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by corrral 4y ago
> There will probably be a net increase in disinformation, but citizens will likely also get better at being skeptical of currently unquestioned modes of disinformation. Russia seems to be farther along this path than we are and every ac
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I've long thought that high school should require at least one course that I like to call "defense against the dark arts" (kids still dig Harry Potter, right? Hahaha). The curriculum would mostly be reasoning, how to spot p
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There's a lot of tension between an economic environment that rewards high levels of mobility, and desire to live near/in a strong local web of friends and relatives who can help support you.
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I don't exaggerate or list things I don't have significant experience with, but a relative who's in recruiting keeps telling me I'm doing it wrong. But I think they mostly do recruiting for big companies with bad autom
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> Chrome actually managed to compete on the merits Uh. Anyone else here remember the constant bombardment of Chrome ads across google's multiple(!) monopolized services? Non-tech-nerd people I know with non-default browsers were eit
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by corrral 4y ago
Gmail doesn't even need gmail levels of complexity. The "basic HTML" version is already pretty good, and some very light extra javascript could easily cover what few gaps it has, no need for an SPA.
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Having a car when other methods are available is freedom. Needing to own a car because there is no way to get by without one, isn't freedom.
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On iOS, the only browser engine allowed is Safari's. There are other browsers, but they have to use the same engine. I'm pretty sure that approximately zero normal users are bothered by this, but a lot of webdevs really, really wa
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by corrral 4y ago
> * Should we extract this to a separate function? Reads very passive aggressive. No. > * Could you extract this to a separate function? Yes, I could. > * I would extract this to a separate function. Good for you. > * This could
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by corrral 4y ago
> The originals are good movies but only empire is truly great and even then it's just a good flick. It asks almost no questions of the audience. Star Wars (as in, "Episode IV: A New Hope") gets a lot of points on the grea
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by corrral 4y ago
It was a fine excuse to have a few big-budget sci-fi themed FX spectacles. Could have stood to be a full hour shorter, though.
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A fairly ineffective detective protagonist teasing at the edges of something much bigger, and mostly getting steamrolled by it, is a common noir thing. Not universal, but a frequently-used trope.
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2020 and 2021 were each at least five years long.
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> It will impact other countries relationships with china. And it would impact the kind and level of scrutiny over this kind of research. I think the point is that neither of those would have had an effect on the pandemic . By the time
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The downvotes are probably because intentional bias is still bias.
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> 1. There are certainly more and less extreme flavors of the pro-life movement. I reject your assertion that the more extreme side is negligible, as there are laws on the books, and now enforceable, that prohibit abortion in all cases,
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by corrral 4y ago
> First of all, as others have pointed out, laws that prohibit abortion even in cases of rape and incest overlook the "choosing to take action" part. In that case, a person is pregnant without ever having made a choice to engag
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by corrral 4y ago
There's a reason access to 3rd trimester abortions enjoys far less support from the public than abortion rights in the abstract—and, in fact, IIRC, Roe and subsequent decisions do not guarantee any kind of right to 3rd-trimester abor
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by corrral 4y ago
> By your logic, if a person drives a car and has a crash, the doctor should refuse to treat their injuries, because after all, it was their choice to drive. I'm pro-choice but this does not follow from that logic, which is that c
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by corrral 4y ago
Intentional, designed-in bias is still bias. Right?
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> but in each generation, people find it initially shocking to see so many people wearing what is marketed and made for sportswear for leisure, or even seeing it spill into the workplace. i think the article was focusing on leggings when
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by corrral 4y ago
Land Rovers became a status signal because people with remote country homes that they kinda actually did need an off-road-capable car to reliably get to and from, would also drive them in the city sometimes, or in resort towns, or other vis
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by corrral 4y ago
I'd love a newer, similar-in-tone treatment of the subject. It seems to be remarkably accurate, still (his treatment of "Class X" aside, which was way off the mark, which he should have known even then) but surely there'
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As one can see in React, which contorted itself to be "functional" and ended up inventing bad, new syntax for objects in a language that already had objects built-in. They evidently couldn't figure out a better way to handle
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by corrral 4y ago
> All this ultimately demonstrates is how feeble rights - real, natural rights - are under the American conception of federal constitutional rights. Natural rights are a terribly shaky concept to begin with—hardly "real".
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Those stats might hold regardless, but to be fair one would expect different voting patterns under the current system, versus a direct popular-vote election, so it's not accurate to say that anyone "won" the popular vote in
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The prominent-luxury-logo-branded stuff is marketed to Fussell's Middle—his class defined by being the most class-anxious and also the most class-confused, so always aiming to elevate themselves, then fucking it up. Like, by falling
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They also, crucially, have sizing beyond just S/M/L et c. but within each they have regular (fat) slim (kinda fat—this is me) and tall. I think I've even seen tall-slim and maybe one other size on there (do they have a Trim s
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It actually took me a minute to figure out what OP meant. I think it depends a lot on where you shop. And even somewhere like Wal-Mart, there's plenty of clothing available that doesn't have prominent branding and isn't &quot
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There's... a bit more background than that. Russian activity to fracture the country and outright threats of resolving the situation with military force, date back years before Georgia sought NATO membership, and indeed, before the &#x

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