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by raspie 7y ago
FPTP might be the worst, but IRV is a close second. Just like FPTP it gives significant artificial advantage to a certain kind of party. Specifically, IRV tends to elect a party that is most people's second-choice party. You might thin
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by raspie 7y ago
There is no such thing as a megacorp's indifference to increasing their profits and achieving their strategic goals. You can't plausibly claim indifference when Google's business processes that took many millions of dollars
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by raspie 7y ago
> For more than two decades, McElroy was suspected of being involved in theft of grain, gasoline, alcohol, antiques, and livestock, but he avoided conviction when charges were brought against him 21 times—often after witnesses refused to
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by raspie 8y ago
Personally I'm really annoyed with Scala community's obsession with Gitter. It's such an inferior tool. Gitter search UI is the worst, and search itself is useless, often returning no results when you can spend an hour scroll
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by raspie 8y ago
Can you please explain which of these actually constrain your freedom of expression, with examples? Do you send kiss emojis to your open source contributors? Call them little b*tches or refer to transgender people by a pronoun you know they
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by raspie 8y ago
I don't know why you picked Stalin. He wasn't exactly tolerant of religion, and would never agree to auch a CoC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_anti-religious_campaign... David Duke on the other hand wo
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by raspie 8y ago
> I really don't understand the west's fascination with these codes and statements. Why not just do your work and avoid drama? And you will never understand it if you look at "the west" as a single organism. Its milli
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by raspie 8y ago
Sure, I follow the categorical imperative myself. The author had a chance to make his CoC the golden rule. But instead he made a deeply religious statement. He has full right to do what he wants, but to also claim that this is somehow inclu
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by raspie 8y ago
That's as much inclusiveness as "stop hitting yourself" is your friend's good advice. If the CoC started with "First of all, purge any God from your heart" you wouldn't have thought twice about condemnin
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by raspie 8y ago
Consider Chromium Embedded Framework, or Sciter. These too let you define your UI with JS/HTML/CSS, but you're not shipping a node.js server with your app, which makes your app much lighter.
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by raspie 9y ago
To put it in an even less flattening way, the real problem are developers, not the paradigm. Your company's code will be as good as your developers are regardless of the paradigm. Microservices will not help you if your developers have
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by raspie 17y ago
Public healthcare is not inherently better than private, it has its own problems. I think it is easier and cheaper (both technically and politically) to fix private healthcare incentives than to go the public way.