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by exelius 8y ago
I would argue against the author’s entire premise. The nature of (white collar) work is changing, even in America. I work a job that is 80% remote. I work from a coffee shop in the morning (and in fact, I am there right now!) I block my cal
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by exelius 8y ago
It doesn’t work because the entire system above it takes massive amounts of private money, which influence downballot races. The parties spend a lot of money to raise the profile of a few candidates in a state (people can only remember a fe
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by exelius 8y ago
There are always exceptions that prove the rule — Texas is in a weird place in that the shifting demographics (higher birthdate among non-whites) will eventually flip the state blue in the late 2020s, so I think the DNC was optimistic they
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by exelius 8y ago
I’ll agree it didn’t matter in the most recent presidential cycle, though I would argue the real damage is done further down the ballot in the house and senate. People just don’t do as much homework on those candidates and are more responsi
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Europe is not the example I would use to tear down myths of American exceptionalism because Europe has its own myth of European exceptionalism. Europe has a cultural context that radically diverged from the Americas: the whole 19th century
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Americans don’t travel. If we did, we wouldn’t buy the myth of American exceptionalism. But then, we are largely becoming a country controlled by global financial interests rather than the population. Money is the deciding factor in our ele
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by exelius 8y ago
It’s uncontroversial to say that on average, men are taller than women. But other characteristics such as nutrition and genetics matter more: the average German woman (5’5”) is significantly taller than the average Peruvian man (5’1”). My p
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by exelius 8y ago
I wouldn’t say there are no differences between the “male” and “female” brain. I do know my brain wasn’t very happy on the hormones I was born producing — and there’s promising research about how gender identity actually has a basis in ph
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by exelius 8y ago
With E:D, the grind is the journey. It gets a lot more fun once you get into the mid-game ships tho.
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by exelius 8y ago
I’ve used and really liked DataDog in the past. It has some rudimentary ML functionality for anomaly detection of certain fields, but it’s only getting better. I’ve also had clients in the past use Splunk with ML forecasting models that inj
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by exelius 8y ago
Don’t mean to sound snarky, but there are tools that do this and have been for years. If you’ve been grepping through logs for the last 3 years, you’re doing it wrong for the cloud era. Often times the answer is writing better alert trigger
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by exelius 8y ago
I had the same thought, but I’d be careful about assigning an identity to a person. It's no better than misgendering a trans person in that you’re disrespecting their self-identity. It’s entirely possible the thrill of being Cowboy Bob
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by exelius 8y ago
I would assume those words would leak into the public lexicon without the public realizing their origins. The gay community back then was largely camouflaged within the few areas they were accepted: artistic communities and long naval voyag
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by exelius 8y ago
I mean, what do you expect congress to do — pass laws restricting their ability to do this? Because it’s not illegal today, and it’s literally the reason a lot of them got into politics in the first place. Even guys like Bernie can’t help t
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by exelius 8y ago
All of those require me to have air-tight opsec all of the time. One screw-up and you can be totally cleaned out with no remedy other than the courts (which can take years!) In the real world, I lose my actual wallet every 5 years or so.
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by exelius 8y ago
There’s ample SLP research and documentation on all of this and I think you’re battling a straw man. Edit: also your edit is just plain offensive. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
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I’d actually be interested to see how it performs under heavy voice compression (such as a phone system).
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I wouldn’t say it’s particularly exaggerated; the “gay voice” is basically male pitch ranges with stereotypically feminine prosody and/or alliteration (I don’t say this as a mockery at all; there’s a documentary on Netflix that goes in
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by exelius 8y ago
Enron went down because the people they ripped off had the power to do so.
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It actually does sound like they tried to blend multiple voices. It sounds very tinny and robotic; and not particularly non-gendered imo.
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by exelius 8y ago
To be honest, it’s not really all that unusual once you start paying attention to it — plenty of women have deeper voices than mine. I transitioned from male to female some years back and trained my voice from a deep, masculine voice to one
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by exelius 8y ago
On the other hand, if someone hacks your crypto wallet and cleans you out, there’s no administrative remedy or deposit insurance.
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by exelius 8y ago
The blockchain developers were always transparent about 51% attacks, but it turned out to be far more plausible in a scaled network than was expected. The viability of 51% attacks are a result of the business deals surrounding the ecosystem
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by exelius 8y ago
I wonder about this too — the black Israelites are a fringe group, but what worries me are ethno/religio-nationalist groups that hold political power in the nation they reside in. Lots of examples in the Middle East and Africa; and som
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Most of those nations didn’t really have viable / accessible public markets until the 90s. So there’s not a lot of reliable data from the first half of the century to go on. And I’m not saying the US / Europe robbed any of those c
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Because these markets are naturally rife for abuse; which is usually how they got regulated in the first place. Health care needs to be more or less socialized — the sales pitch for any non-emergency medical procedure is effectively “pay me
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But none of those companies serve the same addresses, so there’s no competition.
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Exactly my point! We can’t grow at 7% in perpetuity; so at some point it’s going to have to slow down. It feels like that’s starting to happen.
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by exelius 8y ago
I don’t disagree with you. But then I look at the state of state / municipal services where I live and have zero faith that my municipal government would be able to successfully do so without being horrendously corrupt. If they can’t f
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To put it another way: if there weren’t government-granted monopolies, the wealthiest 10% would have 5 ISPs to choose from, the next 40% would have maybe 1 or 2, and the remaining 50% just wouldn’t have broadband service available at any pr

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