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by gisely 6y ago
What I learned from it is that it this isn't a community I want to participate in. It will be easier now for everyone here to enjoy jokes about awful things they would do journalists if only it weren't for the Geneva conventions w
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by gisely 6y ago
What was wrong with my first comment that you chastised me for?
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by gisely 6y ago
I appreciated the feedback. I agree that my wording probably set people off-- I definitely got a bit tilted after 4 or 5 different people decided to explain to me that the problem was I just didn't get the joke. My original comment tho
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by gisely 6y ago
What is my end of things? The end where people don’t like making jokes about war crimes against journalists? I’m sorry that expressing that rained on your parade. I guess I should be canceled for it.
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by gisely 6y ago
I guess I’m just a little disturbed people on here think joking about war crimes is all in good fun and a key site moderator accused me of violating norms for point that out. I know you think you’re doing your best to create a community fo
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by gisely 6y ago
War crimes! So funny! Me stupid trog no get hyperbole. But war crimes! They funny!
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by gisely 6y ago
1. Does continuous governance include a civil war? This wasn’t the most contentious election seeing as a previous one of ours did in fact lead to civil war, but it wasn’t “just one more election.” I reckon this election brought us closer to
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by gisely 6y ago
Our president not only condones white supremacist groups but dreams about harness their hate and violence. If noticing the somehow undermines Trump supporters that’s not cherrypicking it’s justice.
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by gisely 6y ago
Interesting that in your “nation ruled by cities” ranchers in Wyoming would still have about 50x influence in determining the make up of the US Senate when compared to folks in NYC, SF or LA.
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by gisely 6y ago
But of course! Every company should have a VP of Integrity, especially Facebook. Creating the impression of trustworthiness while profiting from lies is important at any company. At Facebook it’s the core business.
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by gisely 7y ago
The Ocean Cleanup's analysis of neuston: https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/the-ocean-cleanup-and-th...
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by gisely 7y ago
Now the Sith May have done some unethical things, but I think we should study what they did that worked and use it to help the rebels become the new empire.
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by gisely 7y ago
Why Hackernews Commenters Fail to Moderate Their Criticism of Journalists
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by gisely 7y ago
And never assume bad journalism when you’re reading comments on HN where most of the commentators haven’t read the article they are commenting on.
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by gisely 7y ago
The speed of light is just a compute constraint imposed on the physics simulation that is our universe. If we can just get the gods who are running that simulation to give us a little extra compute time in our neck of to woods then we can a
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by gisely 7y ago
Grad student at Berkeley. The commercialization office only takes an interest if your work is high profile enough and has enough commercialization potential. Plenty of UC researchers release CC0 or MIT license code without issue. Elsevier m
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by gisely 7y ago
I haven't found his twitter presence and feel a bit creepy trying to, but I think you are being pretty uncharitable. His personal website may not exactly sparkle, but I don't think it paints him as crazy and there many talented te
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by gisely 7y ago
Thanks so much for sharing your story. I believe you can get through it. Would you be willing to explain why you don't take government assistance? Is it because the sort of assistance available isn't helpful to you or is it becaus
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by gisely 7y ago
Thank you for adding this to the discussion. The way some people are talking about homelessness and crime in this thread makes me wonder if they are upset that SF won’t be making use of facial recognition to criminalize and displace the hom
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Making a Fortune Telling Machine (2016)(lea.zone)
31 points by gisely 7y ago|2 comments
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Tech Is Downgrading Humans(wired.com)
8 points by gisely 7y ago|0 comments
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by gisely 8y ago
What do you mean arithmetically? Simply increasing taxes to without attempting to reduce spending growth might not be a good long term strategy, but it not like the laws of arithmetic prevent it. Whether we could raise tax revenue 24% is di
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by gisely 8y ago
An object can move through an equilibrium position due to momentum, no? Being an stable equilibrium position just means that slight perturbations from that position will be reduced by the forces acting on it. An unstable equilibrium means a
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The forgotten computing system PLATO gave us the first digital public forum(slate.com)
1 points by gisely 8y ago|0 comments
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by gisely 8y ago
Will the public suffer from not knowing what this comment said a century from now?
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Subsidizing nuclear more expensive than new wind(sciencedirect.com)
3 points by gisely 8y ago|0 comments
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by gisely 8y ago
Because exploiting anti-semitism for political gain has a reliable historical track record, and for modern anti-semites he is the new face of the protocols of the elders of zion.
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by gisely 8y ago
Is that necessarily a bad thing? Aardman has a well established artistic niche. Perhaps good governance for them emphasizes stability over risky growth opportunities.
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by gisely 8y ago
In this mirror world that you imagine do you also imagine that these progressive causes you are donating time and money to are using your help to spread misinformation? Or do truth and lies get transposed in the mirror as well?
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by gisely 8y ago
Energy efficiency! Our brains vastly outperform existing hardware while using less energy and producing less heat. Once we understand more about what makes them capable of that we will be able to push hardware well beyond its current therma

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