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by briholt 10y ago
But anyone who has studied the Sokal hoax knows very well that Social Text's editors were bullied into relaxing their peer-reviewed standards at Sokal's insistence. Consider that there may be an intrinsic flaw in your fiel
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You're making the mistake of trying to ground the discussion in reality. This has nothing to do with any actual real world outcomes. The point is that if I pretend that there could be a Muslim database, I can feel self-righteous in opp
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by briholt 10y ago
Humans are bad at determining facts. That is a fact. Consider the irony of refuting that statement. Yes the word "fact" has a definition, but that doesn't mean humans can or will obey that definition. In early 2003 the NY Tim
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by briholt 10y ago
Agreed. This appears to advocate to fight propaganda with more propaganda. I don't trust anyone at Facebook to determine "facts."
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> The short answer is that the Europeans...were greedier than the Chinese. It's likely that the Chinese empire reached the New World before Columbus...But the thought of enslaving an entire population and stealing all their natural
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by briholt 10y ago
They certainly weren't angels, but neither were the Chinese or Arabs or Africans or Aztecs or any other large group of humans at the time. Though maybe we can grant exceptions to small, isolated groups.
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by briholt 10y ago
This comment reflects a worrying trend I keep seeing, which I'll summarize as: the answer to all history is that Europeans are evil. Whatever the question or the circumstance or the evidence, we have to contort them to confirm our pre-
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Along with discounts, it's worth mentioning there were also some accounting changes in Q3 and they cashed in all of their ZEV credits for the year. So the profit didn't come easy.
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Discovering unethical behavior affecting everyone doesn't concern their audience, they have to throw in some dog whistle words to suggest the in-group is under threat.
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This. It's like you've read my code. Also worth considering encrypting backups so your users don't get screwed when your secondary VPS gets hacked.
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https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/newsroom/newsrelease... The article implies they preferred white candidates, but the preferred races are not mentioned in the government's press release, simp
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> When researchers evaluated their model against natural language processing tools...researchers found that the software flagged African-American English as “not English” at a much higher frequency than standard English. Likewise, notice
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Agreed on poor finances. But Twitter has one thing that no one else has - they are in the center of the zeitgeist. Every political candidate is on Twitter. Every news network discusses Twitter happenings everyday. NFL broadcasts list player
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Agreed. What percent of cars on the road are currently self-driving? I guess roughly 0%. Apple has missed 0% marketshare.
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Thank you. I just couldn't force myself to read through articles that are so padded with fluff.
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by briholt 10y ago
> Sender: billg@microsoft.com Now we know Bill Gates's email address.
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A “safe space” is a dangerous idea(allthink.com)
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I Hate Web Bloat – Please Remove Junk from Your HTML(allthink.com)
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by briholt 11y ago
It doesn't take a PhD in data analytics to figure out that profit-motive will create a ceaseless pressure for page views, which means Medium will inevitably try to get people to spend all day everyday on Medium. Which means their unavo
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by briholt 11y ago
There seems to be a trend of increasing political posts over time.
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They think diversity of race/gender is more important than diversity of opinion. I support marriage equality, but would not equate the opposition to the KKK - that's the kind of extremist thinking that arises in a monoculture bubb
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by briholt 11y ago
I too left GitHub for the same reasons two weeks ago. This kind of bigotry won't stop unless there is pushback. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067
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by briholt 11y ago
I'd say she took the helm of the Titanic moments before the iceberg. Not too much could've been done.
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by briholt 11y ago
Done. Also, fantastically, BitBucket is cheaper.
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by briholt 11y ago
This kind of anti-white, anti-male racism is poisoning Silicon Valley. Honest, meritocratic people can't idly stand by while self-serving idiot racists take over. I'm now cancelling my GitHub account and moving to BitBucket.
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by briholt 11y ago
This spurs my nostalgia for a short-lived startup satire blog called Dead 2.0 from 2007ish. https://web.archive.org/web/20060826025403/http://www.dead20...
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Web Cruft: NY Times Homepage takes 3.5 seconds to load, 322 requests(tools.pingdom.com)
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Genuine question: have you ever heard of an uneducated, fifty-year-old unemployed factory worker becoming a successful web developer? Maybe there are a tiny number, but I've never heard of such a thing. Re-educating fifty-year-olds int
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A list of useful resources for K-12 edtech startups(news.educelerate.com)
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by briholt 11y ago
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_group_paradigm

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