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mooseburger··on American Nazis at Madison Square Garden, 1939
So much suffering is caused by genes, from physical to mental illnesses. It's hard to imagine what would be wrong with a world where no one got cancer, became schizophrenic, or perhaps, even suffered from depression. The big danger I guess is that we end up deciding there is only one (or perhaps a couple) valid human "types", and eccentric perspectives that create value (in any sense) are lost, not through extermination, but because they just are never created to begin with.

The gradual improvement of the gene pool will likely happen anyway, as parents choose to use new technologies to improve their future children in various ways.

mooseburger··on Techniques for dealing with lack of motivation, malaise, depression [video]
@hellofunk

Not him, but I think that is in fact, insulting behavior. Everyone has a right to be insulting. It's just not harassment.

mooseburger··on Two-thirds of Americans approve of editing human DNA to treat disease
The only real problem with the GATTACA world was that not everyone got the genetic enhancements, creating an underclass. If everyone got the mods, what's the downside?

Well, I guess Jude Law's character couldn't live with the idea of being completely engineered for winning, and still losing. But his problem seems orthogonal to widespread genetic engineering. Everyone has their ambitions thwarted at some point. It has always been a problem humans faced. Hell, maybe even that can be engineered away, by being created with low propensity for self-loathing.

mooseburger··on I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity
It isn't. I just don't think lack of biological diversity is a problem for a corporation.
mooseburger··on I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity
Well, it wouldn't be a goal of your post, since you take it as a given that the tech industry employs arbitrary exclusionary practices against women and minorities. Surely, in the 53 years since the Civil Rights Act, someone has already compiled comprehensive evidence of these practices. It shouldn't be too hard to find.
mooseburger··on I’m an Ex-Google Woman Tech Leader and I’m Sick of Our Approach to Diversity
When was the tech industry deliberately excluding people based on race and gender? The 50s? 60s?

I don't believe any specific action needs to be taken to promote diversity. As far as I can tell, people can work wherever they will, as long as they can pass the interview.

>arbitrarily exclusionary practices

Please name these.

mooseburger··on The Artful Propaganda of Soviet Children’s Literature
I can't quite put my finger on it yet, but yes, there is something different about the Soviet government producing children's books, and Hasbro deciding to produce G.I. Joe action figures because it identified a sales opportunity.

I think the main thing is, that in the Soviet example, I'm not clear that there was a choice to not give the books to your children (maybe there was, I'm not sure). Whereas with G.I. Joe, Captain America, et. al. actually buying the toys/comics is voluntary, notwithstanding the powerful effect of advertising.

There's also the fact the creators of G.I. Joe were not later executed for nonsense reasons.

mooseburger··on The Artful Propaganda of Soviet Children’s Literature
The difference is that these books were produced by the Soviet government. Meanwhile, stuff like G.I. Joe and Captain America were made through free enterprise.

Any government trying so hard to influence the public's opinion of it is suspect in my eyes.

mooseburger··on Ask HN: Which websites do you visit?
Slate Star Codex

Hacker News

4chan (/v/, /tv/, /pol/)

Youtube (Mainly for music)

mooseburger··on Puerto Rico files for biggest ever U.S. local government bankruptcy
Puerto Rican here. Basic dignity I think. We should be an independent country, but most Puerto Ricans are frightened of independence.
mooseburger··on Semantic UI
Thing is, if you're using Angular (or most likely any of the hot SPA frameworks out there), you don't need semantic CSS class names, since the model bindings will make the meaning quite clear.
mooseburger··on Declines in Sexual Frequency Among American Adults, 1989–2014
I haven't had sex in 28 years.
mooseburger··on Ask HN: If the bots take your job, what would you do?
An AI that could replace a software developer can likely replace all forms of white collar work. Not a whole lot left after that. I can't imagine that any new job category that such an AI would enable would need humans either.
mooseburger··on Ask HN: If the bots take your job, what would you do?
If you're a horse, and the car was just invented, what do you do? That is the question.
mooseburger··on We should kill the 40-hour work week
You have a point. I thought I was a night owl, until I figured out that if you wake up everyday (weekends too) at the exact same time, your body adjusts and naturally wakes up at 7am (for example) feeling well-rested, and you start getting drowsy at around 10pm.

However, I gave up and reverted back to my night-owl ways because it's just not fun going to bed early. Not enough time after working out. And working out in the morning only makes my mornings 3 times more hectic and I hate that.

mooseburger··on Why Ever Stop Playing Video Games
>I felt as if I was lacking in skills that I wished I had, and believe I could have learned in that time

I play a fair amount of videogames, but what can I say? I have never felt that way. There are some deficiencies in my life, but the main reason they remain deficiencies is that I'm not even sure how to resolve them.

