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by davorak 2y ago
Is there a primary source for sending "additional troops" by Mexico? All I found was the twitter post from Mexico's president: https://x.com/Claudiashein/status/1886434747238514776 And the summary
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If I remember correctly early on there was both the firehose of all tweets you could access and easy to call apis to post tweets. So there were a set of programmatic standards to control how you could communicate, which sounds close enough
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Simple wikipedia seems like a good source to explain this https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger > However, in the late 20th century, the word was seen as a hurtful racial slur in English. It was called hate speec
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> I wouldn't do any assumptions if he wants/doesn't want policy change, and jumping to thinking he advocates for rolling back prior policy certainly doesn't sound like charitable reading to me. I think it is a weaknes
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> Taking one as the "one true meaning" is almost always just a tactic to delegitimize an opponent I think the thought process is that there was a word and it had a positive meaning. It was then used in a negative way to delegi
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Context matters. A rhetoric trick/trap often used is to include context, but not complete context. That trick/trap is pretty much the only way I have seen: > Floyd's length criminal history and drug use used. It a trick be
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I doubt you can do a clean comparison, likely too many confounding factors, at least to pull anything out easily.
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> If your race is something that you need to proudly announce (because you personally feel that it has cultural connotations in most/many cases), then race is always going to be an issue, because of assumptions of those cultural dif
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The issue existed from me in both firefox and chrome. Click on outside columns will result in normal scroll. Click or highlight in the center column will result in the jumpy scroll that does not quite scroll one comment at a time with up&
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> More importantly, engineers are for some reason especially likely to be terrorists. Seems more likely you learn about engineers who become terrorists because they have the tools/knowhow/resources to pull something off. Withou
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> speaks to a bigoted motivation. There is smoke there so it should be investigated. Alternatively maybe they wanted to admit more Chinese students who normally use or were willing to use proxy serves. Maybe because they think these stud
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by davorak 2y ago
What I see in this article is something like "ephaptic" effects in neurons are mysterious, consciousness is also mysterious so maybe "ephaptic" effects can explain consciousness. Ephaptic coupling[1] sounds cool and inte
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Throwing an exception in a function normally stops the rest of the work that function would do. That is not the case when using Inf and similar > const f = (x) => [x/2, x/0] undefined > f(10) [ 5, Infin
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> Exactly, the legal system's job is not necessarily finding the truth. The system purpose is to try and find the truth, because that helps society function, but is imperfect. It is good enough, so far, to keep society functioning,
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> The collateral damage of the incentive structure created by this dynamic must be vast. Deleting everything by default as a (reasonable, at a micro-level!) leads to immense institutional knowledge loss. Agree wholeheartedly, would be gr
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> If you have communications that can be used as evidence you're probably in the wrong. That does not match my second hand accounts of how the law and lawyers work at this level, at least in the USA. Lawyers, at least in part becau
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by davorak 2y ago
Still reading digging in. In particular one reference in the second link[1] Still not clear to me how they are generating the numbers for putting it at 3rd or 4th. I might have to read the paper rather than listen the author interview in m
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I would describe what you said here as a procedure for how to gather and apply the science/knowledge you are going to use for your treatment. So trusting the science, just more details on how to go about doing that. > Medicine is e
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The motto here does not align with how I read it compared to: > The essence of science is to distrust authority and received wisdom "take nobody's word for it" -> anyone can say anything, that is just a claim, things ot
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> Test scores accurately measure learning. I think you claim to much here. Or are using odd definitions, to me at least. Sure you can extract something about what has been learned with properly made tests administered correctly. It is th
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> But yeah, it can be a problem. If I have an engineer derailing my team because of his insistence for svelte, and can't read the room: ie can't take any of the context of the business, stack, domain, team, into his considerati
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> I trust that most research is done in good faith and at least some of it is useful. Saying 'Trust the science' might as well be saying 'Trust in God' Hopefully this is hyperbole. Any faith I have is separate from, f
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Probably because opinions are interesting to most people and people who read pop sci magazines want to read opinions that have more of a science/evidence bent then what they can get out of other magazines and/or newspapers.
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> Only software engineers pretend best practices exist outside of any useful context. I am not seeing this issue with programmers in general or with my coworkers, with the exception of those who in general have a hard time collaborating
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So outside of coworkers that have a hard time collaborating in general, is it a problem for others that their coworkers will not apply context? That has not been my experience.
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I do not know what context this happened to you in, but in the context of building something quickly, learning, while not being an expert in an area, best practice are a common crutch. In many work places either they do not have time or at
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> Are they trying to start some "let's all move away from X" trend? Can not think of a reason that would not have applied before musk took over.
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Normally when I think of passive aggressiveness I think of a contradiction in between what someone says and what they mean or only communicating something negative indirectly rather than directly. The Guardian is being direct as far as I ca
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> The DNC could have simply published one of their original emails for people to compare, without interfering in any investigation or revealing any spy techniques. Ok the DNC goes to their hard drive and opens up the email. It does not
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> Had a single email been altered, you can be sure that the DNC would have been shouting it from the rooftops. Easy to imagine they would not in some cases. Often people do not comment on on going investigations. Or in international esp

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