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by chc 8y ago
Out of the handful of messaging services with end-to-end encryption, I'm pretty sure Whatsapp is the most popular. So the security would probably be the main driver, and the popularity would be why Whatsapp in particular.
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by chc 8y ago
First of all, two votes is not "again and again" in any sense of the phrase. I take your point, but nobody is suggesting referendums without end. Second of all, bringing something up for a vote more that once is not like ignoring
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by chc 8y ago
Because a no-deal exit would do lasting damage to the British economy (this is a fairly uncontroversial point even among Brexit proponents), and a nation's currency tends to track its economy.
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by chc 8y ago
The usual suggestion is not to ignore the vote, but to put it back up for a vote. Ask people if, now that they've seen the difficulty of Brexit, they still want to do this. If the people actually want the Brexit that exists in real lif
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by chc 8y ago
There was absolutely intervention from multiple governments, and it scared Microsoft so much that they changed their company culture to studiously avoid even the appearance of monopolism — because they knew that if they ever got brought to
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by chc 8y ago
This definition kind of punts the question on to the definition of "compete." Microsoft in the 1990s was probably the most clear-cut monopoly in most of our lifetimes, and they still had multiple competitors (e.g. the then-beleagu
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by chc 8y ago
I don't think anyone here is arguing for punishment or blame, though — I certainly wasn't. All I said was that if you look at a group getting much worse outcomes and declare that their opportunities were at least as good as the gr
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by chc 8y ago
It may be that it has changed very recently, but a few years ago there were quite a few studies that showed an anti-women bias in evaluating employees. For example, here's a quickly Googled cite that talks about a preference for resume
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by chc 8y ago
What you're describing here is a disparity of outcomes reflecting a disparity of opportunity, isn't it? I agree with everything you said here, but you're presenting it as a disagreement, so I'm a little bit confused.
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by chc 8y ago
Let me get this straight: When women are hired less, it's because they're simply not interested. But when men are hired less, it's because they're being discriminated against? I think my hypothesis is simpler: - Women
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by chc 8y ago
I'm trying to get leereeves to actually explain what he means. What sort of difference do people think exists between men and women that makes them deserve to, for example, be paid less for the same work (i.e. worse outcome) without be
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by chc 8y ago
OK, let me give you an example outcome and maybe you can explain to me how the third possibility applies in a way that is meaningfully distinct from the first two. Outcome: The women working as programmers at FooSoft make on average 10% les
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by chc 8y ago
I'm talking about outcomes for female programmers here. You're saying that female programmers don't program, and therefore they deserve to be paid less than male programmers, who presumably do program? Or what? Who are these
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by chc 8y ago
It is when we're talking about outcomes within a field. Either you think women deserve to be paid less or not — there isn't really a third possibility there. If they do deserve worse outcomes, then either they suck innately or the
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by chc 8y ago
That doesn't seem like a third possibility — it sounds like the same thing as "The groups who haven't traditionally been in power are in that position because they are innately less capable." It's theoretically poss
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by chc 8y ago
> This is what happens when you aim for equality of outcome instead of equality of opportunity. People throw this accusation around all the time, but it doesn't make much sense. Outcomes are the only holistic way to measure opport
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by chc 8y ago
Tesla doesn't have "dealerships" (which are not owned by the manufacturer), only "stores." The places you're thinking of are the places they're closing. Apparently they will keep some of them open, but the
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by chc 8y ago
I'm really confused by this comment. Of course Wikipedia isn't a replacement for a dictionary. It's not supposed to be. And I don't see why you view "Wikipedia editors are motivated by things other than money, such
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by chc 8y ago
It's not asking the question that's hollow — it's actually a worthwhile question — it's asking it as a rhetorical question, as those comments do. They are asking it for the specific purpose of not answering it. If they&#
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by chc 8y ago
The responses are also mostly expressing the exact same hollow moral relativism — "Who is to say what is odious?" — so it's not surprising that they're voted similarly.
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by chc 8y ago
If you want to support the environment, putting an Amazon campus in New York is about the least impactful way you could possibly go about it.
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by chc 8y ago
This article repeatedly calls out "Congress" and "Trump" as the major responsible parties. I don't see how that could be conveyed much more clearly.
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by chc 8y ago
This is more of a knock against the compromises TypeScript's wacky type system has to make for JavaScript compatibility than anything else. It's not possible in a language that was really designed for strong static typing like Has
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by chc 8y ago
Languages with type inference still require you to give enough information for a type to actually be inferred. Type inference isn't an escape valve for the things named in the GP comment, it's just a shorthand.
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by chc 8y ago
I doubt they'll ever get even as fast as CPython for CPython API usage. What allows PyPy to run Python code fast is the same thing that makes the CPython API slow: The two implementations look nothing alike on the inside. The API is to
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by chc 8y ago
Why do you think so? Rust is an interesting language in itself, but I don't see why you'd expect a Rust port of CPython to compete with PyPy in terms of performance. It's still, at its core, the CPython architecture.
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by chc 8y ago
The place where I work uses it for back-end report generation. In my experience, PyPy's claimed speed benefits are very realistic. For most of our code, we get about a 3x speedup. For some areas of code, we get up to a 7x speedup. The
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by chc 8y ago
I might be mistaken, but it was my impression that the changes to the 2.7 version now are mostly "core" changes that also apply to PyPy3. Basically, most language-specific work is going toward Python 3, and PyPy2 benefits when f
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by chc 8y ago
My system: Read the summary, read two reviews that sound vaguely sensible, take a guess. It works out well most of the time.
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by chc 8y ago
This is no defense at all. You can't say "Yes, I knew there was great likelihood it was wrong, but I didn't know it for a fact that it was wrong, so I was actually in the right." It's a bit like punching somebody in

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