hello_marmalade

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by hello_marmalade 4y ago
He could include himself. I have been involved in plenty of conversations about topics that don't interest me.
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by hello_marmalade 4y ago
Yes, because the only way to drink, is to drink to excess. There are no other ways to drink alcohol.
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by hello_marmalade 4y ago
"If it's a big enough group then the obvious solution is to have a selection of prizes" Why? Is this really necessary? Everybody has gotten a gift or prize that they wouldn't use or didn't really care for. You can g
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by hello_marmalade 4y ago
If you wholesale abstain from an activity that the vast majority of people around you do, yes, you are a little alien.
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by hello_marmalade 4y ago
What is it with people who don't drink being particularly disparaging about people who do and how and why they use it? "depending on alcohol for team building sounds like the worst idea ever. i don't want to be friends with p
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by hello_marmalade 4y ago
The reason people are skittish about nuclear is because when it does fail, it fails catastrophically . The biggest failures in memory are all failures that risked making a multi kilometer area potentially completely uninhabitable for dec
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by hello_marmalade 4y ago
My biggest problem with Mastodon is it’s psychotic user base.
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by hello_marmalade 4y ago
As much as I love FOSS, Element isn’t even close to Discord. Discord has one click streaming, easy to understand voice rooms, etc. You don’t have to sort out hosting, and the overall UI experience is sharper and feels more polished. Visuall
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by hello_marmalade 4y ago
One issue is that they won’t add fillets and chamfers.
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by hello_marmalade 4y ago
This is a nice idea in theory, but the issue then becomes inconsistent moderation that affects what is visible to everyone. If you get banned or have posts deleted on one platform, presumably those posts disappear from that instance, and th
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by hello_marmalade 4y ago
The market was less established, so there was a lot more experimentation and people just trying to do completely random shit. That's why there are so many cool little tech artifacts from the 60s - 2000s. Now everything is cloud hosted,
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by hello_marmalade 5y ago
Yes, strikes are okay as long as they aren’t inconvenient or worse, effective.
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by hello_marmalade 5y ago
That’s pretty heavily oversimplifying the issue. There were some pretty serious accusations levied against Kellog’s.
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by hello_marmalade 5y ago
As someone who is an avid Linux user for over a decade and MacBooks daily at work, this is 100% sour grapes. There is absolutely a visible difference between HiDPI displays and standard ones.
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by hello_marmalade 5y ago
The problem is that it causes those people to become more extreme because they get put into an echo chamber. It’s like putting a petty thief in with hardened criminals. They’re not coming out better than they went in, they’re coming out muc
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by hello_marmalade 5y ago
The source code is still open and available. It can be rehosted. Not going to jail is not an exclusively 'corporate' interest.
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by hello_marmalade 5y ago
Fedora is part of Red Hat which does a lot of business with the US government.
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by hello_marmalade 5y ago
As someone who loves Japan, they kinda did have it coming. They were doing some incredibly heinous shit at that time.
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by hello_marmalade 5y ago
The company is based in the US. It's therefore subject to US law. There's nothing stopping anyone from forking / rehosting these things outside of the US.
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by hello_marmalade 6y ago
That makes absolutely zero sense. The whole point of being able to modify and redistribute is about being in control of the software running on your system. That is explicitly about choice.
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by hello_marmalade 6y ago
That is straight up infantile. Plenty of people have horrible ancestral histories. If you choose to obsess over it at every moment, that's not really anybody else's issue. As another comment said earlier, it is very similar to no
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by hello_marmalade 6y ago
By default you can't trust any for profit corporation. They will always do what is profitable over anything and everything else, as they are required to.
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by hello_marmalade 7y ago
Reasons to use a credit union. People should be moving away from all these banks that essentially only abuse people on every level and move toward cooperative financial institutions. Alternatively, better banks like Aspiration, which is a B
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by hello_marmalade 7y ago
What I'm saying is that the focus on race is counterproductive because it's thoroughly irrelevant to the solution. If you have one group blaming minority failure on their race, and another group saying that the failure is because
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by hello_marmalade 7y ago
This is a really good illustration of why it matters to be aware of what your sample sets are, especially in the case of using machine learning / automation in regards to things that have a very high likelihood of impacting human right
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by hello_marmalade 7y ago
Yes, but what relevance does structural racism have to the model ? That's only true only if you believe the majority of people are racist. I don't. There's also a number of ways that you don't even have to interact with
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by hello_marmalade 7y ago
But that's not an issue with the model, that's an issue with our response to the model. Fundamentally there's nothing wrong with this. The somewhat harsh truth is that 'systemic bias' is actually just... statistics.
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by hello_marmalade 7y ago
Yes but that's not about race, that's about how we deal with crime as a society. These things aren't being unfairly applied to minority communities and that's the point. The system would be working the same way for a non
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by hello_marmalade 7y ago
Yes, but you can't build it into your model. In this example, you would end up with a result of putting people back into these communities who have a high level of recidivism. You are actively not avoiding an actual issue because of

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