bonchicbongenre

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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
Copying a previous comment of mine, because this is an important issue and also not a surprise to anyone who's been paying a modicum of attention (the comment was originally in response to someone who characterized those who have their
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
Seems to me that that the end of your comment supports the parent commenter's point, rather than showing the irrelevance of deepfakes for the soundness of public opinion — that people are so easily and constantly deluded now gives litt
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
The origin seems pretty obvious to me — Abe is part of the old guard, a plutocrat and moral conservative, like his propagandist supporters in the US media. Doesn't take any squinting to see their interests align
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
For example: am Canadian, had to get stitches for a nerve-damaged lacerated finger. Doctor tried to prescribe me Oxy — which was absolutely ridiculous for such a small injury, so I refused it. I'm pretty certain that I'd be an opi
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
It's definitely not all about compensation, and it's not just an industrial move away from the US. I personally chose to do my CS PhD studies in Canada rather than at (better funded, higher-status) American options, after leaving
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
I completely agree with you; thank you for saying what should be the obvious (but isn't, sadly).
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
Thank you for this phrasing; it puts to words exactly how I feel about the tact used in this article.
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
Just wanted to chime in saying I'd be very interested in purchasing one/supporting a kickstarter for a lichess-connected board — even if a bit hacky, it would still be wonderful
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
Am I the only one who strongly prefers the original image over any of the edits? Except the B+W, they all look way too saturated to me, and the cloud/snow colours look especially unnatural to my eye
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
They really don't choose to "live a different lifestyle". It is simply the case that water, one of the basic necessities for life, is not readily available to many low-income Americans. Water access is routinely turned off or
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
Somewhat related — does anyone know an easier way to cancel one's NYT subscription than going through the rigmarole of waiting for/talking with multiple "customer service" reps? After NYT's all-too-credulous parrot
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
Thanks for the info. That link is broken for me though — is it up for anyone else?
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
As other commenters have pointed out, a quality life is dependent on a liveable environment. Moreover, the article isn't making value judgments -- it is just discussing outcomes. This really seems like you're projecting your own p
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
As with the other commenter, I also don't feel that only tech companies should be held to this standard. Everyone should; this includes tech companies.
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
This is a really insightful and heartfelt comment; thank you very much for sharing it. It really resonated with me, and has highlighted problems I really should think about for myself. Thank you
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
This, sadly, conforms very well with my experience of lower-income/higher-minority schools. I was a volunteer teacher (for a program teaching young ones to code with Scratch, once weekly) at a number of West Philly grade 1-12 schools f
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
Oh yeah, absolutely. The whole world order is broken, and I'm not at all happy with Canada's milquetoast responses to myriad issues (Omar Khadr, yes, but also not more strongly responding to the Uighur's treatment, or dealing
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
That was not the original commenter's point at all. Doing things in sequence is fine. Doing things so slowly as to be useless is not.
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
The answer is that, by and large, it doesn't occur to them. I'm a Canadian who spent my college years in America, and was honestly completely aghast at the whole society and most especially how it is reflected in their media and p
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
Seconding Smaug123's question. I read the article through and can't understand what is meant to be insightful about it. Enlighten us?
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
Ignoring the article's other issues, reading "Math is, of course, a product of geometry and physics" was completely unbearable. Reading that actually physically hurt me, and must have every philosopher of mathematics from Rus
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
This really resonated with me. I am very sad to say that I agree with you. I'm a PhD student elsewhere now, but did my undergrad at UPenn in the States and was absolutely disgusted by the framing of science/learning/academia
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by bonchicbongenre 6y ago
The author's perspective is warranted, as it pertains to the issue of spreading misinformation. For example, older demographics have been shown to be more likely to share disinformation on Facebook. See, eg, [0] [0] https://
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by bonchicbongenre 7y ago
A non-functioning scraper at that. It wasn't able to define the word "apple" for me.
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by bonchicbongenre 7y ago
What's up with the BBC even writing that there is "no credible link" between the two? Why qualify with "credible", when it's more correct to say "the two are unrelated", ie indicating that there is