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by cooper12 10y ago
> empirically terrible things Sorry but there's no such thing. Justice is relative. In many countries you can be considered justified in murder while simply kissing a person of the same sex or protesting can make you be locked up. I
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by cooper12 10y ago
People have gone to the prison in the past solely because of the color of their skin or because of their religion. People today go to prison just for possessing a plant or criticizing their head of state. Let's not pretend that being i
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by cooper12 10y ago
The point of the article is that parking takes up tons of space and costs. These are resources that could go towards more infrastructure, especially public transportation. (buses for example could get their own lane, speeding them up) In my
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by cooper12 10y ago
You know, just because you take part in or benefit from a system, it doesn't mean you can't critique it at all right? It's better that despite having such terms themselves, that Mozilla's blog chose to highlight a comic
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by cooper12 10y ago
I think Gruber addresses this pretty well: they already took the silent approach, but it was becoming unsustainable with their pro market, whose needs were not being met. If they just did a small hardware bump, they'd be projecting tha
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by cooper12 10y ago
Hmm I'm sensing a bit of garbage-in garbage-out here. For starters their original sentences contain unlikely typos instead of homonyms which would be much more commons. (it complicates the learning as well I'm sure since some chan
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by cooper12 10y ago
It only took 4 minutes for therpe1'a comment to be flagged. Sounds to me like HN isn't actually so inclined.
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by cooper12 10y ago
I think someone complained to Quartz that their articles were biased, so the writer here decided to represent both angles. ("they're just doing business" vs "they're bullying any competition") In my opinion, on
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by cooper12 10y ago
Anyone interested in learning more about this cultural bias might find this essay helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias
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by cooper12 10y ago
Does anyone know how Siri went from "help" to calling the police? Does it just ask you if you have an emergency or does it ask questions?
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by cooper12 10y ago
https://medium.com/transit-app/transit-maps-apple-vs-google-...
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by cooper12 10y ago
Well yes the Mercator projection was about navigation, but maps are also used in other ways since they represent the world. A common example is to depict territories in disputes. Maps were originally for navigation yes, but that's not
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by cooper12 10y ago
> there shouldn't be politics in science Politics is unavoidable in science. There was never an era in which the two weren't combined from phrenology to modern-day examples like global warming which you mentioned. To expect sci
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by cooper12 10y ago
My point was that the whole concept of a map is political, even if the disputes don't directly involve this issue with them. The whole world doesn't use the Mercator projection, they use ones more suited towards representing their
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by cooper12 10y ago
Ah I see. Still disingenuous to call them editors since the page I linked to actually counts anyone who has made a minimum of 5 edits recently. Those non-editors with accounts wouldn't participate in the discussion anyway and are proba
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by cooper12 10y ago
What do you mean "don't politicize maps"? Maps are one of the most political things there are, with countless wars and disputes over territories, boundaries, and their importance in navigation and imperialism. I also don&#x27
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by cooper12 10y ago
Yep, all it does is update the countdown message: http://web.archive.org/web/20170319195114/https://ac3freedom... and it uses jquery-countdown. Sounds to me like we need jquery-fireworks: https:/&#
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by cooper12 10y ago
Wait, I'm already in the first paragraph and I had to bail out. How on earth did they arrive at a figure of "30 million editors"? The number of active English Wikipedia editors is more in the ballpark of 30K according to htt
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by cooper12 10y ago
Sigh, I understand this was done with good intentions, but a dictionary is one of the last things whose integrity should be compromised. They call the searches for "treachery" an "unfortunate coincidence", but it's
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by cooper12 10y ago
No one is saying his childhood absolves him of any responsibility. The article is merely looking at his upbringing. It's apples and oranges where you compare genocide to child abuse.
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by cooper12 10y ago
So images from most cameras are stored in the JPEG format, and that is after all the in-camera processing is done to it. (what the camera sees has to be corrected for stuff like lens distortion, color as a human would see it, and has stuff
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by cooper12 10y ago
Just a note that this requires imagemagick.
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> It used to be if you saw a video or a photo depicting an event you could be pretty sure that what you're looking at actually happened. This isn't really true. Image manipulation was long possible in the darkroom,[0] and you o
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by cooper12 10y ago
Um no, no one was talking about fashion. Funny how you accuse me of not being frank while you make disingenuous statements like "mandated by law".
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by cooper12 10y ago
To be honest, I think the fact that they're used by so many big players is the reason that Apple is requiring removal in future updates rather than outright removing for ToS violations.
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by cooper12 10y ago
It's called The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa
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by cooper12 10y ago
I agree with your statement of agency, but the problem the article was pointing to was the view of the veil as an oppressive device. Despite claiming to be a freedom-loving country, France (Liberté, Equalité, Fraternité) did no better by it
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by cooper12 10y ago
Sorry, I don't care what you label yourself as, but if you think it's justifiable to use cruel punishment as long as its "effective", you might be a bit morally defective. Torture is a human rights violation.
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> But even more so, who said the 1.3 billion people in China are "victims" needing our compassion? Have you asked them whether they like their government and how their country is going? I highly recommend a short essay by the a
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Not only that, many films that were flops both in the box office and critically have come to be considered cult films or even classics in modern times. Time changes how things are reappraised and what might be considered important. (for exa

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