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by jl6 2y ago
You can argue hypocrisy or about the way the argument is presented here, but it’s beside the point. Saying “there is only one correct opinion on this matter and if you disagree then you’re a bigot” is exactly what is driving people to oppos
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by jl6 2y ago
One can imagine the feeling of realizing the asteroid will hit in 6 months but your anti-asteroid solution will take 3 years to build.
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by jl6 2y ago
I’m saying that he shouldn’t have presented use of “Latinx” as an unalloyed good, and uncritically “inclusive” (a massive assumption which is highly debatable, particularly amongst Latinos), and that his survey questions are very weak at co
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by jl6 2y ago
Sure, for example, this guy and his paper: https://x.com/mfrmarcel/status/1850899388165693916 “Latinx” is presented uncritically as “inclusive”, and the people who don’t like it are smeared as “queerphobic”. This
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by jl6 2y ago
It would indeed be nice if these things were introduced as “let’s try a new thing and then choose to accept or reject it later, based on results”, rather than “we have determined there is only one correct way of thinking about this topic, a
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by jl6 2y ago
They’re XFree86’ing him.
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by jl6 2y ago
One risk is that our systems are now extremely efficient, and one aspect of efficiency is that it tends to eliminate “unnecessary” buffers and stockpiles. Just-in-time manufacturing pulls supplies in response to demand. The global food supp
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by jl6 2y ago
IMHO using “north pole” in a headline to mean “north polar region” tells us more about the nature of headlines than about the quality of science reporting.
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by jl6 2y ago
Running a shitty business, even an exploitative one, isn’t violence.
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by jl6 2y ago
There's an art to subtitling that goes beyond mere speech-to-text processing. Sometimes it's better to paraphrase dialog to reduce the amount of text that needs to be read. Sometimes you need to name a voice as unknown, to avoid s
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by jl6 2y ago
I get wanting a neutral background. It makes the feature foreground stand out. But for the foreground to be neutral too? What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were they just born with a heart full of neutrality?
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by jl6 2y ago
America is a “flawed democracy”: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/03/21/why-amer... The path to improving it does not go via vigilante murder. Some form of immigration control now has majori
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by jl6 2y ago
What are stereotypical slumlords and what have they done?
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by jl6 2y ago
Distorting the meaning of words is how these people justify their actions. Not giving them what they want? That’s violence now! Thus justifying retaliatory - or even pre-emptive - violence.
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by jl6 2y ago
Every talking head believes the system doesn’t work. Trump just got elected largely on a platform of claiming the current system isn’t working. What are we supposed to do, switch from democracy to vigilante murder as a system of government?
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by jl6 2y ago
This comment fundamentally misunderstands what “male” means. No matter how inconvenient a truth, humans cannot change sex.
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by jl6 2y ago
He explained it in the next sentence. If people are free to say it in Congress they should be free to say it on Meta platforms too, and that includes a range of non-binary opinions that aren’t intrinsically istphobic.
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by jl6 2y ago
Still sounds saner than what they actually did.
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by jl6 2y ago
Surely there were options like appointing a new police chief which they could have gone to first rather than going straight to emergency powers and suspension of rights?
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by jl6 2y ago
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by jl6 2y ago
Sure, but there’s a gap between “this would be bad” and “we need to change the law to stop it happening”, so what you think of as a concession isn’t necessarily conceding anything at all.
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by jl6 2y ago
2A people presumably think that even though there are some edge cases that are bad (citizens owning nuclear weapons), the risk of unintended consequences of legislating against these cases is too great given the small-to-nil occurrence of t
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by jl6 2y ago
If this guy went on a terror rampage and it later emerged that he had spent years stockpiling bombs and obsessing over weapons, there would be a chorus of “why didn’t someone intervene earlier?” and “of course the guy was dangerous”. Hind
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by jl6 2y ago
The bloat is real, but it’s not all bloat. We ask for a lot more from our software today. Simple example: rendering text isn’t that simple when we expect full Unicode support. It’s not altogether different from how everything seems to be mu
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by jl6 2y ago
I’ve been using Digikam for 20 years, and although it’s pretty good now, it has been a rough 20 years in some respects. Nevertheless I’d do it all again rather than suffer the trap of putting data into a system designed to prevent you getti
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by jl6 2y ago
Ironic that the model is all about how finite resources must eventually run out, and so production cannot grow without limit, whereas in the real world it’s consumption which seems a more pressing threat. We are probably capable of prod
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by jl6 2y ago
“These sites are all as bad as each other” remains a very workable hypothesis.
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by jl6 2y ago
I imagine Apple might argue that no private information is sent thanks to the use of homomorphic encryption. But Apple’s explanation rings hollow without the user having the ability to verify that this system is working as described.
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by jl6 2y ago
… Yes?
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by jl6 2y ago
Science was always just fine thank you. The problematic part is extremists misrepresenting it as a cudgel with which to silence dissent. Let’s not pretend there aren’t extremists in both tribes doing this.

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