ekiru

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by ekiru 4y ago
In Argentina, by law, the candidates for all national elections for all parties are selected by las PASO (mandatory simultaneous open primaries), which are national simultaneous elections. I don't know if there are many other such coun
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by ekiru 4y ago
I don't think that's what's happening. In your example with the generator expression, you're calling each lambda as you iterate through the generator, which due to the lazy evaluation of the generator means that the valu
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by ekiru 5y ago
>Why doesn't it? Is there some evidence that it does or doesn't.... or is this more of a claim? For the difference to be explained solely by there being more old people because old people are more vulnerable to COVID, I would i
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by ekiru 5y ago
> So while you're right...by not using per Capita numbers... you're presenting your data in a very disengenuous and truth distorting way. GP actually did speak in terms of per capita numbers (hence "population share")
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by ekiru 5y ago
You're welcome, but I don't think the information/citations I provided do substantiate your point at all. They show that Epik did market itself to right wing sites and individuals (and specifically the alt-right) as early as
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by ekiru 5y ago
Epik started hosting Gab in 2018 (introducing "free speech" as a part of their marketing allegedly following the Gab move [1][2]) and BitChute and 8chan in 2019 [3] (although they stopped hosting 8chan [4] after some of their own
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by ekiru 5y ago
The "A personal story of Tanya Khovanova" section at the start of the article itself describes the method more explicity: "One of the methods they used for doing this was to give the unwanted students a different set of probl
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by ekiru 6y ago
to claim he absolutely assisted, you actually just need to presume that he did something that helped. You can argue with those other points to try to argue about whether or to what extent it was a bad thing to do, but those arguments, even
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by ekiru 6y ago
Rayiner's own positive examples did not fulfill that blueprint, either, with the exception, I think, of Japan.
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by ekiru 7y ago
I’m not sure if you’re speaking of the US or elsewhere, but here in the US this really is not at all how it works. When my family was on food stamps, if we mismanaged our money and food stamps one month (spent them too inefficiently, accide
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by ekiru 8y ago
'Cultural Marxism' is an overtly antisemitic conspiracy theory claiming a devious plot by certain Jewish academics a plot to subvert "western civilization" and attributing their influence as the cause of myriad social an
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by ekiru 8y ago
The comment you linked discusses the source of a different project, doesn't it?
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by ekiru 8y ago
Yes, the server can straightforwardly, any time you load the application, serve to you (including to specifically you, a single target, making it much less likely to be noticed), a modified version of the JavaScript powering that client-sid
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by ekiru 8y ago
Aren't you assuming (probably incorrectly) that all hardcore gamers rated Competition more highly than all core/casual gamers? I'm not sure how much less weird allowing for that makes things, but your reasoning for concluding
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by ekiru 8y ago
> Yet if a business used that line to refuse service to a minority, a religious person or atheist, a pro-choice advocate, or a LGBT person (in a nation where these are not protected groups or in a time before those groups were protected)
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by ekiru 8y ago
A better approach compared to banning things currently needed by disabled people and then, once disabled people object, saying "well, we need to develop better alternatives for disabled people, but we can't let these issues get in
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by ekiru 8y ago
> How hard is it to carry a metal straw with you? You hear news about the ban, and you put a couple plastic ones in your bag until the metal one from amazon arrives. Metal straws are dangerous due to for many disabled people due to the r
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by ekiru 8y ago
> Reusable straws (both plastic and metal) are available, as are paper and non-paper compostable straws. I don't know of any disability that requires people to use single-use-but-stays-around-forever straws. Many of these alternativ
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by ekiru 8y ago
> Referring to somebody by the wrong pronoun is a criminal offence in Canada. Please cite the text of a law which actually says this or any case where someone has been convicted for this under a law which does not explicitly say it.
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by ekiru 8y ago
> The only thing mildly surprising to me here is that it took them ~10 years to get the house to do it. Some of the non-profits dedicated to fighting this opposed the bill!
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by ekiru 9y ago
So, it's similar to Facebook Messenger rather than to Signal? (Actually I think Messenger might support E2EE group chats, but I'm not sure.)
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by ekiru 9y ago
Clinton was described as overprepared for the debate the night of the first debate. There was some amount of controversy over one such comment, by Chuck Todd (of NBC).
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by ekiru 9y ago
> Total Tether issued as of the end of 2017. Total Tether issued as of the end of January 2018 is about 2.3 billion.
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by ekiru 9y ago
That TechCrunch article cites BuzzFeed as its source for the claim that YC said that they kicked him out particularly for that comment, but I don't see that in the linked BuzzFeed article [1]. It says that he was kicked out "for v
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by ekiru 9y ago
> When mormons/christian groups/conservatives/etc organize and start flagging atheist/lgbt youtubers/content and getting them taken down, are you going to celebrate censorship? Given that this has happened repeat
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by ekiru 9y ago
In nightly builds of Rust (on 64-bit x86 platforms; no idea about support elsewhere), `(a as u128) * (b as u128)` where `a` and `b` are 64-bit integers will compile to a single `mul` instruction: see https://godbolt.org/g&#x
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by ekiru 9y ago
I think this is more of a complaint about HN's title policies.
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by ekiru 9y ago
Are the social sciences universally not science or just when they study the processes by which society ascribes genders to individuals?
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by ekiru 9y ago
Gender studies is probably not what GP had in mind. People who do gender studies don't generally consider their work science, from what I've seen. In contrast, people whose work is more generally accepted as scientific, such as ps
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by ekiru 9y ago
Perhaps they do. I don't know. In the abstract, I agree, it happening in those fields would be just as bad. However, I work in tech and anticipate continuing to work in tech for many years. Many of my friends work in tech. I am, somewh

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