Oxitendwe

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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
How well did these cultures fare against the imperialist Europeans, exactly? How well do they fare against their more technologically advanced neighbors? Incidentally, you may also wish to read "Industrial Society and Its Future"
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
No. I am also skeptical of more modern cars with complex computers. The thought of being in one scares me.
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
>Therefore, in order to attract a mate, logically women should try to attract a mate when they're younger, and try to improve the way they look. They should not be trying to get more educated or accomplish more in their careers. Now
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Having a lot of single childless people is not good for society.
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
You're supposed to raise your own children. This is inconsistent with having virtually every job an "educated" person can have.
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
>Does anyone have suggestions on how to fix this? One option would be to have the cultures integrate so there are not sub communities for PoC. I find it a bit insane that people think that this is even something that needs to be fixed -
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
>Why can't we treat people from outside our community as the same as people inside? If we better understand and critique what a community is and how it forms I think it's possible. Your point is basically that we should destroy
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Or, to put it a different way, "You don't actually need to be racist in order to be racist."
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
I don't think products like this encourage the "deep surveillance state" - if anything, they weaken it by loosening their monopoly on high-tech covert surveillance. These things can be used for good as well as evil - you coul
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
If you already know it's there, you probably don't need to go through the trouble of destroying it, unless you just want to fry random USB devices.
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
I think it would be pretty easy actually, to keep up with the data - you could just get a Bluetooth headset and set your phone to automatically accept calls from your spying device, then listen in while you go about your day.
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
SQLite is one of my favorite pieces of software for this exact reason, that it is actually a more or less "finished" program instead of a mire of shifting design requirements and constant security updates, a comfortably static and
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
>Yes, and I have completely lost faith in the US's ability, on a federal level, to staunch that failure, as long as the Republican party continues to exist. The democrats have had control over the house or the senate for 62 out of t
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
>The point of constitutional liberty is that culture can change as much as you want but you'll always be free to retreat to your enclave where it never will. This is absolutely incorrect, Americans do not have freedom of association
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Do you not realize the downside of having some shady syndicate controlled by rich and powerful people dictate which symbols people are allowed to use to communicate with each other electronically? Or do you realize it and you think it'
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
>For some people, race, fighting for for recognition, let alone equality, is a daily battle. You may live and work far from this conflict, but it exists, and in some part the diversity modifiers for emoji provide folks with empowerment.
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Are white people any more represented by the color yellow than black people?
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
>moral facts Could you perhaps list a few of these "moral facts"?
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
>And it's political, which goes against the HN guidelines. People violate this "guideline" so much that I literally did not even know it was a rule (and yes, I checked beforehand) until I was shadowbanned for it without wa
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
>We have university professors condemning math, reason, and objectivity as inherently racist/sexist. I agree with you completely on this, but do you have some sources for it? I'd be really interested to see how widespread the p
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Science only tells you what is, it can never tell you what should be. The value systems possessed by most people revolve mostly around what should be, and aren't affected so much by what is (except insofar as it can tell you what can&#
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Is forcing children to eat their vegetables, take regular baths, and go to bed on time an example of "one size fits all" parenting? I find it very difficult to believe that learning to read later in life won't adversely affec
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
I absolutely agree that this would be a great idea, but it would be much better to solve this at a higher level - the website should provide a light and dark stylesheet, and then the browser should pick based on whether the user has a dark
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
It's pretty ridiculous. I see a lot of articles like this, that all go along the lines of science supposedly disproving the existence of something you can easily observe on a day to day basis. If it was about skin color, why aren'
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Yeah, I think it represents an advancement in the state of the art of tag-based media organizational systems - with regular boorus (or any other tag-based online image gallery) for example, which all have a specific focus, you're not t
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Hydrus – a tag-based media organizer(hydrusnetwork.github.io)
4 points by Oxitendwe 9y ago|4 comments
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Lectures on the Curry-Howard Isomorphism [pdf](disi.unitn.it)
8 points by Oxitendwe 9y ago|0 comments
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
First of all, that has nothing to do with the UNIX philosophy, second of all, it has nothing to do with type theory. Anyone is perfectly capable of implementing a Maybe/Option/whatever type in C, allocating it on the heap (because
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Porting your program to a different platform makes it a different program. It doesn't change the completeness of the original. Modifying your program to account for API changes also qualifies as "a different program" - you ca
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by Oxitendwe 9y ago
Tiny problems that are solved provide a common part that many people can be reasonably sure is free of bugs - if thousands of people use left-pad, you can be reasonably assured that it has no bugs (or else people wouldn't use it, or a

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