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by covidthrow 6y ago
It would be a shame if someone else created a throwaway account to express similar sentiment about a similar firm and named them.
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by covidthrow 6y ago
I'm confident that speculation—no matter how well-intentioned—is a form of misinformation.
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by covidthrow 6y ago
This is one of the most scary insinuations I've read in a while. Careful, friend. This road does not lead where you think it leads...
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by covidthrow 6y ago
> With all due respect, this all falls under rationalization of "well this is just the way things are". I'm not suggesting "this is just the way things are." I'm saying that you haven't even identified
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by covidthrow 6y ago
> So over 50% of college-educated adults still have student loan debt. How much? What's the percentile breakdown? How does it impact their monthly income? What's their economic potential without the degree? Are you suggesting i
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by covidthrow 6y ago
> A fifth of the people are living in extreme economic precarity. I'm not sure what this means to you, but "economic precarity" is a meaningless statement without context. For example, in the US, pretty much anyone living
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Very solid reply, thank you. upvoted
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by covidthrow 6y ago
If one were to redistribute all of the top 5%'s wealth at once: - it wouldn't be liquid, so you'd be giving part ownership in assets - the value would be slightly less than median yearly income per recipient. At a pretty
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by covidthrow 6y ago
> Surely if a rapist deserves to be fed, so does an innocent person who can't find a job? The State actively deprived the rapist of their ability to act autonomously to care for themselves, so they are obligated to do so on their be
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by covidthrow 6y ago
> Rejection by small groups/communities of what they consider "bad" content, or some collective rejection that feels more like censorship? Voluntary rejection by individuals based on internal principals and a desire to avo
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by covidthrow 6y ago
> I honestly don't know all of the ethical commitments that the NYT has made. But I'm assuming that they are at least broadly following some standard of journalistic ethics [1]. I believe that journalistic ethics are a fairly s
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by covidthrow 6y ago
I'm not sure if you're being downvoted because readers disagree that media has too much power, uses that power inappropriately, or the resolution they infer from your last paragraph. However, I think it's clear that many medi
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by covidthrow 6y ago
> Scott made ethical commitments as a psychiatrist, both to his clients in particular and his profession in general. The NYT made ethical commitments both to their readers in particular and to journalistic standards in general. In the SS
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by covidthrow 6y ago
I think the most consistent and reliable way to see a coming massacre is to be conscious not just of the amount of "othering" that exists, but with the context of dehumanization. It can be subtle, but generally if the "others
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Thank you, and I hope you feel at least a little better tomorrow. I'd like to clarify one thing that I think was nebulous in my post: while I think "the people" are the responsible party, I meant to suggest that choosing who
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by covidthrow 6y ago
> In basketball, if someone gets fouled while trying to make a shot, is it unfair that everyone has to stand back while the person fouled gets to shoot free throws just because they are wearing the same color uniform? Thank you for your
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by covidthrow 6y ago
> I'm beginning to think HN is full of really lazy people. > Ted Cruz claimed it was his children's fault for pressuring him into their trip... I'll bite. (Stick with me; I'll get to the point after some analysis t
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Well, that "problem" presupposes an upward or stagnant trend, which are not demonstrably true. Then the admittedly harmful act of racism was used to accelerate resolution of "that problem". Here's the problem with t
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by covidthrow 6y ago
> ...it will take time to see if he honors his commitments. "I will not ban fracking." ... bans fracking "$2,000 stimulus checks for everyone." ... $1,400 checks for some "I have an extensive plan for COVID.&qu
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by covidthrow 6y ago
They have "floating IP addresses" as droplet-agnostic IPs for exactly this purpose.
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by covidthrow 6y ago
I don't know that many dispute the specific data you reference. I think the oppositional perspective is something along the lines of: We have good measurements of various recent phenomena. We have bad, inferred, or proxy data of variou
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by covidthrow 6y ago
> I assume that you're putting "correct" in quotes because you disagree with the idea that this is correct. It is in quotes because it conforms to some definition of "correct", which is rather ambiguous, and be
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Flipping the hue 180 degrees is "correct". The problem is that they typically use HSV which is based on sRGB and thusly results in incorrect complementaries. The mathematics of harmonious color are fairly well understood, but th
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by covidthrow 6y ago
I won't assert to know Tesla's motivation for open patents—and there is no doubt some goodwill involved—but do consider that it is not absent strategic advantage. First and foremost, it's a form of deterrence. The presumption
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by covidthrow 6y ago
History of fair use and lack of precedent says it's not as definitive as you assert.
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Not entirely sure why you're being downvoted—maybe some are reading your list of groups, seeing their own, and saying, "well they were right up until that part," and got offended—but you are correct that illiberalism exists o
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Netflix has a better app to use the Netflix service, but it's totally useless for our own collection. Kodi is easily the best game in town to consume self-hosted media. Or, at least navigate it.
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by covidthrow 6y ago
We do not torrent a lot. I was outlining the ways in which we "bend the rules" when we do. 90-95% of our digital collection is self-ripped. And no, we do not seed or even upload. That can make it difficult to obtain stuff sometime
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by covidthrow 6y ago
We sure do! We've had server outages/maintenance, vacation travel with a self-imposed no-distracting-technology policy where we still wanted to do family movie nights, and of course as gifts. We also limit the children to our own
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by covidthrow 6y ago
Both Lua and Ruby—very embeddable scripting languages—have had excellent track records of forwards compatibility. (Usually requiring extremely simple changes if that.) Python went the way of Perl 5/6 (though to a much lesser extent) wi

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