brighter2morrow

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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
It's blind faith if its only presentation is snarky commentary.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Can't blame the British for Agricural drought. Imagine how many more would have starved without Britain running poor houses there.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Wow that is cool, and I feel bad for you because that would be a cool collector's item! Though to be practical, I do prefer nicely bound and polished publications rather than the photocopied and combly bound.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
There's 40 million Irish descendants in the US. The Irish weren't wiped out, they just left. Also it's hard to take that concern seriously when today's Irish government has done more to increase foreigner control over Ir
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>But anti-belief is scientific if the belief for something requires a complete overturning of scientific principles. It's not just an absence of evidence for something. It isn't "open minded" to say "could be...&
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
I wonder if there is a name for this effect.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>It can't always just be about being nice, unfortunately. Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children could get us all killed. It's a serious threat. It's not your job to enforce your views on people. Let the govern
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>Horrible Romans were so violent. What have they ever done for us? Well, besides roads and the aqueduct, but other than that? Exactly. The same people who claim about colonialism are the same ones who complain about intertribal warfare w
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>In particular, the Court is doubtful that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act may be invoked by LinkedIn to punish hiQ for accessing publicly available data; the broad interpretation of the CFAA advocated by LinkedIn, if adopted, could pro
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>This was still the main AI textbook in 2014 when I did my MSc in the subject FYI seminal books don't rotate in and out over a five year timespan, it is still the seminal book and will likely continue to be given all the fuel being
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
I'm concerned about future powers using data to target me and my family for "re-education camps"
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Which VPN is that?
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>The problem is that things which are socially valuable - especially journalism, but also a lot of entertainment - are chronically dependent on advertising revenues. I think calling journalism "socially valuable" is debatable.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
He's saying "US bad for acting like a sovereign nation with rule of law"
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>Fox News does it all the time. FB and G are natural monopolies, while Fox News is a branded commodities dealer.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Journalism isn't really an industry so much as a lifestyle for well-to-do people who don't need real jobs
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>right wing terrorists /s?
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
I think we should put things in perspective before going into a moral panic
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>We can compare that to the 10 trans people murdered (according to Wiki) just this year alone. 70x more people will be crushed by soda machines this year.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
It's funny how easily the government crushes Christians, but can't do anything about drugs, piracy, or immigration
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>Examples: The new show 'Mr Iglesias' where the main character is a history teacher. In one of the first scenes the history of the US is summed up as 'oppression and slavery'. Many jokes about white people that would
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>Usually when we feel like what we're watching is not political, it's actually because it's simply political in ways that we identify with or do not find offensive. I'd be interested to see a show that has nationalist
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
What about Node Red or Apache Nifi?
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>Which also made me think - does anybody know an example of a widely used programming language that voluntarily discontinued? Python 2
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Thanks, I assumed something like that for their instance of the platform, but the code is there to launch an independent instance of the platform, if desired.
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
Yes, I wanted to add automated moderation policies (including but not limited to word filters) to improve conversation on a platform I was considering building, but as I understand it all the algorithms to implement the policies would have
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>Where I work the H1B applicants (who don't get selected) have masters, from a US university, for a degree that applies specifically to their job. These folks should be on the red carpet to US citizenship. They have checked every bo
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>So she had lived in the US for six years and still had to beg the government for permission to change jobs? I had no idea it was this bad. The purpose of the H1B program is for foreign specialists to do work for which no American worker
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
It took a few clicks to find the license so here it is: Apache v2. Not bad, I've been looking at open source social network software recently and unfortunately all the widely used ones are AGPL3. I get the benefits but I could find any
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by brighter2morrow 7y ago
>living standards for the average American have regressed in many ways since the 1970s, With women's entry into the workforce plus the 1964 Hart-Cellar Act's lifting of immigration quotas the workforce more than doubled in the

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