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by foolrush 10y ago
What would be fascinating is if one's down voting were coupled with their identified gender and race.
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by foolrush 10y ago
> Focusing your company on hiring people based on their race and gender, rather than their ability, seems like a horrible idea. What exactly do you estimate has been happening when your current field of diversity is landlocked at some 90
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by foolrush 10y ago
> If there was an equally qualified man and woman- choosing the man over the woman because he is a man would be considered sexism. Bzzt. The only folks that believe this rubbish believe that all things are equal. This is false. The cultu
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Science hasn't existed forever, and Foucault already smashed to bits of any sort of "evolution with direction" account of science in The Order of Things. The most disturbing thing appears to be that many folks aren't awa
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“Better” here is problematic on many levels, not the least of which is an entirely automated (and likely privatized) legal system, streamlined for razor sharp "efficiency". Every law an ethical implication, written by a culture fr
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by foolrush 10y ago
So given that we could quibble over Facebook and what social media is, it did come after MySpace. Me too? How many things are "me too" in a culture? All design and art is iterative, and it would at least seem feasible that they
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by foolrush 10y ago
Explain what a "bad idea" is to me? There are underpinnings of a Grand Narrative in it; "good ideas" carry forth, "bad ideas" die. Evolution with "progress" and "always better" buried in the
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by foolrush 10y ago
> The market is plummeting. If there were a niche that wasn't being served, then sure, pocket camera / cell phone could fill it where previous consumers only had a DSLR. That said, that same niche that provides an entry point t
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by foolrush 10y ago
Would suggest the author is conflating a diversity of workflows for a single, monotheistic view. Professional imagers have large files, and they must post-produce them. Those things like card readers, additional ports, etc. ignore that
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Noam Chomsky “Has Never Seen Anything Like This” (2010)(m.truthdig.com)
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It is an art installation. About the only thing prepubescent is your commentary.
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Reading the whole passage is much more illuminating than that misattributed drek that Jobs misquoted thanks, likely, to a poorly researched biography: “One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which
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The Room Game Series Sells 11,600,000 Copies(fireproofgames.com)
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Why I Asked Why There Were No Women on a Panel(dariuszgalasinski.com)
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The thing that is frequently missed in these discussions is a nuanced view of the companies leveraging the data. Google and Apple don't have bulk information online boutiques where a random individual can go and purchase information. Q
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> It's that simple, really. It is in our nature, just like sex. We like it. It feels good. See antihumanism. “For Althusser, Marx viewed the human individual as a product of society. His or her beliefs, desires, preferences, judgeme
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Brand Killer: Augmented reality goggles create real-world AdBlock(ibtimes.co.uk)
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An Open Letter to Oculus Founder, Palmer Lucky(bullshit.ist)
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World's first baby born using three parent IVF technique(theguardian.com)
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by foolrush 10y ago
Makes me wonder if some sort of adopt-a-block approach for tagged endangered species could work. The cost to tourism is likely staggering compared to the profit a poacher makes. Perhaps state and environmental campaigns can fund protectio
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Stronger iPhone7 Plus numbers and Jet Black not enough to combat slowing shipments(9to5mac.com)
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Having peeled apart the iMac ICC, Apple is actually using the sRGB in their EOTFs.
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Edit using a scene referred application and select a decent display referred transform. ACES has a decent enough transform.
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by foolrush 10y ago
Please read up on scene referred to display referred transforms. You can read about them at http://cinematiccolor.com , which has a Visual Effects Society endorsed PDF available. Ultimately it depends on what aesthetic you are ai
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IKEv1 Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Multiple Cisco Products(tools.cisco.com)
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Are there any overlaps or thoughts regarding Sapir Whorf here in your research?
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Repair Specialist Louis Rossmann Alludes to Apple Lawsuit(m.gamerevolution.com)
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He changed the original statement. The reason for this for anyone not familiar with colours and pixels is that the Apple P3 primary colour red is a different red from sRGB's. That means that if you do not provide additional metadata,
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The Politics of Data Series(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
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The Dehumanizing Myth of the Meritocracy(modelviewculture.com)
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