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I think they have different applications. If I were to choose a language for writing a web service I'd use Go but if I wanted to write an opengl renderer I'd use Rust.

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What does tiger woods know about wheaties? Absolutely nothing except other than what it tastes like (maybe).

Well you can infer things about his character based on his support of pedophilia in general.

> I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.

> There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.

These are not the types of statements a non pedophile would make. People who are not pedophile's don't randomly argue that pedophilia is not harmful.

I'm guessing Stallman won't be a visiting scientist at MIT much longer. People like him irritate me because now people with associate his pedophilia with the other stuff he has done. IMO if people want to be an activist they need to keep their nose clean.

Did we create a super-villain by ostracizing him for supporting Trump?

It's how people will morally justify the situation saying it's "good enough". Even though their quality of life could be much better. The alternative is no UBI which creates more glaring problems if people can't meed their physical needs and a less complacent population.

Yeah there are a lot of NIMBY's here. They don't want to make the sacrifices necessary to make the city better.

From what I've read the first criminal case against him was in 2005 and the dinner with the MIT scientists was in 1999. The donations to Harvard were in 2003. I don't see the value in pointing the finger here.

The infrastructure in many big cities is so broken, daily existence is kind of painful. I live in Austin which isn't really even that big of a city but the infrastructure is so poor that commuting anywhere is very painful and there are a lot of road rage incidents as a result. Unless you live downtown there is no walkability and if you live downtown you need to work downtown. The public transit system is laughable. We have a metro rail that doesn't run after 6 and doesn't run on Sundays.

I think the ancients had it figured out more or less. The 12 roman virtues and classical stoicism are still very applicable today. What religion do you practice?

Genuinely wasn't intentionally flamebait, I thought people would agree with me.

yeah you can, pretty much every measure to mitigate poverty costs money, housing first, dietary education, food stamps, etc

No but the amount of poverty they have relative to my country is not even comparable and this just takes away money that could be used for that.

It's been known for years that online shopping encourages impulse shopping.

Well Amazon encourages people to make purchases they wouldn't normally make so yeah I would say they do

I'm just going to talk about something semi-related since the article is trash. This is all anecdotal btw. The concept of virtue. I find that people who are religious talk about virtue more than those who don't. I'm not saying that they are virtuous, just that they seem to think/talk about it more.

I see certain virtues on the rise like frugalness, humanity, wholesomeness, but then there are others I see on a decline like gravity, dutifulness, prudence, self-control, and not being petty (there is another word for this but I forgot). Any thoughts on the matter? Am I just biased and not seeing the whole picture?

I feel like people are really petty in general and growing drug use and obesity problems demonstrate a lack of self control. Whenever I broach the subject with people I find that many people do not think of morality in terms of a list of virtues to abide by. That isn't saying they are not virtuous, they just don't think about morality that way. I historically haven't either, but I find it easier when I have something concrete to refer to when I'm thinking about decisions or how best to accomplish a task.

Putting more vehicles on the road means more deaths though. I personally think that people's obsession with getting things quickly isn't really sustainable and panders to parts of our character that we would rather do without. "I want it now" reminds me of Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka.

Seems weird it shows you mutual friends. Part of the appeal of online dating is stepping outside of your friend circles and looking elsewhere. I definitely wouldn't want to broadcast my dating profile to mutual friends either.

That's a pretty terrible reduction of the problem that prevents any further engagement. You cannot solve problems by ostracizing people.

Think of them as being lost in a forest trying to find a path out and constantly looking for higher ground to climb to see if they can see a path out of the forest. They never know if the hill they are climbing is going to provide the view they need, but they still climb hoping it does.

Because giving negative feedback is hard and uncomfortable and a skill that many people never master. It doesn't help that corporate training on the subject amounts to extremely generic and basic advice one could think up on the spot. Nothing really insightful.

I think this is pretty on point. You have a lot of disaffected people who want something to change but don't see a reasonable path for the type of change they want. Instead they just make decisions towards the most amount of change, even if it isn't good change.

Ugh yeah, the same thing happened with Flow. Massive immediate adoption by react developers and then FB basically saying "screw you" no roadmap and we're never going to add the features you want. I think I still have an open issue in the flow repo for a roadmap.

EDIT: haha here it is https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/4785

Yeah most cities are removing red light cameras, it's been universally accepted as a failed experiment.

I think distracted driving is the problem IMO. I cannot go anywhere without seeing people driving while looking at their phones and cops right next to them not doing anything about it.

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No reason to apologize to someone who is trying to get you banned for calling them out for not reading the article when it is very obvious they didn't read the article.

The article states that CFS is not psychosomatic and this was a misconception held by physicians previously.

I think yoga complements any strength training program really well. Flexibility is very important for weight lifting if you want to avoid long term injuries.

It also escalates the situation from one where an individual was just using the gun as a show of force but didn't intend to use it, to one where guns are now being discharged in a high stress and crowded environment. The vast majority of "using" a gun by criminals is just brandishing the gun to scare other people.