spaceseaman

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by spaceseaman 9y ago
This definitely seems like a good place for either regulation or unionization. Unionization would likely be difficult though due to the low barrier of entry for the job - artificial barriers would have to be created by the union and those b
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
The scenario at hand in the OP, where a cop murders a completely innocent man through mistake. I agree that a ban on guns would likely solve the problem in the video that you posted. My point was that your video seemed out of place since th
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Does anyone have a link to how to go about generating an image like this? Did the writer hand make the individual polygons or generate it from an image of themselves?
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> does he lose all his rights? You've just created a pure strawman. Cops should never lose their rights! I am not making such an argument, and I don't see how you got there from my points. I would never argue such a claim. The
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I have a real hard time caring about cops' fears in such a scenario. Innocent until proven guilty is a time-honored maxim of the U.S. justice system, and a cop deciding to kill you completely invalidates that. Is being a cop scary? Hel
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> the phenomenon is rather that HN readers with strong ideological feelings tend to see the site as dominated by, and the mods in cahoots with, their ideological enemies. I agree, but I don't think that's why this is a popular
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Hacker News has a libertarian leaning ideology among both its community and site-runners. As a result, things like deleted posts, changed thread titles, etc could be seen by folks with such leanings as an impingement on their "free spe
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Stereotypes typically don't come from anything. The "stereotype" of an Asian male is someone who * can't talk to women * doesn't understand social skills * has poor hygiene / manners * values STEM above softer
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
The statement assumes that one considers the poetic qualities as significant as marketability - not useful . You seem to have misunderstood the creators' intentions as they have no interest in providing you a "practical demonst
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I was not attempting to convince anyone. The above poster claimed that safe spaces were meant to "prolong the coddling" of childhood, yet this directly contradicts the history of creation and specified intention of safe spaces. Th
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> the less successful ones stay in college and promote "safe spaces" to prolong the coddling. This is not in any way what a safe space is - stop promoting this completely inaccurate meme to further your own personal viewpoint.
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Pretty much. The counter-argument goes that people "should know" and be responsible with their money, but I'm not a fan of that argument. It relies on people being perfectly rational actors that they just aren't. I'
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Just look up the EA Star Wars Battlefront 2 stuff. It's a big old mess. You pay money for crates which randomly drop items that improve the game experience. Some people consider it gambling because you are preying on the same tendencie
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I do not consider Nazi ideology an opinion. Their ideas are purely based on maintaining a power dynamic. There's no logic or legitimacy to their ideas, and thus they are not opinions. They change the ideology as needed to maintain powe
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> the relevant fields are in the middle of a reproducibility crisis largely due to their political confirmation bias. As someone who works very closely with academics (specifically sociologists), I would love to see some evidence for thi
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I completely agree with you, however I find this bit a little mysterious: > With facebook actively suppressing certain ideologies The only ideologies I've heard of Facebook suppressing lately are Neo-Nazi and alt-right groups follow
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> Yet, there wasn't any politics in it, was tehre? That's not the point. There's better ways to express the fact that your post isn't political than implying that people are just "too sensitive" about racism
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> No politics here (though I’m sure if you squint you can find a way to accuse me of racism or sexism or something) I am incredibly skeptical of anyone who starts an article like this - comes across like a teenager trying to be edgy. As
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Pretty common to use that terminology in the sciences and government work for small "kernels" of code that does one thing really well. EX: Water simulation codes, cryptographic codes, FEM codes, etc.
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> Taxes are just too darn complicated! While I understand this sentiment, I feel that a complicated tax code (or legal code in general) is just where countries end up going as they become larger and more important in the day-to-day lives
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> RSS is difficult to implement? Since when? He didn't say that - just that people find JSON exciting. There are many things that have been rewritten in JSON just to become popular again, or things people have done long before but a
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Ah I slightly misunderstood your position - I apologize. Personally I find the topics highly related in my mind and so my mind made a jump in your argument I should not have. I do actually still disagree with you though: > At its core is
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> the first few replies were vaguely insinuating I might somehow be sympathetic to neonazis. Please stop being so defensive. People dog-piled on you because they thought you said something dumb. They're not being "hateful"
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Just to be clear for those coming to this after the fact: the reaction was not violent and immediate. Your comment was not nuanced. And it was very much not sensitive. You attempted to claim that such overdoses are in part due to Reddit (an
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
You're implying the opioid epidemic is in part due to Reddit banning subreddits filled with hateful speech?* Or what? You're also making some odd as hell "both sides"-ish argument somewhere in there that I can't eve
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> There is no reason that users should consider random words on random Facebook accounts any differently than words posted on 4chan. You're right! They're both dangerous. If I posted your public address on both of those website
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
But it's not funding anything! There is no actual income being made. This is imposing a tax on something that no one actually gets! It's an accounting procedure used by Universities so they can meet the requirements of you being a
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
What always happens: $$$ Lots of growth occurred at Qualcomm since then. I'm assuming most of the leadership changed as the company became more and more profitable.
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
There is a long storied past of humans banding together. The "kill or be killed" narrative is just a narrative. Any examination of sociology, anthropology, and history shows a rich, long history of humans helping each other throug
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> then your matrix is allocated on the heap not the stack, meaning slower operations This doesn't seem right at all... Does anyone know more? Maybe they meant slow to allocate / deallocate? The author's problem appears to

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