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by gspetr 7y ago
It seems that to enact a change somebody would have to go public and talk with big journos to bring this dysfunctional stuff to light, much like the recent Bioware scandal.
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by gspetr 7y ago
> ("that black guy I worked with was terrible; won't do that again"). Terrible comparison. People from 1950 were just as black as they are now. However, people from 1950 were nowhere near as overweight as they are now, eve
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by gspetr 7y ago
> international sports competitions go a long way towards softening some of humanity's worst tendencies: sexism Sexism? I hope you do realize that you are actually defeating your own argument here, since women are segregated and com
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by gspetr 7y ago
> We're not leaving this planet for a long time yet. IMO, that's an argument against Olympics, not for it. I'm far from calling myself an environmentalist, but consider all the waste and pollution produced by people flying
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by gspetr 7y ago
Years of writing camelCase code have taken their toll. At least they have for me. Either that or there is some (justifiable) brand confusion, as there are brands/companies spelled like that: "iPhone", "eBay", "
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by gspetr 7y ago
If this were the case, wouldn't anyone just be able to successfully sue essentially any MMORPG that went under?
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by gspetr 7y ago
Try having an RDP session to fix Windows servers based in Australia with 400+ ms latency (Europe is unfortunately nowhere near Australia) on your GUI, the ordeal will leave a permanent scar on your psyche.
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by gspetr 7y ago
Race is too important in medicine to merely be a social construct. Different races have significantly different disease rates (incidence rates), such that you cannot erase them even if you control for environment (born in the same city, at
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by gspetr 7y ago
Steam has been making strides in this direction with its big screen mode, though I admit that I have never used it and cannot testify to its efficiency. Apple products have quite a few things going for them other than the smooth UX, I remem
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by gspetr 7y ago
The inverse can also be true, I've been recently told by console players that Diablo 3 for instance simply omits rendering of crucial enemy attacks (e.g. Molten explosions), if there are too many enemies on the screen. And console vers
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by gspetr 7y ago
There is no mismanagement. This is what happens when organized crime takes control of a country - they milk it for what it's worth and when they are done it is but a lifeless husk. They do not care a wit for the future and the need to
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by gspetr 7y ago
Easily untrue. The US has been 40% of Venezuela's oil export[0]. If they wanted to, they could have obliterated Venezuela's economy in a second. [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d
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by gspetr 7y ago
He isn't. He assumed presidency in violation of the country's constitutional procedure. You should also read up on that election. IIRC, he was on the ballot 10 times or so out of 20-something options (a few also had the same perso
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by gspetr 7y ago
> Selling hardware at a loss is one reason that consoles have always punched much higher graphically relative to price. Here's a 2 year old video comparing a $550 PC (with RX480) to PS4 Pro: https://www.youtube.com/w
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by gspetr 8y ago
Do you believe that the unelected bureaucrats, not accountable to voters, holding 15% of the voting power is just something that is in line with the way one would imagine an ideal democracy in a primary?
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by gspetr 8y ago
Uh, personalities like Joe Rogan and Tim Pool have been called far-right[0], then there are also secular muslims who get called "anti-muslim extremists" by SPLC[1]. So unless you want to claim that these aren't "true sco
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by gspetr 8y ago
> It's by no means a stretch to imagine that those kinds of posts are what got Dissenter banned. Probably a good idea to provide evidence on a case-by-case basis first, otherwise how is this position different from right-wingers tha
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by gspetr 8y ago
The complaints were unsubstantiated with no examples of offensive behavior provided and might as well have been a smear campaign by people brigading by sending abuse reports en masse. And unlike a private, for-profit company though,(for whi
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by gspetr 8y ago
Mozilla are directly violating their own manifesto, where they claim "We are committed to an internet that promotes civil discourse"[0]. Have you even read the article? When they were asked to clarify what exactly was violating th
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by gspetr 8y ago
You're being unnecessarily literal, it's clear that the parent misspoke and meant social contract[0], not a direct, legal one. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
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by gspetr 8y ago
Then what exactly was the superdelegate system?
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by gspetr 8y ago
Empirical evidence suggests this is not the case: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2017/01/30/does-th...
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by gspetr 8y ago
> otherwise just hosted on AWS. Talking about decreasing risk of failure by minimizing attack surface, but at the same time greatly increasing it by maximizing vendor lock-in, essentially betting Amazon will still be around in 100 years,
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by gspetr 8y ago
> Then your #1 problem is making an organization which persists for 100 years; the software is a detail. Problem solved if you work for Uncle Sam. His organization is very, very likely to survive the next 100 years.
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by gspetr 8y ago
> But working is not optional I know people who've been on welfare for generations, having never worked a day in their lives.
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by gspetr 8y ago
How is this a responsible position from a company? They are the ones keeping the employees in the dark, withholding crucial information that their very livelihoods are on borrowed time. That's not crossing a line for you, is it? People
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by gspetr 8y ago
Extensions are profile-specific. Solution: change profile to launch another browser instance without extensions. Go to "about:profiles" in the address bar, or configure shortcuts in your OS to launch browser with different profile
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by gspetr 8y ago
> So, is speech in USA "freer" than in the EU? Yes. But in both cases free speech is recognized as a right. True, but also trivial. Everyone pays lip service to free speech, even the most serious violators of it: https:/&
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by gspetr 8y ago
Facebook has repeatedly refused to ban known[0] anti-semite and racist Louis Farrakhan, who called for death of whites and jews, but they ban Tommy Robinson who called for no genocide and does not hold the same bizarre religious views Farra
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by gspetr 8y ago
The TLD choice is a missed opportunity. With that idea they should have at least used the ".rich" More info: https://www.nic.rich/ Jokes aside, this business model is not going to see any kind of wide adoption.

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