Viewing profile — supremesaboteur

> late stage capitalism Much later than the capitalism in most advanced economies ?

> Because yesterday the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES defended white nationalists and neo-nazis on national TV No, he reiterated his condemnation of them multiple times https://ww…

Everyone who disagrees with you may not be a Nazi sympathizer

> I called on all leaders to condemn the white supremacists and their ilk who marched and committed violence https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/us/politics/trump-charlot...

> The codebase may be ugly but who cares Code quality matters indirectly here. Wordpress is known for it's massive number of security flaws. If you don't watch for new versions and…

It was not an anti-diversity "manifesto"

Democrats spent a lot more money on these races and were still not able to win. This is clearly a problem for them. The swing in margins can be explained by the fact that the Presi…

This article also has a few problems > I believe for example if it wasn’t for biases and unequal opportunities, then the higher ranks in science and politics would be dominated by …

If you listen to these types of arguments you would think that the Democrats have figured out how to synthesize healthcare out of thin air and the Republicans are putting a stop to…

The Right is not fighting for the rights of corporations. They believe that a free society best protects the rights of the little guy

This is the moment. Google used to be this dream place to work, not anymore. If other companies want to hire good conservative/libertarian engineers, they should motion loud and cl…

> But, like a lot of other reasonable people, I'm not open to that dialog One of the reasons why even gruesome speech is considered protected is so that people with such opinion ca…

> Ironically Sweden has moved in the past 20 years from a fully public healthcare system to a mixed public/private model (similar in many ways to a voucher approach where the custo…

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Sweden > Costs for health and medical care amounted to approximately 9 percent of Sweden’s gross domestic product in 2005, a figure…

Stallman was criticising the lack of arrays etc in Tcl which stops it from being used for building complex applications. Tcl author John Ousterhout responded[1] to this by saying t…

I assume the thinking goes like this : ZFS was designed for enterprises. Enterprise software has requirements of high stability, scale etc. Google is probably on the extreme end of…

For Python there is no native support for threads because of GIL. You can get around this through multiprocessing etc but these are hacks

It can be structured so that an accuser does not automatically become guilty of false accusations because the accused was found 'not guilty'. In other words, sexual harassment case…

Previously : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14823807