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by discoursism 9y ago
I don't know if this guy has taken a look around, but Google is like 75% white and Asian males, and 25% everyone else. That might even be slightly generous. It skews even more for those in power. Doesn't seem like these classes ar
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by discoursism 9y ago
> Let's see some stats. Let's see some action plans. Let's get all these sellers' horror stories out of my various feeds. Where's all that? Not sure if you're aware, but Amazon's doing pretty OK by all
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by discoursism 9y ago
This is reminding me every PHB who ever said, "it'll just take a day or two." "It's just a little machine learning."
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by discoursism 9y ago
Or maybe another way to put it would be that the given language is hardware-antagonistic.
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by discoursism 9y ago
What do you mean? It went very well. We still have Google Books after all.
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by discoursism 9y ago
> For the majority, that means driving in a clean, private car. Not the majority. At least not in sensibly operating cities. https://www.nycedc.com/blog-entry/new-york-commute
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by discoursism 9y ago
(Four years ago. The AG eventually appealed to the Supreme Court, but were denied a hearing. 15-849 AUTHORS GUILD, ET AL. V. GOOGLE, INC. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or d
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by discoursism 9y ago
This is just what I said, but, yes, you are grasping the thrust of my comment.
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by discoursism 9y ago
> ...and flat earth theory also has a lot in common with religion. I wouldn't say so. At least not in the epistemic/anti-epistemic way that parallels climate-change denialism. Most religions make a lot of unfalsifiable claims.
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by discoursism 9y ago
I don't understand what you mean by "advance the discussion."
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by discoursism 9y ago
I don't know global warming is happening because of this news article. This news article worries me because I know global warming is happening.
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by discoursism 9y ago
Oops! I only saw the other child, who was replying with links. My apologies. My comment will stand unedited so people don't get confused about your reply.
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by discoursism 9y ago
http://www.communicationcache.com/uploads/1/0/8/8/10887248/p... From that, here's the actual paper. Little methodology description, no significance testing, no indication of the number of
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by discoursism 9y ago
I would have expected the center area to get wider as we move up and to the right.
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by discoursism 9y ago
I've been looking for the last ten minutes. Having a hell of a time finding it. The author was Dacher Keltner, it was conducted at Cal (?) in the late nineties (?). Its nickname was the "Cookie Monster" study. I found a YouTu
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by discoursism 9y ago
> Agreed. We should destroy an many animals in nature as possible to prevent them from reproducing and causing more suffering. There is a fantasy series with this motif. It's called The Second Apocalypse, by R. Scott Bakker, and the
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by discoursism 9y ago
I think the person you were responding to was saying that he does not hesitate, because he does not kill spiders, because he is dead. Not necessarily bait of any kind.
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by discoursism 9y ago
If Amazon only sold Amazon products and accessories for those products, that would be an insightful observation. As it is, I think you're missing that these two stores are different in kind.
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by discoursism 9y ago
That's still 180k a year post-tax. That's still enough to fund an absolutely lavish lifestyle, even in the highest cost of living locations. It's not MTV Cribs rich, but it'll still put you in the 95%ile in Manhattan, to
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by discoursism 9y ago
This is some pretty high level misinformation. Amazon (or anyone) can write apps against the Cast API ( https://developers.google.com/cast/ ). Amazon has just chosen not to.
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by discoursism 9y ago
The products already "support" Prime Video apps. Amazon has just chosen not to create said apps. Amazon's language in this case is proof enough to me of its bad faith. But the point remains that this is a relatively minor cas
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by discoursism 9y ago
This is sort of a good point. I hate this behavior on Amazon's part, and I want them to stop. I would like it if the US government compelled them to stop. The bigger thing to me is how they prevent their customers from using Chromecast
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by discoursism 9y ago
How many miles should I run per week? https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/ask-well-how-many-... "Surprisingly few, it seems. According to a new review of studies related to running and health, jog
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by discoursism 9y ago
But none of those other things (ATM, checking account) are protected from fraud when you initiate the transaction either? And it must be said of checks that they are "backed by banks." I agree Zelle should do MUCH more to tell cus
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by discoursism 9y ago
This is what the Go 1 Promise has to say about operating systems. They very specifically call that out as an area where they do not guarantee compatibility. https://golang.org/doc/go1compat#operating_systems
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by discoursism 9y ago
It will not be provable, the same way you cannot prove your consciousness to me. All the philosophizing in the world will never change that fact. The most we'll know is that the artificial intelligence appears to be conscious, and show
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by discoursism 9y ago
I'm quite certain that wasn't what it was, given the flow of the conversation, but interesting idea nonetheless.
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by discoursism 9y ago
Only if the information is acquired from an insider. If you develop exclusive information without relying on internal sources, it's not insider trading. But that is very hard to do. I'm convinced that some amount of insider tradin
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by discoursism 9y ago
A fund tracking the DOW is not such a great idea, considering it's not a representative slice of the market, and the process of deciding what's included is opaque and not exclusively dependent on externally verifiable factors. Tra
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by discoursism 9y ago
That sounds like a harrowing experience. Leaving aside the particulars of your own situation, I do want to comment on your assertion about the price of rent. $1,200 is maybe higher than we'd like, but it's still pretty low. It&#x2

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