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you call it defund the police because they are disproportionately overfunded.

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 k…

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 represent…

if i write "bees" on a box, does the box contain bees?

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 no…

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 dem…

right, that's why i put "if" there :P

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 a…

> 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…

these are rules of thumb, not laws

if you were explicitly asked to, why not?

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 mak…

oh i'm with you there

oh yeah i absolutely agree with you there honestly i just got too in the weeds here, sorry

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…

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 popularit…

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 or…

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 th…

Because it is extremely difficult to control ADHD to your advantage. It is your entire experience of reality.

> 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 …

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?

he donated in support of prop 8 in california (banning same sex marriage)

> 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 optimizati…

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

can't do on osx without reformat if i'm recalling correctly