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by ailideex 7y ago
But removing the images from ImageNet, an inanimate set of images that cannot make value judgements, will surely fix this problem... Our culture is broken and nobody is willing to stand up to insanity or even admit to it. People are too hap
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by ailideex 7y ago
Data is data and cannot make value judgments so not sure how it can be racist. If the data is how racist people label things it still is not racist data it is data is perfectly valid for what it is racists. Removing the images from ImageNet
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by ailideex 7y ago
I used to despise systemd, it was OpenRC for me all the way, then I started using it frequently, and while there is things from OpenRC I miss, systemd is way better and I would not go back to OpenRC.
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by ailideex 7y ago
> they're also getting the legal minimum of benefits, not extras. Yes... In US that is "no care" (not actually the case as there is Medicare and Medicaid and emergency treatment) while in South Africa it is care with low e
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by ailideex 7y ago
South African expat in Norway here. In South Africa health care is technically provided by state but if you don't want to die or lose a limb when you go in for something minor you need private insurance which is normally provided by em
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by ailideex 7y ago
Well it seems to be working well enough.
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by ailideex 7y ago
Pretty much exactly what I expected. Maybe the author should just have more reasonable expectations.
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by ailideex 7y ago
> Firewire sucked for simple low bandwidth devices like mice and keyboards though. Did it? I know it was not used for it but I think this was more because of the patent license cost and the relatively low cost of mice and keyboards which
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by ailideex 7y ago
> Firewire was faster but it wasn't better. It could only handle the minority usages (external storage), but not the majority ones (mice & keyboard - which were always wired back then). I'm not sure why you say it could not
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by ailideex 7y ago
> USB is a great standard. Or at least, was until 2.0. It was ahead of its time in performance and the same interoperability principles carried it forward for over 20 years. Firewire was better
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by ailideex 7y ago
You could block it's network access with network namespaces: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/unshare.1.html I'm sure you could engineering something to kill it also with currently kernel functi
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by ailideex 7y ago
It is also said that Jesus was the son of God
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by ailideex 7y ago
So you don't store numbers of any of your contacts? You must have some insane memory ... but then again ... maybe memorizing random people's data should also be illegal... I mean did the people who told you those details give you
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by ailideex 7y ago
Being a college grad does not affect entry level pay?!?!? TIL
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by ailideex 7y ago
Startups don't pay tax!??!!!! TIL
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by ailideex 7y ago
> Bad example: Java actually has many VMs available for it: Oracle, OpenJDK, Zing, and IBM come to mind. I'm unsure if Java has multiple compilers, but its quite possible. It does have multiple compilers for java, at least javac and
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by ailideex 7y ago
College is free?! TIL. I guess in that case nobody can complain.
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by ailideex 7y ago
How does the publisher of the article affect how surprised you are by anecdotes?
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by ailideex 7y ago
> As it stands, as far as we know, Hawking radiation is completely thermal and random Is it? Can you cite? IANAP but the best I could find on the matter is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_parado
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by ailideex 7y ago
IANAP but here is a physicist talking about no hair theorem and information loss paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I55e6chHUs0 TLDW: They probably do have hair.
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by ailideex 7y ago
Which law of physics say information must be lost in a black hole? AFAIK if information is lost in a black hole it will also violate the second law of thermodynamics - so really you have many many laws saying it cannot be lost - and Hawking
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by ailideex 7y ago
Do they destroy information? Last I checked they don't: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/29175/why-is-inf... Maybe there is some recent development I am not aware of an Susskind is wrong though. Mo
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by ailideex 7y ago
Can they ban it without EU consent?
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by ailideex 7y ago
> It's considered completely reasonable for employers to terminate employees and not even pay them for the rest of the day. So where does the sentiment that it is completely okay come from?
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by ailideex 7y ago
Came here to find this comment and upvote it.
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by ailideex 7y ago
If someone steals my car, and I don't have a means to punish them, is it also okay for them to steal my car? I don't really get your reasoning here.
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by ailideex 7y ago
> However, the reality is that this happens all the time Murder also happens all the time and it is not okay. Something happening does not mean it is okay.
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by ailideex 7y ago
Why?
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by ailideex 7y ago
> It's considered completely reasonable for employers to terminate employees and not even pay them for the rest of the day. Nope.
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by ailideex 7y ago
> all future library names must be UUIDs No thanks.

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