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by faceplanted 5y ago
If Harvard is anything like Oxford and Cambridge in the UK, it's not just that you didn't expose yourself, elite universities have their own stratification, between ones born rich who went to the most elite of private schools _bef
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by faceplanted 5y ago
It _is_ illegal, and they can and do call the police. The problem isn't that it's not illegal, it's that they still need to delete the content. It's like saying "just call the police" to someone who's just
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by faceplanted 5y ago
Facebook argue for paying their community moderators?
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by faceplanted 5y ago
Banning age discrimination is _how_ the law is against deceptive, false, and discriminating ads. Britain had exactly this issue a few years back with Cambridge Analytica and targeted facebook advertising (the biggest scandal was actually th
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by faceplanted 5y ago
They manage the community, if you have unmoderated groups you get 4chan and similar which no-one wants to advertise on. Also it incentivises moderating groups rather than just letting them be and doing the bare minimum. I still don't l
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by faceplanted 5y ago
But I live 55 degrees north :o
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by faceplanted 5y ago
No, because the _actual reality_ is that reducing inequality makes the rich, slightly less so, and the poor significantly safer and healthier. If you tell people you want to reduce inequality we tend to correctly assume the intent is to mak
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by faceplanted 6y ago
Yeah, there's a reason we've been talking about inequality and not just pure wealth for a century.
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by faceplanted 6y ago
Have you tried unperfumed products? I would assume in your situation that you've considered them, you can't make that elevator guy use them but they might help you out.
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by faceplanted 6y ago
I actually find the things _around_ the languages like build tools and ansible and such by far the more confusing parts of dev work just because I never know which of them I should spend time trying to understand and if I just want a runthr
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by faceplanted 6y ago
That's kind of misrepresenting what the South Sea Bubble was, with meme stocks the public are at least in on the joke, the South Sea Bubble was a private conspiracy/social phenomenon of a different fashion.
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by faceplanted 6y ago
I'm not him, but looking at the other markets this "democratisation of creativity" has happened in, it seems like we're going to get more of the patronage model where the professionals and better hobbyists can individual
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by faceplanted 6y ago
You wouldn't just need to buy them, you'd also need to police and monitor them constantly, if you bought them from abroad without further intervention unscrupulous people would just move in and start working the land anyway, and i
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by faceplanted 6y ago
They're not law enforcement
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by faceplanted 6y ago
People have clearly noticed the social and political issues with advertising for a very long time now. The issue is that it's hard to rally against one of the most lucrative businesses ever to exist that inherently has an extreme amoun
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by faceplanted 6y ago
You two are talking different things, you originally said "modern lifestyle advice ", but now you're saying "modern lifestyle", which are very different things, the "advice" agrees with you, that's w
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by faceplanted 6y ago
reduce labour but also reduce printing and paper use, yes.
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by faceplanted 6y ago
> It’s also not the case in 99% of US claims. So is it just sampling bias that we hear constant stories outside the US of everything from broken legs to cancer patients being denied coverage or being covered but having life destroying ou
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by faceplanted 6y ago
Honestly, as one of those people who never studied or even did homework and basically got grades entirely a linear function of my interest in listening to the class without making any notes, I've thought for a while that I should just
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by faceplanted 6y ago
Depends on the country but _tentatively_ yes, America has a infamously anti-union, anti-worker history though so there's significantly more holdover of it actually happening, what most other countries don't have is services like t
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by faceplanted 6y ago
I've never looked into it myself but when I was graduating someone in my graduating classes final project was a cheating detection system for chess that essentially ran your moves through a variety of different chess AI's like sto
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by faceplanted 6y ago
I wanna know what that one huge file that takes up most of "Health" is.
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by faceplanted 6y ago
Do you factor that into the teaching now?
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by faceplanted 6y ago
Honestly? No. I find them light-hearted and fun, they sound a bit silly but they're just part of the marketing and never have to be used if you're being serious, since you can always just say "____ programmers" and no-on
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by faceplanted 6y ago
Ohhhhhhh, that makes total sense.
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by faceplanted 6y ago
Aside from _in_ crickets experimentally, or aside from crickets as in you hear nothing?
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by faceplanted 6y ago
I have a chromatic film on my actual windows because I like the effect so there's technically a market for it , especially if it makes it cheaper and smaller
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by faceplanted 6y ago
Even without cable boxes, basically every TV has an input you can plug something into, even if you've got one of the extremely old ones you can get an adapter.
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by faceplanted 6y ago
It doesn't help, he's saying that losing the ability to own a gun is a disincentive to seeking professional help.
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by faceplanted 6y ago
Would you mind going into more detail about what you found hard about learning Rust? I'm interested in a counter perspective as someone who hasn't learned it yet and has mostly only seen positive media about it.

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