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hace 9 añosdiscuss

> It was a horrible time in the country for Blacks...

    Dr. Hate: The work that we do in the clinic is one
    thing. But the moment we step outside, we are greeted 
    by police, by [...] a society that is perfectly happy
    for us to die.

    FW: Even sociologists who don’t agree with my Afropessimist 
    conclusions will nonetheless point out that we today are 
    living in a state of greater captivity than we were in the 
    1860’s. It seems like 1 in every 6 Black people are somehow
    incarcerated. That is a pandemic. We’re living in more chains 
    today — through lockdowns, ankle bracelets, halfway houses,
    that kind of thing -- than we were in the early 1800’s. 
    That’s something to think about, when people tell you that 
    progress has come along.
    — http://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/frank-b-wilderson-iii-were-trying-to-destroy-the-world-antiblackness-police-violence-after-ferguson.pdf

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hace 9 añosdiscuss

The protocol is not distributed, the application state is, as a shared memory system. It's fundamentally incompatible with hosting the web, for instance, since hypermedia is supposed to be the engine of application state as the web is fundamentally a distributed hypermedia application.

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hace 10 añosdiscuss

This may please sempai.

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hace 11 añosdiscuss

"Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption."

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hace 11 añosdiscuss

Narcissistic pricks. Not only do you have to be saving the world, but as it turns out, you have to be causing all of the problems as well.

You Silicon Valley cunts have managed to begin asphyxiating yourselves from shoving your heads up your own assholes too far.

Go read Thomas Sowell[0], and stop wasting everybody's time with your self-righteous publicized ego deaths.

— [0]: http://www.worldmag.com/2014/12/thomas_sowell_on_the_root_ca...

thenerdfiles

hace 11 añosdiscuss

Because they're Old Guards.

thenerdfiles

hace 11 añosdiscuss

    "I am a manufacturer of income inequality."

Bullshit.

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hace 11 añosdiscuss

"to mine" =def (trans.) the act of declaring exclusive ownership rights of an object for the speaker of the sentence.

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hace 11 añosdiscuss

They did the same to our account, and informed us that they had sent an account shutdown warning notice to an address with no zip code.

Then they reminded us that they do not have have to provide a reason, a month after they sent the letter, and of course after we called them.

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hace 11 añosdiscuss

The Internet is apparently in its "infantile" brain stage. Would we notice when the Internet's "memory" (the Web) becomes a cantankerously irreverent mentally unstable adolescent?

And we're imprisoned in this madness!

thenerdfiles

hace 11 añosdiscuss

Isn't the W3C the UN of Web Standards?

Why would you not expect programmers with strong political leanings? What kind of world do you live in where top researchers all share moderate views and modes of expressing those views?

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hace 11 añosdiscuss

(Like tracking CSS pseudo-classes or CSSi.)

thenerdfiles

hace 11 añosdiscuss

    It makes it possible to work on stuff you don't particularly enjoy by focussing on an expected long-term reward.

This statement asserts causation where only correlation, particular of neural correlates, only justifies.

That part of the brain plays a role in the process of expectation — it does not, by itself, make it possible. Language, other brain functions, social inertia, etc. makes expectation possible, and there is a critical question of the content of expectation.

Cannabis obviously increases appetite and drives a greater motivation for munchies. Therefore, the reduction of dopeminergic brain-activity alone does not isolate cannabis as the defeater of all motivation but rather of certain kinds of motivation dependent on pleasure-data. Obviously what if I derive pleasure from making logical deductions or from reading? What of children who are synesthes, and who mix up stimulae as a neurotypicality modality that is atypical?

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hace 11 añosdiscuss

"We find that the academic performance of students who are no longer legally permitted to buy cannabis increases substantially."

Pfft.

For my own case, when I smoke cannabis, my brain becomes hyperactive. I want to resolve all of my codesmell at once. I want to finish all of my code at once. My writing becomes "electric". My writing becomes transcendental and on fire — why do I become electric, yet all of these students become unmotivated globs? Tell me why this is the case before you moralize and vilify such a beautiful plant!

So maybe it's me. Or maybe the lot of you just don't know how to smoke and ritualize the practice. Maybe you all have a flawed philosophy to begin with, or worse, you don't have a philosophy about what you're smoking — to begin with.

As Kafka notes:

The unfitness of the object may cause one to overlook the unfitness of the means. — Franz Kafka

thenerdfiles

hace 11 añosdiscuss

No. It's for the fact that in order to climb the corporate ladder, one must sacrifice "empathy-potential" because one becomes conditioned to hypercompetitive behavior. Think of this as "learned winning"; it's cheaper to win because one is in "win-mode" than to actually always win through exhaustion of relevant skill (so, too, winning by "luck" or succeeding through luck, is better than succeeding through hard work — so being conditioned to a hypercompetitive attitude is like being on "luck mode" because others who are not in that attitudinal predisposition will essentially fail to maximize their relevant skills whereas someone in "win-mode" will already be in a conditioned skill-optimal (total maximalization) state.). The asymmetry here is that if you stress yourself out well before your menopausal stage, now you've risked it all only to sacrifice yourself — and you lose out on having a healthy body to support childbirth physiologically and psychologically.

Men do not have the opportunity to give birth, so they can weigh in more heavily on self-sacrifice without the contingency that their body could be used as a medium for life-production.

Basically, men are more like prototypal inheritance whereas women are more like classical inheritance, or at least we like to think that men are more "existential" while women are conservative in their "recreate the self".

Most men advance in careers that are inherently lethal; so naturally women are going to be less driven to advance themselves in careers that compromise their total contract not only as financial agents but as well as genetic agents.

thenerdfiles

hace 11 añosdiscuss

    It absolutely makes no difference what race the poor people are.

Yes, in theory; but if you had read the article, you would clearly see that this article is talking about actual corrupt practices that have taken place within the actual evolutionary history of this simulation.

When did it become cool to assume that the logical possibility of discrimination is on the same order of effects to our free markets as actual discrimination? How did you people get past high school?

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