kaens

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by kaens 6y ago
you call it defund the police because they are disproportionately overfunded.
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by kaens 6y ago
I spent a decade homeless in appalachia and the general midwest for a decade, and another largely below the poverty line. I'm fine with citing my life and the lives of everyone I knew for the amount of political agency that was present
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by kaens 6y ago
you're off by a little bit. > The duty and role of a government is to act in the best interest of their citizens which that government represents. > In a well functioning representative democracy, voters will kick out politicians
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by kaens 6y ago
if i write "bees" on a box, does the box contain bees?
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by kaens 6y ago
food, water, shelter, and healthcare are universal human interests. it's fine for you to believe the government shouldn't have a hand in them, but then in my view you are simply not in favor of what has been defined in this thread
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by kaens 6y ago
it's just one example of many of huge swaths of people in this country not being treated in the way they they would be treated if they were in a well functioning representative democracy. see if: > In a well functioning representati
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by kaens 6y ago
right, that's why i put "if" there :P
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by kaens 6y ago
ground realities are that, for example, flint michigan barely has clean water after seven years. if you are claiming the usa is not a well functioning representative democracy, i agree.
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by kaens 6y ago
> The duty and role of a government is to act in the best interest of their citizens which that government represents. According to who? I understand that this is a kind of framing used here often, but the federal government has been co
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by kaens 6y ago
these are rules of thumb, not laws
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by kaens 6y ago
if you were explicitly asked to, why not?
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by kaens 6y ago
i think so, largely yes. large industry immersion for a long time (still) lead to, in my view,teaching people wage work skills as opposed to, say, trade or craft skills if that makes sense. i don't think they'd necessarily become
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by kaens 6y ago
oh i'm with you there
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by kaens 6y ago
oh yeah i absolutely agree with you there honestly i just got too in the weeds here, sorry
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by kaens 6y ago
not saying they aren't distinguished, am saying that a huge amount of the discussion around them in the workforce is being done by people who couldn't define them for you, and that a lot of everything in our field is driven by
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by kaens 6y ago
While I recognize what you're saying here wrt types of programmers and what they're likely to get into, I am not convinced that this doesn't have more to do with relative popularities of terms + the tendency for people who ar
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by kaens 6y ago
i have found larger real world fp codebases to have essentially the same organizational problems as OOP codebases, just expressed in different ways. most of the problem wrt code organization has to do with communicating meaning to humans, f
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by kaens 6y ago
If you grow up with no experience of not being stepped on, exactly what would you be giving up on? How exactly do you expect people on average to not accept the general state of the world as it has been for their entire existence? Acceptanc
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by kaens 6y ago
Because it is extremely difficult to control ADHD to your advantage. It is your entire experience of reality.
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by kaens 6y ago
> You’ll end up creating highly biased or illogical laws that cater to the culture of the times yes this has often happened > and need to be changed again the thing is, they often don't get changed.
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by kaens 6y ago
i see them literally all the time. there's plenty in this thread. there's plenty on reddit. there's plenty on twitter. what are you talking about?
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by kaens 6y ago
he donated in support of prop 8 in california (banning same sex marriage)
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by kaens 6y ago
> how the heck do you go from being a dev to becoming proficient in reverse engineering? have to do a lot of multi-system level debugging, and/or low-level debugging and optimization
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by kaens 6y ago
it's fine for your local development, probably want to rename it or incorporate the changes into it's parent branch that is named more usefully for pushing it somewhere shared
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by kaens 6y ago
can't do on osx without reformat if i'm recalling correctly
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by kaens 6y ago
this is like, basically all of non major urban area America
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by kaens 7y ago
good thing no one is advocating for laying one brick and stopping
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by kaens 7y ago
I don't think it's misleading, the date a talk was given can be very relevant for context.
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by kaens 7y ago
> When was the last time you heard of a programming language discussed in terms of discoverability, succinctness, relevance, let alone beauty? I mean, fairly often throughout the years. Particularly in communities for lisps, ruby, perl,
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by kaens 7y ago
This is often true. It's also often true that 1-on-1's are people doing something they are required to do, targeted at quota fulfillment, where there's not actually an opportunity for either side to influence a situation at a

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