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by Udik 6y ago
Breonna Taylor was killed by mistake because her boyfriend started shooting in the darkness against the trigger-happy cops who had broken into the flat, probably unannounced. The horribly botched affair is, more than an intended killing (wh
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by Udik 6y ago
I don't get why Google doesn't give an option to permanently remove or downgrade certain domains, straight from the results page. There are results I am never interested in. It could also work as a further signal for their ranking
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Plus, frankly, that's just a map with a right column with the details of what's shown. Doesn't seem to be such an innovative idea or that much work either. The choice is basically whether to put the column to the left or to t
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Though they did replace it with the motto "do the right thing". Which to me is even more scary, as it means that Google decided to stop being a neutral entity within the boundaries of not causing harm, and decided to become a poli
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It just makes you wonder how much toxic behaviour did her managers put up with before deciding that enough is enough, and (more or less) firing a prominent, visible, black, female AI ethicist working in the field of gender equality and raci
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by Udik 6y ago
Why would it be irrational for the US to attack (a non nuclear-ready) NK? If NK didn't have nuclear weapons, invading it would be an option for the US- as they did recently with Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. I'm not sure what the gains
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But why would you do damage? Since NK could never possibly win a "damage" war with the US- disabling the US ability to retaliate or defend itself- the purpose of an attack by a country like NK can only be that of preventing furthe
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by Udik 6y ago
Haha, smart one. The point is, you can perform actions on what you own, and in turn you can ask what you own (for example a laptop) to perform an action on itself or its belongings. You don't need to know how to handle a filesystem and
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I do. But the message you replied to was specifying that already: "they are being sent the message they are being immediately fired" To which you were asking "So what does the message do?"
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The truth is that NK would never ever move a finger against the US, it wouldn't make the slightest sense. On the other hand, it does feel threatened, and having a dangerous weapon and acting reckless keeps possible attackers at bay. Bu
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> starting with an NK thermonuclear weapon obliterating a major US city That doesn't seem smart at all. I think that a nuclear explosion on the ocean, right in front of a major city (NY, LA) but at safe distance, would be a better s
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by Udik 6y ago
What do you do when you're fired? You collect all your belongings, wipe your machine, and leave. Sure, someone could do this for you, but how would they know that you've left a tracksuit in a locker in the hallway or some cookies
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by Udik 6y ago
Nitpick: you mean overstate. Understating it would be very easy, just say it's terrible :)
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Defrost
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Afaik, the Chinese government is worried because of the size of the debt managed by Ant (45 billion) in comparison to their own capital (450 million, 1%). The whole risk is offloaded to good old banks which are then exposed to an excessive
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I don't get it. In the west, 1- we ask for tight regulations of banks and financial institutions to prevent them from screwing their creditors and the whole economy; we also 2- lament the corrupt system that prevents the government fro
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The pre-requisite is that there are at least two possible implementations of the same program- this seems to imply that for every possible input, program A and program B must have the exact same output. Then, it becomes impossible to tell w
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The title and conclusions of the article are entirely unsubstantiated: "The spirit and grassroots tactics of the Great Kosher Meat Strike of 1902 would be applied successfully in the early decades of the century in rent strikes, commun
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by Udik 6y ago
> the current home secretary appears to be Priti Patel. Ah, Priti Patel, the minister that was forced to resign by the May government for having had several secret meetings with Israeli officials during her tenure. Enjoy the UK!
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I do see the difference, of course. But on the other hand, foreign or domestic, trickery is trickery. Check this: "The data scientists found that showing certain Facebook ads to certain possible Trump voters lowered their approval of t
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by Udik 6y ago
> 4 years of Trump is what got Biden elected Trump got 63 million votes in 2016. He got 7 million more in 2020. In the end, what decided the election is 3 votes every 100. The result is clear-cut: one wins, the other loses. But in real
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On the NYT website it says 74.5 million votes for Biden vs 70.3 million for Trump. It makes about 51% vs 48% (without counting the other candidates).
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> People rose to the occasion this time. A bit nitpicky, but I think it's important: "people" cannot be really considered responsible for the win. If just 1.5 voters every hundred had flipped side, Trump would have won. At
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He got very close though with a lot of brinkmanship. It could have ended much worse.
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That's because, despite all the "it's Russia's fault" hysteria, Trump more or less represents about 50% of Americans- as these elections have just shown. The scary part (to me, as a European) is that this means that
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I'm not particularly familiar with GraphQL, but this article highlights a common problem in the promotion of new libraries, patterns or methods. These are usually advertised as having a number of independent benefits or solving a serie
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Note that in France last year someone was sentenced to a year in jail for publishing this cartoon: https://besttv232-ynet-images1-prod.cdn.it.best-tv.com/PicSe... Then a few days ago Macron, referring to the killing of the
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by Udik 6y ago
This is absolutely horrifying. It is not even clear who wanted these laws in the first place. This is mostly the effect of a system in which politicians have been scared into endorsing harsher and harsher measures because if they oppose the
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by Udik 6y ago
This is beautiful, and it really has the vibe of the 80s home computers on which I learned how to program. What those computers also had, though, was that they immediately booted to a programming interface and a small but well defined set o
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How the Epoch Times Created a Giant Influence Machine(nytimes.com)
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