Eleopteryx

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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
But he'd never have been in a position for re-election had he not won in 2000 first. That's not to say it'd have been impossible for him to run and win in 2004 otherwise, but who can really say.
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
My understanding is that real median income is influenced by the sheer total number of hours worked. Real median income can increase by virtue of more people working more often while their wages stay the same.
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
I actually sent a suggestion/complaint to Google regarding their recommendations. If I start a radio station based on e.g. a 2009 indie pop song I'll mostly hear songs made around that year, usually like 2006~2013, with newer song
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
It doesn't really seem like it
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
>I can't help thinking that ADHD is one of those mental disorders that merely reflects some increased demands of society rather than a genuine mental disorder There's physiological differences in the brain though https:/&
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
>Many customers keep the tarot card shop down the street in business too. Right, because there's literally no alternative to fortune-telling magic but more kinds of fortune-telling magic. If there were already a conceptually differe
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
>Do you actually believe the profiles CA created were accurate or much more insightful over whatever demographic data FB or Goog let you target with? Multiple political campaigns over the past several years clearly thought Cambridge Anal
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
>People are freaking out about CA because it maybe helped Trump target people Huh, the article doesn't even mention Trump >every candidate does the exact same thing But the issue isn't that ads are being targeted. The articl
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
I don't believe Google sells your psychological profile to third parties seeking to target ads. Google might be able to ascertain my political leanings based on my behavior, and other parties may be able to target ads toward people wit
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
Please explain, what's even remotely ironic about that
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
There are many similarities but I think the key difference is Cambridge Analytica as its own entity sold its data (including psychological profiles of users' Facebook friends) gathered from an apolitical survey app to multiple other en
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
Is there any value to citing wages as opposed to real wages? It even says "Not adjusted for inflation" in the chart showing the increase in average hourly earnings. Real wages have increased +1.5% March 2018 - March 2019, which th
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
>should get to decide who can use their product Semantically it's not a question of "who can use their product" it's a question of in what fashion are users permitted to use their product, what behaviors are/n&#x
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by Eleopteryx 7y ago
And this is why webrings didn't all the way work -- broken links!
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
>"just fathom the authoritarian mindset that would lead a citizen -- and especially a "journalist" -- to react with anger that these things have been revealed; to insist that these facts should have been kept concealed and
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
Asserting that something doesn't exist, when there's no compelling evidence that thing exists, is arguably the antithesis of a factual assertion. Claiming that god doesn't exist isn't asserting a greater truth about the
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
>I suppose it's remotely possible that I contracted HSV since then without ever having any symptoms It actually is. Most people are asymptomatic, or their symptoms are so mild that they confuse them for a pimple. https://
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
It says "90 percent of adults have been exposed to the virus by age 50", but I didn't think that exposure necessarily meant infection.
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
Statements like "In a world where world-class scientists’ merit is now determined by their sex and skin color—with white men’s work being dismissed in the name of promoting women and minorities" have a heavy political bias and the
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
I might be wrong but I think that's part of the reason why the proposed rate is 70%. If they're just going to obscure so much of their capital anyway, you might as well tax what they can't at an especially high rate to compen
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
Sure, but 2 hours of playing a video game isn't necessarily as compelling as e.g. seeing a 2-hour film. One of the things I've been paying attention to as I get older is how many unique experiences a thing offers. Games that are h
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
You're running off on tangential points about absolutely nothing. Your original point was that your professional colleagues were bigoted against white conservatives. Now you're talking about politically-motivated violence in gener
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
>but mobs of liberal activists assaulted Trump supporters in San Jose after a rally. Trump supporters were assaulted, that much is factual. The notion that they were a) liberal b) activists, is not a notion you can support with facts.
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
I see you straightfacedly posting screencaps taken from /pol/ and I'm going to take it as the first sign that this site is now on a cultural downturn.
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
>Wages are up 3.1% YoY >Real average hourly earnings increased 0.7 percent, seasonally adjusted, from October 2017 to October 2018. Eh... https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/realer.pdf
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
That will become a precedent for why law enforcement needs to be even more militaristic.
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
>When was the last time that you caught a significant bug with a test? Tests only really catch bugs when you're refactoring the implementation of something while trying to keep its behavior the same. You're right, in many ways,
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
>Code reviews help maintain sanity in the code base But why delay the shipment of features/fixes to the customer for any of these reasons? If code quality and human understanding is the actual rationale, it could make more sense to
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
To me, code review is a combination of two things I would think we would try to avoid: 1. Testing implementation over behavior 2. Using a human being to test in a non-automated way Proper test coverage and human QA to me is the most effecti
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by Eleopteryx 8y ago
>and my mind purposefully avoids important tasks until almost no time is left, and then it is so much more easy for my brain to concentrate on the task and I achieve a level of focus that honestly produces much better work than when I&#x

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