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by emsy 9y ago
>Is it actually racist to make reparations for former wrongs They are not reparations. A reparation is a material compensation for a past harm. You don't take away from a group, you take away from individuals. I can't help but
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by emsy 9y ago
I think I understand what you're getting at, but I didn't intend to draw a hard line of what racism is, but merely wanted to point out the slippery slope you're of using racist policies to fix discriminatory issues.
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by emsy 9y ago
There is no need for sarcasm. I'm not a native English speaker, but I'm sure I didn't call anyone "a racist". I intended to use racist as an adjective. Such a misunderstanding could've easily been avoided had y
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by emsy 9y ago
>So a few white dudes (such as myself) might not get a job because of a quota. Big deal. It is. You're either racist or you're not. You can sugercoat it with comfy terms such as "diversity" or "inclusion" bu
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by emsy 9y ago
The problem with the current system is that it‘s the opposite of due process. Instead of letting some copyright violations slip as the cost of freedom of expression, the current system restricts freedom as the cost for minimizing copyright
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by emsy 9y ago
Agreed on by whom? Did you even read the memo yourself?
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by emsy 9y ago
I always found Pinkers optimism simply as a counter against the perception that the world is going to hell, which in turn fuels effects like "fake news" which turns such reporting into a self fulfilling prophecy.
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by emsy 9y ago
To be fair, when you send in a Surface for repair, they just send you a new unit because apparently even Microsoft can't repair the device!
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by emsy 9y ago
Thanks. I inserted a line break but HN handles them weirdly.
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by emsy 9y ago
TLDR; no. Betteridge’s law at work
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by emsy 9y ago
Unless you hit a very specific use-case/bottleneck, which I only ever witnessed once.
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by emsy 9y ago
It's not meant as an insult. I meant professional as in >characterized by or conforming to the technical or ethical standards of a profession. In Germany we use the word to express sophistication and technical expertise. If you don&
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by emsy 9y ago
Maybe your not working on professional things? Also what is a decent ammount of time?
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by emsy 9y ago
>This means you can’t connect HomePod to anything to use it as a “normal” speaker. [...] HomePod is very much a “skating to where the puck is going to be” product. I kind of agree that most modern playback devices feature wireless techno
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by emsy 9y ago
What happened to the concept of the most charitable interpretation?
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by emsy 9y ago
That's if you program "object oriented". In my experience object orientation in C++ often means something entirely different than in a GCed language like Java or C#. It's totally reasonable to program data-oriented in C+
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by emsy 9y ago
I dislike Apples love for dongles, but the headphone donglegate is mainly a constructed problem by people that just want to rage about something. Sure, it sucks that you can't use your headphones while charging but in reality I had thi
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by emsy 9y ago
You are a murderer and I still have seen no proof whatsoever that you are innocent.
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by emsy 9y ago
I have an iPhone 7. In reality even that isn't an issue. You can keep the dongle attached to your headphones and it will stick safely to it. I would really like to know how many people who find issue with the dongle have day-to-day exp
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by emsy 9y ago
In reality those constraints don't have any humanly discernable impact on the quality. Plus the part about the lightning protocol makes no sense whatsoever. Here's an idea: Try blind testing 10 songs or so and see if you can figur
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by emsy 9y ago
If you write in a child's language, you will only be able to write children's books. To add to p2t2p's comment, procedural programming doesn't offer very powerful high-level abstractions. OOP on the other hand is so powe
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by emsy 9y ago
While I agree on the expensive part (especially if you have multiple devices, 5 GB are ridiculous), iCloud it's not at all clumsy. Photo sharing, app sync and backups are so simple everyone I know can use it, whereas the settings on An
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by emsy 9y ago
You're technically correct. My point was that a photo or video with the highest available quality on the new iPhones takes up more space than before.
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by emsy 9y ago
Images and videos with a high resolution take up a lot of space, so 64GB is really the 16GB version of the iPhone X. I would buy a 128GB version without hesitation. I think the Memory upgrade for the X is the cheapest of any iPhone, but I&#
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by emsy 9y ago
I've learned to induce lucid dreams somewhat reliably. For this I need to be physically tired but mentally awake. This usually works 30 min after waking up in the morning or when taking a nap in the afternoon. I then try to stay mental
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by emsy 9y ago
I don't buy into this line of reasoning, because it inverts the relationship. Of course Apple has to hand over access to authorities if there's a lawful reason behind it, just like e.g. a private person has to oblige to a search w
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by emsy 9y ago
IMHO this is sending a strong signal to people like myself who mainly use an iPhone for privacy reasons. Regardless of whether or not the data is only stored encrypted at the 3rd party, their willingness to compromise in this regard is a st
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by emsy 9y ago
I don't mind "not getting" newer stuff. What I came to learn was that a) I liked a lot of mindless pop culture when I was young. b) There's still a lot of good, meaningful stuff released these days, it's just less p
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by emsy 9y ago
It depends on what you want to tell. You can discuss how you agree/disagree with someone as polarizing as Uncle Bob in the context of the book, which, if I can go by his previous books, contains a lot of his personality. Or you write
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by emsy 9y ago
I think you need to organize your thoughts before writing an article. The separation of creation from the creator is an interesting topic, but shouldn't be mixed up with a book review in my opinion. I'm also interested what unacce

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