I suppose I don't care much about learning skills because I know I'll never learn everything there is to learn, so I'll always have to defer to experts in certain domains.

mooseburger··on Why I will never have a girlfriend (1999)
Software companies are filled with women (even of average intelligence) now?.

But yeah, two standard deviations for physical attraction is too high.

mooseburger··on New CIA Chief to Gladly Spy on Americans, Even If Using Info Hacked by Russians
That's true. The situation needs to get very dire before random Americans are willing to take up arms.

Personally, I think a civil war is likelier than a revolution, due to the army dividing. Though to be clear, both seem rather unlikely.

mooseburger··on New CIA Chief to Gladly Spy on Americans, Even If Using Info Hacked by Russians
I recall Vietnam managing to survive the US Army despite lacking planes and tanks. Holding land ultimately requires boots on the ground, so unless the government plans to engage in total war against an insurrection (mass bomb American cities), guerrilla will be possible.

It's also highly likely a portion of the army would defect if things get that far, making it less a revolution and more a civil war.

mooseburger··on A Black History Museum
Is this in the US? I'm Puerto Rican, but I did research for a summer in Houston, TX, and encountered no racism directed towards me.
mooseburger··on A Black History Museum
My concern with this approach is that it seems it will only keep old resentments alive, as opposed to celebrating their culture. If every nation, race, and culture in the world held on to every atrocity committed against them, the planet would be covered in perpetual war...
mooseburger··on A Black History Museum
While I agree that these stories and histories are worth preserving, I would rather they were integrated into current historical accounts and current museums, creating more complete picture, rather than the racial segregationist approach this museum represents.
mooseburger··on A Black History Museum
I think it's bizarre how "People of Color" became an accepted PC term. Prior to that I thought it was a racist relic from the 50s. It's weird how they think the world can be grouped into white people and everyone else. Do Chinese, Nigerians, and Bolivians have so much in common they should be grouped into one category, other than "human" that is?
mooseburger··on Nice People Really Do Have More Fun
Maybe I'm too cynical, but this sounds too much like a just world fallacy. At any rate, I'm having a hard time distinguishing between "nice" and "sucker", and the article didn't bother differentiating between the two. I guess in my mind, they're one and the same. Most guys I would describe as nice are actually just weak guys that are respected by nobody. It's hard to imagine that they're happy, and they do not seem to be happy.

There are men I have known that technically are nice, but I never would have thought to describe them as such. "Cool" seems a more apt descriptor. And the difference between "cool" and "nice" seems to involve a certain degree of selfishness.

mooseburger··on Why Learning Angular 2 Was Excruciating
I did the Angular 2 TypeScript quickstart this weekend, and it bothers me that it relies heavily on Decorators, which are an experimental feature in TS (https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/decorators.html).

I also recall there being around 30 issues for Angular 2 Final on github milestones the day they announced the release, but they were mysteriously gone in the afternoon.

Angular 2 Final seems to be anything but.

mooseburger··on Ask HN: What Are Core Concepts, Language Neutral?
I used to begrudgingly practice martial arts. Computer programming is not like martial arts, at all. What you want to do sounds like the software craftsmanship approach:

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

Maybe look up more regarding that? I'm pretty skeptic about it...

IMO, the 'core programming concepts' (as in, skills that transcend language) most important to me, are those related to producing readable, maintainable code. Keeping your functions short, pure, and with one responsibility. Naming everything clearly. Making sure you are obeying DRY and KISS. Perhaps you would enjoy reading Code Complete:

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Cons...

mooseburger··on Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
Much of the developed world is indeed running out of people though.
mooseburger··on Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within 24 hours
> I really do hope this will work to stop the propagation of hate speech at least a bit, otherwise several countries will be governed by neonazis in a few years, and even the EU itself might break. This is serious.

That's hilarious. You basically said "People who don't have the right opinions should go to jail!". Maybe if your governments had attempted to explain why the far-right is wrong instead of suppressing them, they would have been less radical. You can't just sweep the thoughts and emotions of your people under the rug, even (especially) if they are unpalatable to you, and hell, to me as well.

mooseburger··on Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within 24 hours
No-platforming is an excellent way to produce an echo chamber though. Is that what we want our online spaces to be?
mooseburger··on Toil – A Python Workflow Engine
Not Python 3 compatible eh? Thought it was disheartening at first, but then it seems the project started in 2011.
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