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by joemi 8y ago
I don't really care whether celebrities feel persecuted or not. (I believe there's too much cult of celebrity already, so I do not feel any more sympathy for them than I do for everyone else.) The danger I was referring to is the
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by joemi 8y ago
It's specifically about being an academic because this is the comment thread discussing: https://www.bbc.com/news/education-46146766
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by joemi 8y ago
Put simply: Pretty much most of what Trump stands for. In a way, he's even the "religious leader".
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by joemi 8y ago
It's more than that though. Liberalism is a religion, sure, but there's a right wing equivalent too that's just as fervent. (No, it's not Nazism, though that isn't to say that's not a threat too.) I think it&#x
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by joemi 8y ago
Your comment actually is a perfect example of why this anonymity is needed. I read the article, I thought it was an interesting idea. On the other hand, you (presumably) read the article, came to the conclusion that Nazis must be behind it,
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by joemi 8y ago
Now if we can just get around to fixing why we need such anonymity in an academic journal in the first place... It's absurd that there's such danger in saying something that doesn't entirely align with either the left or the
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by joemi 8y ago
The "we" that is implied holds no power over what someone names something, so it doesn't really matter anyway.
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by joemi 8y ago
That's a really great overview of the situation. I much preferred this to the Vice article that's also on the HN frontpage.
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by joemi 8y ago
I wonder if it'd be possible to augment or replace the existing living spaces (and other spaces) on a rig. Maybe turn a rig into a hotel-on-the-water kind of thing.
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by joemi 8y ago
> However, this seems like a particularly shortsighted form of gatekeeping because it also cuts off a pipeline for young and inexperienced people to get into game design and programming. Riot and Blizzard have hired many of the Warcraft3
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by joemi 8y ago
FINALLY. Confusing version numbering always annoys me, and wifi's "n", "ac", "g", etc version names (combined with the easy to get wrong "802.11") have been one of the biggest offenders for a whi
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by joemi 8y ago
I'm not entirely sure that's motion blur. The images shown in the article make it look like it's just lens distortion. It's probably a fairly wide angle lens, and that's why things look stretched out the further fro
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by joemi 8y ago
I don't think that accounts for lazy or ignorant programmers trying to limit joke/abusive accounts, though. And that's what the problem has always been.
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by joemi 8y ago
His "R.U.R." really blew me away, considering when it was written and how much I could see its influence in a lot of more current scifi. I haven't read "War With the Newts" yet, but it's now next on my list.
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by joemi 8y ago
> FPGAs are often used to test/design not a "circuit" but an ASIC (application-specific-integrated-circuit) To be pedantic, an ASIC (and any IC really) is a circuit, as denoted by the "C" standing for "circu
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by joemi 8y ago
Can you A/B test a site like that? I don't really know how AMP works (so I may be way off base), but from a user standpoint, since you don't seem to actually go to the page, just to Google's AMP version, I'd imagine
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by joemi 8y ago
Good catch. I didn't notice that when copying it.
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by joemi 8y ago
Adding to the other replies explaining why it's not hypocritical, I have an example. Consider section 5.2.4 of Apple's App Store Review Guidelines https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines&#
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by joemi 8y ago
Doesn't have to be middle of night. But you definitely can't do it that quickly during rush hour. Also depends on where exactly you're going and just how deep in the city it is, since the in-the-city traffic can really slow d
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by joemi 8y ago
> To a certain degree. There really should be two ratings. Shipment rating and product rating. Amazon does actually have a system for that, but it's only applicable to third party ("Marketplace" in Amazon lingo) sellers. F
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by joemi 8y ago
I'm really surprised by this. When it comes to Customer Feedback (as opposed to Product Reviews), Amazon institutes an all-or-nothing policy. If any part of a Customer Feedback is out of policy, the entire feedback will be removed (if
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by joemi 8y ago
Alibris is site that's very similar to AbeBooks, but thankfully not owned by Amazon. I think Alibris is _especially_ wonderful from a seller's perspective. Their chat support is friendly and efficient, and does not seem to be an o
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by joemi 8y ago
I agree that they don't have a clear returns policy, and this is a huge problem IMO. Also, if you buy from a "marketplace" (aka third party) seller instead of Amazon, they can have a return policy that's different from A
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by joemi 8y ago
Neat project. It seems to have trouble rendering text from some text heavy pages. For instance, see the missing characters in the posts here: https://html.brow.sh/https://old.reddit.com/
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by joemi 8y ago
cvdazzle is explicitly mentioned in the article and is claimed to be less effective than Juggalo makeup.
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by joemi 8y ago
I knew it was going to be a rough read when the first paragraph said "Let’s explore in this annotated twitter thread." Maybe it shows my age, but I loathe twitter threads, be they annotated or not. And if you need to annotate a tw
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by joemi 8y ago
I'm curious where your 2% margin came from in this estimate. From what I can tell, that number is often quoted as Amazon's profit margins, but I'm not sure smaller more-specialized online retailers necessarily need to match A
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by joemi 8y ago
Since you mentioned LSD, I wonder if technology like this could one day replace hallucinogenic drugs? At least partially - I'm sure some people will always prefer the chemical experience. I've always been pretty interested in the
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by joemi 8y ago
I think Markdown is great for what it is, a simple way to mark up text with some simple html, in a way that's still easily readable as plain text. I dislike most extensions to markdown, since the point, for me, is simple use cases only
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by joemi 8y ago
The difference between Arduino and Raspberry Pi is already one where the Arduino (at least the basic, most popular(?) model) is just a board supporting a small, highly energy efficient microcontroller that you program in C, while the Raspbe

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