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They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted(politico.com)
6 points by nicomeemes 8mo ago|4 comments
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by nicomeemes 8mo ago
Tip of an iceberg?
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by nicomeemes 8mo ago
I had that initial reaction too, but he's right. I mean, I fucked up. I didn't read the Terms of Service evidently, and I'm suffering for that. What I do know for sure though is that I never, under any circumstances, contribu
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by nicomeemes 8mo ago
My ideal resolution would be just to get an idea of what happened, what caused the ban, so I can avoid that in the future, and me taking my time to go through GitHub's terms of service so that I do understand what I'm agreeing to.
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by nicomeemes 8mo ago
As far as code goes, I never contributed to anything even remotely malicious. I worked primarily on obscure scraping problems related to Puppeteer and Playwright. I built some libraries for that I published on NPM, but at no point did I eve
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Gh Account Permabanned – Help?
11 points by nicomeemes 8mo ago|10 comments
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by nicomeemes 1y ago
"Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that onl
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by nicomeemes 2y ago
You're lazily mixing metaphors here. This is the problem in all such discussions, it often gets reduced to some combination of hand waving and hype training. "AGI" means different things to everyone, okay? Then it's a me
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by nicomeemes 2y ago
Data Debunked: https://x.com/TaylorOgan/status/1835614661829677347
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by nicomeemes 2y ago
Well, at the very least Black Mirror will have plenty of ideas for next season.
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by nicomeemes 2y ago
I recently finished Peter Turchin's "End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62926960-end-times . I thought his insight (that
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by nicomeemes 2y ago
There is a comparable software that has a friendlier UX: https://mochi.cards/ . It's basically Anki, if Anki were smoother. Does cost a tiny bit though.
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by nicomeemes 2y ago
Why? It works and is (so far as we can tell, except for a few exceptions like thyroid cancer) completely safe. It would have immediate results. Sure, it would be better to fix the root causes. But we are so far from being in a position wher
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by nicomeemes 2y ago
1A is hot garbage. The lady always interrupts guests if they stray beyond the 2-minute soundbite.
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by nicomeemes 2y ago
Stephen Kotkin also appears!
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by nicomeemes 2y ago
There is such a restriction, at least for NY. It was prompted by a wealthy businessman (naturally): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby_Zion_Law
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by nicomeemes 2y ago
Amphetamines are addictive, regardless of dosage.
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by nicomeemes 3y ago
Lol - this from Fortune magazine. I swear I see a steady stream of these hit pieces from Fortune, WSJ, etc. Go away!
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by nicomeemes 4y ago
I also recommend checking out https://learn.javascript.ru/ which has more content than the english version (same author though I believe). Install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon&#x2
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by nicomeemes 5y ago
I don't think anyone here is disputing the fact that in the eyes of the law, his actions were illegal. But as someone who develops web scrapers/automation for a living, I poke and prod APIs in much the same manner as this guy. I d
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by nicomeemes 5y ago
I've had this exact same experience! Same reason (cyber-bullying) given.
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by nicomeemes 5y ago
This is one of my favorite resources for learning about Linear Algebra. Helped me immensely when I took it last spring.
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by nicomeemes 5y ago
Seems like "strong economic growth" is only for those who are well off.
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by nicomeemes 5y ago
I would recommend https://winaero.com/download-winaero-tweaker/ which handles everything in a nice GUI, lets you export settings for use on new machines, etc.
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by nicomeemes 5y ago
> Anyone can come here, be poor, and then work really hard and make money, and get wealthy. While I agree with some of the article, I feel like this statement simply isn't true anymore. Probably for software/hardware engineer
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by nicomeemes 5y ago
This sounds really interesting to me. Care to explain how you use it (the slack workspace/bots)?
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by nicomeemes 5y ago
Where can someone learn more about this? Any resources?
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by nicomeemes 5y ago
What does orthogonal mean in this context? Just wondering
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by nicomeemes 6y ago
Anyone know why I get ECONNREFUSED? https://imgur.com/Cd22Gwb
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by nicomeemes 6y ago
This is awesome, would be great if there was a chrome extension or addon for Octotree, so you could click a button to open the repo.

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