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by jwond 2y ago
There is a restart action. You need to first add the Shut Down action, then you can change it to Restart.
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by jwond 2y ago
Actually some of the 13th and 14th gen Intel Core processors support ECC.
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The crisis of higher education is worse than you think(whitehotharlots.substack.com)
3 points by jwond 2y ago|0 comments
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by jwond 2y ago
People predicting the Canadian housing bubble would burst probably didn't think the government would resort to such absurdly high levels of immigration. https://globalnews.ca/news/10386750/canada-41-million-po
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CDC sharply overestimates maternal death rate, new study finds(eurekalert.org)
36 points by jwond 2y ago|8 comments
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by jwond 3y ago
"Advancement" implies improvement. Just because things are changing does not mean they are improving.
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by jwond 3y ago
> Karen Walsh, the president of the UW Board of Regents, said she was “alarmed” and “disgusted” by Gow’s actions, which were, she stated, “wholly and undeniably inconsistent with his role as chancellor.” But Gow’s actions were neither co
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by jwond 3y ago
This brings to mind a pending bill in California where they are trying to amend the state constitution to allow the state to discriminate based on race, sex, etc. as long as it is "research-based" or "research-informed".
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by jwond 3y ago
The major problem — one of the major problems, for there are several — one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it
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by jwond 3y ago
It's more of an amusing fact, given the topic of the article.
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University of Washington Faculty Search Weighed Race Inappropriately(insidehighered.com)
9 points by jwond 3y ago|2 comments
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by jwond 3y ago
They could still report breaking news and unverified claims, but they should at least do so in a slightly more responsible way, e.g. by limiting the headline to only what is actually verified at that time. If they want to include unverified
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by jwond 3y ago
I am reminded of this video of a young woman showing a "day in the life" of a LinkedIn employee https://youtu.be/X5TZVhKDwpk
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by jwond 3y ago
Some interesting numbers from the article > According to a report by Berkeley, Latino candidates constituted 13 percent of applicants and 59 percent of finalists. Asian and Asian American applicants constituted 26 percent of applicants a
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NZ gov spends $2.7M to test debunked theory on effect of lunar phases on plants(whyevolutionistrue.com)
9 points by jwond 3y ago|6 comments
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by jwond 3y ago
The Supreme Court has a long history of overruling prior Supreme Court decisions, and has done so over 200 times. https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/decisions-overru...
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by jwond 3y ago
I've never seen a MrBeast video, but today I saw this video parodying him, which I thought was a little funny: https://youtu.be/n-tQXZCEi54
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by jwond 3y ago
> the practice of having the wife burn alive on the husband's funeral pyre known as "sati" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)
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by jwond 3y ago
The article includes a video showing they were able to use FaceApp on the non-smiling photo to reproduce the smiling photo exactly. They also include analysis comparing the smiling photo to other existing photos of those people smiling and
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Research finds no gender bias in academic science(insidehighered.com)
133 points by jwond 3y ago|128 comments
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by jwond 3y ago
Now account for rates of violent crime.
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by jwond 4y ago
> Also, "it's okay to be white" is not a hidden rake of a dogwhistle to stumble on. If that were a serious position, it immediately leads to the question of "who is saying otherwise". I found a few examples if yo
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Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them(fortune.com)
652 points by jwond 4y ago|793 comments
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by jwond 4y ago
> Wasn't this the company that announced they were laying people off based on race in the last round of layoffs? Oh yeah, they were. I forgot about that. > As you all know, we are committed to becoming an Anti-Racist/Anti-Op
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by jwond 4y ago
I‘ve seen plenty of overt racism coming from some people who advocate for DEI too (I can provide examples if you would like), so I don’t really see what your point is. Guilt by association is silly.
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by jwond 4y ago
I’m not particularly upset, and I don’t necessarily disagree with the rest of your comment. My comment was more related to the fact that in my experience there are quite a number of people who have no qualms about suggesting that black peop
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by jwond 4y ago
> black peoples' bodies are far more suited for strenuous physical activities than asians' > […] > The reality is asians aren't as physically capable as other races, generally speaking. Do you apply similar logic to
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by jwond 4y ago
> who promises that "the party-planning process will be streamlined" (WTF?) and that "more administrators will be hired" to do so (WTF?). The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy
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by jwond 4y ago
Now that they’ve made it abundantly clear that the whole “free speech absolutism” approach is obviously not being pursued, I don’t see why Twitter didn’t just take the same approach that was used when Apple, Google, Amazon, etc. deplatforme
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by jwond 4y ago
Seems like coverage of a public sporting event is still allowed. > Content that shares location information related to a public engagement or event, such as a concert or political event, is also permitted.

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