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GHC seems to be more of a platform for crafting your own language than rust. Yes, rust nightly has experimental features that can enabled, but they seem to have gone through more vetting and design, whereas in GHC the features seem to be much more exploratory, or more explicitly, research oriented. It seems as though every contemporary haskell program is written in a different language, though rust at least, always has stable, which seems a much more sensible default than GHC's.

This was the war on drugs intended purpose.

This piece argues he was an early symbol/scapegoat in the conversation around equity in the literary world. I found it to be pretty sympathetic and enjoyable.

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/culture/22691692/jonathan-f...

> Furthermore pretty much everybody in every non-western country is a TERF.

Many non-western nations traditionally had third gender (Hijras in India, Kathoey in Thailand, many Native American Two-Spirit Identities). When these places were colonized these identities were used as a justification, and generally punished harshly. The argument that "only people in western nations tolerate this", is bad-faith, and doesn't recognize that anti-trans hostility in a lot of the non-western world was largely created by the colonial overlords this argument is meant to rebuke.

mIRC scripting is why I'm a software developer today.

This made my day.

Looks like this is the V Lang guy's example project. Pretty impressive progress.

IIRC they were told by the NLRB not to put in that mailbox (to not create an environment of intimidation) and they did anyway.

The largest coal mine union strike in 40 years is happening very close to the Alabama Amazon facility, and started just after the Amazon vote. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/20...

This just made my day. Thank you.

If you are going to have intimate contact with more than a few people (perhaps even just a few) the doctors I have talked to recommend getting the vaccine.

There are many strains of HPV, the vaccine prevents several of the worst but not all strains. Even if you are already infected with one strain it makes sense to get the vaccine to not become infected with the others.

Anecdotally, usage is highly regionalized, and is generally met with cultural resistance leading into exceptsnce per area. I started using it in San Francisco I’m 2013, before it was completely normalized. It has spread from major metropolitan centers and is going through the process of acceptance in smaller towns. A (somewhat sarcastic) call to put truvada in the municipal water supply is generally appreciated in the bay, but when I visit smaller mid-western cities these days there is still a lot of anti-prep sentiment. It has however achieved a reasonable amount of acceptance in regional hubs.

No. It cold have been that Relay the JS graphql implementation we used was too heavy handed, but our team never fully grokked what was going on. It wound up introducing a bunch of friction into our workflow, and we ultimately wound up removing it.

Jim Weirich's 2012 Ruby Conf talk is also a great introduction to the Y Combinator and Lambda Calculus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs

It's not so bad for the individuals who are paying 10% of their income, it is bad for US taxpayers who are as I understand this article collectively liable for that burden in 25 years.

This article focuses on a man who took out ~600k in loans to become an orthodontist. That interest has since compounded to 1mm. I would imagine he took the loans out because becoming an orthodontist was his highest-paying career option. Had he known that the variable-rate loans would be impossible for him to pay off he probably would not have taken them out. We should not be putting aspiring medical professionals in this position.

It's absurd that becoming a medical professional requires saddling yourself with an exorbitant amount of debt. My doctor friends advise people contemplating med school not to go for this reason. It's incredibly sad that the economic situation is incentivizing intelligent people to stay out of medicine.

This article focuses on someone who went into debt for dental school. I prefer the idea of an educated dentist to dentists without diplomas.

All that said, I agree with your sentiment, college is for many people completely unnecessary.

As per the article, we as tax payers are on the hook for the debt that will be defaulted on, so the fact that this system has spiraled out of control will hurt all of us.

I just tried to read this on mobile:

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I think it's interesting that this post was flagged by the mods but Sam's original essay was not.

Anil's argument was that tolerating hatred of groups emboldens those who would be violent against those groups. In that, I agree violent speech threatens the lives of those who it is is violent against.

There also degrees to this. There are certainly instances of people being drunk on their own self righteousness.

- If I were a non-christian and you were to wish me "Merry Christmas", if I took the interpretation that you were threatening my life that would be unreasonable.

- If you were to announce "I'm not killing anybody, but I pray that all the gays are killed" I think my understanding of that as endangering my life (as a gay person) is totally reasonable.

This is a nuanced conversation, it helps to remember that different people have different things at stake, and it's difficult to say things that apply to every level.

Upon further reading I find myself chuckling and agreeing with your thesis statement: "There is a depraved desire in all of us to use our momentary power to achieve final victory."

If the left has achieved cultural dominance, why has it not achieved political dominance? I think that divide speaks to the argument that bigotry is dangerous and powerful. I agree that there can certainly be a chilling from leftist critiques but don't see that it as equaling McCarthyism.

Sorry to be pedantic, this reply hadn't appeared when I posted my response yet.

The rebuttal is literally "long form tweets" ( https://twitter.com/anildash/status/941431220952584196 ). Sam's post is presumably something he edited and had people check over before he posted it. That's not to negate your essential argument, but the two pieces do have different origins.

I agree that forgiveness is powerful. I also linked to that page because it shows a balanced view intentionally.

It is easier for one to be forgiving when the problem is abstract and one's life is not directly threatened by the intolerance (please forgive the unwieldy "one"'s, I don't want to make any assumptions about "you"). I have a lot of respect for people who are able to hold forgiveness in their hearts, I also understand the value of the self preservation in drawing a firm boundary in saying "I will not be attacked". It's complicated.

I certainly err on the side of agreeing with the thesis that we shouldn't tolerate intolerance, which is Anil's point as well, that said the source material I linked to (wikipedia), gives attention to both the argument and its counterpoints. I do find it interesting and relevant to this conversation that we have both been downvoted for our points.

The TL;DR on The Paradox of Tolerance, a much discussed philosophy intro topic, is that for tolerance to exist society must be intolerant of intolerance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

This project has not been updated since February. Cursory searches are not showing more active forks. It might be interesting to look at the code for educational purposes, but I wouldn't recommend building on this.