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by colpabar 5y ago
> Your friend should take this as a complement to her appearance, she's been deemed attractive and trustworthy-looking, after all. whew boy, I was not expecting this on this website
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by colpabar 5y ago
I think this is how downdetector works, it just looks for tweets that are complaining about something not working.
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by colpabar 5y ago
How is your comment not smug?
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by colpabar 5y ago
The difference is that you can't accidentally click a popup that takes you to a porn website in a book. If you want to talk about specific things that are blocked by that safe filter that you think shouldn't be, that could be a di
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by colpabar 5y ago
I don’t understand all the negativity either. The article I read described a group of people who were genuinely interested in learning, so much so that the organizers do it for free. Sure there are no grades or degrees, but who cares? The e
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by colpabar 5y ago
> I mean, collectively as humans we stand to benefit from knowing what happened so we can make more informed cost benefit decisions in the future about conducting risky research (if that's what happened). You're not wrong, but
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by colpabar 5y ago
Do you really think C-level people at amazon care at all about acting morally or ethically? They have lots of money, and US politicians accept bribes to make things go a certain way. This is just business as usual for everyone involved.
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by colpabar 5y ago
If we are talking about laws, it is absolutely not irrelevant to talk about the people who will be enforcing them. This thread is about an extremely subjective law, and some people think that's a really bad idea because the people enfo
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by colpabar 5y ago
I don't think the comment was about "too much bad stuff on facebook" at all, rather it was about how an actual facebook employee, who now works for the dnc, is forming a group that will advocate for policy that will affect fa
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by colpabar 5y ago
The line about the one founder taking a job with the DNC was enough for me, but I'm glad I read until this part because I think it's even more illuminating: >"Frances is exposing a lot of the knobs in the machine that is a
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by colpabar 5y ago
Very true. Just like gifted programs in schools. We should keep the bar as low as possible so that no one can ever claim we're racist.
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by colpabar 5y ago
In all seriousness, do you really think that any current western government is anti-lgbt? Do you have any examples?
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by colpabar 5y ago
Of course people will come back with more sophisticated bots, that's inevitable. That happens with everything: bad thing is happening, we figure out how to protect against bad thing, bad people figure out how to get past protection, ri
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by colpabar 5y ago
> It's ridiculous that bots, trolls, and sockpuppets are given the same esteem and protections as real people. Agreed. I think any talk of the problems of online anonymity should be focused on bots first and foremost. From my under
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by colpabar 5y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/18/pm-urged-to-... >While police are investigating whether there are any links to Islamist extremism and have not connected the killing to the targeting of
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by colpabar 5y ago
If I held a gun to your head and said "give me your phone or face the consequences," would you claim that me shooting you for not giving me your phone is you "being held accountable"? Because that seems analogous to what
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by colpabar 5y ago
Well, I'd guess that most people here are not interested in a discussion that involves working backwards from an already chosen solution rather than figuring out what the solution is without any ideas being forbidden from the start. (m
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by colpabar 5y ago
Idk, but there's lot to read. Here's an article I just found https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-black-white-test-scor... > Traditional explanations for the black-white test score gap have not stood up
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by colpabar 5y ago
Do you really expect anyone to engage with you in good faith when you state you'll only accept certain answers?
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by colpabar 5y ago
When I was in 6th grade, I took a test that put me into algebra in 7th grade. The other options were pre-algebra, or remedial math. My parents didn't pay anyone, and this actually took place when I switched from private school to publi
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by colpabar 5y ago
> So, are you saying that people shouldn't be held to the consequences of their actions, because the North Korean government does the same? No. No one is saying that. No one has ever said that, because it doesn't make any sens
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by colpabar 5y ago
I've seen that before, but I dunno, it seems kind of anti-python[0] to have an "official doc" that basically says "here's a third-party tool we like, but also here's 5 other tools you could use instead." I
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by colpabar 5y ago
> goes to show how while collar crimes are not punished more leniently No, it goes to show that the only white collar crimes that are stiffly punished are those against other rich people.
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by colpabar 5y ago
Right, but the community is different than the foundation. I would like an authoritative "this is how you do it" doc, from the foundation, about setup/packaging/dist, and I want it to work. And if said doc advises using
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by colpabar 5y ago
I don't have a good answer either. I understand public health at a national level is about being pragmatic and doing things that actually work, and I can honestly understand if they acted the way they did to try and give hospitals some
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by colpabar 5y ago
> Folks could buy masks anyway They couldn't for a while though, and that's an aspect of the whole fiasco that really bugged me personally. The initial claim was that we do not need masks, because they are not effective and bec
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by colpabar 5y ago
The point of the comment you're replying to isn't that we don't just distrust the government now , it's that distrusting the government was expected of all citizens by the people who founded the country. We have an ame
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by colpabar 5y ago
> the scenarios were, with rare exceptions, completely unrelatable Can you give some examples? What wasn't relatable, and what would make them more relatable to you? The only "word problems" I really remember are the &quot
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by colpabar 5y ago
But it will remove an instance of racial inequality in academic outcomes, which means california public schools can give themselves a higher progressive score.

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