Zooper

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by Zooper 6y ago
And in a country without food, everyone is fed because the population is zero.
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by Zooper 6y ago
It happened around the time when people thought having one dude called a king telling everyone else what to do was a pretty efficient way to run things fairly. Unfortunately, the "enlightenment" never seemed to progress past a sma
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by Zooper 6y ago
It's ongoing, and the US has had cases brought against it as recently as 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#U.S._... . While the more recent cases are less overtly abject evil, they aren&#
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by Zooper 6y ago
It's not a good chance at this point, it's the height of naivety and ignorance to assume that this isn't actively occurring. There's absolutely no incentive for it not to occur and there's significant incentive for
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by Zooper 6y ago
I was thinking that this article showed signs of distorted "optimistic" thinking.
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by Zooper 6y ago
I would argue that the US is not a representative democracy, and that it does not have a free press.
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by Zooper 6y ago
I used to dislike typescript, until I was hired to write it. It has warts, but the benefits outweigh them, and you aren't forced to use the parts you may not find beneficial. I think it's a good way to prototype a typed version of
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by Zooper 6y ago
That it doesn't cost something. And, that anything that costs something must be paid for by a false choice between an oligarch and a tyrant.
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by Zooper 6y ago
Let me say in no uncertain terms that there will be a time soon when desk monitors and tvs will be present but not the main display, and their sales will drop at that point. To me, it's more "when" than "if." To rea
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by Zooper 6y ago
I believe everything you listed is true, so it's not really scapegoating. And, saying society at large should be held responsible for the actions of a few in power is absurdity. "Taking responsibility" would be direct action
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by Zooper 6y ago
US is in a clear-cut info war with US citizens in order to attempt to coerce them into a war; we need to fully neuter its ability to do this to its own citizens and hold those doing it to account. This is US propaganda; end of story. Full s
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by Zooper 6y ago
Damage control really ate these comments.
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by Zooper 6y ago
This would be a portion of the plan, not the whole thing.
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by Zooper 6y ago
You can freeze all loans temporarily. You can freeze all rents temporarily-- and even if you disagree with it, many, myself included will simply not pay it come April 1st and we will outnumber the police. The government can exchange cash fo
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by Zooper 7y ago
When your unfounded, conspiratorial thinking comes from AM talk radio, due to a supposed existential threat to freedom, an educated, informed, and well-spoken overwhelming consensus of independent scientists trumps a physicists off-the-cuff
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by Zooper 7y ago
To give a real-world example of why this is problematic: my wife recently had surgery, and they had a follow-up a month later to remove a stent. Even though she was insured, a slew of wholly unintelligible bills from various departments at
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by Zooper 7y ago
Why? Bezos isn't going to open any other videos from someone else. The US executive branch won't do a thing, in case the Saudis decide to stop buying US treasury bonds in exchange for oil. Then they might stop buying weapons, whic
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by Zooper 7y ago
I just call it wage theft.
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by Zooper 7y ago
Smashing a speaker that deafens those around it doesn't inhibit free speech. Believing that building such a thing is an act of freedom is authoritarian.
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by Zooper 7y ago
Part logistics: if the US was the size of 1 or 2 states, it'd be simpler. Part incentives: can't get paid and will get fired for any time off. Part terror: the Police here are armed with live ammunition and if you are shot, you wi
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by Zooper 7y ago
Top Employers in the US: 1) Walmart 2) Amazon Articles touting employment as a meaningful number are about as meaningful as the articles touting the good graces of anonymous donors paying for medical procedures, sometimes for the insured.
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by Zooper 8y ago
People's interests being misrepresented by their allegedly representative government is not the same as no one really caring.
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by Zooper 8y ago
Because it's an inefficient hack and native APIs could improve upon the way in which it operates to such a degree that it would no longer be called the virtual DOM?
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by Zooper 8y ago
I'm confused, why would a small set of people with time on their hands be able to compromise a liquid democracy? Are there not workarounds to the problems encountered? Interesting how we iterate so often, yet are so concrete in our con
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by Zooper 8y ago
I'd prototyped this solution as well for deep object comparisons, storing the hash in a weakmap, so hashes could be garbage collected as the Objects themselves, which act as keys, are collected; this also solves any potential infinite
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by Zooper 8y ago
For people that feel the virtual-dom is anything but a hack, please read up on this: https://github.com/Polymer/lit-html . Do you really not get a code smell from keeping an in-memory copy of the DOM and doing "Rec
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by Zooper 8y ago
How about CNN investigates the US involvement in Venezuela and reports on it accurately? Where's that story?
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by Zooper 8y ago
Where's the feature that prevents Amazon from stealing your core business?
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by Zooper 8y ago
I agree, it's an apples to oranges comparison. The human has 10 fingers, a max amount of input keys it can reach with 1 hand, input lag between eyesight/motor-reaction/mouse-movement from point a-to-b. If we were trying to me
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by Zooper 8y ago
Sounds like we need better governments.

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