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by hnaccy 8y ago
What are all the zoologists doing?
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by hnaccy 8y ago
Too much talk of prestige and reputation, perhaps unsurprising since it's from a professional organization.
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It's been a year and it's a relatively small UI change to at very least make the local save button the primary colored one. I assume they have some metric for success of the experiment tracking daily uploads to FF screenshots and
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by hnaccy 8y ago
There's little drawback to turning off Pocket unless you find the new tab content(and paid advertisements) compelling.
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by hnaccy 8y ago
Mozilla's incentives may not align with yours, e.g., https://github.com/mozilla-services/screenshots/issues/3503 .
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Maybe I just don't want to send Google any info.
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People are often reproached because their desires are directed mainly to money and they are fonder of it than of anything else. Yet it is natural and even inevitable for them to love that which, as an untiring Proteus, is ready at any mome
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by hnaccy 8y ago
>Before this decade, the Internet was by and large an aristocracy of liberal, competent tech workers discussing their career and their interests. This doesn't match my experience at all.
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>it’s increasingly expected of developers to have a track record of open-source contributions if they want to move up into the higher tiers of their profession. Is it really? Of the people I know who have had excellent career paths in so
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by hnaccy 8y ago
This doesn't count state systems, including those and it's ~20% drug offenses.
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>Majority of the offenders are there for non-violent drug offenses. I don't believe this is true.
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They still seem to hide things if you compare to Bing results.
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I'm using an open source browser because I don't trust third parties; what if they were served a NSL or similar? Either way the common claim that it's purely local is certainly not true.
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>When you use Firefox, Mozilla by default collects technical and interaction data. You can read about the data we collect and how you can choose what you share in the Firefox Privacy Notice. >If your Firefox is configured to share thi
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They phone home with the recommendations which leaks info about your browsing history.
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What if it reduces the disincentives to becoming a heroin addict?
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Wonder which camp Rose Pak's kidney came from.
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From the current Harvard case: >For example, Dr. Card’s simulations show that if Harvard had not considered race, the proportion of African-American students in the Class of 2019 would have dropped from 14% to 6%, and the proportion of H
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by hnaccy 8y ago
If the number of applicants exceeds the number of spots and some are assigned a higher value due to their race then applicants of other races are disadvantaged.
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What makes a company LGBT friendly?
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I find the use of paperless voting machines extremely suspect. In the best case supporters of paperless are naive or have had their palms greased by the machines' suppliers. In the worst case they're actively being used to tamper
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by hnaccy 8y ago
>started suggesting a biological essentialism Where? The existence of affirmative action for specific groups necessarily disadvantages other groups based on their race.
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Someone can disagree with the concept and/or implementation of race based admission policies without being a racist eugenicist. I believe my confusion stems from you answering no to my question >So you believe that white americans s
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It's the logical conclusion of your stated thesis and affirmative action as it exists today. >Folks are acutely aware that Asian immigration in the US only allowed extremely rich and overqualified immigrants until relatively recentl
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by hnaccy 8y ago
So you believe that white americans start from a harder place than asian americans? >which is what studies show Which studies? Graduation standards have changed for all races, in undergraduate institutions grade inflation is rampant and
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by hnaccy 8y ago
Yes I hold them to a higher standard and Mozilla is their own worst enemy. Off the top of my head I can think of > german cliqz partnership/expirement > Mr. Robot ad forced extension install > Forcing Pocket into base Firefox
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It is my understanding that Pocket by default phones home with the articles recommended to you as well as your interaction with them on the new tab page. Given that these recommendations are generated using your local browsing history they
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>Academic achievement is not the main criteria for admissions - and at least in an american system it shouldn't be. Instead it should be the color of your skin? That they will underperform is not unsubstantiated in cases like black
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>We invited you in with your lower score because we recognize it is more difficult for you to achieve that score, and as such are more likely to succeed This seems like a generous description of affirmative action given it punishes asian
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by hnaccy 8y ago
I took from your post that affirmative action is defensible because it helps those who had a harder time due to racism or sexism. But you admit asians who affirmative actions hurts the most face more racism than whites. Did I misunderstand?

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