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by golf1052 6y ago
No private platform, even those that claimed to be a "bastion of free speech" [1] when they were first created has ever not banned for ideological stuff. Back in 2015 this same discussion came up [2]. 5 years later we're stil
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by golf1052 6y ago
Yeah it's kind of shocking to see people defend white nationalist speech on private platforms. Of all the marginalized groups out there why does the group that advocates for the discrimination, removal, or even genocide of historically
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by golf1052 6y ago
I fully agree, we should strive for systems that cause it's users to fall into the pit of success[1]. We do this when it comes to driving, road diets[2] or roundabouts[3]. We should have systems to ensure healthy social media use as we
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by golf1052 6y ago
It's not just "big" cities, it's all cities at least according to this source [1]. I grew up in RI but I moved to Seattle after graduating college because I didn't want to live in RI anymore but job prospects for te
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by golf1052 6y ago
I prefer the later meta-analysis which looked at studies on humans which says >Gender differences in toy choice exist and appear to be the product of both innate and social forces. Gender seems to make some sort of difference but social
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by golf1052 6y ago
I think it's frustrating that people make claims to ideas that they are vaguely aware about. The vagueness can lead to repeating incorrect claims which I think is harmful, especially when discussing sensitive topics. > Everyone know
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by golf1052 6y ago
Both the governor and the mayor said they won't let the Feds try that.
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by golf1052 6y ago
Sawant was running for re-election for her third term. She wasn't an unknown political figure.
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by golf1052 6y ago
>Trust but verify. I'm not aware of a cost-effective way to monitor mail-in voting. Suppose I want to observe the process. Do I need to sleep in the voting collection room for 18 days in a row to monitor that no one is messing with
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by golf1052 6y ago
It's interesting to see that women ranked "Family friendliness" lower than men in this year's survey however. 11.7% for men, 10.7% for women.
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by golf1052 6y ago
With the processes already in place for states that have vote by mail is their fraud rate actually higher than states that have in person voting? This is a cost benefit analysis, there are known upsides with no proven downsides and the only
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by golf1052 6y ago
The line that stuck out the most to me > In San Francisco today, people who earn less than [$82,000] a year—or a [$117,000] for a family of four—are considered low-income. Most people outside of San Francisco would consider that a lot of
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by golf1052 6y ago
>Or, maybe you're taking that into account already, and are worried about an uncanny valley in between "not working" and "working" where a significant number of people simply don't work because that first ru
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by golf1052 6y ago
I doubt people could afford fancy tech gadgets on UBI. As others are saying most people would continue working because they want to achieve more. Do you really think Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates would quit what they're doing because of UBI
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by golf1052 7y ago
I think people are tired of EEE being posted on every Microsoft related thread even though Microsoft has been a very different company for at least 10 years. I do agree with the concerns of open source consolidation though. We need to find
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by golf1052 7y ago
How far does $15/hour go in some parts of the US vs €11/hour in some parts of Germany?
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by golf1052 7y ago
> Microsoft has a policy that you can interview only once per year. Wonder how long ago this policy was in place because when I interviewed last year I was able to interview with multiple teams.
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by golf1052 7y ago
This seems really similar to the Facebook container (made by Mozilla, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont... ) and the Google container (a fork of the previous, https://addo
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by golf1052 7y ago
> Don’t politicize every part of our existence. Some peoples mere existence is political, hiring black people or women is sometimes seen as playing some sort political card. And for the people who have been hired they must personally def
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by golf1052 7y ago
Just for context I packaged an empty UWP app using the release flag for x64, zipped it, and the final size came out to 23.2 MB.
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by golf1052 7y ago
How so? I live on the West coast of the US. I want to call my friend on the East coast of the US. It's 9 PM (21:00) where I am. What time is it there? Is it too late to call them? Thanks to time zones I look up what time it is on the E
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by golf1052 8y ago
Amazon does do deliveries. This is also a valid complaint. Amazon doesn't say don't order X, Y, or Z; they let you order anything. They just need to work harder on solving these issues because I've seen many other complaints
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by golf1052 8y ago
It's extremely easy to turn off VSCode telemetry, it's just a setting https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di...
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by golf1052 8y ago
I recommend the Google container as well https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...
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by golf1052 8y ago
Yeah, Microsoft created a dashboard last year that let's you view all the privacy info they have on you https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/10/microsoft-privacy-dashbo...
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by golf1052 8y ago
https://octoverse.github.com/2016/ under Organizations with the most open source contributors
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by golf1052 8y ago
23. First programming experience was with a C++ book my dad gave me when I was 10. Didn't learn too much from that. When I was around 12 in school we used Logo (MicroWorlds) in technology class. I had a lot of fun with that. I finally
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by golf1052 9y ago
I've slowly been working on a native version for Windows 10, source available here: https://github.com/signal-csharp/Signal-Windows
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by golf1052 9y ago
Please take a refresher on what net neutrality is. Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers must treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform,
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by golf1052 9y ago
You're very right, the internet and technology would be very different if open source didn't exist. Basically saying, if you aren't only helping yourself and turning a profit you're doing it wrong is a little disturbing

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