Steko

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by Steko 11y ago
> This trend seems partly driven by an unwillingness to deal with the work of removing actual trolls, which is not actually all that difficult If it's so easy why is it the case that well meaning website after website decides to giv
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by Steko 11y ago
The China diagram should have a large one way blue arrow coming from the West.
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by Steko 11y ago
We only hear about this in mobile but I presume Comcast, Time Warner and friends do the same thing for broadband users, or is there some regulation that stands in their way? For that matter I've always wondered why the tv industry pays
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by Steko 11y ago
Sigma Xi put up march madness style brackets [1] for the science prizes and the winners weren't even in the bracket for chem and medicine. If you look at the increasing time from work to the award of the prizes [2], and then the fact t
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by Steko 11y ago
My mistake thank you!
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by Steko 11y ago
Some of the comparisons are super dated e.g. the GDP figure they give for Indonesia is 1/3 the 2014 number although Guangdong is growing fast too. Also too bad this is just GDP comparison not GDP per capita which might more clearly dri
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by Steko 11y ago
AOL’s ad network will be able to match millions of Internet users to their real-world details gathered by Verizon, including — “your gender, age range and interests.” ... AOL will also be able to use data from Verizon’s identifier to track
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by Steko 11y ago
Have they added the Korean language version of (the original) Oldboy to Netflix or is it still just the dubbed version? I got tired of checking. Funny was just thinking about this last night when their recommendation engine threw Drunken
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by Steko 11y ago
> I can guarantee that given N number of groups, the chances of the best bridge being build by group 1...N are 100%/N. Is that a joke? What's important to this conversation is that drawing from the the group ∪{N(x), ∀x} will un
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by Steko 11y ago
I'm sorry I find your comment incoherent. The current endemic discrimination is what results in unnecessary shitty bridges that kill people.
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by Steko 11y ago
> I think that the primary focus should be on fixing the systemic problem you mention. So what's your plan to fix it? Part of the plan other people have come up with involves taking overt positive steps to directly counteract the
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by Steko 11y ago
The problem with your analogy is the assumption of that [unprivliged group]'s bridge was worse. In fact the problem is that [privleged group] was getting shitty bridges built for decades while good bridges from [unpriveleged group] wer
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by Steko 11y ago
re: plays, sure but I made an intentional comparison with Ibsen who is also a dramatist. re: Throne of Blood. Yeah it's great and that's sorta the point of wanting modern translations. Shakespeare, freed from the yoke of Old Eliza
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by Steko 11y ago
I thought the 8.2% IPA to Bud Light analogy was apt, although perhaps not for the same reasons as the guy who made it. A lot of people drink Bud Light because it's cheap and accessible and gets the job done. Saying "just drink the
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by Steko 11y ago
There no burden of proof here, he made an argument and the argument made fails a basic logical test. His conclusion may be true but that's beside the point, the last 4 posts are simply arguing the merits of the argument he made. > T
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by Steko 11y ago
Your argument is that 'no atrocity vs (resident minority not declaring independence)' implies there will be 'no atrocity vs (minority in separtist region)'. Many examples appear to disprove that. Complaining that I'
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by Steko 11y ago
> You put it exactly like the official russian propaganda tries to This is patently false. (1) Russian propaganda claimed Moldovans were massacring civilians, I've explicitly said I disbelieve this. (2) Russian propaganda claimed al
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by Steko 11y ago
I don't disagree with any of this, I will just point out that "Russia does lots of bad things" does not imply "Russia only does bad things". I happen to believe, in this one small instance, Russia action may have mi
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by Steko 11y ago
> There was and still is a significant russian-speaking minority in the rest of Moldova and there wasn't any expulsion nor cleansing This is a silly argument. Not surprisingly, the Croatians living in Belgrade did not have cleansing
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by Steko 11y ago
> Moldova did not have a professional army at the time because it was in the process of leaving the Soviet Union. Not under dispute. I cite lack of professionalism only because it's generally accepted to increase the likelihood of a
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by Steko 11y ago
Russia has had 20 years to annex Transnistria if they wanted it, not remotely the same as Crimea IMHO. The "constitutional forces of the R. of Moldova" were not a professional army but a mixture of police and hastily armed militia
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by Steko 11y ago
Transnistria-Moldova might look like Crimea-Ukraine today but in the early 90s it looked more like Kosovo-Serbia and the Russians that intervened at the time were probably correct to do so.
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by Steko 11y ago
Backlashes are not a hypothesis. The idea(s) that all movements can or should avoid militancy or that there is some easy guide to when mililtancy is and is not appropriate are extremely weak and questionable hypotheses.
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by Steko 11y ago
If you read through the comments there's some interesting info and background including that the kerning of the new logo is not consistent on their website and the one on the homepage is "more off" than other versions. Also
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by Steko 11y ago
The article is actually fairly silent on the reasons so read into it what you will. If anything the author is endorsing his friend's book without giving away the thesis and if the link is accurate it covers a wide range of factors. As
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by Steko 11y ago
> Reddit is known for doing orders of magnitude better coverage of pretty much everything than mainstream media This is just farcially false. Reddit has good coverage in some areas and bad coverage in other areas. There are a few places
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by Steko 11y ago
Hmm, China and Russia are not what most people would consider US allies and Russia has roughly the same number as the US (~46% of world's stockpile) and the US has opposed proliferation to other allies I would question your reasoning t
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by Steko 11y ago
It was in the Tom Brady section. You know what's hardest to draw? Beautiful people. Reproducing beauty is hard. Beauty is usually based on very fine, careful proportions with no irregularities. There are a couple judges who are just t
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by Steko 11y ago
I find the human vs machine scenarios that tend to dominate these discussions less interesting than the machine vs machine scenarios. There's going to be a huge shakeout as the auto industry transitions to self-driving cars and compani
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by Steko 11y ago
This just sidesteps the question because Google won't be the only manufacturer. If Toyota's self driving car and Google's self driving car are headed into a collision and Google's AI says "kill Googlecar occupant&qu

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