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by Udik 5y ago
> she doesn't think trans women should be allowed in women's bathrooms, ... a shibboleth amongst people who are, as it's often posed against the statement "trans women are women. Because the right to call yourself &qu
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by Udik 5y ago
> Adichie is transphobic Maybe we can start by defining exactly what it means to be "transphobic", so we can decide both: 1) whether someone is or not transphobic; 2) how bad it is to be transphobic. So how do you define "
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by Udik 5y ago
Good question. By "copy SV" I meant "set up an environment (law, financing) similar to the SV one. Looking for VC funding in China for example you get this (from here [1]): "According to the Wall Street Journal, investme
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by Udik 5y ago
Archive: https://archive.is/9ORZL
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by Udik 5y ago
I remember Facebook's ipo. If I'm not wrong, the shares crashed for a few weeks/months right after the initial enthusiasm. It wasn't clear at all that Facebook was going to keep growing indefinitely. By the way, did you
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by Udik 5y ago
> backed by French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager, Qwant was designed to become a rival to U.S. search giant Google and bolster the EU's tech sector How embarrassing is this? This
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by Udik 5y ago
> they're the only democratic country in the Middle East Yes. All citizens can vote. All those who can't vote are not citizens- which doesn't prevent the Israeli government from actually governing them. Since the division
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by Udik 5y ago
Thanks!
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by Udik 5y ago
There is an old artificial life simulator (darwinbots http://wiki.darwinbots.com/w/Main_Page ) that is inspired by grobots-like programming games. Each organism is driven by its own code that can mutate randomly at eac
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by Udik 5y ago
The problem is that there are groups that, given ~A => B, would argue both against A and against B.
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by Udik 5y ago
The typical concentration of co2 in a "well aerated" indoors environment is between 400 and 1000ppm. So, no.
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by Udik 5y ago
Decentralisation, guaranteed immutability, entirely trustless system are the things that made a bitcoin worth tens of thousands with a market cap of hundreds of millions. Otherwise it would be worth nothing, it's just a record in a pub
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by Udik 5y ago
Bird equivalent of Jacuzzi.
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by Udik 5y ago
Come on, do you seriously believe I'm paid by the Chinese government? I just went to the Wikipedia entry and read it. I can't vouch for its correctness, but it contains more info than the GP. If you're in doubt, you can check
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by Udik 5y ago
Reading the Wikipedia entry about the Tienanmen massacre, it seems that that cable is completely unreliable. While Western estimates of the number of victims is now of about three thousand at most, decade long efforts in China to locate the
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by Udik 5y ago
Did anyone seriously expect the report to say that those things are "aliens"? The fact that it says that (at least some) encounters did actually occur and that they cannot be explained is already some news.
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by Udik 5y ago
> I'm quite astounded and confused at the sudden shift in discourse I've witnessed the same exact pattern multiple times in the last few years- often in relation to China. It's as if suddenly everyone not only shifts opini
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by Udik 5y ago
> They've been outspoken in their attempts to conflate Israel (and Israel's Jews) with Judaism as a whole But let's not pretend that the connection between Israel and US Jews is simply a prejudice. Here's an article f
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by Udik 5y ago
But again, "racist" is a very grave accusation, are you sure that a single inappropriate sentence (missing possibly just a qualifier, " Israeli Jew") at the end of a more articulated argument is enough to qualify someon
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by Udik 5y ago
> It's the blanket statements about Jewish people that I'd call anti-semitic. I find those inappropriate too- I think he might have gotten carried too far in making his point. However, on one hand I think it's an understan
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by Udik 5y ago
The real apartheid in Israel is not against its Arab population (although by various means a good part of it doesn't even have citizenship). The real apartheid is what happens in the occupied territories, where Jews enjoy all the benef
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by Udik 5y ago
Easy, but then don't pretend that people calling Israel criminal are antisemitic. (Also, let's not pretend there aren't a lot of non Israeli Jews defending Israel whatever it does).
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by Udik 5y ago
"Security concerns" are not enough to judge the situation. Mobsters surround themselves of armed guards as much as the investigators trying to capture them. Nations that start wars need to protect themselves from counter-attacks a
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by Udik 5y ago
This is silly. A twitter storm is a pretty well defined, public event. Do you seriously think it would be common to post racist stuff on the internet, and then organise a permanent campaign against yourself, in order to become un-fireable
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by Udik 5y ago
> Companies fire such people pre-emptively, out of fear of such boycotts... Otherwise why would any company bow? Because firing someone is cheap. It's not "damage control", it's virtue signalling, as costly as it is f
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by Udik 5y ago
I don't understand what you mean, can you elaborate?
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by Udik 5y ago
> Which actions exactly should be illegal? Firing an employee or terminating a contract in response to a twitter mob. You are of course free to boycott whoever you want- but my impression is that those threatened boycotts won't real
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by Udik 5y ago
I agree, and it unnerves me because the solutions seem to be easy. Just allow users to tag an answer as outdated, or to add a "valid until YYYY" tag. This would provide a quick indication when skimming answers, without removing ol
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by Udik 5y ago
From [1] > In the future, I plan to make URLs opaque when building level 3 APIs. Instead of http://foo.ploeh.dk/customers/1234/orders , I'm going to make it http://foo.ploeh.dk/DC884298C70C4
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by Udik 5y ago
Oh yes, the best were those who seriously claimed, in my company, that actual endpoints should have been random UUIDs. Because, you know, you must get there only through "discoverability" and hypermedia links.

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