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by cal5k 8y ago
There's a single counter-example that I think demolishes this entire line of thinking, and it is the rise of "Asian privilege". If Western power structures are inherently racist, they sure dropped the ball on immigrants from
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My honest view is that this is the new form of "acceptable" racism. It's not "reverse racism", it's just racism. The idea that someone's ideas are more or less valid based on the colour of their skin is co
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I tune out the instant an author resorts to using race to further their argument in this way. Argue on the technical, socioeconomic, or political merits - don't resort to race-baiting.
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This is actually a deeply engrained practice in Japanese business culture - “keiretsu”, or interlocking companies.
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TOTP/HOTP can still be sort of trivially MITM'd - a phishing form could ask for your auth code and then turn around and supply it to the site in question. U2F uses a challenge-response protocol that should (in theory) make it impo
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I mean... the map at least bounds the problem. You can be pretty certain in almost every case that the lanes won't be outside of the mapped roadway.
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It seems plausible to me that LIDAR + radar could eventually outperform humans in white-out conditions. Here's an interesting bit of research on filtering out snow noise from a LIDAR point cloud: http://wavelab.uwaterloo.ca&
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I use OneNote - it's really great. Until it suddenly decides it doesn't want to sync anymore.
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My basic stance at this point is that, even with the best justification in the world for breaking encryption, governments cannot be trusted to safeguard keys. They WILL be stolen by adversaries. Full stop.
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Lying flat would be a really bad time on landing, particularly with thrust reversers!
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I'd like to ask a provocative question: if this was always the culture at Riot, why are people who joined the company surprised by it? Would it be wrong for people to self-select into a workplace that was tolerant of such jokes, knowin
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I’d have to dig into the numbers, but the wealthiest Americans get their income via capital gains and dividends, which I’m not sure would be included in those figures.
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Newton | Finance & Operations Coordinator | Toronto, Canada | Full-time | $50k - $60k | https://www.newton.co Newton is Canada's first commission-free crypto trading platform. Our ultimate mission is to make it easy to
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1) Christianity has been a major export of the West through missionaries and colonization. It was hardly the native religion of, say, Mexico or the Philippines. 2) That's hardly a compelling case against the influence of religion on We
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Religion has historically and continues to play a major role in geopolitics... there's nothing parochial about it. The Christian belief system was objectively instrumental in the creation of the West's institutions, system of gove
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Why do alcoholics continue to drink, even though they know they’re harming themselves? Compulsive behaviour is interesting.
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It makes me angry to see how such rampant government ineptness can completely destroy a once-thriving economy in a decade. Worse still is Maduro’s continued insistence that it’s a conspiracy against Venezuela rather than idiotic policy whic
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They’re called heuristics, and everybody would be paralyzed without them. Good enough for Facebook? Probably will work for my use case, and now I can focus on things that actually add value to my application.
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Precisely. It's yet another package manager to learn, and there are just fewer alpine packages overall.
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Cool! Alpine is a neat project, but I find package management on Alpine to be a uniformly frustrating experience. Having a tiny version of Ubuntu for docker is a fantastic idea.
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As with the Gentoo attack, it seems that proper 2FA might have prevented this from happening. Amazing that people aren't more paranoid about that.
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As another commenter below astutely pointed out, with a mean time between recessions of 4.7 years you could blindly make this prediction every year and be right more often than not (with a 3 year window).
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An article from 2005 with the same prediction: http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/27/news/economy/inverted_yield_... The recession didn't happen until 2-3 years after that, making me question the uti
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I think the "chaos" is more akin to the emergent properties of complex systems, where disturbances in one component can propagate in unexpected ways. "What would happen if..." experimentation doesn't negate the need
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Possession has been sort of de-facto decriminalized in Canada for many years - police just don't enforce the law.
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There's nothing inherently creepy about it. I imagine it will be very useful for adding context to a scene - which is important for self-driving cars, AR, image classification, etc. If you take a bunch of photos involving people doing
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Ethnic and religious minorities have been incredibly successful in the Toronto tech scene - Ismaili muslims, for example, have started some of the most successful companies & incubators in the city and have been, as far as I can tell, d
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by cal5k 8y ago
I'm currently halfway through the process of getting both Surgically Assisted Rapid Palatal Expansion (SARPE), which I completed 6 months ago, and Maxillomandibular Advancement (MMA) which is happening in October. I'm in my early
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Sort of like how you pay USD for Euros when you’re on vacation?
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