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541.
by deogeo 7y ago
How convenient then that manufacturers keep their costs secret, so we cannot verify such excuses for extortionate prices.
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by deogeo 7y ago
There must be a better word for this than 'nationalism'. After all, it was nationalism that drove my own country to fight for its independence, and establish a democratic government.
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by deogeo 7y ago
It's because the report it's based on [1] was split into only 4 categories: white, black, hispanic, and 'other'. Why they took such a coarse approach, I don't know. I guess the article could have interviewed some
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by deogeo 7y ago
He made some questionable comments, but the media did also lie - documented here: https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I'm not sure what you are getting at here. I think I was very clear - the article's phrasing of "until the nation confronts and acknowledges this history" would have to be re-written as "until the nation examin
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by deogeo 7y ago
> America cannot address the inequality, poverty, inadequate education, the racially biased criminal justice system, and the limited life chances of black people that define contemporary society until the nation confronts and acknowledge
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by deogeo 7y ago
Unfortunately, the only Rothko I've seen in person was a small one. But I have seen a lot of other modern art in person, large and small. I was not impressed.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I'm pretty sure nobody sane have ever claimed this is great art. You would think the same was true of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Darks_in_Red , and yet...
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by deogeo 7y ago
"This website is temporarily unavailable." As always, corporate messaging uses vagueness as a shield - no mention of why it is unavailable, not even if the reason is technical or legal.
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by deogeo 7y ago
"One modern art critic was asked to review some of his paintings without being told who painted them and judged them quite good in 2002. The different style in which he drew human figures, however, the critic said, represented a profou
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by deogeo 7y ago
Being deliberate is not required: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
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by deogeo 7y ago
The government doesn't pay for the cost of unleaded gasoline/work safety standards/food safety/building codes - why should this case be different?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> States pass “stand your ground” laws to boost public safety. Do they? Or do they pass them because imprisoning people for self-defense is unjust? In fact, judging by https://www.vox.com/2018/8/25/17778712
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by deogeo 7y ago
> It’s now against the law in New York City to threaten someone with a call to immigration authorities or refer to them as an “illegal alien” when motivated by hate. While the latter part of the law clearly runs afoul of the 1st amendmen
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by deogeo 7y ago
The media lynch is documented here: https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/ Stallman wrote: the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. The Daily Beast re-contextualizes this as t
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by deogeo 7y ago
That's a good point, but it's also not the entirety of what happened. See this Vice article https://archive.is/RVpdd : Selam Jie Gano, an MIT alum, posted on Medium about an email thread in which Stallman argued
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by deogeo 7y ago
https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/ documents how RMS's words were twisted. The reporting was without doubt careless and misleading. Specifically, his she presented herself to him as entirely willing was re-phras
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by deogeo 7y ago
I too hate people that devote so much energy to a cause they believe in, that they neglect their own well-being, financial and otherwise. /sarcasm
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The benefit for me is I get to see pictures from my son's class, of him doing stuff in class, which as a parent, I greatly appreciate the teacher taking the time to take and post pics of what they're doing in class. They also
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by deogeo 7y ago
Gamification of human interaction worries me, even in the student-teacher context. It feels like it cheapens it immensely.
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by deogeo 7y ago
What is the benefit of ClassDojo? Instead of simply making notes about students in a notebook, teachers use ClassDojo so that... what? Parents and students can be notified in real time of how many POINTS they got? How is that at all benefic
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by deogeo 7y ago
> In the end, a society gets what they deserve, and those revengeful reap what they sow. I bet you apply this very selectively. > Like those clinging to guns for "protection", and dying from gun crime (or from their own gun-
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by deogeo 7y ago
> If the source code isn't available for audit by 3rd parties (or yourself), and you can't build it from source, then it was never really "secure" anyway. What lawmakers do or don't say is just noise. Careful - y
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by deogeo 7y ago
In general, it's not. Only when the license is such that using the software is impossible, even when the use is entirely in line with free software principles. You're effectively writing non-free software, but masquerading as free
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by deogeo 7y ago
Any sort of 'ethical' clause will open you to endless legal battles, and make such software effectively impossible to use for anyone but large corporations able to afford those battles, or to buy themselves custom licenses. I.e. i
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by deogeo 7y ago
All legal because you clicked 'agree' on a mountain of legalese. It's past time voters and consumers engage in some serious collective bargaining as to what manufacturers are allowed to put in those agreements, and what the p
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by deogeo 7y ago
And even less when the seller refuses to disclose ahead of time what you will be charged.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Many experts consider biological notions of race to be largely debunked Apply principal component analysis to human DNA, and not only does race pop out, it even coincides with the 'socially constructed' categories [1,2,3]. A
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by deogeo 7y ago
> If India could get female employment up to the same rate as Sweden (69%) it could potentially generate an extra $7 trillion – approximately 79% of India’s GDP. Sounds like "more blood for the blood god" - treating employment
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by deogeo 7y ago
> There is a big difference between stats and feelings. Couldn't agree more.

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