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by berdario 6y ago
I've never seen anyone imply: "this person is not a danger"... I guess you can get some signals, sometimes... For when a person IS a danger. But anyhow, most abuse happens in the privacy of a home, so I don't think I&#x2
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by berdario 6y ago
How does normalizing Alaska and Hawaii's representation to their population cause them to be "lost from the union"? Puerto Rico has 0 representation, and yet they're still part of the united states (ok, plenty of puerto
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by berdario 6y ago
About self-immolations for "Free Tibet": People in India, born in India, who have never visited Tibet are self immolating https://qz.com/india/632077/quietly-a-tibetan-teenager-in-in... To me, this does
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by berdario 6y ago
I'd like to read more, do you have any sources?
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by berdario 6y ago
I'm not the GP, but: Yes, I heard about it plenty of times. It's great that they're doing well, but that doesn't diminish the Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Newzealandese accomplishments in tackling covid19
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by berdario 6y ago
It's false, but there's confusion around it because the rules actually changed in October 2019 https://eurid.eu/en/news/new-eligibility-criteria/ before, it was actually true
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by berdario 6y ago
I didn't downvote you, but if you want to avoid downvotes, you should probably substantiate your opinion. > Great ideas, but terrible execution on literally every matter. Off the top of my head, I can think of 3 things worked on by
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by berdario 6y ago
I didn't downvote, but your wording is a bit weird: > still part of the EU It seems that you might be implying that leaving the EU is something natural/desirable/inevitable for Ireland
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by berdario 6y ago
Wasn't aware of it, interesting https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/ There are instructions here for how to unenroll: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7539956
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by berdario 6y ago
I haven't looked into the other screw ups, but I basically agree with everything in the snippet of the complaint that appears in the article, except one thing: "it should remain on the App Store as a matter of free speech" Fr
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by berdario 6y ago
The situation was definitely not clear at the beginning: - there was a cluster of pneumonia cases - there was a detected case of SARS - there was a new coronavirus The fact that the SARS test didn't detect SARS, but actually SARS-CoV-2
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by berdario 6y ago
Yes, because that's a separate/orthogonal (and much more controversial point). I just don't want anarchists to be fooled into supporting the warmongering US propaganda. i.e. do you agree that the state should have the power t
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by berdario 6y ago
> The situation in Xinjang is such that for an Uyghur it is in fact impossible to decline to do what the state says ... > The situation anywhere is such that for anyone it is in fact impossible to decline to do what the state says FTF
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by berdario 6y ago
Citymapper is nice, but I disagree that it's massively superior: 1- When I was living south of London, Citymapper was completely pointless, since it only showed commuting options with SouthWest trains, and not Southern trains (my stati
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by berdario 6y ago
Microsoft did it when they suspended their ebooks service: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/2/18292177/microsoft-ebooks-... So, there's a precedent, and this leaves me a bit hopeful. OTOH, normally y
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by berdario 6y ago
It's a hybrid model. You don't need to have a subscription, you just need to own the game. Some games are also available for free: https://stadia.google.com/games/super-bomberman-r-online https://s
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by berdario 6y ago
You make a jump from: "When you encounter a stranger, be pleasant but aloof. Disengage." To "Keep women in your friends circle" Without mentioning how to get from A to B. I mean, how to actually befriending them in the f
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by berdario 6y ago
If you keep your photos in Google Photos, I found the Nest Hub quite nice, since it automatically rotates among your recent photos (It also automatically dims or blacks out the display when it's dark)
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by berdario 6y ago
> Restricted speech has killed millions. You don't need to restrict speech to kill millions, you just need to have a louder voice than the people you are oppressing, deafening out anyone who might otherwise listen to them.
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by berdario 6y ago
The technology is safe: https://storage.googleapis.com/sdc-prod/v1/safety-report/Way... They've been very careful about it, and they have not finished work on it, so they need to keep the same standard t
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by berdario 6y ago
I don't game on Macos, but if you get above 10fps, depending on the specific game, it can be playable. For example, I played several hours of Hitman on a device which cannot push more than 15 fps at 1080p. In that game you have to plan
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by berdario 6y ago
Isn't that the kind of stuff for which you'd rely on opening a dispute with your credit card provider?
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by berdario 6y ago
> it went through the usual security controls yet she was immediately fired for doing it? Really? Do you understand how that sounds? Yes, that's crazy... And that's exactly why people have been angry at the retaliation > Ple
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by berdario 6y ago
> "All I did was make a popup to share the labor notice Google has to share with its workers" Does not mean rewriting the content of webpages, or having "root at google.com". It's better if you'd stop such s
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by berdario 6y ago
> Labeling anyone who disagrees with her a racist Which she doesn't. Most notably, people here have been raising concern about the discussion with Yann Lecun, but that was also just a civil, if tense, discussion. You're better
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by berdario 6y ago
> The woman in question was fired from the security team for violating IT security policies: in her words, "All I did was make a popup to share the labor notice Google has to share with its workers", something that Google seems
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by berdario 6y ago
Racism is discrimination based on race (from a position of power) Whom did Gebru discriminate against, based on their race? No one. That episode is unfortunate imho, but she only suspected racist rationales... Calling out racism does not ma
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by berdario 6y ago
I haven't paid attention to those (after all, I'm not in the position to positively influence them much), but another example are attrition metrics: https://www.blog.google/perspectives/melonie-parker/how
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by berdario 6y ago
That's mostly true, and I'm not aware of which specific hiring efforts she was involved with... The VP that fired her/"accepted resignation" wrote to her reports about it: https://mobile.twitter.com/
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by berdario 6y ago
[Redacted, since I don't want to fuel speculation] It always was (also) about race/gender! That said, I don't know Timnit, and I don't know her specific circumstances... I believe that Google is full of people who wants

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