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by fatbird 9y ago
Perhaps this is the problem. When you go into every encounter prepared for the worst, you'll probably find the worst more often than otherwise. Perhaps if they went into every encounter thinking that it could one a hundred different
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by fatbird 9y ago
It's not, or shouldn't be, "willing to die". It's "willing to accept a heightened risk of death or injury" that every cop should be ok saying "yes, that's my job." Because time and again wh
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by fatbird 9y ago
Every time I think their walled garden will hurt them, I end up at my parents trying to help them through various issues on their Android devices, which come from different vendors so it's all kind of different even between devices whe
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by fatbird 9y ago
I feel like there's been a very noticeable decline in the quality of Apple software (and perhaps hardware, given issues like battery related shutdowns). Then I got a PC this summer so I could play a wider variety of games, and I find
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by fatbird 9y ago
But we do have such images: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b0/53/42/b053425982ecb933ca4c... https://www.easy-drawing-lessons.com/images/xpainter-using-a... And their existence is pa
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by fatbird 9y ago
You're missing a large public outpouring of detailed accusations that surfaced at the same time against Jakob Appelbaum, resulting in his expulsion from the Tor project. Read the linked article for links to background material and why
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by fatbird 9y ago
Your definition of victimhood is idiosyncratic, and apparently quite specific to your moral framework, which seems to have an obvious problem in that it declares all externalities to be moot (i.e., no involuntarily affected party has moral
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by fatbird 9y ago
It's not an issue of consent when you're describing it as "victimless". The victims, those who suffer from it, are far more widely spread than just those who can directly consent to the act.
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by fatbird 9y ago
There's a growing recognition today of a social crisis in Korea where the working generation today is less willing to support the parents who sank every dollar into pushing their children into lucrative professional careers. It sounds
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by fatbird 9y ago
all people involved want the event to happen Obviously false. The people cleaning up after an overdose don't want it to happen. The family watching a member trash a career don't want it to happen. "Involved" doesn&#
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by fatbird 9y ago
You're conflating an intent to practice sexless-ness with the actuality of it. You're right that we're not practicing it--everywhere we look we see inequity that's obvious tied to gender (or race, or disability...). Bu
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by fatbird 9y ago
There are many, many studies of the justice system in the U.S. showing very biased outcomes depending on factors like gender or race. Practicing sexless-ness is, as you observe, what's supposed to be done already ("All dictate th
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by fatbird 9y ago
It's probably true that a person trying to self-correct for bias will tend to over-correct, to no one's benefit. But the sort of things you do to correct for widespread unconscious bias are different. For instance, the New York
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by fatbird 9y ago
The problem with sexless-ness is that it only addresses what we're conscious of, when we know that there's lots of unconscious or systemic biases that still exist. One famous example was a study that involved submitting resumes to
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by fatbird 9y ago
Thank you.
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by fatbird 9y ago
This fucking community.
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by fatbird 9y ago
No. First, "neutrality" is itself an agenda. Second, even dedicating yourself to some ideal of balance or data-driven journalism or another "objective" standard, editorial choices are still required to direct limited r
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by fatbird 9y ago
You're trying to limit this to a discussion of whether the coverage is good or bad for the company in question, but in Disney's case, there was also the public interest angle of the capture of Anaheim city council. I don't g
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by fatbird 9y ago
The GP's frustration is not with any individual change, it's the treadmill of changes that makes every refactor/rewrite an exercise in treading water.
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by fatbird 9y ago
Amongst the emotion, Linus essentially says "I'll reject your kernel patches until you acknowledge my point (rule)". I suspect that had more to do with it than the profanity or the emotion.
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by fatbird 9y ago
This. Make A and D strafe instead of turn, relying on the mouse to aim, and it'll be very playable. As it is, not so much. But still pretty cool.
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by fatbird 9y ago
Much like Hans Reiser telling increasingly implausible stories to explain all the really obvious evidence that he murdered his ex-wife, and then (against his lawyer's advice) testifying to those things in court.
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by fatbird 9y ago
I still tell people that my proudest day as a developer was when I deleted 70,000 lines of code that I'd made irrelevant, following a year of incremental refactoring that was consciously leading up to this point. It was, in my mind, a
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by fatbird 9y ago
It would be a much stronger article if the author did more to counter the reasons for eliminating large denomination bills than simply to say "the positives outweigh the negatives". In particular, the argument that cash is useful
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by fatbird 9y ago
They were meeting their goals a decade ago with one part-time tech and a budget only 3% of what it is today. How has exponential growth in revenue and spending improved or sped up goal-meeting? It's kept a lot of wikipedians employed
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by fatbird 9y ago
Those have all been true for more than a decade, since Wales was bragging on TED that they only had one employee and everything was volunteer driven. The scale of the operation has grown, with some necessity, but the mission is the same an
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by fatbird 9y ago
Google is a for-profit entity designed to maximize revenue and returns for shareholders. It's an absurd comparison. You mention that the WMF has a year's budget in reserve. For a non-profit, this is generally considered a bad t
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by fatbird 9y ago
The issue is that the organization and spending have grown, but the mission hasn't, and they're not obviously doing better or more than they were a decade ago, except for a list of failed projects like Knowledge Engine that appear
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by fatbird 9y ago
That was going to be my next question: is there any tunability to the query planner? Obviously you're going to be more tolerant of planner overhead than someone maintaining the maintaining the backend for a big CRUD site. ETA: some qu
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by fatbird 9y ago
This is interesting. When you see these 'obvious to the eye' opportunities, do you stop and treat them as an exercise in generalizing the optimization for a query planner? I'm curious how much query planners have to make tra

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