drewdevault

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by drewdevault 3y ago
Yes, the DDoS followed us to networks with countermeasures, and yes, the countermeasures worked. We don't want to disclose too much about that, though.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
We did negotiate them down a bit but we didn't feel that we could come to an agreement within our budget and decided to move on. Apparently this was an excellent negotiation tactic because they came back with an offer of $0!
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Good morning, Gavin. You were shown the door because you are an outspoken transphobe and we were not interested in helping you voice those opinions. You seem to be unable to disentangle this with your Christian identity, but most Christians
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by drewdevault 3y ago
The passage I quoted is one paragraph out of seven pages spent addressing the challenges in defining and analyzing ethnic groups and drawing conclusions from that data, not to mention numerous caveats and counter-examples provided through
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Follow-up after an afternoon of reading: I dug into the source of the data you presented here in references [1] and [2], which is mainly from James Fearon "Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country" (2003). In this he actually expl
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Quoting your own source: > However, independently of the emergence of inclusive fitness theory, from 1960s onwards many anthropologists themselves had reexamined the balance of findings in their own ethnographic data and had begun to rej
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by drewdevault 3y ago
No they weren't? Look at the graph in my source. In any case, sure, start in 1965; tomatoes cost $0.85 and minimum wage was $1.25, so your purchasing power was even better by comparison to today.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
>Even in Africa, the correlation is apparent. The countries bordering the Mediterranean all have low diversity and high development, compared to almost all other African countries. Okay, let's examine this assumption, comparing your
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by drewdevault 3y ago
>Electronics and factory farm tomatoes are cheap, and near nobody lacks food or a phone. The price of tomatoes has inflated at a rate of about 3.55% per year, up a total of 1,049% since 1953. In that same period, minimum wage rose from $
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by drewdevault 3y ago
I question your methodology, but let's take it at face value. >In fact, if you look at the accompanying map[2], you will immediately notice a strong inverse correlation between diversity and living standard. Assuming the underlying
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by drewdevault 3y ago
It's not, a cursory review of the literature would tell you otherwise. If you want narratives: the introduction of agriculture to human society is a cooperative effort which generalizes labor such that some can provide for the food sup
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by drewdevault 3y ago
My reply remains the same with your clarification added, I have edited my comment accordingly. This is absurd.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
> There is no expectation of [reciprocity] in a diverse society. [citation needed] > Evolution doesn't know morality, unwarrantedly nice guys finish last. Incorrect. Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Artificially scarce commodities, as any basic inquiry into social economics would illustrate. Naturally no one wants to have kids when they can't afford a home and need two jobs just to feed themselves and pay off their student debt.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
This is not unique to the United States. In my home country (the Netherlands), we have an issue with refugees being placed into dedicated camps, encouraging an approach of non-integration. Integrated refugees have better metrics of success,
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by drewdevault 3y ago
This is an extremely reductionist take, to infer that all human progress is motivated by a better life for your children. Certainly some people are motivated by that, but human motivations are way, way more complex than this ridiculously si
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by drewdevault 3y ago
> Strawman. Integration isn't the same thing as diversity, and doesn't automatically follow from it either. Different kinds of people living in the same locality doesn't mean they form an "integrated society". Al
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by drewdevault 3y ago
> The most revered/successful societies on earth are the complete opposite of diverse. [citation needed] Which societies? Revered by whom? Successful by what metric?
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by drewdevault 3y ago
> That does not negate the opportunity we both have to live in a country, and time, when we can both pursue the life we (realistically) want. This is a very narrow and simplistic view of opportunity, both in the present and historical co
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by drewdevault 3y ago
It has been shown many times that integration reduces bias, see studies on the contact hypothesis. Racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and other examples of bias have been shown by many studies to be dramatically reduced in an integrated cont
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by drewdevault 3y ago
True that!
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Yes, I have used a Prusa, but I have mostly used Cura with it. The bulk of my experience with Prusas started with finding one at the local hackerspace, firing up Cura and finding a profile for it, getting it to work and never questioning th
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Mainly I think that this temptation is circumvented with strong leadership and weak investors. That big VC money is a poison, but if you don't take it then you can focus on the product without so much of the risk.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Businesses are more complex than just one facet. Not everything the business offers has to be a direct revenue driver; it builds trust with the brand and improves the experience by putting everything you need with respect to your printer in
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Author here. For the price tag of a Prusa Mk4 you can get a Bambu X1 Carbon 3D which is, metric for metric, a better printer -- larger volume, 16 color prints, faster printing, better resolution, pretty much all stats. Go for Creality and y
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Author here. I have used Prusas, as well as many other 3D printers. I know how they are distinguished from the rest. The thing is, there really isn't much of a difference between an Ender 3 and a Mk4 that a typical consumer (that is, n
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by drewdevault 3y ago
It need not be predatory, nor need it be mandatory for users to take advantage of these features, nor need it be proprietary or non-free.
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by drewdevault 3y ago
Sorry, I'm aware of that nuance but I worded myself poorly.
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Certainly you can't get a similar product made at the rock-bottom price points that China will ship it for. But, you can get a lot cheaper than Prusa, and there are vulnerabilities in the Chinese market you can exploit. And, to be ho
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by drewdevault 3y ago
>Our funding did not motivate the license change. I can say this with clean conscience. I understand that I have biases here but I also do not want Open Source to turn into something that is exclusively for plumbing. Here's the thin

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