SmokeyHamster

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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
This takedown was presumably automated, which seems to be a bulk of the complaints. The algorithm to automate "objectionable content" seems to be horribly inaccurate. A better approach might to be to disable all automated takedown
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
I wonder if this is true of "private window" mode as well?
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>Fifthly, machine learning, and computer science in general, have a huge diversity problem. At our CS faculty, only 30% of undergrads and 15% of the professors are women. Yes, and the deep sea fishing, oil drilling and logging industries
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>You need to convert other forms of energy to hydrogen at a loss. When wouldn't it be at a loss? That's just physics. Hydrogen fuel cells aren't a source of energy in and of themselves, they're just a storage medium,
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>Hydroxychloroquine is a bust (snake oil is about what you can expect from a snake oil salesman). Several studies have now confirmed it's beneficial: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/25658/20200512&#x2
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
this is a joke, right? Cases != fatalities. A lot of places are doing a lot more testing. That causes case count to rise. That doesn't mean the disease is spreading beyond control. If it were, the fatality rate would also be increasing
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>Because the US lockdown didn't really begin to lift until June, the USA is hitting this secondary surge right now, and some states are trying to lock down again. Red states with Republican governors who are in complete denial are g
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>the person who had just written a book on server side js for O'Reilly - he got his advance but they didn't publish it because by the time he had finished it they considered it a "dead technology". Makes sense. This s
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
I realize Mozilla has an axe to grind, and perhaps rightly so, but they undermine their argument by not linking to the actual text of the Act. That page is just saying, "Act bad! Signup here to protest!" If the bill is really so b
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>defending it with a technical argument, which makes no sense at all. Well hold on now. If there's a valid technical argument, and it's not a violation of privacy, why doesn't that make sense? If people are so distrustful
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
If you define it as someone getting something while not working vs others getting nothing while working, yes, thank you NPR. That's how unemployment benefits work. That's why government handouts are damaging, especially in the lon
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
> For a number of important reasons, hosting GNU development on a proprietary Microsoft platform should be verboten. What ridiculous hyperbole. Yeah, a "number of important reasons", yet they list none. I hate Microsoft as much
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Imagine, asking consumers what they want and allowing them to consent. It's funny that that's considered a revolutionary new business strategy. I thought that's they way business was supposed to operate?
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Can you link to an example? Oh right...it's all deleted, so we'll have to take your word...and your definition of whatever you consider "hate"...which has no definition...
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Good on India. They're smarter than we are.
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>The mods, not the admins, made it so that only a shortlist of approved users could post content in the subreddit. Admins banned virtually all the mods, without warning or explanation, so the remaining mod(s) had no choice but to lock th
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
Oh yeah. They began advertising thedonald.win last year.
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>What's wrong with just saying that it's their platform and they have the right to set the rules? Because the admins still need people to believe they're the "good guys". And we all know the good guys don't
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority Wow. Like, holy shit wow. So racism and hate is ok with Reddit but only as long as it's directed at "the majority"? What the hell is the "majority&qu
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by SmokeyHamster 6y ago
>Worth taking note that in today's climate, you really cannot win when you are in a position to moderate important things that a lot of people use. You kind of can, though. Sure, group X hates group Y and wants the admins to ban the
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by SmokeyHamster 12y ago
Are you implying that if a company does something we dislike, we should just shut-up and mind our own business? What's up with the general theme on ycombinator of defending these people? Is everyone here a fan of Rice, or do you simply
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by SmokeyHamster 12y ago
I disagree. Dropbox's customer base are techies, and techies tend to dislike Rice's politics. You're right in that Dropbox would get some backlash for letting Rice go, but I doubt much of its current or future customer base w
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by SmokeyHamster 12y ago
I was a Dropbox customer. I think they provide a very useful, inexpensive, and well-implemented service. But I've uninstalled their software and cancelled my account, because otherwise I'd be a hypocrite or someone who considers a
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by SmokeyHamster 12y ago
Mobs rape and pillage. They don't organize peaceful boycotts in protest of government surveillance.
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by SmokeyHamster 12y ago
What makes you think they're focused on businesses? I've always thought it was the opposite. You make a pastel-colored website with super-simple file-sharing software because you want to attract individual users. If anything, I&#x