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by jwond 4y ago
> Tweets that share someone else’s historical (not same-day) location information are also not prohibited by this policy. Seems like the rules would allow journalists to share a story reporting if Elon Musk visited any Saudi creditors, b
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Info Interventions(interventions.withgoogle.com)
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You could use source maps. Besides, I’d imagine the deployed code would be minimized anyway regardless of whether TypeScript is used.
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How is it fearmongering? Mandatory “diversity statements” are a growing trend in academia. It’s been discussed on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33053149
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History is a much larger list than open tabs. For bookmarks, I don’t want to have to manage a bunch of temporary bookmarks. With a tab I can just close it and move on, but if I had created a bookmark now I have to both close the tab and del
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Reading through descriptions of the CIA interfering in foreign elections and supporting insurrections against democratically elected governments makes it difficult to agree that the CIA protects democracy and freedom - https://en
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I imagine the logic is that if the US has its own domestic chip production and isn’t so dependent on Taiwanese chips, then the US may not care as much if China invades Taiwan.
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by jwond 4y ago
Reminds me of a similar video but from a LinkedIn employee https://youtu.be/X5TZVhKDwpk
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by jwond 4y ago
Bernie also said “when you’re white you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto, you don’t know what it’s like to be poor” https://youtu.be/z6IlGoeDIUQ&t=0m42s
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by jwond 4y ago
> Male is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male > Femal
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"male" and "female" refer to sex, not gender
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I don’t think they are really due any credit for correcting misinformation that they shouldn’t have published in the first place. I understand news outlets are all in a rush to be among the first to cover these trending stories, but in my o
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by jwond 4y ago
I do not deny that some who oppose lax immigration policies are racist, but just because some people who have certain concerns are racist does not mean that everyone who shares those concerns is also racist, or that those concerns are inval
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Some studies have found a negative relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust [1], but it is difficult to have discussions about this since it is such a sensitive topic. And of course it is not the only factor. [1] https:/
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> Standard practice for right wing parties to blame immigrants (or refugees, etc.). On the flip side, standard practice for left wing parties is to deny that immigration causes any problems at all and call you racist for even trying to d
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> Many girls have been banned for showing their shoulders I don’t use TikTok, but I thought TikTok was known to have a lot of videos of scantily clad women and girls dancing. Is that just a meme?
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> The Wikimedia Foundation defines racial equity as shifting away from Eurocentricity, White-male-imperialist-patriarchal supremacy, superiority, power and privilege Well then. That makes it perfectly clear that Wikimedia is under the sw
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by jwond 4y ago
> Timmons said that pay in the sector is up 5% over the course of the last year Unless this figure is adjusted for inflation, real pay has gone down.
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by jwond 4y ago
> Making accomodations for other people to reduce that disparity is not discrimination. Giving people different accommodations based on race or sex is discrimination no matter how many times you claim it is not. > Hiring practices in
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by jwond 4y ago
Treating people differently on the basis of race or sex is discrimination. Equity is explicitly about trying to force equality of outcome between different groups by discriminating against groups that have been deemed privileged and in fa
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by jwond 4y ago
When people are victims of discrimination based on their race or sex they are likely to complain about it. The fact that some people believe the discrimination is justified is little solace to someone who is actually subject to said discrim
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Just because something is legal does not mean it is morally acceptable. Slavery was once perfectly legal, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t wrong.
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by jwond 4y ago
Could you explain why? Do you think white men aren’t being discriminated against? Do you think white men are being discriminated against and just don’t like seeing people talk about it? Or maybe some other reason?
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by jwond 4y ago
> We're one of the least densely populated countries in the world There’s a reason most Canadians live close to the southern border. Most of Canada’s territory isn’t particularly friendly to large-scale human habitation.
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When corporations and the wealthy complain about worker shortages it seems to me they really just don’t want to have to raise wages or improve working conditions to attract workers. Or in the case of jobs that require certain training or ed
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by jwond 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...
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> A bit hypocritical of Snowden to criticize the USA while holed up in Russia. Seeing how Julian Assange has been treated I think Snowden is acting wisely and I’m not going to hold it against him.
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Swatting is illegal. If Kiwi Farms or its members are implicated in illegal activities then it should be handled through the legal system where due process is respected.
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> Do people actually think ads mean the company's approve of the messages of the content? It doesn't make sense to me. I think from the advertisers’ perspective it may also be about just wanting to avoid a negative association.
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While the Windows Credential Manager doesn’t really have any access controls below the user account level, the same is not true for the Mac Keychain. By default if an app tries to read a keychain entry that was created by another app then t

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