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by gydfi 10y ago
There'a definitely a coordinated attack on Uber going in at the moment. Who is behind it and why, I have no idea. But I think I'm going to disregard any new "Uber is eeeevil" articles which just happen to pop up.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Hard to imagine a non-calculus based nuclear engineering program.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Sure, whatever, because of one mid-level manager being a perv?
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by gydfi 10y ago
Bayesian statistics is a fairly sensible approach to certain types of statistical problems, so I'm not sure why its proponents always seem to talk about it as if they're pushing some new religious movement with a lot of nudity, or
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by gydfi 10y ago
Especially since we have absolutely nothing to go on, in this case, except the word of one disgruntled former employee. Maybe it's all true, maybe it's totally made up, maybe it's basically true but exaggerated and missing im
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by gydfi 10y ago
Yeah, sounds reasonable. Why draw the line there? Because hard drugs so directly impair the mind.
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by gydfi 10y ago
The "Stalinism" isn't so much about the actual soda, but more about the attitude that the government should have the power to just step in and ban whatever the hell someone has decided is a bad idea this week. Once you move f
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by gydfi 10y ago
It's funny because the people most likely to trust the government with the power to ban junk food are the ones least likely to trust the government to can mind-altering drugs.
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by gydfi 10y ago
A shitload of crimes are committed, and most criminals are pretty stupid.
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by gydfi 10y ago
When I was growing up, Michael Jackson was the guy who did boring versions of Weird Al songs. I loved "Fat" and hated "Bad" for being just like it except not funny. To this day I still don't like Michael Jackson, pr
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by gydfi 10y ago
Well, most people arrested are guilty anyway, statistically. People get too many ideas about the legal system from TV shows, and then when reality doesn't match their TV shows they assume it's reality that's fucked.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Or people don't like living on top of one another. Give me a nice half-acre and a self-driving car to get me where I need to go.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Flight safety videos will probably still be shown on overhead monitors. Some kind of safety announcement is compulsory, and the video is a good branding opportunity. I find that VX one pretty grating though, and will probably be seen as emb
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by gydfi 10y ago
No actual numbers. After registration fees, fuel taxes, et cetera, to what extent are drivers actually being subsidised? Let us assume that roads need to exist anyway.
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by gydfi 10y ago
I'm not convinced the baseline is that low, I think most middle class people still have discomfort or inconvenience which could be removed. For instance I now sit in a comfy chair at home, but when I fly somewhere I'm stuck being
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by gydfi 10y ago
> Material things do not make people happy, at all. Everybody says this, all the time. I would like to propose the controversial theory that actually material things do make people happy, at least within certain constraints. When I was
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by gydfi 10y ago
There's a word for people who can't refrain from sharing their political opinions with their friends: they're called prats. Unfortunately facebook in its current implementation seems hellbent on encouraging people to be prats
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by gydfi 10y ago
Sonetimes the dates are inaccurate, but I've always been impressed by the ability of milk to go from totally fine to weird-tasting on precisely the use-by date.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Why would I want people sharing news? If I want to read about what's going on with the world, I'll read a news site. If I want to know what's going on with my friends' lives, I'll read facebook.
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by gydfi 10y ago
A way I'd prefer: quit letting people share news on facebook. Heck, let's go back to text-only status updates and I can go back to reading what my acquaintances are eating. That would be much more pleasant than today's facebo
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by gydfi 10y ago
My code also crashes two times out of five.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Trump has been specifically talking about the countries which fail to spend the 2% of GDP on military which is (apparently) mandated by the treaty. The UK is fine in this regard (along with only four other NATO powers though). President Tru
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by gydfi 10y ago
You're right, the major war prior to the Falklands was Vietnam, and the British didn't help out in that one, so I guess there was no reason the US felt obliged to help out a decade later in the Falklands. I guess it really depends
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by gydfi 10y ago
One of the main goals of the RN's aircraft carrier program is presumably to help out in any Falklands War II, and the US stayed out of it last time (for reasons I've never understood -- wtf Ronnie?)
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by gydfi 10y ago
It's happening already, but with pretty limited success. Voat is reddit for people driven off reddit. Gab is twitter for people driven off twitter. Neither of these is a roaring success just yet, but they're better positioned than
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by gydfi 10y ago
Leaving a small pool of people who have all those things, and are still desperate, due to overwhelming personality flaws.
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by gydfi 10y ago
True, but on the other hand people seem to believe their own opinions are "objective truth" more often than is justified. This being the case, perhaps it's a nice idea to err on the other side for a change.
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by gydfi 10y ago
High barriers to entry to a dating app would seem to select for desperation.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Are you conflating "alt right" with "white nationalist"? If so you're either falling victim to, or participating in, a propaganda campaign designed to discredit all opposition by conflating it with its least savoury
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by gydfi 10y ago
That's motte-and-bailey. Since "feminism" has no actual fixed definition, people arguing about it will define it as they see fit at any moment. When feminism is under attack, its defenders will retreat to a safely defensible

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