Andrew Chang-DeWitt @a_chang_dewitt

@JacquieTeo1 @vanillaopinions Los Angeles is 30 suburbs in a trench coat who pulled together enough money to buy a single skyscraper

That also applies internationally: without isolationists demanding democracies stay out of German affairs and a certain type of realist who prefers to focus on the imaginary enemy while the real one is punching them in the face, the Nazis would be driven out of power before 1941.

Collaboration not only failed to prevent the "excesses" the collaborators believed they were preventing, but enabled them. Groups like the Nazis would never come to power and carry out their evil projects without the support of groups who ostensibly opposed those projects.

From the "moderate conservatives" to the Christian groups that allowed Nazi control of their churches to the Judenrat, the collaborators - many of whom believed they were doing the best they could in a bad situation - enabled a violent, but small minority to massacre millions.

The second point relates to the first: the "moderate" allies of hateful groups are kidding themselves when they claim they support the hateful group as a way to rein in their excesses. All they do in the end is become complicit in the violence, making it easier to implement.

You can probably figure out the modern day implications for #1: movements of hate don't show all their cards right away, instead choosing to normalize hatred one small step at a time. They're happy to compromise initially because that makes the next hateful law easier to justify.

2. The non-Nazis in Hitler's cabinet ("moderate conservatives") convinced him to reverse several policies (like a permanent boycott on Jewish stores) by making pragmatic arguments about the implications for Germany's economy.

Went to the Holocaust Museum and learned something new: 1. The Nazis passed hundreds of anti-Semitic laws in their first year in power, but most were relatively minor and allowed for exemptions of popular groups (e.g., Jewish WWI veterans); some were even rolled back.

We had an assault weapons ban from 1994-2004 that prohibited the manufacture or sale for civilian use of certain semi-automatic weapons and banned magazines with 10 rounds or more. Mass shootings dropped during that decade. We did it once and should do it again.

Lunch before data science class

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1960s: "COBOL will let non-programmers make the software!" 1980s: "4GLs will let non-programmers make the software!" 2000s: "UML will let non-programmers make the software!" 2020s: "AI will let non-programmers make the software!"

Remember when the GOP gave billionaires a $2 TRILLION tax cut cuz they “create” jobs? Here are the layoffs billionaires have planned Meta 11,000 Amazon 10,000 Twitter 3,700 Salesforce 2,000 Netflix 450 Robinhood 30% Intel 20% Snap 20% Trickle down economics is one Big Fat Scam

@natfriedman Nat, no. 1) this feature is no “great new thing. Let’s not pretend it is 2) there’s a huge difference between working hard because you’re personally motivated by the mission vs a culture of fear 3) you know how many people do their best work when they’re burnt out? None.

I feel like the there's a huge underserved market for content that takes you from mid-level tech to advanced tech. There's a lot of content for people who are just starting out, but I'd love to find more advanced/how-to-optimize/how-to-refactor type of stuff

Some people are accusing Rust of being a SJW trojan horse, and I thought I should clarify things a bit. They're absolutely right. It's too late now — anyone using Linux is gay. Android too. Your internet router probably. That means me too. Speaking of... what's your number?

I should say one point of looking at European education and not having credit scores is that all this stuff was structured and is the result of choices, pretty recent choices, which means we can choose differently and structure differently. These things aren’t baked in.

thinking about math education and how we present increasingly obtuse things like matrix multiplication as "this is a fact you need to memorize" rather than "we decided it should work like this because all this other cool stuff happens"

Cis people, as a trans person, you can do me two favours: 1) When you see someone being anti-trans, don't debate them; laugh at them, insult them, and tell them to shut the fuck up 2) If they say anything which makes you stop and think, ask a trans person about it

If a fresh corpse has organs that can save a current, fully-formed life, you cannot legally take those organs without their prior consent, even though that person is DEAD. In the US, women now have fewer rights than corpses. Let that sink in.

Pro-lifers don't like complexity. At 17 weeks my placenta detached and he was much too small. I thought I felt my baby's frantic attempts to breathe. My OBGYN advised me to terminate the pregnancy, there wasn't much time. But I couldn't.