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by _iyig 6y ago
Here's one example, directly from the current HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26306020 In that instance, the canceled person was one of the United States' top reporters on the COVID pandemic.
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by _iyig 6y ago
China has forcibly implemented strict birth control policy for decades. They're also forcibly sterilizing ethnic minority populations, Uyghurs in particular: https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/
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by _iyig 6y ago
> The real problem isn't technology or even adoption, it's that people who work at giant companies suck at making games. Many companies besides Facebook have developed games for the Quest. I guess you could say Facebook sucks a
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by _iyig 6y ago
Having owned every Oculus headset since the Kickstarter, I think the Quest is the first truly consumer-ready VR headset. At $300 it’s competitively priced against gaming consoles, without requiring a gaming PC or separate tracking sensors.
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by _iyig 6y ago
In a similar vein, George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate - today privately owned and operated as a living history museum - has an excellent series of exhibits which puts names and stories to the Washington family’s enslaved servants and l
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by _iyig 6y ago
One of many reasons I’ve stuck with the default “Mail” app on iOS. Labeling, attachments, search, etc. all work fine. I manage my filters (an infrequent task) through the desktop web interface. The Mail app UI hasn’t changed much in the las
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by _iyig 6y ago
>Our privacy is eroding. [...] The war is not lost, however. Steven Rambam would probably disagree. He's a private investigator who's given many excellent talks on privacy at Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE): https://w
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by _iyig 6y ago
Sad but not surprising that Amazon let Goodreads moulder. They did the exact same thing with Shelfari [0], formerly Goodread's main competitor. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelfari#Amazon_and_shutdown
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by _iyig 6y ago
Apologies for pedantry - here is the dictionary definition of " crime ": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crime >1: an illegal act for which someone can be punished by the government And from the
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by _iyig 6y ago
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 https://www.uscis.gov/laws-and-policy/legislation/immigratio... Specifically: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1... See langua
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by _iyig 6y ago
Despite the downvotes you’ve received, you are correct. The under-reporting of crime among illegal immigrant communities for the reason you identify has been studied and documented: https://www.iza.org/publications/dp&#
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by _iyig 6y ago
Indeed, this effect has been studied and documented: https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/10306/silence-of-the-inn... Per the study, crime among an illegal immigrant population fell post-amnesty in repose to i
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by _iyig 6y ago
The statement >But at least two independent studies suggest Secure Communities didn’t have any effect on crime rates, according to Light, despite deporting more than 200,000 people in its first four years. >“If the plan was to make co
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by _iyig 6y ago
I tend to agree with the selected Cory Doctorow quote. “Put a tag on it” is the semantic web version of IoT’s “put a chip in it” - technically feasible, yes, but to what end all that time and expense? The author here is fuzzy on application
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by _iyig 6y ago
Pepe emotes on Twitch are omnipresent, and have no political connotation. https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/14/17335670/twitch-emotes-mea... edit: Downvotes, really? I'm not wrong. Read the link, or us
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by _iyig 6y ago
While there are concerning similarities, Google backed off from their “real names” policy years ago. Facebook continues to enforce such a policy despite its much-noted dangers and disparities [0], while also more aggressively (compared to G
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by _iyig 6y ago
> It can still be used with the link cable to a computer Can it? Doesn’t Oculus Link only work via the Oculus desktop application, which also requires sign-in?
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by _iyig 6y ago
Sounds like the slamhound from William Gibson's "Count Zero." https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Slamhound
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by _iyig 6y ago
How is r/wallstreetbets toxic? As someone who doesn’t day-trade, I still subscribe for the memes and self-aware jokes. It’s one of the few remaining large subreddits with tons of creative energy and no drama or politics. And as someone
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by _iyig 6y ago
What are some good alternatives for native, cross-platform GUI applications? Qt used to be my preferred solution.
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by _iyig 6y ago
Continuation of the Oculus/Facebook account linking saga: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25030454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24776748 One comment on the OP describes buying multiple Que
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by _iyig 6y ago
Similar story two years back involving Senator Feinstein: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/08/01/details-chinese...
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Oculus Quest user banned from Facebook, Instagram without explanation(reddit.com)
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by _iyig 6y ago
>Another flaw of our thinking is conservatism — an insufficient ability to change our common views and beliefs with the new data, new evidence. This is understandable — changing basis views leads to a reconsideration of all related knowl
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by _iyig 6y ago
I was also very cautious when given opioids after my wisdom teeth extraction. As it turned out they gave me painful, uncontrollable hiccups that persisted for days and days. The experience was extremely unpleasant, but also a bit of a relie
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by _iyig 6y ago
I wouldn’t say _complete_ absence. Greek Hoplites are thought to have fought semi-nude with e.g. linen or leather cuirasses, and were depicted as fighting fully nude in the art of their day. https://history.stackexchange.com&#x2F
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by _iyig 6y ago
I had thought it was Tim Chevalier, who was indeed fired in connection to events surrounding the Damore memo, but a quick Google shows I have a faulty memory. Apparently he was fired for anti-Damore social media posts rather than leaking th
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by _iyig 6y ago
I was reminded of their continued existence earlier this year when, in a strange reversal of fate, a Pinkerton shot and killed a pro-law enforcement protestor: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/15&
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by _iyig 6y ago
False positives could lead to wrongful arrests.
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by _iyig 6y ago
Damore kept his memo internal and did not circulate it widely. (It was leaked to the public in a calculated attempt to pressure Google into firing Damore.) As recently as last week, while she was still a Google employee, Gebru publicly accu

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