kazoomonger

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by kazoomonger 5y ago
> The poor do not elevate the poor out of poverty. What a bizarre, paternalistic take. This is the same sort of narcissistic logic that led to Reagan's golden showers^W^W trickle-down economics. I mean, I agree about entrepeneurs. H
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
It's not a "no true Scotsman" argument because "help" is a vague term to begin with. Lots of churches say nice things while extracting maximum revenue from their congregation. Can you point to any actual political c
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
They really don't. You're misusing the word "lobby". Churches and charities don't lobby politically for poor people, they take them on as a righteous burden to bear. Some churches and charities are even used as tax
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
"It's everybody" just does not capture reality. I got a tax benefit semi-recently by buying an electric car, about $7500. It was the largest I've ever gotten. Compare that to one small crumb of Trump's tax deduction
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
That was a lot of extra words around the crucial bit: > It is based on incentivizing behavior through tax breaks/credits. Who do you think has time and money to spend lobbying for new tax breaks to their benefit? Hint: it's not
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
In sane countries, the "popular view" holds, as it should. Not so much in the US, though. The IRS knows how much I make, I want them to send me a form that says "we think you made this much, if that's true and you have n
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
When using tooling that accepts YAML (or JSON) configuration, I always want something to say "this is what you can write that will have an effect". As a specific example, when I'm writing a snapcraft.yaml, I want to be able t
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
You cannot seriously be trying to advocate for hospitals being run with unvaccinated staff. > We treated your asthma attack, sorry about the covid that you got while you were here, hope those two things don't affect each other I hav
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
This is a pretty lazy dismissal that doesn't even make clear the connection you're trying to make. How is open salary information the same as paying everyone $1M/year?
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
THC is still illegal at the federal level, if that's what you mean. The federal government is just being dragged kicking and screaming into sanity by individual states that are legalizing it.
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I think you're looking in the wrong places. I recently bought a nice bike for $600 that worked great on a 100 mile ride. If I hadn't gone to the fancy, trendy bike co-op, it probably would've been cheaper.
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
Since I can't edit the above comment, one additional thought is that your criticism is valid for a language like Python, which has a much higher tolerance for abstractions such as green threads being built into the language itself. It
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
> But 10 years out it's not entirely implausible that if Rust had stuck with fibers that it may have driven the required OS improvements ... Rust would've been a language nobody had heard of. It wouldn't have driven anyone
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I don't have an deep source on this, but it looks like this is not something new. https://www.etymonline.com/word/milk says: > Of milk-like plant juices or saps from c. 1200.
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
IDK, I think this quote from your link sums up my attitude towards that: > Linked lists are as niche and vague of a data structure as a trie. Few would balk at me claiming a trie is a niche structure that your average programmer could ha
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I would interested in seeing an example of what sort of type errors you mean. IME, the Rust compiler does a great job of catching actual mistakes in the type system, such as with Send/Sync. It also pretty easily lets you tell the compi
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I'll admit that I like Rust, but this seems like an odd take to me. "Not distracting me with type errors" seems directly at odds with "safer overall", especially for a missile launching system. That sounds like a re
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I suspect the segment that I'm in is pretty huge. I recently got Starlink. I got it mostly because it was alright internet and I really fucking hate Comcast. They're the only landline option that I have in a suburban area, and fib
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
> it was either execution or abandon them to starve on the desert on their own Yeah, that's cruel and unforgiving. Surely an all-powerful deity could've sprouted a few plants and let the kids join the conquerors with enough foo
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I think this analogy doesn't quite hold, as you don't have athletes saying "I can't throw as far as you because of gravity", whereas you really do have people making ridiculous claims when it comes to weight loss.
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
> it's pretty obvious the second half is false It's really not. As I said above, people are not identical. Yes, evolution doesn't produce perfectly consistent results. However, absorbing nutrients is the direct foundation
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
CICO is 100% backed up by science. The point of repeating CICO is that there are people that legitimately try claiming "I ate only an apple a day and I can't lose weight!". This is clearly impossible. Now, you can get more sp
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
From your own link: > “That was not an official contract between Palantir and Cambridge Analytica, but there were Palantir staff that would come into the office and work on that data,” Wylie told lawmakers. He added that Palantir staff “
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
> it’s attaching a cryptographic voucher to every photo uploaded to iCloud that, if some number of photos represent hash matches OK, but what if Apple silently pushes out an update (or has existing code that gets activated) that "ac
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
100% this. I have spent a lot of money on bandcamp. I really wish there was an equivalent of bandcamp for movies and shows.
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
There are enough used cars available today that I'm pretty sure I could just buy used for the rest of my life and not have to worry about that. I don't think I will have to worry about it though because if such legislation ever pa
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
The difference is between this and say mandatory seatbelts is that the car won't refuse to start if it thinks that someone isn't buckled. I would refuse to buy a car that did try that, as that's just asking for inconvenient s
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean? This is the entire and only topic that I have talked about, straight from your original comment: > Before there was Climate Change, there was Global Warming. > Why was there a name change, a rebranding
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
I actually just started using emacs recently, specifically doom emacs. It works smoothly out of the box and is super easy to enable LSP for. I'm not going to try to convince anybody to switch, but if you ever try emacs again, would def
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by kazoomonger 5y ago
> Here in France, i don't know of any evidence that patriarchal control is stricter/stronger in muslims than in atheists/jews/christians/hindus/etc It seems obvious to me that there's an association the

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