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Comment #47862237
clankerlover
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Comment #47804045
Many discriminatory policies could be considered rational. It is rational for jobs to discriminate against handicapped people who require extra affordances to be able to do the sam…
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Comment #47801002
Primogeniture in any form is discriminatory precisely since birth order is an immutable, permanent, unchosen characteristic assigned randomly at birth, just like race or sex.
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Comment #47750784
>"bring back idiomatic design" doesn't help when we don't have enough idioms One must always research and find the dominant or most applicable idioms for whatever they're doing. Ar…
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Comment #47689562
Yeah, the consensus of a plurality of users of a Silicon Valley startup incubator heavily associated with the right wing is definitely the only opinion that matters about the subte…
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Comment #47688433
Every single quality of life improvement for the working class, from minimum wage, to overtime, to weekends, was delivered by the left. Please tell me one thing that the right has …
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Comment #47688422
> America didn’t mandate eugenics in the movie Correct! It mandated eugenics in real life, in the early 20th century. I didn't say that the movie shows eugenics happening. I said "…
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Comment #47688402
The film wasn't about education, it was about genetics, as the intro makes abundantly clear. And the Redditors who get themselves hot and bothered about this film aren't laughing, …
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Comment #47678598
Nazi Germany and America, for two, lmao
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Comment #47678591
The movie obviously doesn’t depict a eugenics program, but it makes the core argument of eugenics: if human breeding is left uncontrolled it will lead to “stupid” people breeding m…
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Comment #47677775
Voting for the right as a member of the working class is truly idiotic. Not that most people on this site have ever dipped below PMC treatlerite comfort.
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Comment #47677718
What sort of a response do you think a movie whose premise is “dumb people have overbred and made the world worse” is intended to provoke?
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Comment #47677700
No, because that’s natural selection, not artificial selection by an authoritarian government. Hope this helps!
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Comment #47673669
Because the film itself implies that the idiocracy is due to stupid people breeding more, a classic tenet of Nazism and eugenics alike
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Comment #47673662
Why do Redditors and tech people love comparing things to this weird, pro-eugenics movie so much?
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Comment #47663786
Why is it sad to want an app?
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Comment #47663740
I won’t use your web app. The app version has better performance, lower memory usage, is more idiomatic and looks better.
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Comment #47653560
> an endless and futile journey on solving the human condition of poverty and inequality It’s very telling that you think poverty can’t be solved. — I can't pay no doctor bills But…
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Comment #47572666
History will not be kind to you and your ilk. Quit your job.
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Comment #47541003
Many Useless Uses of cat in this documentation. You never need to do `cat file | foo`, you can just do `<file foo`. cat is for concatenating inputs, you never need it for a single …
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Comment #47387439
Why include writing the primes to a file instead of, say, standard output? That increases the optimization space drastically and the IO will eclipse all the careful bitwise math Do…
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Comment #47387424
Idiocracy really seems to appeal to eugenicists. Is “stupid people breed too much” really an issue we think is worth propagating?
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Comment #47364687
I'd rather use a TUI than a web UI.
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Comment #47359905
What did you patent