dc-programmer

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by dc-programmer 4y ago
Nothing would surprise me in this age of post-irony. Fittingly, there is also apparently a grift component to it because the subreddit’s creator is hawking some service/product he’s selling.
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
r/overemployed However I think a substantial number of posts are creative writing exercises
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
I guessed and was basically directionally correct. That guy seems like he fits the Bush mold - Cheney and Rumsfield privatizing huge parts of the military comes to mind. Don’t get me wrong what you are saying makes sense. I’d be more surpri
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
Who do you think cane up with and wrote his domestic policies? That’s literally what lobbyist are for. They have these things drafted up ready to go years in advance (just like the Heritage foundation and SC picks). The only thing that migh
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
This is true. But fatal flaws such as the fact that Medicare cannot negotiate prices with drug companies are not accidents but rather artifacts of corporate lobbying. There are many examples of rent seeking like this across the system
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
I first read about the more disturbing (i.e. waved over in school) details of reconstruction a few years ago in Grant’s biography (really good btw as was Chernow’s Hamilton). One of the most shocking events was https://en.m.wikip
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. Also while re-align is probably an incorrect word, there definitely has been an essential transformation of both parties. The new deal coalition and Clinton’s third way have little in common.
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
To be clear I am not talking about buying pencils, and I don’t disagree bureaucratic reform is badly needed in many institutions (which is the opposite of privatization). Unfortunately kicking the bad apples out is becoming increasingly mo
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
The argument is the general problem is the negative synergistic feedback loop of poverty, over-policing, drugs, and local culture. These are the problems to solve. I don’t say never so I suppose a school could fail for endogenous reasons i
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
Yes I’d co-sign the core of what your saying here. It’s pretty alarming actually. And social issues are being used as a wedge/relief valve/distraction to avoid bringing too much attention to where things are materially going. I do
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
The wording seemed a little generated to me at first that’s all. I’d largely agree that moving to the left economically is the only real choice. It’s the only way democrats can become competitive again in rural areas
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
The argument would be that serious science educators would not stay long in a position where the curriculum is censured to that degree. Sure there are probably counter examples. But why risk hamstringing the development of future generation
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
Can’t tell if I’m missing a reference if I’ve been arguing with AI this entire time. But if this is real, this thinking falls into the trap of thinking in final binary outcomes rather than viewing politics as a discourse. Are unions perfect
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
It’s not. I don’t care about the blue team. If a yellow team popped up tomorrow that actually cared about the well-being of the public and not corporate interests I would vote for them instead. Your history conveniently stops at around 1970
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
Don’t think I said I am a democrat. I might vote that way sometimes as a harm reduction strategy though. I’ve seen what happens when Republicans get power (millions dead in Middle East, world historical wealth inequality, destruction of pub
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
I said conservatives. I am adequately informed about the mid-20 century party re-alignment of the Dixiecrats. It’s not the semantic gotcha you think it is because politics is not a team sport to me. These folks can’t stand that they lost th
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
If the school is truly rotten sure maybe let’s close it. But the problem isn’t the schools. Probably the best thing we could do to produce better educational results is to correct the damage done to city centers by rapid deindustrialization
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
Unironically yes. The war on public schools started when the Feds wouldn’t let southerners run their segregation academies. Conservatives have been trying to sabotage the system ever since
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
The answer is not sending them to a unaccredited strip center mall charter school like some people want. Or a bible thumping parochial that doesn’t teach evolution.
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
The purpose of no child left behind is to literally close schools in low performing areas. Leaving families no choice but to go with other options. This is the classic Republican playbook of tearing down institutions not in the name of smal
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
This reality was intentionally engineered so that ghouls like Devos can make their millions and billions in the inevitable privatization
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
This was a formative read for me many years ago but only recently realized there is also a novel version. Has anyone here read both?
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
Many of the judges on the bench were literally pushed through undemocratically through the deep state cabal known as the Federalist society. The idea that the US can fix things by just voting better is laughable. Also why is everyone playin
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
I must run in different circles because I had to Google it. Probably the only thing that made me laugh audibly today.
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
My experience lines up with your position that these things can’t be learned passively. An alarming number of new grads I’ve interviewed have a tenuous grasp of the fundamentals (the less likely the material is to show up in an interview th
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
There were some articles over the last few years about successful founders skewing older. Looks like the average age for billion dollar companies is 34 but I remember seeing over 40 for some thresholds. https://www.cnbc.com/
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
Is the problem the difficulty of running complex systems or the complete resistance to the idea from politicians and voters that reality is massively complicated. People just want “common sense” solutions and politicians who speak plainly b
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
My bad. My introduction to the topic was through the lens of different use cases
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
Excellent. I appreciate the information. I’m just getting into the JVM dev ecosystem so I have a lot to learn
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by dc-programmer 4y ago
Ok thanks, that helped clear some things up. I didn’t realize generational GC reuses the same contiguous memory blocks for the young regions. Makes sense from a fragmentation and resident page locality perspective. Do you know if the early

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