Afforess

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by Afforess 11y ago
The point of the article is that using outrage and shame culture to resolve discrimination can be just as bad as acts of discrimination themselves. The act of shaming a person can make you feel you have done your 'good deed for the day
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by Afforess 11y ago
I disagree. I do look at impressionistic paintings, and wish they looked good on large high-definition displays. I am not sure why you think a finer brush would destroy the impressionistic qualities of artwork. That seems like saying we&#x2
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by Afforess 11y ago
I'm an IBM employee, was self-deprecating humor, actually. ;)
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by Afforess 11y ago
IBM is a financial services company that dabbles in tech.
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by Afforess 11y ago
I think the concern with investing in lawsuits should be focused on secondary motives. Lawsuits with lots of investors will have attorneys with secondary motives, such as keeping the case active as long as possible to continue to attract m
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by Afforess 11y ago
Yes, it would be terrible if we did all that work to improve the atmosphere for nothing. http://i.imgur.com/kUCPeBo.jpg
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by Afforess 11y ago
Both solutions have flaws. This is a no-win, but it's worth understanding that neither solution is a silver bullet. I commented because the anti-bundling camp seems to think there are no benefits to bundling, and that is obviously fals
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by Afforess 11y ago
I disagree that bundling is a bad thing. Shared libraries are just as bad as a solution as the windows DLL hell. With shared libraries, you have to trust outside developers will not change function signatures or break your dependencies in s
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by Afforess 11y ago
It is no badge of shame to test a hypothesis and find no evidence for it. We should encourage the publishing of such lack of findings.
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by Afforess 11y ago
0.05 significance has a 1 in 20 chance of being randomly occurring (1 / 0.05 = 20) and a result of statistical noise rather than evidence of a pattern. This is why reproducibility is important in science - future trials and tests will
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by Afforess 11y ago
It's encouraging to see the private sector and government work together so smoothly, creating improved government services and a more fair system for citizens in these innovative cities. So often, government is mired in allegations of
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by Afforess 11y ago
> No. Parallel parking is not a complex nor difficult maneuver. It is total beginner territory. You seem to be implying that most drivers are past the beginner level of skill in driving. I have not found this to be the case.
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by Afforess 11y ago
How would that work? Countries don't have radar coverage over the entire ocean. Even if the aircraft were noticed, which country would be responsible for upholding the international accords? If Russian aircraft were scrambling to stop
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by Afforess 11y ago
You're right, but throwing money at more observation stations, satellites, and balloons would work as well. The general "throw money" solution would work.
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by Afforess 11y ago
The Euro model win only demonstrates the effects of budget cutting on results. Meteorology computer modeling is nearly entirely dependent on supercomputer time, and the time and quality of supercomputing resources is a direct function of mo
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by Afforess 11y ago
The best quote of the paper (pg 23): > Interestingly, the reason we uncover such striking misperceptions does not appear to be that politicians are reluctant to admit a belief that public opinion is not on their side – many do. Rather, i
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by Afforess 11y ago
Karl Marx. Karl Marx wrote that Capitalism carries within it the seeds of its own destruction, that capitalists would sell you the noose with which you could hang them.
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by Afforess 11y ago
That you think so is very concerning, everyone deserves human decency. Your views sounds dangerously close to zealotry, the same sort of views that have harmed so many in the past...
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by Afforess 11y ago
Wow. With that approach, I fear that a lot of innocents will be hurt on your path to 'justice'. Whatever happened to 'It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer' ?
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by Afforess 11y ago
I completely disagree. GCHQ, NSA, CIA, et al do serve a legitimate purpose. The world is not all roses and sunshine, there are rogue nation-states and rogue actors, and they do want to harm the public. It is the duty of the government to
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by Afforess 11y ago
> It was my goal to do my best to break him as a person as much as I can with words. Really? Wow. I am concerned at the lack of human decency, the unwillingness to at least conduct a civil dialogue about his point of view. "Breaki
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by Afforess 11y ago
Yes, it is ridiculous. I can not imagine how the choice to use tropical woods, or the number of minority employees would impact the final result of a business contract . The government should be concerned with the end result, not the minut
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by Afforess 11y ago
No. It is unlikely private citizens will even have access to mine on the banking blockchain. Banks are looking at using it for intra-banking ledgers and commercial transactions. Longer term, it may replace the outdated ACH clearing house.
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by Afforess 11y ago
What "attack surface"? Almost all your ports, no applications listen to. Closing them serves no useful purpose. If an application has problems accepting input on a port it is listening to, that is an application bug. Closing your
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by Afforess 11y ago
Yep. I think a big point that has not been addressed is how we got into this situation. Most internet users are locked behind home or corporate networks, without a real addressable IP and every port but 80 and 443 blocked. A lot of this was
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by Afforess 11y ago
I think I'd rather take the billions than the place in history.
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by Afforess 11y ago
Temporary fixes are usually the most permanent kind of fix.
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by Afforess 11y ago
I'm not an expert, but they are obviously better. Paper decomposes fairly quickly (in comparison to plastic), and most paper products are made from paper tree farms, not hardwood forests. In addition, some of the paper used to make th
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by Afforess 11y ago
I don't see why using inferred/model data is a bad thing. It is simply not feasible to measure the temperature at every location in the world. Satellite data, combined with in-situ and model calculations can very accurately fill i
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by Afforess 11y ago
I disagree. FFmpeg is/was heavily dependent on Michael for active development and bug fixes. In the last few years, more than half of the commits are from him. Without his contribution to development, nor a clear leader and succession

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