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jeremyparker

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  • Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government

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  • This thread is filled with people who don't make a connection between shitty government websites and the roads that are filled with pot holes, several train derailments every day, a tax collection agency that doesn't have enough staff to do audits on wealthy people, and schools that ban books that have rainbows in them but teach books by Prager U.

    We could have better government websites - but not if we elect "starve the beast" politicians.

  • Economic Theory is Fun tho.

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  • Ok I should preface by saying I think ancap is dumb and having a slight disagreement with what you've said does not mean I'm not defending them. They're asshats.

    But: imo, anarchist thought escapes definition. There's no such thing as anarchism (in the sense of an agreed-upon political philosophy), only anarchists.

    Readers of Rene Girard might describe coersion (insofar as it's a natural result of hegemony), as a sort of force of nature, like violence, that, if society doesn't find a healthy way to express, will come out sideways, in ways that are anti-social.

  • Economic Theory is Fun tho.

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  • Hmmm. What about anarchocapitalists that leave capitalist out of their descriptors and larp like they're contemporary versions of the DK-listening, doc martens wearing, spiky hair having kids from the 1980s. And ancaps might be slightly better than the rich people at the top that use every advantage they've been given as a lever to suppress the success of everyone else. At least ancaps still have the potential to change.

  • Advent of code starts in less than 12 hours!

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  • Ok cool, thank you! I'll see how it goes.

  • Advent of code starts in less than 12 hours!

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  • How hard are the puzzles? I've been coding for a while but I'm self taught and I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. I'd love to give them a shot but I have no idea whether they're totally out of reach or doable. What level of developer are they intended for?

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python! - Code Style

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  • Seconding this. For someone that doesn't know anything about Python, there are vital aspects of Python 2 that need to be covered.

    In the context of learning a language, most of the time, a lower version number doesn't mean that much. In the case of Python 2, there are fundamental incompatibilities - and, as you say, it's still out there, and when your see it, you need to know what that means.

    Maybe you don't choose a library or a piece of software if you notice it. Maybe you get a legacy code base dumped on your lap. This shit happens.

  • George Takei's Based Voting Take [Rule}

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  • Before Obama, I could still remain quiet when people said "voting for anyone is implicit approval," or whatever - and for the most part, they're right - voting is a pretty low level of change.

    I voted for Obama because even if he is a bit of a tool, he's black, and now a huge group of minority kids saw someone who looks like them in the white house. I voted for him not because of the "HOPE" on his signs but literally to give black kids hope. (And yeah, for the most part, it's false hope, just like it is for white kids, welcome to the club.) He was a positive symbol and, if it's a symbol who is also a centrist Democrat, that's better then a centrist Democrat that isn't a positive symbol. And a shit ton better than Mitt Romney or whoever the other guy was.

    And then Trump happened, and any respect for the "don't vote" viewpoint drained out. If you still think both parties are the same at this point, you might want to start asking yourself what else is going on with you - because "not great" is not identical to "fucking terrible"...

    Biden isn't doing what I want him to do - health care, income inequality, corruption in Congress, etc - but the infrastructure bill isn't a bad thing. It's actually a good thing, we need it. We need a lot more, but 1 > 0.

  • You can’t even pay people to have more kids

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  • It may or may not be natural, but it doesn't change the economic reality - if there are more people who can't work (the olds) than who can, the economy is fucked.

    It seems like lots if boomers are retiring older - I have no data for that but that's the vibe - but that's not going to last forever, they can't (shouldn't) work until they literally die. The burden on the young (paired with pretty reckless tactics from the capitalists) - the olds are going to get left in the street.

  • You can’t even pay people to have more kids

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  • Look, if you didn't want to be price gouged, you shouldn't have paid those high prices! Vote with your wallet!

    (For those who think I might be serious, I'm not. Voting with your wallet isn't democratic, it's literally plutocratic.)

    Kidding aside, there's a clip of some grocery store chain CEO talking about how they will raise their prices as high as the market will bear - it's chilling, but, like, in the USA, it's the law - it would literally be illegal if they didn't.

  • Critics of capitalism, what concrete economic policies do you support?

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  • All of this. The reason why the "trans debate" is so problematic is because of the "debate" part. I don't give a shit about whether gender is a performance or a genetic thing - i care that trans people are murdered at an alarming rate, and that their rights to health care are significantly under threat - or gone already. My concern is that trans and gay people still have to worry about their safety when they come out of the closet.

    I care about providing safety and normal human treatment for people who aren't getting it.

    The "debates" can happen after these people stop being murdered and abused. You can tell me all about your religious doctrines and how god made Adam and Eve or whatever after we agree that humans need to be treated like humans.

  • "Super pigs" — called the "most invasive animal on the planet" — threaten to invade northern U.S.

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  • I was going to get out the big Cody Logo to shine it in the nighttime clouds to alert him, but, then I realized, he already knows.

  • Don't waste your money on an awful Android tablet on Black Friday

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  • I'm not sure if there is a "good time" to buy - not as a blanket timeframe for all things. If you want to save money, use camel camel camel and patience.

    However - it all depends on how much you're talking about trying to save, how substantial that amount is to you, and how much your time is worth - because if you make $20/hour and you spend 16 hours in order to save $5, that's not a great investment.

    Black Friday is almost always a scam. Maybe once upon a time it wasn't, but, capitalists gotta capitalize.

  • Just install EndeavorOS lol

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  • Oh you mean the IBM Enterprise Linux upstream? Is that ok to use on a desktop computer?

    (I'm just kidding, Fedora's great.)

  • Is there a place where you can request code reviews on opensource software?

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  • That's Wikipedia's approach, arguably one of the most successful "open source" projects in history - certainly not without its problems, but overall it's pretty great

  • Based KDE 🗿

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  • Idk if I would say it's looks > usability, and it's certainly not gaudy... There are theming styles that are much more unusable and gaudy than the "riced" look.

    It's an aesthetic that idealizes a kind of barebones utility, and while it often will lean towards the look over the usability, the look itself is like a "beautiful utilitarian" - minimalistic, uncluttered, etc.

  • Hack — Enhancing PHP with Static Typing and Modern Features

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  • Thank you!

    indieweb movement

    Love it. That's like what the Internet used to be.

  • Based KDE 🗿

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  • Fwiw rice is a backronym, it originally comes from just "rice burners" which were the kind of cars & motorcycles that got "cosmetically enhanced"

  • Based KDE 🗿

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  • There's certainly some overlap

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  • As a librarian irl, if I could make a horribly reductive characterization of the difference:

    Librarians' top priority is providing access Archivists' top priority is preservation

    Do you seed? You're a librarian Leech and no seed? Archivist

    be a librarian, we're better