TheOperator

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by TheOperator 8y ago
>For 538, this just meant publishing numbers that were way too confident. 538 was just about the only polling aggregrator that WASN'T guilty of this during 2016 and were relatively bullish on Trump. Their mistake during 2016 was rel
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by TheOperator 8y ago
I think the essential feature is to be able to change databases that determine what is or is not fake news.
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Prehaps especially if we're talking fox news and not fox and friends which is held to a lower standard. They're still certainly not as reliable or credible of a source as wikileaks. The worst that has been alleged of wikileaks i
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by TheOperator 8y ago
Sure. A ton of time and energy is wasted for no productive end or real learning outcomes chasing college credentials. The issue is presenting companies HR departments real alternatives to college credentials that perform comparably. Espec
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by TheOperator 8y ago
Every currency will go to zero unless it has some sort of instrinsic value. It's just a question of how quickly.
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by TheOperator 8y ago
Except that Oracle has colluded with other large companies in the past to fix wages. Enforced through the means of blacklisting employees who leave one large tech company to apply for jobs at another. Also enforced via non-complete clause
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by TheOperator 8y ago
If its primarily a religious problem why do countries less religious than the US have similar concepts? SINs in Canada, NINs in the UK, etc. etc
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I can't find the resources I was looking at but here's one paper on the subject https://cirl.ca/files/cirl/david_laidlaw-en.pdf Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge DOES have weight in the Canadian legal sys
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by TheOperator 8y ago
"I can confidently say I've not heard a single left-wing activist talk about any of those 4 areas in my time working at that organisation, or, truly, in any other activist context." I've mostly heard these things discuss
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You're the one making that connection. Not the reporters. Reporters also say that companies are "woo'ing" male executives all the time. I also wouldn't care if they were actually using gendered language but this i
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by TheOperator 8y ago
You have to have been sleeping to think Lisa Su only became a star at CES 2019. Rumours of Intel acquiring AMD strike me as outlandish. I have doubts such a merger would even be approved given the monopolies that Intel would gain.
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I found the documentarian to be more interesting than her subject which was an old white man listening to talk radio that appeals to old white men and agreeing with it. Her old man is just very agreeable having gone from the left to the ri
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No country is truly run by a democracy. They're run by a combination of a dictatorship, an oligarchy, and a democracy all fighting for power. Dictatorial power has been flatly nessecary since the invention of nuclear weapons because i
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ChromeOS is what Ubuntu was trying to be but failed to be and its absolutely a great OS for consumers. Android you excluded but its single handedly responsible for linux being the main way consumers access the internet now. The year of the
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The issue such devices have in practice is upfront cost, compatibility, the need for port forwarding, and the lack of redundancy so you don't lose your data. Among other problems but these come to mind. Centralization solves those pr