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811.
by ixtli 10y ago
I am happy to add "undown/unvote" to my list of internet words that should have existed before but did not.
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Multi-Level Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings (2015)(journals.plos.org)
5 points by ixtli 10y ago|0 comments
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by ixtli 10y ago
Yeah I think that's the real reason why no one discusses it. There's no explanation of why being able to fiddle with noise generation from within a shader is Really Cool(tm) and why you'd want to be able to do it live. The fr
814.
by ixtli 10y ago
This is the sort of thing that I like to keep around to link to people when they extrapolate incorrectly from Trends. However the really poor copy editing honestly makes me reconsider this, as a reader. I think the quality of what you read
815.
by ixtli 10y ago
Yeah I completely misread the parent comment. My only defense is that because of the time difference I was up very late last night watching coverage of this, so I probably need some coffee XD
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by ixtli 10y ago
https://www.facebook.com/WTFlockNews/videos/1132580646806052 Nigel Farage made direct, public claims that the "money going to the EU" would be redirected to the NHS. An hour after the referendum he went
817.
by ixtli 10y ago
I honestly might pay for this service because they used the word "data" correctly (it's the plural of datum) which got me to keep reading long enough to get to the numbers.
818.
by ixtli 10y ago
I worry that you would not have posted this response if the top comment had said "Dear dissenters,". However I think you're right about the extraneous and specious "maybe you shouldn't be working in distributed syst
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by ixtli 10y ago
Every once and a while.
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by ixtli 10y ago
> any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript Then later > the question of the relative merits of programming languages often degene
821.
by ixtli 10y ago
Yes, he is. In fact he's SO off that he goes on to directly contradict himself later in the article: > For example, the question of the relative merits of programming languages often degenerates into a religious war, because so many
822.
by ixtli 10y ago
This is a thread where I immediately scroll to the bottom of the comments and upvote everything. I don't see why we as a community have to pretend that your fix isn't the best one :P
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by ixtli 10y ago
I appreciate your desire to assume stupidity before malice but I've come to see the continuation of oppressive systems as intentional :( People profit off of them and so I'm forced to conclude that they're purpetrated intenti
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by ixtli 10y ago
I think the reason why people have a hard time understanding what you're saying is because unless you've experienced _systemic_ difficulty in your life it's very hard to differentiate it from _personal_ difficulty. Put in a l
825.
by ixtli 10y ago
Very well written. I get the sense that the reason we're all here now is that historically the people who use these APIs as client programmers have been somewhat bad at explaining what they want.
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by ixtli 10y ago
Please don't come to New York. I moved from Amherst to New York a little over four years ago, and I want to make it clear that it's terrible. The food is bad, the people are lame, and all the musicians are out of tune. I hear Chic
827.
by ixtli 10y ago
Rising Tide Games | Full Time (New York City, NY, US) RTG is a New York City-based social game studio of 30-40 people that has been making games for about a year and a half. We're looking for someone who has 5+ years experience in soft
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by ixtli 10y ago
It says they do on the NRA-ILA website. https://www.nraila.org/issues/background-checksnics/
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by ixtli 10y ago
I think we all know why. In fact. This author implies it: the NRA actually represents the business interests of people who manufacture and sell firearms. They may mask these interests as a public service, defending your rights and hobbies a
830.
by ixtli 11y ago
Again, I'm pretty sure that the military will not hold you responsible for something you were shown. That is, I don't see how they would hold someone responsible for being accidentally exposed to something on the morning news. Tha
831.
by ixtli 11y ago
It's unclear why my response is getting downvoted when other people are giving normative answers to a legal question.
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by ixtli 11y ago
I am not a lawyer, but as far as I know there is no US law that makes it illegal for a civilian to see something. It's important, though, that if you have a security clearance you can be fired or put in jail for reading something outsi
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Intel retires “tick-tock”, introduces new “Process, Architecture, Optimization”(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ixtli 11y ago|0 comments
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by ixtli 11y ago
I understand why someone would feel this way but the unreconcilable reality is this: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle The majority of those machines Apple is "mocking" are running ope
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by ixtli 11y ago
A few years ago this desire to profit off of minecraft washed over a small part of the NYC VC scene with a few higher profile firms investigating some people who said they wanted to "solve" problems with minecraft. Anecdotally I f
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by ixtli 11y ago
I think it's clear, however, that EA's sports games are a bit of a monopoly. It's easier to be successful if you have no competition because they're not legally allowed to use anything related to real professional sports
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by ixtli 11y ago
Well said. I feel like this is a response to how negativity or sarcasm even in small doses is dog piled on. I get that communities become toxic in this way but I think that on HN the pendulum has swung way too far to the other side, so to s
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by ixtli 11y ago
> Cute. It's fun to see game programmer code. This. I work almost exclusively with game programmers and it can be ... difficult at times. They seem to be largely unaware of the larger computer science community that's existed s
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by ixtli 11y ago
I did not read anything you said as rude, either. Sometimes I find that people can't tell the difference between saying "you are wrong" and "you are stupid" when it's about something they care about :(
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by ixtli 11y ago
This is such an elegant way to phrase my general sense of frustration I felt reading certain exchanges here. Thanks =)

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