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by damnyou 6y ago
No memory safe language in existence can meet your standards, since they're all written on a bedrock of unsafe code.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Safe Rust solves the problem of memory safety (assuming that any unsafe code is correct). Unsafe Rust continues to be potentially memory unsafe. That is equivalent to other memory safe languages like Java (which is memory safe under the
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by damnyou 6y ago
Yes, yes, that's the standard scientific racist line. "Oh we just care about educational outcomes".
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Scott Siskind believes scientific racism is “probably partially correct”(twitter.com)
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by damnyou 6y ago
Not all libertarians, but many right-libertarians, certainly. (I have some wonderful left-libertarian friends.) Anyone who ignores structural racism and espouses the policy positions that Murray does is either ignorant or racist. Murray, be
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by damnyou 6y ago
Given that a number of people on this site and elsewhere insist Murray isn't racist, even acknowledging that he is would be a nice change.
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by damnyou 6y ago
I'm claiming that Murray is a white supremacist primarily because his welfare reform and UBI proposals are white supremacist.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Well, for his accurate beliefs, let's look to another excerpt from In Our Hands : "The libertarian solution is to prevent the government from redistributing money in the first place. Imagine for a moment that the $2 trillion that
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by damnyou 6y ago
Murray is not merely a racist. He's a white supremacist eugenicist. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26126606 edit: I'm "posting too fast" so responding here: UBI isn't inherently bad but Murray
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by damnyou 6y ago
Yglesias is a center left commentator, with the emphasis on center.
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by damnyou 6y ago
Using your first and middle name is not anonymous by any stretch of the imagination.
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by damnyou 6y ago
No, I don't, because I'm sure he's constructed post hoc rationalizations in his head about how he's not actually as bad as it seems. I evaluate him like I do any other public figure: based on his writing and the impact h
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by damnyou 6y ago
"Supports welfare reform" and "edge cases of UBI" are doing a lot of work there. I, too, support modernizing our governmental assistance programs, but not in a way that's white supremacist and eugenicist. There are
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by damnyou 6y ago
I've laid out my case for why Charles Murray is a white supremacist. Beyond that it's just a matter of free speech and free association.
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by damnyou 6y ago
The reaction to my posts is rather remarkable. I've lost 30 karma so far just for stating a bunch of facts and opinions that challenge the hegemonic narrative on "Hacker News". Oh no, I'm being cancelled. I should go wri
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by damnyou 6y ago
White supremacists are happy to co-opt East Asian (not Asian in general, only East Asian) populations for their purposes when convenient. Your response doesn't engage with the rest of my post either, which I think is the primary eviden
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by damnyou 6y ago
I like and support UBI (for complex reasons some of which are related to the arguments in Seeing Like a State ). However, some implementations of UBI are white supremacist and eugenicist, and Murray's version is one such implementatio
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by damnyou 6y ago
Abominable as it is, my views are not just based on the Bell Curve's race-IQ discussion. * In Losing Ground , Murray talks about about how welfare should be restricted because Black people are having too many kids. His book had a grea
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by damnyou 6y ago
Depends on the nature of the disagreement. Not to white supremacists like Charles Murray, no.
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by damnyou 6y ago
With your house keys you can walk into any hardware store and get as many duplicates as you like. With a U2F key that is prohibited. U2F desperately needs a layer of indirection that doesn't currently exist.
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by damnyou 6y ago
The moment you lose your key, WebAuthN becomes terrible and the UX is atrocious. You may literally have to go to an office (in the middle of a pandemic!) to restore access to your account. This is bananas. We absolutely should not be recomm
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by damnyou 6y ago
What Americans (including Hillary Clinton) have done in Haiti is despicable. The American empire deserves to be destabilized a bit too.
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by damnyou 6y ago
If a set of ideas can destabilize a racist, colonial power which as of 2021 still hasn't paid reparations to Haiti , that seems like a problem with the colonial power, not the ideas. The French republic deserves to be destabilized a b
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by damnyou 6y ago
Chinese imperialism isn't better or worse than European imperialism. Hong Kong would be best off as an independent, liberal democracy, under no one's "rule".
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by damnyou 6y ago
I wonder how happy the queer kids of those parents, both Americans and Bangladeshis, are.
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by damnyou 6y ago
The low rates of physical teenage sex in the west today are a result of a generation of social liberalism along with technological progress (enabling virtual means to explore one's sexuality). Social liberalism means having a healthy a
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by damnyou 6y ago
Liberal gender and sexual norms are very clearly better for humanity and it is a moral imperative that the rest of the world adopt them. Social conservatism of the sort practiced in most of the world, including but not remotely limited to t
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by damnyou 6y ago
In general there are many things that are beneficial when used by good actors and harmful when used by bad actors. That's just the nature of power. I'm really bothered by blanket policies that prevent beneficial uses of a tool bec
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by damnyou 6y ago
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, that is how antitrust has been treated in US law, yes. But the law, including this definition of antitrust, is socially constructed, which means it can be changed.
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by damnyou 6y ago
This pandemic really has been hard on all of us. Take care.

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