david

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[–] david@feddit.uk -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry to have overestimated your attention span.

[–] david@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, whilst I abhor the violent terrorism that Hamas have committed and abhor the overwhelming overreaction and horrific vengence that the state of Israel have, as usual, immediately begun, it's just not accurate to call what preceded recent events "peace".

The people I know who have separately and recently visited Israel and Palestine variously called it "viscious apartheid", "appalling", "military occupation" and phrases like that. No one called it peace.

I think you erroneously assumed that because it wasn't in the news, violence was not occurring, whereas I think it's more accurate to say that it wasn't in the news because the violence was so everyday and constant that there was nothing new to say about it. A child getting run over by a car won't make the national news either, for almost exactly the same reason.

[–] david@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] david@feddit.uk 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actually made me laugh, thank you.

[–] david@feddit.uk 125 points 1 year ago

I don't know who you are, or what you write, but thank you.

[–] david@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

But if prices don't go up, the profits won't increase! Why doesn't anybody think of the poor shareholders, trying to barely eke out an income from their holdings?

[–] david@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

True. But the word Monad has done more harm to the accessibility, popularity and reputation of pure functional programming than pretty much anything else.

Yeah, I could have said circle rather than curve of constant normal intersection points, but that word is very commonly understood, so it's not that same as unnecessarily calling something a Monad. Maybe it's the equivalent of calling it a 2-manifold instead of a wheel.

Perhaps just ditch the generalisation, then, and just call them Result or Maybe. After all, circle is a short word, but we just call them wheels.

[–] david@feddit.uk 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bold. I guess being left to die in am armed insurrection stings a little.

[–] david@feddit.uk 136 points 1 year ago (24 children)

When you find out about Dunning-Kruger and realise that that's why everyone else in the world is so stupid apart from you.

[–] david@feddit.uk 20 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it's just the racists.

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