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by jshevek 7y ago
Are you suggesting my culture is racist, simply because we use terms you don't like? Your earlier link is not even relevant to taxonomy. This one is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(biology) > In biologic
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by jshevek 7y ago
Yes, absolutely. I wasn't trying to suggest the actual motive, just note a possibly beneficial side effect. At the same time, there will be massive unintended negative side effects caused directly by the impeded movement, particular fo
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by jshevek 7y ago
I don't know if there is such confidence among specialists, but among non specialists the arguments I have heard are based on assumed similarities with the common flu. These arguments may or may not apply , and there is still disagree
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by jshevek 7y ago
You are correct, but notice the attempt to police speech with a rather vile insinuation: "if you don't want to sound racist"
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by jshevek 7y ago
> Italy’s steps are less limiting than one might have anticipated. The government is letting people move around the affected areas, and even to leave them, for work- or health-related reasons. Rome says it will fine or arrest those who b
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by jshevek 7y ago
> we should not continue to be racist because of them. Who is being racist, and how are they being racist?
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by jshevek 7y ago
> My right to call this the Wuhan virus" is a funny hill to choose to die on. Please don't severely misrepresent the intentions and arguments of the other party.
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by jshevek 7y ago
Language is defined by usage, and it's obvious that neither the words "race" nor "racist" are deprecated.
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by jshevek 7y ago
> Don't you know it's not good to be racist? That it's bad? That we shouldn't discriminate racially, it's bad. Judging people on their religion is bad. It's bad to judge people by their skin color, their soc
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by jshevek 7y ago
> You will be jailed... in the Western world for questioning holocaust evidence The context defining claims related to the US and China, not Germany. You will not be jailed in the US for questioning the Holocaust. > harassed, ridic
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by jshevek 7y ago
The question doesn't imply failure to understand. I'm also curious whether this is considered a good example of k code, which is clear and readable to people proficient in k.
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by jshevek 7y ago
Are they wrong, here? Irrespective of plant location there is no hazard to public health from the meltdown of a light water reactor. In the case of any nuclear accident there are two possible paths for radionuclides to affect humans, direc
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by jshevek 7y ago
Can any knowledgeable person comment on the accuracy / balance of this claim? I distrust promotional materials, but to an ignorant lay person this is intriguing: Standard light water reactors are proliferation-resistant by their very
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by jshevek 7y ago
Brave is open source, so their ad blocking mechanisms are transparent: https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust Here is an excerpt of the read.me: It uses a tokenisation approach for quickly reducing the potentially matc
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by jshevek 7y ago
I deleted a response in which I assumed you posted the original comment. My apologies. Do you disagree that the original comment was poisoning the well?
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by jshevek 7y ago
Do you know of any individuals to whom this would apply? Or is this just speculation? This comment reads to me like poisoning the well and presumption of motive.
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by jshevek 7y ago
I would also like further explanation, since it appears the parent is criticizing Brave because it has "ads", without differentiating between the implication of different methods of delivering ads. Since Brave ads respect user pri
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by jshevek 7y ago
I would say no, more information here: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
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by jshevek 7y ago
There is a lot of anti-Brave FUD, particularly on HN. It's good to see people pushing back against it in favor of a more rational treatment of the pros and cons of Brave.
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by jshevek 7y ago
> Ads right now are attention stealing, privacy invading monsters as a result of an arms race for users' notice All true, and this is why I use Brave. Brave punishes privacy invading ads. If you opt in to BAT, Brave values attention
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by jshevek 7y ago
Do you believe that we will achieve an ad free web? I agree with your goal, but I think we should not reject improvement in the name of perfection.
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by jshevek 7y ago
Here is how to enable reader mode in Brave: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22407265
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by jshevek 7y ago
I don't use BAT, but I use Brave. I like that Brave is the best for respecting your privacy: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
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by jshevek 7y ago
Video demo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=grqXEz3bdC0
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by jshevek 7y ago
Probably at least long enough to get the same result without the currently necessary surgery.
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by jshevek 7y ago
Yes, there are many noisy environments where it is easier for me to meditate than to sleep, and some in which the reverse is true.
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by jshevek 7y ago
This was not true in my case. I cannot meditate easily if I hear conversations or erratic noises, but the steady rhythmic nature of the MRI machine integrated effortlessly with my meditation. The staff thought I was sleeping, and said the
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by jshevek 7y ago
I have lived in areas that were gentrifying. Everyone knew that rents were going up and would continue to go up, but few were willing to leave. People with small nest eggs preferred to blow it on higher rents than invest it in relocation. T
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by jshevek 7y ago
I don't think you are applying the principle of charity when reading his words.
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by jshevek 7y ago
> If you've never had a git commit FAIL...you aren't very experienced with git. By your description, you've probably just used it casually a lot. You don't do anything complicated and conclude that git isn't com

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