clarifier123

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Fact-Checking Is Dead, Killed by Snopes over Biden’s Promise of $2000 Checks(nakedcapitalism.com)
11 points by clarifier123 5y ago|12 comments
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by clarifier123 5y ago
Threat is a communicated intent to inflict harm or loss on another person. The author of the article seems to confuse a conspiracy with a threat.
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by clarifier123 5y ago
After reddit started banning people for upvoting the wrong things, this is a logical next step. Contrary to the popular belief, slippery slope isn't a logical fallacy. Anonymity is the only way to combat this. Make sure your online ide
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by clarifier123 6y ago
I think it's interesting that so many things in elementary OS are written in Vala. They are probably the biggest user of the language. For example: Calculator: https://github.com/elementary/calculator Calendar: h
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by clarifier123 6y ago
I don't know how much would it normally cost, but the EU is spending 145 billion EUR to kick-start it: https://www.eetimes.eu/eu-signs-e145bn-declaration-to-develo...
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US Army halts gender neutral fitness test as women struggle(nzherald.co.nz)
33 points by clarifier123 6y ago|29 comments
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by clarifier123 6y ago
Yeah, it's basically "world ends: women most affected"
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by clarifier123 6y ago
That's unlikely, reddit is down all the time. They definitely have the worst uptime of all the major websites.
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by clarifier123 6y ago
Wow, that's a feature that I've been really missing since I switched to Firefox from Opera.
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by clarifier123 6y ago
>There’s no part of me that finds it easy to believe that a female, minority worker in tech is going to get the same opportunities as a white male anywhere in Europe. I agree, she's a woman, she will definitely get much more opportu
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Coca-Cola accused of telling employees to ‘be less white’ in training course(rt.com)
9 points by clarifier123 6y ago|0 comments
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by clarifier123 6y ago
If we're talking about native (i.e. not using Cygwin or MSYS) shells, I believe Hamilton C Shell is the closest thing: https://hamiltonlabs.com/Cshell.htm It has some drawbacks, though, most notably lack of Unicode sup
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by clarifier123 6y ago
>We know from decades of research that more diverse teams are more successful. I like success. That's a very strong claim. What research? >The teams I’ve liked the most have been the most diverse; the teams I’ve felt the most u
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by clarifier123 6y ago
>1. Going to your own link, Newsweek did not call "GME investors "far-right extremists"". The article clearly states that far-right extremists were instead using the "stick-it-to-the-man" ethos driving a lot
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by clarifier123 6y ago
Slippery slope isn't a logical fallacy. It's often being incorrectly used, usually as a result of the continuum fallacy, but it isn't a fallacy in and of itself.
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by clarifier123 6y ago
See also an article about Modula-2 for CP/M from the same author: https://techtinkering.com/2013/03/12/if-only-borland-had-stu... Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by clarifier123 6y ago
It's a well known fact that GnuPG maintainers are incompetent. My favorite example: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4592?utm_source=cryptography-dispatch... tl;dr one of the main GnuPG developers doesn't understand how SQL