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by FakeComments 7y ago
I think the argument is that we’re better off decentralizing opportunity than increasing density, considering long term sustainability (ie, we have a lot of room to decentralize) and human well-being (ie, mega-cities aren’t great — and get
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by FakeComments 7y ago
How is that not analogous to a wall safe with my journal in it?
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by FakeComments 7y ago
They do, because of market size effects and standardization. Automakers, textbook writers, etc cater to the largest state they serve (or the lowest common of several large markets), then distribute the same version to multiple locations. In
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by FakeComments 7y ago
My experience of presenting as female online in video games is I got a lot more attention, help, and outright handouts. I want to see an actual study, because my anecdata doesn’t match the claimed experience.
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by FakeComments 7y ago
> And in a way it exploits these people even if it’s their choice. How, exactly? Your position is that they’d be better off with a different job, but presumably we’re talking about adults there by choice. How is voluntary prostitution mo
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by FakeComments 7y ago
I’d say the better part of engineering is knowing how to design in the face of small errors creeping into the project.
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by FakeComments 7y ago
Code review is more about determining if you have the correct test cases to cover the algorithm, and a solid architecture for maintenance, than it is about algorithmic correctness. Code review is a tool to push back on your manager ignoring
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by FakeComments 7y ago
This is made worse by the mobile experience of having every part of the page be some kind of button. 80% of my clicks are my palm grazing the edge as I hold it or trying to scroll and accidentally clicking on some block element link that do
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by FakeComments 7y ago
There are good reasons to punch someone in the stomach, such as them attacking someone else. It seems very analogous: unprovoked punches and unprovoked de-modding are both wrong, but both are also needed to stop some kinds of abuse.
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by FakeComments 7y ago
And the argument is unclarity about that unclarity is worse than nothing at all? > The motivation for using video review in sports is obvious: to get more calls right. The writing seems to ignore the very premise, by arguing the existenc
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by FakeComments 7y ago
What are you talking about? The drafting bank always tells the depositing bank if those funds are available, which is what they did here: it’s how checks work. You would discover the same information yourself, when it cleared or didn’t. I
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by FakeComments 7y ago
That’s not just the effect, it’s the mechanism of action for chemo — right? It takes advantage of cancers rerouting blood and being overly aggressive in gathering resources to make those the first of your cells to die as you’re poisoned to
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by FakeComments 7y ago
This is using anecdata to dismiss another poster, and isn’t the kind of comment you’d tolerate from others in a sensitive topic. It’s wonderful that’s been your experience of women, but don’t invalidate what others experience — particularly
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by FakeComments 7y ago
I get you can’t do all your work on them, but 24 hours of 16 GPUs is $215, using the newest instance type on-demand. It’s within the reach of many grants to afford a few scaled runs of a technology as a demonstration of behavior at scale.
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by FakeComments 7y ago
Universities aren’t always a business, they’re often government institutions. A state organization is legally bound to offer certain equal rights and due process protections, which is one of the trade-offs of having state schools.
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by FakeComments 7y ago
You plot them as ROI or other normalized value, eg by dividing the price of the stock by its initial value. Then you can compare two stocks by looking at their return at T1 relative to their price at T0. This solves the problem that you’re
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by FakeComments 7y ago
No one pro-gun is refusing a discussion: they’re refusing emotional manipulation, whereby you use dead children as totems for emotional impact, but fail to discuss the actual costs and facts. As you’ve done here. “I’m emotional about someth
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by FakeComments 7y ago
Yes — their engineering development principles can’t be (or haven’t been) used to successfully design and deploy a well understood technology like a website that can handle small spikes in traffic; why should we believe they have useful adv
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by FakeComments 7y ago
But working on “more important” problems, particularly abstract ones, while the basics fail is precisely the complaint about architects: They’re so busy with their “more important” issues, that the whole thing fails in practice. If they tru
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by FakeComments 7y ago
Am I reading wrong, or is no remnant in the middle of a black hole formation region? It looks like “direct black hole” is on both sides of “no remnants”.
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by FakeComments 7y ago
The same arguments apply to programming — but many people entered the field when JS became easy to fiddle with in browsers. UI is important in terms of cost slope, and easy UI allows people (like GP) to dabble — even if they aren’t going to
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by FakeComments 7y ago
They still make dumb panels, eg. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LW4G71Y/ I did precisely what you suggest: buy a TV and hook a streaming box to it.
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by FakeComments 7y ago
The thing you learn in Security 102 is that you should encrypt passwords in HTTPS anyway, because so much of your middleware will assume fields aren’t secured, and will happily log them — that while from a theory standpoint, password-over-H
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by FakeComments 7y ago
The NYT calling others out for fake news is itself propaganda: the NYT routinely engages in fake news, but is fighting to portray itself as reputable while others engaged in the same aren’t. Like when the NYT completely blew the Covington s
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by FakeComments 7y ago
OWS failed to get a seat as a reward for their protests because they had no one to give a seat to. Otherwise, a protest at that scale generally results in political power of some form being ceded — but how can you do that for a disunified,
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by FakeComments 7y ago
I’d argue that we saw automated propaganda at least three years ago — and there’s a case Facebook et al have been engaging for at least a decade.
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by FakeComments 7y ago
Arduino is lightyears more accessible than PICs a decade ago; it’s never been easier to use a free or OSS tool to design a board and have it mailed to you. There actually used to be a every Sunday workshop where you made one from scratch in
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by FakeComments 7y ago
Women have been earning more degrees than men since 1978. For the past forty years, there have been no male-only advancement programs, and (nearly) all sex-based funding has been provided to the majority sex, to advantage them in any fiel
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by FakeComments 7y ago
Okay, I accept your analogy. Where do you have legal authority to do a vigilante culling of your neighbor’s herd, because you decided something about them merited it?
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by FakeComments 7y ago
What percentage of products, in general, do you believe are “accessible”?

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