SenAnder

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by SenAnder 3y ago
Related submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38297685 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38299107
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by SenAnder 3y ago
The tweet that seems to have kicked things off, mentioned in the article: https://nitter.1d4.us/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299
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by SenAnder 3y ago
One of the tweets in question, since, as usual, publications don't bother giving a source: https://nitter.1d4.us/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299 Some of the replies are illuminating: https://ni
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Repeat after me: "I have nothing to hide. I know for a fact that I am not now, nor will I ever be in the future, in a position that a political domestic, foreign, or corporate competitor adversary would wish to influence, or any opinio
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> I feel like that’s unit confusion. Converting from year to day should require you to specify what calendar year you’re in to resolve the ambiguity. A year has two meanings - a calendar year, with all the leap days and seconds and timez
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by SenAnder 3y ago
I think we agree. As the experts tell us, whites have no legitimate issues to complain about, face negligible adversity, get lots of unfair advantages by virtue of their unearned privilege, at the expense of other groups, who suffer greatly
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by SenAnder 3y ago
I think I understand. So if I pushed back on the notion that my identity is a "malignant, parasitic-like condition to which 'white' people have a particular susceptibility" [1], by e.g. stating it is merely "okay&
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by SenAnder 3y ago
I see. So the phrases are not themselves racist, just through their association with the far-right. (Where exposing media hostility to extremely mild pro-white statements counts as racist and far-right) So which mildly pro-white phrases ar
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> don't expect much sympathy, feels like saying "The war out there is hurting my ears." Portraying your enemy as privileged and without legitimate concerns and denying them sympathy, as you have done, is a key element of t
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Give up 70% of the way through the hyperstitious slur cascade(astralcodexten.com)
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> Yup. And it is her book. Are you implying we should not critique or contextualize works in a way their authors would disapprove of? > The difference is that those two stories you mention are purporting to describe something which ha
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by SenAnder 3y ago
As I said, there's always some excuse, different every time, but with the same result: defame your enemy. The issues in the Apollo affair or A Time to Kill [1] were internal, yet the villains and/or victims were still changed. [1]
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by SenAnder 3y ago
The evidence: https://www.popehat.com/2014/07/15/warrants-bulwark-of-liber... - Calling it a rubber stamp is unfair; sometimes actual rubber stamps run out of ink. To the downvoters - please think about wha
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> The point of the book is that religious fanatics can take over even in the USA That's her point. My point are the gymnastics done to substitute Islam with Christianity. If her work was the exception, with lots of other made-in
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by SenAnder 3y ago
https://nlihc.org/resource/new-construction-has-mixed-short-... found new construction to have a negligible effect on the rents of high-tier buildings, and to increase the rents of low-tier buildings. This is not too
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by SenAnder 3y ago
The highest-density places, i.e. the ones with the most construction, tend to also have the highest rents, so empirically, the opposite of your claim is true.
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> they were just so biased that every little thing was a proof to their eyes. While all the accusations were indeed false [1], they actually had surprisingly high standards of proof, and the modern perception of witch hunts is largely an
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> You see parallels between the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism because the left made those comparisons repeatedly. There were also many other purges, notably in the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China, with which paralle
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by SenAnder 3y ago
To add to the sibling comment: rent optimization software that facilitates collusion between ostensibly competing landlords: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/14-big-landlords...
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by SenAnder 3y ago
I was addressing the perceived implication that a lack of democracy worsens crime.
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Right below the US, #31, is Slovenia, with a 0.4 homicide rate. #34 is Italy, with a 0.5 homicide rate. Singapore is #70, with a 0.1 homicide rate, and China is #156, with a 0.5 homicide rate.
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by SenAnder 3y ago
"The Simulation Paradox" refers to the subtitle of a short AI-generated film (or trailer). Neither the article nor the film explain, or even mention, any kind of paradox.
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by SenAnder 3y ago
The US is #10 in the world in PPP-adjusted social spending per capita, at $9734. The Czech republic is #25, at $5799: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_social_we... Edit: To compare further: By median
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> developing privacy and encryption tech was ignoring the deeper problem It was not. Even with privacy-respecting government and laws (and corporations), it is important that mass surveillance isn't easy , or it's virtually gu
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Since software is not patentable in the EU [1], I assume programmers and software companies in the EU can safely ignore this patent pool? [1] The European Patent Convention [..] excludes from patentability [..] programs for computers [as s
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Link leads to the login page. This seems to be the intended story: https://old.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/17t4li0/confessio...
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> Has anyone ever tried to sell an engagement or wedding ring with diamonds? You get cents on the dollar. Does that mean you can buy one second-hand at a low price, and avoid the inflated market entirely?
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Do you assume that Apple would be forbidden from offering repairs, if they stopped locking their hardware from the consumer? This is such a common comment in these kinds of threads: "I'm happy with the choice they've forced o
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by SenAnder 3y ago
https://nitter.net/MiroCyo/status/1712258026881921287 worked for me.
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Yes, password cracking works on salted hashes too. And the way you now describe it, with the entries in every column being hashed, and the column names themselves being meaningless*, I'm confused what value such a database has for anyo

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