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by jeegsy 6y ago
Maybe its the morality of society in general or maybe its the Trump effect but I think we have been too quick to assign hero status and moral uprightness to people at the slightest opportunity. I'm not calling this woman a liar but as
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by jeegsy 6y ago
The solution to this as I see this is that these platforms allow everything. Only block illegal (local law) content and spam. Provide users with powerful blocking/filtering tools. The only influence they can have on content is monetiza
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by jeegsy 6y ago
> We need to go back to the web, where anybody could install Apache and off they went. Bandwidth is cheap now. BitTorrent exists. From your mouth to God's ears friend. I can't tell you enough how maddening it is to observe the
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by jeegsy 6y ago
DD, UberEats and the like screw up orders too. I've had a few errors even though "i didnt have to talk to anyone"
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by jeegsy 6y ago
> In the UK the three big pizza chains (Dominos, Papa Johns, Pizza Hut) I don't know why but I am saddened by this. I mean, even in the UK they are the biggest?
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by jeegsy 6y ago
Sounds like your immersion level was increasing with every try
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by jeegsy 6y ago
> They specifically write job descriptions in a way that’ll fail to find someone locally I see this all the time with the job descriptions
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by jeegsy 6y ago
Excellent find!!
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by jeegsy 6y ago
"Led To" is a bit of a stretch
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by jeegsy 6y ago
I wasn't trying to create a strawman, I only described things the way I did as a shorthand due to my belief that it was obvious to all the outsized role that youtube plays in public discourse. Just as was said on another informative th
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by jeegsy 6y ago
> Distribution is very different than freedom of speech Whenever these dabates arise it would save a whole lot of time if participants assume as a given that everyone understands the first amendment as written. IMHO it will be far more u
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by jeegsy 6y ago
> He sued one of his employees to prevent him (the employee) from publishing a proof that Wolfram claimed he had discovered in his book. The wikipedia article claims that Wolfram conjectured rule 110 in 1985 many years before Cook. Out o
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by jeegsy 7y ago
I think the point is that the stated reason for opposition is all rational and proper but the suspicion (based on current year political sentiments) is that it is nevertheless a cover for an altogether irrational hope that the the drug is p
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by jeegsy 7y ago
Why is the stockpiling function so centralized? How much supply does each individual hospital/medical center have on hand in reserve during the normal course of business?
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by jeegsy 7y ago
Bringing up Russia in the context of this discussion would be an example of this phenomenon methinks
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by jeegsy 7y ago
Good Heavens! This article was fantastic! It also makes me want to watch Office all over again
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by jeegsy 7y ago
wouldn't you need to be an SME to interpret the results properly and put them in their proper context? Not to mention what inputs, variable would actually make sense in the real world?
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by jeegsy 7y ago
> Perhaps we should treat with caution the predictions of electrical engineers about pandemic disease outbreaks Or former software company CEOs for that matter
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by jeegsy 7y ago
What sites in particular were blocked?
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by jeegsy 7y ago
RIP Monsieur Uderzo. Even sadder than the loss itself is the realization that there aren't really any replacements for talents like these. We'll always have the books and thats it.
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by jeegsy 7y ago
Thank you very much for creating this, whoever you are. I know others have raised issues with the data entry aspect but at least there is something to build on. More relevant for me is that I can now have something to study with regard to t
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by jeegsy 7y ago
Well put but hindsight being 20/20, it might have been nice to know before hand that the price of letting a 'poor child in Detroit' have accessible browsing was the relentless and pernicious invasion of privacy that 'fre
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by jeegsy 7y ago
Only the sith deal in absolutes. If you don't believe in "social justice" then you must believe in "social injustice"?
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by jeegsy 7y ago
Maybe we should build our people up as a society, as a country rather than depending on draining the "highly motivated" people from their own countries, presumably where they are needed much more. It makes me very sad that as a wh
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by jeegsy 7y ago
Thanks!
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by jeegsy 7y ago
> including others whose backgrounds you may not understand at all, does. There is a certain soft bigotry in the assumption that differences in background account for as much as people think they do. The "perspective that I gained i
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by jeegsy 7y ago
> If there is consensus at a societal level that certain hateful speech should be prevented for the general good of society I would be interested to know (1) How you have determined such a consensus exists and (2) How you have determined
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by jeegsy 7y ago
> For some reason, a large part of the extreme left pays lip-service to non-violence, but is always quick to deflect criticism about left violence by pointing to (more extreme) right violence. THIS! I'm not on the right but I'v
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by jeegsy 7y ago
Awful or not, the ability to customize themes etc encouraged a lot of folks to learn basic web dev. The level of 'control' goes a long way towards the general point the article is making. All that has been lost for the sake of a &
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by jeegsy 7y ago
I think you might just have highlighted why a taxi driver and an Uber driver are not the same thing. For all you know, the Uber driver might have arrived in Dallas just a week before you.

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