GVIrish

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by GVIrish 6y ago
"Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make" This is a pretty novel approach, gruesome though it is. I think a lot of conservation efforts do have to start trying more novel/radical measures to
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by GVIrish 6y ago
> It is, however, illegal for broadcasters to intentionally distort the news, and the FCC may act on complaints if there is documented evidence of such behavior from persons with direct personal knowledge. What particular laws are you r
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> IMO it makes things even worse since these groups will congregate in secret much further away from the public eye where they can perpetuate unbalanced and unhealthy ideas. That result makes it more difficult for law enforcement to foll
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by GVIrish 6y ago
> * Germans have stringent anti-hate speech laws * ... yet there are still German extremists! Yeah I found that a bit of a strange point. I don't think the goal of Germany's anti-hate laws was to magically and completely eradi
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by GVIrish 6y ago
AT&T is regulated as a common carrier and there are federal laws that prevent them from discriminating against their customers. I don't think classifying Twitter and Facebook as common carriers would work out very well for those c
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by GVIrish 6y ago
> However, Facebook, Twitter and other similar companies only put out a tool. This tool is then used by this or that person to speak this or that argument. FB doesn't actively and directly help speaker A anymore that they help speak
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by GVIrish 6y ago
So in the case that participants on a social platform engage in trolling, harassment, and abuse (sometimes with bots), that company should not do anything? If some people who are attempting to exchange ideas and debate in good faith, are s
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by GVIrish 6y ago
> but to be a journalist you literally have to correct false statements you make What? No, you absolutely do not have to correct false statements you make to be a journalist. Reputable publications post retractions and clarifications b
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by GVIrish 6y ago
The fact that they have up on their first party studio means the clock has been started on a shutdown. If Google sends the signal that their first party Stadia studio is a lost cause, what signal does that send to the third party developer
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by GVIrish 6y ago
So there are a couple of things here: *A strong engineering team should've had vulnerability scans at some point in their build process. That SQL injection vulnerability would've been easy to spot *That SQL injection probably sho
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by GVIrish 6y ago
My personal anecdote is that I've shifted most of my meat consumption away from red meat to Beyond Meat burgers, chicken, and fish. I only eat steak as a special occasion now where I used to have steak regularly. If there are more mea
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by GVIrish 6y ago
Or maybe they just didn't build a strong enough engineering team and quickly ran into the limits of their experience and skills levels. There are numerous examples of start ups and even mature companies making basic mistakes. This is e
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Is it really a social norm though? Before social media were people angry that publications chose to selectively print letters to the editor? Or that a business could kick you out for being verbally abusive? Or that if you wrote a nasty g
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by GVIrish 6y ago
> As a South African all of this is fascinating. Especially the shift of where the "center" is. > It seemed every American not on the left is called "far right" from where I am sitting. What you are seeing is polar
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by GVIrish 6y ago
> It’s incredible that supporting free speech is considered to be only important enough to the “far right” now to be worth marketing to. > Free speech used to be something all Americans supported and defended. It's not that most
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by GVIrish 6y ago
Also why the games industry remains stuck on a lot of bad practices. The experienced people keep getting driven out.
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by GVIrish 6y ago
So if a SaaS offered a prepaid consumption plan alongside a monthly subscription you'd be more likely to buy? Like $19/month unlimited use or $50 for x amount of usage (api calls, transactions, assets, etc.)? Then you decide if y
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by GVIrish 6y ago
> The root of the F-35 program's problems is a cost plus style contract that gave Lockheed every incentive to overrun on cost and time table. Ash Carter fixed that by telling Lockheed if they didn't agree to his new contract he
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by GVIrish 6y ago
Errors in facial recognition software have already resulted in more than one wrongful arrest due to mistaken identity: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882683463/the-computer-got-it... https://l
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by GVIrish 6y ago
This is true, but it illustrates a key dynamic. For most people, as soon as you put a dollar value on a task that someone may have done for free or for fun, you have now fundamentally changed that relationship. If someone is doing somethin
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by GVIrish 6y ago
Home schooled kids are typically in groups of far, far smaller sizes. The social dynamics of a high school with 2000 students is naturally going to be different than the dynamics of a home school of a dozen or so.
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This cold snap is due to the polar vortex destabilizing and pushing arctic air down South. Normally the polar vortex stays stable and that arctic air oscillates at higher latitudes. But with warmer temperatures in the higher latitudes tha
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All of those countries only feature monarchies as vestiges of the feudal era. All of them have elections and the elected government is what actually runs those countries. A real monarchy would be something like Saudi Arabia.
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That's kinda ad hominem though. What specific problems with Washington Post's reporting do you have? Just saying, "Its owned by X therefore it must be biased," is another form of guilt by association.
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That only works with flexible workplaces. If you make the congestion tax really high but most workplaces don't give people flexibility with work schedules, all you're doing is forcing people to take longer, roundabout commutes. I
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by GVIrish 6y ago
Absolutely. These Google horror stories have me ready to pay for an email saas for the first time, and starting to consider that I may need to move all my personal content off Google just to be safe.
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Honestly I don't think most engaged developers who care about their work need the carrot of going home early to develop more robust systems. Most developers who care about their work want to build robust systems, especially if they&#x
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That won't save you at all. A lot of federal IT contracts are now written to mandate using Agile or Scrum. Many other forms of dysfunction that doom projects remain.
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There's a couple of reasons government IT projects turn out this way. In my experience, a lot of the time it's not so much that the contractor is trying to make money by prolonging the problem. It's that the customer doesn&#
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by GVIrish 6y ago
I've wasted far too much time in my career doing exactly this for federal government customers. My favorite is when someone insists a feature is critical and must be replicated, but when I dig into it I find it *never* actually worked

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