throwaway8582

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by throwaway8582 9mo ago
> What a waste of government time and spending Was the switch to Calibri in 2023 also a waste of time and money, or are font switches only bad when the Trump administration does them?
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by throwaway8582 3y ago
Aside from arguments about performance and memory safety, I'm generally more likely to try something written in Rust (or Go) because projects in those languages tends to be easy to build or download as a static binary. For Rust project
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by throwaway8582 3y ago
I live in the US and I see something similar when shopping at Aldi. They charge like 5 or 10 cents per bag, but it's enough that most people will bring their own or not use bags at all. It's a small fee, but it has a significant i
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by throwaway8582 3y ago
It's quite easy to spin a false narrative when you cherry-pick cases, misrepresent facts, and leave out important context. > a white couple waved guns at the protestors If this is the case I'm thinking of, the protesters had br
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by throwaway8582 3y ago
I'm sure that had far more to do with the threats he was shouting at the other passengers than his social status
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by throwaway8582 3y ago
Lowering taxes and allowing people to keep their own money qualifies as "redistribution" now?
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by throwaway8582 3y ago
And what purpose would that serve? Tesla is not a media company. It doesn't publish news and it doesn't claim to be objective. Nobody is interested in how their sources of funding might bias their coverage of events because that&#
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by throwaway8582 3y ago
> But not the BBC, curiously You should check these things before posting. It says "Government-funded Media" right at the top of the page here: https://twitter.com/BBC
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
Why weren't eggs ever expensive before the last couple years? Did corporations just suddenly become greedy around that time?
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
Did you actually read the article? If this was just due to increased diagnosis, one would expect rates of self-harm and suicide to stay the same or fall as kids are able to get better treatment for mental health issues. Instead, we see the
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
Much of the Earth's surface is not suitable for growing trees, either because it's too dry, to wet, to cold, poor soil or lack of soil, etc. The article gives examples of planting in places where trees don't typically grow, o
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
The Asians present in North America are not a random sample. A large portion of them came here specifically to work in STEM or other fields requiring high levels of intelligence and education. It's very probable that the ones here are,
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
Correlation != causation. It could be that people with genes for high intelligence tend to be in high demand on the job market and make a lot of money, and also tend to pass those genes on to their children, which gives them an advantage SA
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
> We don’t provide free access to test prep. There's tons of sample tests, vocabulary flashcards, and advice on test taking strategy available completely free online. There's no secret information or techniques taught in these
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
So is height, and historically there have been large differences in height between the rich and poor. In modern developed countries, however, there doesn't seem to be any significant difference based on socioeconomic level. That leads
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
> For example, Nigerian immigrants (both first and second gen) are vastly more educated than the average American This is not a good example because the immigration process itself is highly selective. For the most part, only best and bri
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
> Agricultural societies can subjugate conquered lands so much faster than hunter gatherer and nomadic peoples. Nomadic people are quite capable of conquering land, the most obvious example being Genghis Khan, who managed to build the Mo
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
Exactly. When these sorts of acts are committed by non-whites, they disappear quickly from the news cycle and the race of the perpetrator is not mentioned or not emphasized. Anyone even remember the name of the black man with a history of r
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
These "hate hoaxes" are quite common. A few of the more prominent examples from recent years include Jussie Smollett, the Rolling Stone rape story, Yasmin Seweid, and Covington Catholic. Come to think of it, it seems like most of
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
I agree this was a bad example. Of course people who try and copy the strategy of a very successful person are not going to be as successful themselves, because the people that come later are going to be competing with millions of others do
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
> To my eye, they talk about money, they frame the question about money When 18 year old kids with no income are taking out tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of loans to pay for an education, the question of whether that education
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
> But scientists are subjective and biased Maybe, but how much does that matter? If the bias of these scientists is leading them to publish incorrect or low quality research, then Nature should reject it on the grounds that it's bad
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
Imagine if someone made a similar product, but explicitly marketed towards white people. How well would that be received here?
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
> the main thing stopping you is not government oppression, it's the fact that a majority of voters want you to not do that Do you really think that a majority of voters would want somebody to be arrested for a post like this? If we
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by throwaway8582 4y ago
Sure, the values you picked for your example make the Minimax strategy look reasonable. You can just as easily choose values which make it look silly: 1) 1% of people earn $1 per day, and 99% of people earn $100 per day 2) Everyone earns $1
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by throwaway8582 5y ago
This is a very poor attempt at a strawman, nobody thinks that Twitter is where scientific research is funded or conducted. Its role in the process is that of the stick, not the carrot. When people, including scientists, make statements or p
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by throwaway8582 5y ago
I've used `cyclictest` for this before, it's a simple command line application that measures how long it takes to wake up and run a user space process in response to an interrupt. I've used it in the context of minimizing lat
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by throwaway8582 5y ago
> but far fewer want to have a real relationship with me after I disclose that I’m trans I'd guess most of the men that are looking for a "real relationship" are doing so because they want to find somebody to have children
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by throwaway8582 5y ago
This is quite different from insider trading in the private sector. In addition to having information that is not public, legislators also have the power to influence the value of their investments by passing legislation favorable to compan
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by throwaway8582 5y ago
>> so that hate speech against Black, Jewish, LGBTQ, Muslim, and multiracial people would be taken down through an automated system What about hate speech against white people, or Christians? Have these groups been dehumanized to the

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