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by knolax 7y ago
Imagine having a mental model of US demographics so bad that you think all Asian-Americans live on the West coast.
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by knolax 7y ago
Or the curtains are just blue.
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by knolax 7y ago
Blogspam with barely any details.
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by knolax 7y ago
That's not a good analogy because murder are both one time actions. Punishing a murderer who saved before doesn't prevent more people from being saved. A more apt example would be granting clemency to a highly talented surgeon spe
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by knolax 7y ago
I saw a tweet on Mastodon that claimed Git was a "major barrier for people of color" or some other nonsense. Meritocracy is dying here.
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by knolax 7y ago
Sometimes you get stuck in long conversations; sometimes the other person doesn't even know the answer; sometimes the other person can't even understand the question.
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by knolax 7y ago
> It comes with SSH running and you have the root password Is the password different for every device? Is the ssh daemon updated regularly? Seems like a massive security vulnerability otherwise.
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by knolax 7y ago
As someone who use pens with 0.38mm tips, most touch screens and graphics tablets I've come across simply don't have enough resolution to write comfortably. Reading this review made me go down a rabbit hole of various E-Ink tablet
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by knolax 7y ago
For anyone else wondering, the art was made in MS Paint, the game itself was not made in MS Paint. I thought it would be like one of those Turing-complete Excel spreadsheets.
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by knolax 7y ago
Just saw a tweet that claims he "LOVES RAPE".
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by knolax 7y ago
> Some of the contaminated valsartan contains as much as 17 micrograms of NDMA in a single pill. That’s equivalent to eating 48 pounds of bacon. The FDA estimates that for every 8,000 people who took the highest dose of contaminated vals
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by knolax 7y ago
From the article it seems that Zawgyi rendered various Unicode codepoints (some of them reserved for the Burmese script and others from other scripts) in the order they appeared graphically. Although Burmese usually puts the vowel in the fr
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by knolax 7y ago
> A chemistry is performed I would like to buy one art please.
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by knolax 7y ago
You're assuming that the parties involved are in a jurisdiction with gift tax.
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by knolax 7y ago
It probably doesn't look as good IRL without all the filters used in the photos the article uses.
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by knolax 7y ago
If people who have more information on a topic become "defensive" against viewpoints from people with less information, on first glance I'd trust the former group better.
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by knolax 7y ago
Popularizing a bunch of disingenuous arguments and presenting it as science isn't excusable no matter the genre.
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by knolax 7y ago
Implicit in the premise of the chapter is that categories such as "Asian" and attributes like "better at math" exist objectively. Gladwell never defines Asian, instead shifting between definitions that rely on nationalit
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by knolax 7y ago
If you're competing in area where other competitors spend 10k hours practicing then maybe you should make sure that those 10k hours are actually giving them an advantage. If not you now have a 10k hour time advantage over them.
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by knolax 7y ago
> "How much are they paying you?" he said she asked him, not clarifying who "they" were. "Did they give you a visa? Did they give your family a visa? Do you make a lot of money? Do you work on Wall Street? Are yo
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by knolax 7y ago
Gladwell had a chapter in his book Outliers called "Rice Paddies and Math Tests" where he claims that "Asians are good at math" because rice is hard to grow. The man is obviously an intellectual sham.
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by knolax 7y ago
I guess Paedomorphic would be too on the nose.
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by knolax 7y ago
> Chinese school for ABCs That's your problem, most American Born Chinese can barely pronounce their own last names right; "Chinese Schools" in America are mostly just a formality.
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by knolax 7y ago
In this light Elon Musk's Boring Company seems more reasonable.
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by knolax 7y ago
For more concrete information about Nvshu see the Unicode proposal [0]. It seems that it's similar to Hirigana, an italicized version of Standard Chinese used as a syllabry. It's amazing how little information the linked article g
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by knolax 7y ago
If you think electrical work or plumbing are still going to be a high-skill job in fifty years then you don't have a good understanding of labor markets. Automation doesn't replace twenty low-skill workers with a robot, it replace
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by knolax 7y ago
Sounds disorienting.
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by knolax 7y ago
Imagine breaking your body doing blue-collar work only to be deprecated once what you do is inevitably automated, leaving you with no transferrable skills or employment prospects in middle age.
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by knolax 7y ago
You know at some point in history somebody must've called "CPU" or "RAM" buzzwordy acronyms.
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by knolax 7y ago
So now we have filthy instruments and dead doctors?

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