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by chippy 9y ago
I think it depends on one's definition of "mainstream news". Traditionally and I think most commonly understood, it means news that is published in widely circulated newspapers, and on accessible television. The times are, of
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by chippy 9y ago
Agreed, and this lends more weight to the parent comment - "you should be liable for any offensive behaviour you do that upsets other people" If we allow people to be liable for who and what they offend then we run the risk of all
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by chippy 9y ago
When did Twitter turn into hostile territory? Or are you saying that the world outside of Twitter is hostile and Twitter is some way of dealing with that in the present day? I remember when people started being harassed on Twitter, and it w
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by chippy 9y ago
Thank you, learnt something new today!
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by chippy 9y ago
Odd I posted this comment 3 days ago, but it says 2 hours... and the thread is back on the front page.
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by chippy 9y ago
It's not just economics, it's quality of life, the commute, the noise, for yourself and family. That's not the same as living standards though. Is London more like SV in that it's okay for younger developers, but struggl
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by chippy 9y ago
Reworded: Even now, presidents are held with the same regard in China as they are in the West.
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by chippy 9y ago
"Monty suggests getting involved in open-source communities and spending time on personal projects. And he cautions that changing environments and code bases will mean even the best programmer has a lot of learning to do". This 10
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by chippy 9y ago
I've pared down my twitter usage and who I follow, and increased the use of words to mute. I regularly delete old tweets. In a way, the golden days of Twitter occured when we all were on it, the early adopters. It appears to me that th
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by chippy 9y ago
Encona is also a very popular and in my opinion delicious brand of hot spicy sauces in the UK.
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by chippy 9y ago
The Newton example is not about free speech but rather his behaviour, actions, and perceptions of non academics. The example given implies that he would be able to publish, but he wouldn't be able to get a decent (i.e. well promoted, p
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by chippy 9y ago
I think the main thing is "a decent book deal". Most authors do not have these. Most academic books are not read outside of academia. Even a book that gets published and does well within academia (gets on many courses reading list
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by chippy 9y ago
Also keep monitoring them for when they unviel their latest UI change for usability improvements which sublty removes React for some other framework. This change would be the canary in the mine and would probably be accompanied by changes i
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by chippy 9y ago
I read through this twice and did not find out why they were launching the balloons with bacteria. I found out why the balloons were there - with cameras attached. But nothing about the eclipse and bacteria.
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by chippy 9y ago
What is Klar? edits- from anothe comment: "Firefox Klar is a version of Firefox Focus for Germany, Austria and Switzerland with user activity tracking disabled by default."
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by chippy 9y ago
>Guidebooks are worse than useless You need a better guidebook, and spend time with it. As with plants or any taxonomy there are rules and things to do that can classify things. It's more than just a photo of the thing that its abou
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by chippy 9y ago
I suspect the Protestant Work Ethic is so strong in the USA in all work places that to argue that working less can be good for a better life balance is almost tantamount to blashphemy. Europe is better (Catholicism perhaps?) in their work l
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by chippy 9y ago
I found most of these threads via comments and active.
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by chippy 9y ago
Most submissions about this topic have been flagged or moved off the front page. That this article hasn't been flagged and remains on the front page is because of it's provenance. Now, the discussions do tend to be good on the who
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Review: Hitler’s American Model: USA and the Making of Nazi Race Law(thenewinquiry.com)
1 points by chippy 9y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 9y ago
There is a debate in contemporary feminism central to competition that revolves around theories of dominance and opression by masculinity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism#Men_and_masculinity
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by chippy 9y ago
Depends on definitions. One could see that a human can relish dealing with the challenge of a freely entered stressful situation. For example, giving birth.
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by chippy 9y ago
Gosh that sounds a wonderful ML idea!
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by chippy 9y ago
If you want to actually create you own fictional map you can checkout what I consider my favourite geospatial project of all time: OpenGeoFiction http://opengeofiction.net/ Imagine an OpenStreetMap (it actually uses the sam
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by chippy 9y ago
/newcomments and /active show that these articles are getting lots of discussion from some people. Some others are flagging them - probably because they are fed up with the issue. I believe it should be discussed and because there
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by chippy 9y ago
I was about the post about how Brutalism originated about it being raw material and not brutal appearance. How would the raw concrete metaphor relate to UX / Web design? I think possibly by not using CSS for layout, only basic styling.
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by chippy 9y ago
The Jesus Christ analogy doesn't quite hold as that hypothetical memo doesn't criticise the business practices. Perhaps "A memo asking if everyone excepts Jesus Christ in to their hearts as their personal lord and savior as t
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In a remote Irish town, a goat reigns supreme(reuters.com)
2 points by chippy 9y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 9y ago
Previously submitted and flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14967693
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by chippy 9y ago
Submissions are flagged by users. I think most users here are becoming fed up with this story (even if this video is worth a watch in my opinion). I've observed admins unflagging submissions on a regular basis.

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