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Nadya
7y ago
It seems you misunderstood a bit, which is my fault, so I'll explain. Facial blindness for racial features occurs when you're not accustomed to having to noticing such features. Most homogeneous regions can readily identify outsid
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>Strange that Japan isn't adopting a similar points-based system They do use a points-based system for highly-skilled workers: http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/newimmiact_3/en/evaluate/index.htm... >On
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There are only so many ways to make cheese and most of the process is going to remain the same. Being a different or unique culture doesn't fundamentally change how cheese is manufactured. I fail to see your point. There are only so ma
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We've seen the same results in every country that has attempted it, so why would one more country be any different? How many repeating occurrences of something occurring do you need before you can look at the data and go "There&#x
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They're only "hard to tell" if you don't spend a lot of time around people of Asian ethnicity. It is very rare I cannot tell a Japanese person from a Chinese person from a Korean person. Reading comments on this thread b
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>Not in my case. I first learned to type properly on Qwerty. I'll take you at your word, but most people I see claim this have extremely poor typing habits. Similar to a self-taught musician who ingrained poor habits because they
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As someone who learned to type in QWERTY, Dvorak, and Colemak (in that order) my belief is that most people attribute ergonomics and improved typing ability to the new alternative layout they learned instead of the fact that they finally le
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As we all know, algorithmic classification has zero issues [0] and is 100% accurate. Even Twitter's anti-ISIS classification banned a bunch of ISIS watchdog accounts but it was deemed that the collateral damage was worth it. In this ca
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Incitement of violence is actually mostly legal under U.S law except when it calls for imminent action that is likely to happen, which is a surprisingly high bar to meet. See Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969) [0]. Take note that th
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It began in 2001 and the effects become very obvious when you watch country GDP's. Watch the of countries, but especially China, in this animation of country GDP: https://gfycat.com/energeticrigidalbertosaurus
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>I don't really know why modern programming languages bother with reserved words Preventing potential footguns prevents a large number of bugs. In fact, preventing a specific kind of footgun is one of the primary reasons that Rust
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7y ago
The guidelines linked to in your Terms of Service fails to load / doesn't exist: https://scite.ai/guidelines You also may want to update your error message as it reports the Nginx version and Operating System bein
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7y ago
Who would expect the browser user-agent to actually call itself "EDG" and not "EDGE" though? If you edit the user-agent to include "EDGE" in place of "EDG" everything works, someone thought "EDG&
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You can, and I have, make your own Memrise courses as well. I'm better at remembering to visit a website than I am at remembering to open a program. It's a silly difference, but I almost always have a browser open and every new
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8y ago
It's a self-hosting compiler written in Scheme: https://ideone.com/dvhScJ
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Would need data about whether or not people are more or less likely to 1) Add text when it is missing but the attribute is there to serve as a reminder OR 2) Change text when it is wrong Neither one is "wrong" but one might be bet
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I handle ADA issues at work and deal with updating sites to adhere to WCAG 2.0. So perhaps I can offer my $0.02 and clear this up. It is actually impossible for anything to be accessible out-of-the-box, but they have been designed to be acc
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Places will enforce it - I'd say most do not - but my sample size is only large enough to say confidentially that the places my friends went to do not, with one exception that enforced it. Source: Friends with tattoos who have visited
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I solved that problem that way too: https://nadyanay.me/identities.html It comes with some issues, namely that I suck at keeping it up to date and that not all identities I would like to list there have a way for me to prov
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8y ago
Task: Send me a tweet on Twitter. Careful not to send it to any imposters. Challenge: Finding me on Twitter. For example, I am not @Nadya Extra Credit Challenge: Let's say I'm e-famous enough to have imposter accounts but not have
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>like that it considers requests to subdomains third-party) As it should. Sometimes subdomains are third party. If I whitelist example.org I do not want any subdomains to be whitelisted without be explicitely whitelisting *.example.org
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>That's polemical and I would not tell it that upfront to my Japanese friends but I feel like kanjis are a vastly inferior writing system compared to the alphabets they have. The reason Kanji are used instead of Kana are due to th
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What is the username in this image? [ https://i.vgy.me/faxIj4.png ] Many people select fonts where there isn't ambiguity between similar characters like o/O/0 and I/l/1. Reading the home page for th
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I recognize some of those scrots. Funny to see another /g/ent with a minimalist setup and website. I have about twice the amount of CSS, but most of it was to match my personal setup of colors/fonts: https://nadyan
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It may shock you that scandalous names such as "Microsoft Azure", "Imgur", "Photobucket", "Imageshack" also have to deal with large amounts of child pornography and that the name of the file host has
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8y ago
This is exactly what I do: https://kimiwo.aishitei.ru It's running an instance of lolisafe, here are some other sites (many which do allow for registration): https://github.com/WeebDev/lolisafe/wik
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8y ago
Thank you! Sounds like I need give it another read. :)
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gwern, first off I'd like to mention I absolutely love your work! It's always a pleasure to read your longform writeups on StyleGAN, even if half of it admittingly goes over my head. :) Can I ask what was modified recently about t
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>I don't see the vast amount of "good things" being censored everywhere as a result of the slippery slope of censorship. I would like to ask that you take a moment to reflect on this statement ... ... ... Okay now moving
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The "it's a slippery slope fallacy to assume that censorship of bad things will lead to censoring good things" would be a more compelling argument if we didn't have thousands of years of human history proving that it hap
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