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It's literally turning a teachable moment into a resentful one while simultaneously teaching them that littering is okay.

Please point me to the parts of this method that are good or effective.

Cringe

Besides being a dumb ass comment that fails to address any of the points raised, why would you think that people who have a fondness for the Soviet Union would be fond of Russia, an imperialist capitalist oligarchy that has completely shed itself of all associations with socialist values?

I agree. Just because JS has its way of doing it does not mean you need to stick to that. I mean, TS adds a bunch of new keywords to the language that JS lacks. Why not simply stick to those intuitive keywords rather than this weird variable naming nonsense that JS has to use because it doesn't have access modifiers of any kind?

I can assure you that doing it in TS would not have been any slower and you would have gained all the benefits that static type checking brings with it.

VueJS 3 in particular is much better suited to use TS than its predecessor (without any additional plugins).

This is so ass-backwards and you're practically twisting yourself over backwards a dozen times to somehow try to argue that this wasn't malicious. He basically poisoned the library, and you're blaming all the people who got poisoned because "they didn't fully inspect the contents of the code".

But you didn't have to go to that restaurant! Don't you do a full health and safety inspection of every restaurant you visit (and of their entire supply chain)?

The only people who complain about America are... millionaires? I can't follow your train of thought at all. Crazy if you actually believe this.

You can literally still do all of these things with a smartphone.

I guess the wisdom here is to know yourself and your limits and whether you have an addictive personality.

You're aware there is a difference between discrimination and categorization, right?

About 75% of students who were polled were against banning books pretty much across the board.

Does that fit within the ideological narrative you've constructed here for yourself though?

Ideally, sure.

It is just my personal opinion that anti-science does not have equal value as science and should not be found right alongside it. Given the correct context and time and place, I don't fundamentally have an issue with the books existing or people being able to read them.

Idk if you're still talking about Germany specifically or more global trends. Regarding Germany: gun control is a non-partisan issue and not even remotely part of the public discourse. Censorship of various degrees is written in German law especially when it pertains to racism, hate speech, and Nazi language and symbolism. Regarding the last, I'm not aware of the state of Germany on that point.

However, none of the points you named are anywhere even remotely near "extreme left", even by US standards. Those are all Democrat party talking points, which is anywhere from slightly left of center to center-right.

The "extreme left" (no, US Democrats are not socialists) has no political representation anywhere in the Western world and barely registers in public consciousness at all.

Never said it's not worth studying. The methodology, resulting samples, one-sided nature, and biased and opinionated narrative structure of the paper (I urge you to read through it) make it entirely uninteresting is all.

It's clear that this is yet another piece to throw on the libertarian heap and to spin it into anti-woke agitprop just as the OP (and linked tweet, to a lesser extent) did with their heavy editorializing. Fuel for the fire for everyone who wants to read the title and extrapolate some greater social trends from this to fit their already established perspectives.

You can't make a point based on garbage data.

The "extreme left" is not even a fraction as represented as even far right within popular consciousness and, more significantly, political representation. There's no Marxist-Leninist politicians of note in Germany (where the study was done). There are however plenty of popular politicians and parties with significant power who align with some of the statements and topics the students were asked about.

What I'm trying to say with that is that it's not an equal comparison. There is no political mobilization for extreme left ideas that is even remotely comparable to the far-right that align with some narratives that the students obviously consider as dangerous, such as anti-Islam and anti-immigration, anti-LGBTQ, and pro gendered labor division.

I am not in favor of flat out banning such books (even if I personally believe they have no place in an environment of science and learning such as a university), but it's easy to understand why the response of left-leaning students towards right-leaning topics is stronger than the inverse.

Reading? A study?

I'm just here to get angry at a misrepresentative editorialized title!

It should come as no surprise that the right-leaning students who ideologically agree with the stated "controversial books" or ideological viewpoints of the hypothetical speakers do not want to remove them from the university library.

Also, it's a third of SOCIAL SCIENCE students, not overall student population, and the study has a terrible response rate of 7.5% which they themselves admit in part 4.1. Also, because it seems like bad faith editorializing by the OP, it's about banning books from the university library, not in general.

In other words, the study is awful and it doesn't prove any point, but because it's easy to spin it into an anti-woke censorship narrative, HN is going to eat this up.

If the lines of code were already very readable, they wouldn't require a comment. Comments are for interfaces or complex or inobvious code that can't easily be made more obvious simply through an expression of code IMO.

The code example of the OP is excellent because there are literally so many more avenues for code readability that are all superior to comments. First of all, the same code can literally be reused in the next line:

    addScrollbar(HORIZONTAL);
    addScrollbar(VERTICAL);

Do you frequently or always need to add both scrollbars to the UI? Another chance for reducing repetition and error-proneness when refactoring:

    addScrollbars();

There's no increase in mental load because chances are you'll never need to navigate into these functions to know what they are doing at all, you can read over them as you would normally when you read the "This adds a horizontal scrollbar" comment, and trust that the implementation does what it says on the tin.

Careful, you might trigger about half of HN with your proposal of readable code and small functions.

This is literally always the right answer. Create a self-explanatory function or just use readable variable names.

Or even createScrollbar(Direction.VERTICAL) if you hate repeating yourself.

Insane take.

> Christianity has had 2000 years and reformations to knock off the rough, anti-social edges. Religious doctrine has been tempered with social controls and moral codes that largely (though not completely) prevent demonizing your enemies.

Funny that you then effortlessly go on to demonize your "enemies":

> Far left ideologies have a century of murdering tens of millions of people that didn’t agree with them or in some cases just didn’t cheer loudly enough.

Ah yes, because climate activists, reproductive rights activists, and hell, let's throw in feminists as well, are all authoritarian Stalinists, right?

> When it comes to not murdering me or putting me in re-education camps, I trust devout Christians way more than I trust climate activists or gun control advocates or (insert advocate for secular left position here).

This is incomprehensibly insane. I don't even know how to formulate a response to this.

> The secular world is applying all sorts of demands & social pressures on you, and there's no way to oppose them, because secular ideology doesn't have an identity, an institution or value system open to attack. It's like fighting smoke or a swarm of bees.

That's because there is no such thing as "secular ideology". It's a meaningless phrase.

> So what does it do that something like gitlab or phabricator cannot do ?

Gitlab is great. Their wiki is absolute shit.

Notion just has a mostly really great user experience for writing notes, adding some tables or screenshots, moving them around, etc.

This is just so incredibly filthy.

That last argument sure sounds like an argument from feels rather than facts and logic, I thought the right hated that kind of rhetoric.

The obvious answer is of course that health care is a public service and should not be reliant on charitable organizations, which would be absolutely ridiculous. (Yes reproductive care is health care, arguments made from personal feelings or believes are not a worthy retort against medical scientific consensus)