes fun of the people who believe it to be a supernatural phenomenon.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
This was to more closely match the behaviour of Objective-C, and it has been removed as better ways of Objective-C interop were developed.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
> and Swift is particularly weird. The way Swift does them is the least awkward and most robust I have seen in any language. > As an example, the colon and the whitespace are sufficient to separate parameters. So is the comma. So we h
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by DagAgren 6y ago
This is already the case with the name of your function. And named arguments are basically just an extension of the name of your function.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
But this is already the case for the name of the function. Semantically, named arguments are just part of the name of the function.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Do you really want to "culturally reconcile" with people who want to send the army to quell peaceful protests? That is not a view that you can build a democracy on. To have democracy, you have to exclude certain ideologies and ide
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by DagAgren 6y ago
> But given what we know about the NSA and the context around it, I'm enclined to trust The Guardian and Snowden about it. None of my options suggested above required not trusting them. Either Apple lies about cooperating, the FBI l
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by DagAgren 6y ago
> Apple also said they were not part of any spying program, until it was revealed they were part of PRISM. This does not seem like an accurate statement. After the PRISM revelations, which named Apple, Apple said they were unaware of t
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Nobody's made anything up?
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by DagAgren 6y ago
I did not make any accusation. I was clarifying the position of the people who's thought process you "couldn't imagine". Now you can.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
> but I just can't imagine the thought process behind 'and the bullets avoid white / asian NYT reporters and crew members and specifically target the ones with melanin above a certain level'. Bullets don't fly on
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by DagAgren 6y ago
> He made it very clear he was talking about rioters and looters, not protestors People actually killing protesters always, without fail, claim to be trying to stop "rioters and looters". This is not a phrase to be taken at fac
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by DagAgren 6y ago
It was handled that way only after first handling it incredlby, horrendously badly. They were dragged kicking and screaming by their entire staff into handling it correctly only after a week of absolutely bungling it.
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by DagAgren 6y ago
Why are you asking me, and not the other guy? Why is it me who is supposed to shut up, and not the other guy? That sounds like taking a political stand to me. Or are you going to try to claim that "oh those minorities are such whiners&

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