evocatus

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by evocatus 4y ago
Whichever one you choose, be sure to select the one that gives you the experience of waiting on tables packed with rich, white, fat blobs of flesh and decadence opining on what it may be like to be the server, an ethnic minority, sixty year
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by evocatus 4y ago
Would you make the same argument for amphetamines? Wonder what Erdős would have to say about this. As far as communication goes, frankly, I regard large swaths of the internet as hostile and cognitohazardous. I'd rather be cut off. Tho
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by evocatus 4y ago
The irony is that my karma has actually increased since I began.
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by evocatus 4y ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31269176
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In Defense of Transracialism, Tuvel (2017)(sci-hub.se)
1 points by evocatus 4y ago|0 comments
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by evocatus 4y ago
I identify as white and demand the accompanying privileges.
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by evocatus 4y ago
Why are you focusing on LGBTQ+ which, as some other posters have noted, appear over-represented in media (relative to their occurrence in the population), and not transracial people who receive effectively zero representation in media? Do y
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by evocatus 4y ago
Nothing to do with being misinformed, everything to do with starting life on easy mode as a privileged white free from socioeconomic pressures and - yes, what a foreign concept - a life of prolonged existential, primal fear around gaining a
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by evocatus 4y ago
Correct. In more mainstream language, quoth Gary Bernhardt, "functional core, imperative shell." Functional programming is a convenient fantasy, a highly restrictive and controlled environment that allows us to make large assertio
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by evocatus 4y ago
> it starts with twitter No thanks. If this is the state of socialization in an era where online discourse is controlled by private interests with "agile" ethics, and people are too afraid to socialize in real life for a growin
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by evocatus 4y ago
> a crisis in terms of the few people holding up the world not being paid properly. Who? The farmers and sweatshop workers in frontier or emerging economies?
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by evocatus 4y ago
Bootcamps and anti-intellectual sentiment spreading through the software development community have convinced newer developers that web APIs and other high-level frameworks/languages are actually the bedrock of abstraction, and that no
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by evocatus 4y ago
Slack. We've gone from terminal IRC clients running on practically no memory, to shipping entire Chrome/Electron installations that allow you to conveniently log in with a button that opens your real Chrome browser, so that you ca
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by evocatus 4y ago
It's the New York Times, an esteemed institution in the advertising industry. I'm sure they have done their journalistic due diligence in accurately representing the myriad of individual opinions and zeitgeist of these broad demog
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by evocatus 4y ago
Correct. The mechanics of the advertising industry and the incentives it imposes on other industries are some of the greatest evils our society has created in recent memory.
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by evocatus 4y ago
> Regardless of age / generation, you can't simply speak successs. By definition, that's not how it works. It is a result. A result of decisions and actions. It's not an oversimplify social media post. After we starte
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by evocatus 4y ago
> “No, you don’t understand. This is just the first step. Once we make it super-big, we’ll introduce other things into the algorithm. Charities. Political causes. We’ll have millions of people competing to praise UNICEF in order to get t
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by evocatus 4y ago
As a minority, it's impossible to be racist to whites [0]. Perhaps you should become educated. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice_plus_power
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by evocatus 4y ago
You must be white.
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by evocatus 4y ago
See also: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
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by evocatus 4y ago
Global collaboration on software has existed for years before videoconferencing. All video calls are good for is exposing latent unconscious biases in your colleagues.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Intellectual Yet Idiot (2016)(medium.com)
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by evocatus 4y ago
Exactly. The guilt never ends, and there is always something you can be persecuted for. The solution is not to demand that "the institutions" do something to atone for their blasphemous behavior; rather for individuals to introspe
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by evocatus 4y ago
Correct. There is a time and a place for a little cognitive shock and awe to shake loose the cobwebs of stagnant thought.
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by evocatus 4y ago
Hear hear. Latinx, Filipinx - how dare the whites invent terminology to refer to disadvantaged minorities, using incorrect grammatical constructions or letters not even in the language of the people you refer to. This is white cultural impe
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Tomás de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of Spain(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by evocatus 4y ago|0 comments
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by evocatus 4y ago
Sounds like something a white supremacist would say. I suppose you also believe that people who find the "master" branch on GitHub objectionable are also "purely projecting."
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by evocatus 4y ago
Are you assuming that just because they're blue?
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by evocatus 4y ago
the opinion which it is attempted to suppress by authority may possibly be true. Those who desire to suppress it, of course deny its truth; but they are not infallible. They have no authority to decide the question for al
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by evocatus 4y ago
This is the ego death. You could fill libraries with what has been written on this phenomenon, though under many different names.

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