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by chishaku 6y ago
> the only way to resolve a cultural difference Can you explain your theory in the context of the American West “frontier”?
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by chishaku 6y ago
> We must have a frontier? Why? Who is “we”?
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by chishaku 6y ago
Will Robinhood survive the backlash?
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by chishaku 6y ago
Is winning an Oscar or being a mainstream hit the threshold for Netflix carrying a documentary? Anyone can look at the catalog and see that's obviously not the case. Setting the goal posts there while ignoring the obvious politics arou
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by chishaku 6y ago
Did you read the article? The film debuted at Sundance to broad critical appeal, with the Netflix CEO in attendance, and with tons of media coverage. Netflix is already on the record pulling content at the specific request of Saudi Arabia.
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by chishaku 6y ago
> a niche documentary niche like Russian doping? From the article: > The documentary about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi... was one of the hottest films at last year’s Sundance. It had glowing reviews, a ripped from the headlines subj
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by chishaku 6y ago
> will prevent anything from changing also petrodollars and preserving reserve currency status
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by chishaku 6y ago
Please study this comment and thread to see how ad hominem attacks completely distract from the critical issues being discussed in the article.
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by chishaku 6y ago
The right direction according to who? For 99% of users, org-mode, magit and a pure terminal interface are not hard requirements. And I’m saying this as an emacs and org-mode user that does everything in the terminal.
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by chishaku 6y ago
> When you finally learn to master s/When/If
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by chishaku 6y ago
because you sign a 5b deal and then do due diligence
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by chishaku 6y ago
ok how can we use this?
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by chishaku 6y ago
> It’s so strange to me that so many truly believe a profit motive is all that’s needed to have good outcomes. Not strange. In the U.S. at least, we're acculturated to this ideology our whole lives through education and media. That
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by chishaku 6y ago
> the CEO of a manufacturer that pollutes rivers, and you sincerely want to stop polluting Imagine you started a company that pollutes rivers and you're still the CEO. Imagine people believing you sincerely want to stop polluting.
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by chishaku 6y ago
Creating a burner just to make this comment is arguing against yourself.
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by chishaku 6y ago
Most of the circumstances around the firing are hearsay. My weakly-held assessment agrees with your comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25316014 The following comment and thread demonstrate how many in the HN
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by chishaku 6y ago
I agree with you. I was just adding that most of the internet is this way, not just porn sites. We can say that most websites are on a spectrum of ad-driven BS and Linkedin (and porn sites) are further to one end. So for me, the problem is
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by chishaku 6y ago
Good point, I agree. My implication was that in the absence of all the facts, many are making a deliberate choice to believe one side or the other. As far as this specific community, I'm not surprised that many (not all) take Google at
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by chishaku 6y ago
You’re describing not just porn sites but basically the whole internet as most people experience it.
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by chishaku 6y ago
believe Google vs believe a solitary worker (female, black, known political agenda)
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by chishaku 6y ago
This. And since certain companies/industries pose a certain "systemic risk," failing to self-regulate might lead to external regulation later. For example, legislation on AI, predictive models, and facial recognition in poli
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by chishaku 6y ago
Why?
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by chishaku 6y ago
Not sure about exact numbers on the cold start but we avoid it altogether with a keep-warm request every minute.
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by chishaku 6y ago
functional programming
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by chishaku 6y ago
Does anyone know about Python 4? Is there anything particularly notable or exciting on the horizon?
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by chishaku 6y ago
> I would be curious to see analysis for what home prices would be with 0 Fed intervention. Just imagine a graph where asset prices don't only go up.
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by chishaku 6y ago
Because the same authors did not find a similar effect with the protests. http://ftp.iza.org/dp13388.pdf > This study uses newly collected data on protests in 315 of the largest U.S. cities to estimate the impacts of mas
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by chishaku 6y ago
The authors spend 15 pages or so describing the calculations, its limitations, and alternative calculations. Focusing on one parameter to throw out the whole paper would be junk science. http://ftp.iza.org/dp13670.pdf
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At Least 37M People Have Been Displaced by America’s War on Terror(nytimes.com)
80 points by chishaku 6y ago|60 comments
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by chishaku 6y ago
This is a really good point.

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