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by fatbird 6y ago
The sibling comment to yours links to the study of users from /r/fatpeoplehate and what happened to them. Short version: most of them stayed, and behaved better in better moderated subreddits. The implied conclusion is that a ve
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by fatbird 6y ago
Holy shit x2!
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by fatbird 6y ago
Holy shit.
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by fatbird 6y ago
Sorry, what is PIMLICO? Googling it comes up with a lot about the location in London.
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by fatbird 6y ago
Actually, castles almost always had back doors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postern
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by fatbird 6y ago
So what? Those people aren't hoarding the money, they're circulating it through consumer spending, and they're far, far from a significant minority, let alone a majority of people. Every system has freeloaders. Keeping free
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by fatbird 6y ago
Sometimes the most effective way to demonstrate the injustice of a law is to publicize its enforcement. Much of the brutality captured on video recently is, strictly speaking, legal. But there's little support for changing the law wi
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by fatbird 6y ago
220 reapplied; 155 were hired. Effectively, they fired 65 officers, or 25% of the force, with the stroke of a pen, which is a hell of a bit of housecleaning. Camden made all members apply for jobs as if coming from another police departmen
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by fatbird 6y ago
Fast and Furious was a DEA operation to allow gun dealers to sell weapons to straw purchasers in the U.S., knowing and hoping they'd go to Mexican cartels, allowing them to legally go after the cartels. The Obama admin was responsible
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by fatbird 6y ago
A bit weirdly, Bloomberg is exhibit B; Howard Schultz's attempt a few months earlier was Exhibit A, and about as successful. At some point, those same consultants had to convince Bloomberg he wouldn't be another Schultz.
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by fatbird 6y ago
It's not an either/or proposition; and given the low cost of changing the base font for a document, all using the defaults says is "I don't care about presentation at all".
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by fatbird 6y ago
The site, and his complaints, came long before he had fonts to sell. And if you take the time and just read straight through it, you'll get a lot of knowledge and expert opinion (with which you may reasonably disagree), with no obliga
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by fatbird 6y ago
One aspect of policing in America that your post doesn't capture is that a lot of police aren't paid well. Generally, police in large forces in large cities are paid well, but there's an indredibly wide variance that trends
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by fatbird 6y ago
Yeah, that's it, between Bulbasaur and the people sitting down. Here's the picture I took of it the last time I was there: https://pasteboard.co/JauAUWV.jpg
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by fatbird 6y ago
In the entrance of the Pokemon Company International in Bellingham, WA, one wall is decorated with an image from one of the games, blown up so that the pixels are 1" x 1", filling a space that's about 20' x 10' tall
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by fatbird 6y ago
I think the point GP was trying to make was that robot control model is likely a process control model, which is an area of math that's already well-explored and involves no AI. Single and multi-variable control systems[0] get into so
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by fatbird 6y ago
> I suggest we start publicizing the problem and teaching these skills.... and using them here. When I was in university 30 years ago I took a class in logic that was required for my arts degree just because we needed more critical think
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by fatbird 6y ago
What's to be done, then, before we reach sufficient education and critical thinking skills? I mean, that's kind of a boil-the-ocean solution, as you observe. When Trump suggested that ingesting bleach could cure COVID-19, 30 peo
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by fatbird 6y ago
In a situation where you're fired for refusing to carry out your boss's instructions, it's pretty reasonable to assume that your replacement will be selected, in part at least, on their willingness to do what you would not.
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by fatbird 6y ago
Why do you think that? I find her statement pretty obvious and candid about the situation, and don't think it hurts her credibility at all.
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by fatbird 6y ago
I'm a little more nuanced in my analysis than the GP, but yes, I do feel that way in some degree about all the companies you mention, and how the employees have some incremental responsibility for the bad those companies do. Offered re
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by fatbird 6y ago
Did you really just "both sides" a global pandemic?
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by fatbird 6y ago
This is beautiful.
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by fatbird 6y ago
Note that enforcing the law was crucial to Rosa Parks achieving her aims. Had the officer said "it's a stupid law and I won't enforce it", it would have foiled the test case that was planned with the aim of overthrowing
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by fatbird 6y ago
This is crazy high standard to invoke during a public health emergency--the gov't would have to suddenly increase staff by orders of magnitude on short notice, causing huge amounts of inspections at a time when preventing non-essential
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by fatbird 6y ago
It's not immediately about whether Tesla's precautions are sufficient, it's about government asserting its control during a public health emergency, which seems pretty reasonable. It's a public health emergency. 80k ar
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by fatbird 6y ago
It would be interesting to see a ranking of programming languages by the rate at which they accrue ill-will with continued use :) It's a very good point: the more widespread a language, the larger the proportion of users will be beginn
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by fatbird 6y ago
I think you're missing a third group of PHP haters that's actually a majority: those who've used PHP, sometimes extensively, and built up a backlog of "this is stupid" bits in their head about it. They don't ha
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by fatbird 7y ago
I live in British Columbia, Canada, which has, by most measures, had one of the best outcomes after South Korea in terms of 'flattening the curve'. We were unable to do mass testing on the scale of South Korea, but our testing pe
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by fatbird 7y ago
This is an absurd comment because just a couple years earlier, the Obama administration did a very effective job handling H1N1 without the amount of forewarning the Trump administration had. And that's not meant to be a partisan view

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