funkythings

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by funkythings 7y ago
Many people talking about the Gender Wage Gap fail to differentiate between Wages and Earnings. There is a earnings gap, but no wage gap.
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by funkythings 8y ago
The EU started as a union to promote freedom of movement, peace and trade inside Europe. Since then, it has grown to be an oversized bureaucracy that restricts the freedoms of European citizens. Everyone who criticize it is immediately labe
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by funkythings 8y ago
There are thousands of examples with similar style across the "mainstream" media. At what point can we judge the state of journalism as a whole?
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by funkythings 8y ago
I hope rust becomes more mainstream in companies. At the moment it seems like a lot of smaller components are implemented in rust, to allow employees to get familiar with it.
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by funkythings 8y ago
I do not like Oslos city center. Everything seems so over-engineered and non-organic
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by funkythings 8y ago
I never understood, why Dell only offers a FHD and UHD model. FHD just looks shitty after using more high def displays, and UHD sucks the life out of this thing. Otherwise, perfect laptop.
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by funkythings 8y ago
Young people have always been less interested in politics. Just because you/we don't like how the elderly are voting, we don't have to make this a bigger issue than it is.
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by funkythings 8y ago
It's easy to blame on gender bias in todays climate, unfortunately. Every single major media outlet will publish your story. It is becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate between actual gender bias and gender bias pushed by ac
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by funkythings 8y ago
The author using the word "mansplaining" disqualifies her from any hint of professionalism
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by funkythings 8y ago
This will backfire, as in previous experiments: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tria...
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by funkythings 8y ago
The AI just generalizes to match the best possible output. all this bias reducing stuff in ML will backfire
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by funkythings 8y ago
maybe, but 2016 told us a different story.
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by funkythings 8y ago
People like Cortez will only hurt the Democrats by moving them further left and moving voters from the middle to alternatives other than democrats
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by funkythings 8y ago
> Nosrat’s work to diversify the kinds of faces quite literally seen as culinary experts is directly connected to her view of food Can there be anything on the internet WITHOUT injecting social justice talking points into it? What the fu
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by funkythings 8y ago
the opposite of misogyny is misandry http://misandry.tripod.com/id6.html A more serious take: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/30/the-spawn-feminisms-... Of course, esepcially the first l
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by funkythings 8y ago
oh, typo! Violence may be motivated by misogyny, yada yada
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by funkythings 8y ago
Have you read the title? > [...] elevated misogyny to new levels of violence
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by funkythings 8y ago
Misogyny is not violence. Violence may be motivated by violence, but in itself it is not violence. She follow the disturbing trend to call words and speech "violence" > “It is without doubt that social media has allowed this to
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by funkythings 8y ago
And people wonder why the brits voted Brexit.
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by funkythings 8y ago
Wow, what a surprise with a privacy focused company like Google.
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by funkythings 8y ago
The only thing that is stopping me to jump to a linux laptop is battery life. MacOs is just optimised to a crazy extent. Nothing really comes close to the same battery performance if you don't want to get your hands dirty with tlp.
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by funkythings 8y ago
This looks great! Also, nice to see some modern Cmake in the wild ;)
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by funkythings 8y ago
The democrats won the popular vote in 2016. Not sure what you're talking about
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by funkythings 8y ago
It literally says in the article they are identitarians. Therefore my statement about identity politics is correct
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by funkythings 8y ago
cultural marxism is an extreme right wing view? The term "liberal" has changed in the minds of people, my friend. Liberals are now synonymous with left wingers, who are NOT pro-capitalist.
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by funkythings 8y ago
And what was his intent? Courts just ignored his statements. and the video made clear that is was comedic intent. What do you think his intent was?
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by funkythings 8y ago
Ok, "every" was a little hyperbolic...my bad. This is what I know about it, mainly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icjwbn85CUs Take it with a grain of salt. But I find this behaviour from a state sponsored journal
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by funkythings 8y ago
I did. Like I said they assumed his intent, which is exactly the opposite to what courts are supposed to do. Do you really think posting a "grossly offensive video on the internet" is enough to get you fined? People are offended a
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by funkythings 8y ago
I lost all respect for Boehmermann after he released his twitter block list, and just lumped in every journalist to the right of himself with real Nazis. He's part of the problem
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by funkythings 8y ago
alt-right is right wing identity politics. Sargon is anti identity politics and a classic, free speech pro-capitalist liberal. I'm not sure where you take your information from

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