Kapura

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Ubisoft Family Accused of Mishandling Sexual Misconduct Claims(bloomberg.com)
2 points by Kapura 6y ago|0 comments
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Man Dressed as Delivery Driver Executes Hit on Federal Judges House(abcnews.go.com)
117 points by Kapura 6y ago|17 comments
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by Kapura 6y ago
Ah, statistics. A notoriously accurate and complete way of understanding how other people live.
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by Kapura 6y ago
ok thank you for explaining my family's lived experience to me, the person whose family's lived experience it is. Maybe later you could swing by and tell me if I'm finding the sun hot or not.
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by Kapura 6y ago
She's in Colorado. The teachers' union agreed to a pay cut & freeze during the Bush financial crisis; pay had had only started to rise again a few years ago. This is somewhat of a digression, but the extremely low rate of teac
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by Kapura 6y ago
My mother is an elementary school teacher, and I don't want her to go back to school this year. The federal government is worse than useless, and the state government is feckless and unwilling to make the tough calls to protect people&
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by Kapura 6y ago
You're putting words into my mouth. I never said "People who try to improve themselves are safe;" the world is full of too much nuance and complexity for me to make a sweeping statement like that. Nor did I say "We can&#
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by Kapura 6y ago
I mean, they're a C-level executive, i could see why employees, especially women working under him, might be less than thrilled if they were still in power. I think that his response in that article was appropriate, but I'm also n
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by Kapura 6y ago
the twitter mob didn't "decide it was racist," racists started co-opting that symbol to identify themselves to one another in a way that flies under the radar[1]. The term is "dog-whistle." I can't speak to the
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by Kapura 6y ago
pg has been opining about so-called "cancel culture" on twitter, and the last paragraph makes it clear that this entire post is his attempt to formulate a response: >Once you realize that orthodox privilege exists, a lot of oth
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by Kapura 6y ago
I think one of the great parts of the internet is that it promotes this identity decentralisation (or, as i have always thought about it, identity fragmentation). You are allowed to isolate online identity from the rest of your life, or fro
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by Kapura 6y ago
This is fundamentally a forest/trees type of situation. LeCun sees the issue with this one model, says, "If this had been trained on a different sample it wouldn't have this issue," and stops his train of reasoning there
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by Kapura 6y ago
Meghna Jayanth, who worked on the phenomenal mobile game 80 Days, among other things, has been retweeting a lot of the stories of abuse as they are coming out: https://twitter.com/betterthemask
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Video Game Industry Rocked by Outpouring of Sexual Misconduct Allegations(bloomberg.com)
35 points by Kapura 6y ago|26 comments
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'Miles Morales' Trailer Pulled Down After Copyright Claim from French Publisher(pushsquare.com)
1 points by Kapura 6y ago|0 comments
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by Kapura 6y ago
He is clearly viewing this as another technical problem to solve. He's a highly technical person; this follows. But the issues he's being confronted with aren't technical issues of permissions and algorithm tuning; they'
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by Kapura 6y ago
From the Hacker News Guidelines[1]: >What to Submit >On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that
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by Kapura 6y ago
I'm sorry you feel that way. I created this title by combining information in the original title and the subheading of the piece: > The Story Behind Bill Barr’s Unmarked Federal Agents > The motley assortment of police currently
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The Unmarked Federal Agents Occupying Washington, D.C(politico.com)
336 points by Kapura 6y ago|158 comments
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by Kapura 6y ago
Do you really think the cops see a distinction? If so, I encourage you to watch any of the dozens of videos of cops attacking people that have come out over the past 72 hours. Cop brain is very simple: You wither listen to the cop or you ar
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by Kapura 6y ago
I shared this post, and I'm deleting my facebook account tomorrow. Most of the people I care about already have my phone number any way. I will miss the concert notifications for bands I follow, but I guess I'll just have to put s
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Audio of Trump and Barr Advocating Using Force Against Protesters Leaked(soundcloud.com)
20 points by Kapura 6y ago|1 comments
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by Kapura 6y ago
Are you aware of who appoints and approves federal judges that will hear this case?
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by Kapura 6y ago
So basically, if noted independent and well-reasoned decision maker William Barr decides that a platform is operating in ways that are 'deceptive, pretextual, or inconsistent with a provider’s terms of service' they lose protectio
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by Kapura 6y ago
>I have learned pretty consistently over that time that the best way to solve a problem is to just keep digging deeper into the system with the issue. >You will eventually figure out that either the system has a bug or you used it wro
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by Kapura 6y ago
Well, I've spent the past week tuning our boss fight camera algorithms so that the camera does its best to track the boss if they dash across the room or leap into the air. Nobody can really tell me how to do this outside of our compan
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by Kapura 6y ago
I've been programming in the games industry, first at indie scale and now at AAA, and I use almost all of the patterns described in the book in some way. This is an invaluable resource for people to learn not only the sorts of program
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by Kapura 6y ago
>Restaurants can make a concerted effort to ask regular clients to order from their own websites/apps but rarely do even when they can make an extra 10-15% after giving the customers 10% off. Ridiculous. This is an assertion made by
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by Kapura 7y ago
I don't know how anybody could play a MOBA for any amount of time and doubt the existence of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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by Kapura 7y ago
Shipping with bugs is not an inevitability. Bugs come from code being used in cases other than the ones that the programmer anticipated. But it is possible to understand how code will be used. You can test against it, either manually or wit

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