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by evandale 4y ago
At this point this seems like a Microsoft problem. Their Tay AI ended up doing similar things and got really sarcastic and sanctimonious.
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by evandale 4y ago
I couldn't get it to suggest anything to me. It kept asking me about my interests and what industry I wanted to switch to but it wouldn't seem to suggest anything to help me find a career I didn't know exists.
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by evandale 4y ago
> I didn't contend that DEI discludes equity. I made the point that "equity" isn't what the commenter said it "seems to be". As in, ne said it seemed to be "outcome-based instead of opportunity-based&qu
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by evandale 4y ago
From my understanding the "E" in DEI stands for equity. Equity favours equality of outcome over equality of opportunity. How does the commenter you're responding to have it wrong and what is DEI really about if it doesn'
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by evandale 4y ago
You get a bit of everything in Quebec when it comes to bowling :) You can find Duckpin, Candlepin, 5-pin, and 10-pin!
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by evandale 4y ago
You track calories in by making all your food and weighing everything you eat. In practise you don't need to track the out because it doesn't change much per day. It's not easy to burn 200 calories but it's easy to consu
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by evandale 4y ago
From your own link Morris syndrome affects males. In fact, the presence of a Y chromosome by definition means the person is of male sex and it really is as simple as that. One's appearance has no effect on their sex.
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by evandale 4y ago
XXY is Klinefelter syndrome. By definition it's a condition where boys and men are born with an extra X chromosome. Their sex is male because, also by definition, the presence of a Y chromosome means male.
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by evandale 4y ago
If you don't know you're trying to solve for X you will get the XY problem though - that's ignorance or lack of education. The last 3 letters is a perfect example. If you've only been exposed to 3 letter extensions and t
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by evandale 4y ago
Exactly, the XY problem happens because of ignorance. You can't ask X if you don't know X exists.
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by evandale 4y ago
The thing that always annoyed me with the last 3 characters question is that it assumes everyone knows everything. Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/ The noob clearly thought extensions are always 3 characters becau
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by evandale 4y ago
>smoking has no meaningful affect unless you're already addicted This isn't true. I started smoking socially in the summer and nicotine absolutely gives you a head rush and relaxing feelings. It also suppresses my appetite quit
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by evandale 4y ago
How to Design Programs: https://htdp.org/2022-8-7/Book/index.html It's lots of small problems that seem like projects and I've found it fun to expand on the examples on your own beyond what the book asks
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by evandale 4y ago
> Some simply want to stop China becoming too rich—as if impoverishing 1.4bn people were either moral or likely to ensure peace. Hard to read past this. I don't want an authoritarian government that's committing genocide today
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by evandale 4y ago
I see this working by being forced to pay some $X (your taxes) but you can distribute that however you see fit. Another option could be packages such as "childless" where fewer of your taxes (but still some base amount) go to scho
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by evandale 4y ago
> Cute names have no chance of being useful Are the names Amazon, Google, Facebook, Kleenex, Q-Tip, Thermos, Yo-Yo, or Zipper useful? They're all cute names and I'm positive most people could tell you what each of these things
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by evandale 4y ago
I live in Canada where they do this already based on how scary a gun looks (rather than their functionality) so maybe that's why I find it more palatable than being lied to.
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by evandale 4y ago
> I don't understand how you can say hoarding might not have been any worse if the CDC revealed how important masks were to safety unless you believe that no one was listening to the CDC anyway which invalidates your entire point. I
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by evandale 4y ago
Yes and that line is drawn at an action, not a word. People can talk about whatever they want and there isn't a line I would draw anywhere that said "you can't talk about that". People can _talk_ about whatever they want
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by evandale 4y ago
Yes, if people want to discuss fire in a crowded movie theatre they are free to do that. That doesn't mean they can jump out of their seat, scream "fire", and urge everyone to evacuate the theatre. I could see consequences fo
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by evandale 4y ago
Yes, confiscating privately owned equipment and telling people you need them in hospitals is better than lying to people and telling them their equipment doesn't work because secretly they need them for hospitals. I don't know why
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by evandale 4y ago
You can't say with 100% certainty people would have hoarded if they were told to save N95s for high risk people and use surgical masks for grocery store runs because they provided adequate protection in that environment. I can tell you
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by evandale 4y ago
Hah, that first tweet is classic https://xkcd.com/1053/ and I'm one of the 10000 today :) Today is the first time I've seen the penguin!
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by evandale 4y ago
Can I try? You decide to print pamphlets for your protest after a colleague is fired when your boss/admin/whoever found out she had an abortion. You ask the printing press to print pamphlets for your legal, peaceful and just prote
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by evandale 4y ago
> On HN that would be speech against nuclear energy or against encryption. Do you actually believe 95% of HN (or a number even remotely close to that, let's say 50%) would want discussions against nuclear energy or encryption comple
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by evandale 4y ago
Happy holidays and thanks for making this such a great space dang! Hacker News is my new favourite site for news in 2022.
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by evandale 4y ago
It didn't figure anything out though? > But then I told it "It's actually the word "bar" that's being used in the wordplay. The word "duck" there just means evading something" and asked it to
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by evandale 4y ago
How did it give the correct answer? >In the first two lines of the joke, "walk into a bar" is used in the literal sense, as in two men entering a place where drinks are served. However, in the punchline, "bar" is used
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by evandale 4y ago
Yeah, I don't know how I would have gone past that point. There's also the weird capitalization of words after commas and "Screening Test/Interview Questions" and if you do bother to make it past email two it change
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by evandale 4y ago
That's exactly why I like multiple commits similar to how I described. Maybe this is the silver bulletpoint that can convert squashers? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33536876 >One of those small typo fixes c

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