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by baddox 6y ago
I don't think it's particularly "disguised as science-based" any more than, say, Christian apologetics groups like Answers in Genesis. Both groups seem pretty honest about the fact that their fundamental beliefs are reli
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by baddox 6y ago
Many of us are concerned because when lots of people die, we think it's bad, even if those people "had other health issues." That doesn't seem so hysterical to me.
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by baddox 6y ago
There are certain patterns that are illegal though, and presumably have legal penalties (maybe not jail time, but presumably at least fines). False advertising is the obvious example. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to support strengthening
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by baddox 6y ago
That looks nearly identical in content to a vast number of extremely common human-interest segments in American media.
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t know if hour glasses belong in there. Surely those were already mostly decorative when the first hourglass computer icons were developed. Also, I would imagine that most young people still have to occasionally interact with envelop
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by baddox 6y ago
It's easy to be post-lockdown but not post-pandemic. Many places in the United States have been doing this for weeks now, and we're seeing how that's going.
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by baddox 6y ago
Apple licenses the ARM CPU architecture from Arm Holdings. My understanding is that Arm Holdings doesn't sell any hardware themselves.
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by baddox 6y ago
I think the biggest problem with using unit tests for this purpose is that unit tests tend to (rightfully) spend a disproportionate amount of lines of code on edge cases.
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by baddox 6y ago
It seems to be fairly common for experienced programmers to point to unit test code as a way to explore or understand an open source software project. I don't doubt that this works for them, but it definitely doesn't work for me.
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by baddox 6y ago
Why do you suppose he is the best judge of that? Surely that’s not the case for other professions that offer products or services, like medicine, airplane piloting, etc.
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by baddox 6y ago
It doesn’t seem that outrageous. Clothing fashion changes, and while there is some tongue in cheek complaining about it, I think our brains are quite okay “retraining.” Same with musical trends changing. Surely we don’t just say “that’s gre
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by baddox 6y ago
The level of skeuomorphic design never really hit the web the same as it was on iOS before version 7. Remember the pool table green felt and wood trim of Game Center? That sort of thing is probably extremely expensive to design and maintain
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by baddox 6y ago
I don't see any indication that Abstract Wikipedia articles are anything more than a sequence of "constructors" and those "constructors" are essentially just triples (with qualifiers) that a "renderer" tur
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by baddox 6y ago
The comment provided a list removing more and more capabilities from the game. That's exactly what a gradual process of banning someone would be. Sure, you can give them time to correct their behavior, but eventually you might have to
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by baddox 6y ago
It's also somewhat delusional to think that things will change if you just vote really hard and tell your friends to vote really hard.
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by baddox 6y ago
We're really just talking about deliberate communication here, and like with all communication, context is important. In general, the color of someone's clothes isn't communicating much, but it might be at a sporting event.
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by baddox 6y ago
Nothing could be further from the truth. It first started as a battle flag during the Civil War. Then in 1948 the Dixiecrats reintroduced it as a symbol of their opposition to integration and the civil rights movement. If it's being us
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by baddox 6y ago
And why did it just so happen to be chosen as a symbol by a short-lived but prominent segregationist political party in 1948 in response to the civil rights movement?
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by baddox 6y ago
That's just a more detailed explanation of the process of banning someone for using swastikas in a game.
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by baddox 6y ago
Note that all symbols are their meaning are made up. To say "this gesture is a symbol of X" is to say "people made up that this gesture is a symbol of X."
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by baddox 6y ago
It's not about statues, but the Wikipedia article about the modern display of the Confederate Flag seems to offer a decent summary of its usage beginning in the 1950s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_display_o
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by baddox 6y ago
> I think a lot of people are smart enough to know that there is a difference between representing "an ideal version of America," and specific ideals that individuals represented. Washington for example largely representing the
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by baddox 6y ago
> History is important because it lets us see ourselves in the arc of time and be more cognizant of how and why we arrived at the present moment. I think that framing minimizes the extent to which we can and do choose how we portray hi
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by baddox 6y ago
Are Che Guevara statues on public property a common thing? I think I would support removing them from public property in my community. It also seems like the few mentions of Che statues I can find online indicate that they have long been co
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by baddox 6y ago
If the absolute worst case scenario you can imagine is that we no longer have any huge chunks of metal in the shape of people displayed on public property, then your slippery slope argument isn't very compelling.
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by baddox 6y ago
Is it really so easy to move out in the few short months since the pandemic hit? I wonder if these people were living in a shared housing situation and didn't have a lease or a lot of physical possessions to worry about. I'm in do
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by baddox 6y ago
I suppose that's valid. This is the first time I had heard that DDG has a browser too, and I was just assuming that anyone who would use the browser probably also uses the search engine, which they obviously have to trust when they sen
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by baddox 6y ago
In fact, here’s a reddit post about this fun fact from 2010: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/esxwd/til_th...
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by baddox 6y ago
It has been a commonly-shared fun fact in Internet culture for as long as I can remember. Reddit from 2010: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/esxwd/til_th...
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by baddox 6y ago
That’s an extremely small variation in score. Why would that make you think they’re making stuff up? Networks and servers don’t always respond with identical timings.

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