GavinMcG

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by GavinMcG 6y ago
When you say "stop pitting races and cultures against one another" are you willing to acknowledge the history of redlining, white flight, and other economic forces that have helped drive black communities into poverty? Are you wil
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
It wasn't clear to me what "passes 3 classes in four years" meant, exactly. To clarify: this high school student failed 22 classes in three years at high school, but was advanced to the next grade and the next level of class
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
The irony of this whole chain is that the paper itself actually acknowledges this other variable (that y'all are pretending is the only variable) directly: > There is considerable evidence of concentration of mining operations in
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Do you think a discussion of policy implications should somehow ignore relevant policy considerations? It's helpful for authors to point out how they think their work fits into the broader scheme of things. They correctly identify th
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Not doing what you'd personally prefer isn't a bias. Tackling a problem at several levels is perfectly legitimate; it's just that a paper about clean power generation would be a totally different paper. It's a single pa
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
I did read it, before I made "numerous comments." Papers discuss the implications and applications of their work. That discussion is not the work itself ; it is meant to give a starting point for fitting the work with other resea
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
This paper is just saying there are reasonably estimable costs . That's all! It's not even trying to address the bigger argument you're talking about.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Nothing's wrong with it. But the fact that this paper looks at a specific different piece of the puzzle doesn't make it bad. You're just asking for an entirely different piece of research, and criticizing this even though it&
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
They clearly didn't, since the study acknowledged that issue:
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
It's a single paper. It responsibly limits itself to a manageable conclusion and responsibly points out where there are still open questions. Can you point out where in the paper the authors leap to "let's regulate" as y
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
It was a question. You seemed to be implying that any such study would be "fear-mongering" (your words). That suggests that you think the studies wouldn't be useful and that we shouldn't do them. Your playground rhetoric
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Are you saying we shouldn't understand the consequences of what we do? It's useful to know that BTC has major externalities because it allows us to make a rational choice. We could make different choices about all the things you
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
The comment did not say anything like that. You're making a strawman.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Headline is "Adding Red Seaweed To Cow Feed Could Cut Bovine Flatulence"
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Naming the three most recent presidents and denying that any of them did or could change things was meant as a direct counter to my claim that it matters who we elect. I replied by pointing out that "who we elect" isn't limit
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
What are you talking about? The comment dismissed what I had said about it mattering who we elect, in a shallow and narrowly-focused way. My characterization is indeed the opposite, because I disagree with the comment's premise. That&#
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Why focus on presidential elections when we're talking about policing? It matters who we elect at the local level. I think your knee-jerk focus on who the president is (and denying the possibility of change) demonstrates what I was say
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Market-focused rhetoric over the past decades has made it tempting to think we can just allocate payments the right way to accomplish what we want. This is one case where that fails. Instead, we need leadership . Police budgets are taxpaye
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Manufacturing
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Yeezys aren't running shoes. You're comparing apples and oranges.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
By logging into one's account . Surely you see the distinction between deliberately availing oneself of a service and bring tracked on entirely separate websites without being informed, much less consenting.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Or it's by the different parts of the same entity. Why are you confident that Google's internal choices about organizing their business are what win the day here, rather than Google's interface with the consumer?
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
This assertion without an argument is not especially helpful. What legal distinction must hold the line here, in your view? Why is it insufficient to suggest that a user in a Google Chrome Incognito window might reasonably expect Google
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Whether something is a TLD isn't equivalent to whether it is a domain. The comment taken literally asked about the latter.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Do you expect to get away with illegal activity when you travel abroad?
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Did you really imagine that the physical characteristics of a nebula where what the comment referred to? Black boxes that are mostly dust and ionized gasses? Black boxes that last 3-4 million years? Black boxes that span up to 10 astronomic
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
You're strawmanning. I didn't call anyone relentlessly evil—the whole point is that complicity is woven into our daily lives in a way that's banal and easily ignored. You could direct more resources this way or that. Do y
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
And what I and a lot of others are saying is that no, they are not experiencing similar problems. You're showing up here expecting intelligent people able to listen, but you're not bothering to listen yourself.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
If they are born into society, grow up, look around, and do nothing? Yes. It isn't enough to not actively hate other people.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
It sounds like you're frustrated, and it sucks being in that spot. I'm not going to spend my day verifying your bug. You've got an issue with bootability, with screenshots, and with audio all in the same system. Send it back.

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