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by lenticular 7y ago
Sex worker advocates were nearly united against SESTA/FOSTA. No one listened to them. This conflation of prostitution and sex trafficking has gotten really out of hand.
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by lenticular 7y ago
It's really highly exaggerated, both in that show and in popular culture. Nazis would not have travelled to Mars by the 1960s, and they wouldn't have supersonic civilian airliners. Nazism crippled German science, math, and technol
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by lenticular 7y ago
The criticism is more that instead of increasing sales by developing more drugs, they focus their resources on marketing instead. This makes more money for them but is bad for society.
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by lenticular 7y ago
However, it was only open-sourced now, while FB Flow has been open-source for several years. It is actually kind of confusing considering both target JS.
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by lenticular 7y ago
Airlines are having near-record profits now. I have a hard time believing there isn't some implicit or explicit collusion going on with US carriers. Not only are seats ever-more cramped and the fees ever greater, but pilot benefits hav
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by lenticular 7y ago
Yes everyone knows this. However, the difference is regulation, collateral, and FDIC insurance. There's been a huge number of instances of exchanges or other parties screwing over Bitcoin users, but there has not been a single loss of
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by lenticular 7y ago
The government is able to issue debt.
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by lenticular 7y ago
A huge amount of "forensic science" is complete bunk. Scientific validity doesn't matter, you just have to be able to sell it to a jury.
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by lenticular 7y ago
This retaliation in response to anti-harassment protests is actually illegal. It's pretty obvious these actions were done before legal got involved: When Claire Stapleton had a lawyer contact Google they walked back the demotion.
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by lenticular 7y ago
Breitbart is probably not the most authoritative source on Google's internal politics.
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by lenticular 7y ago
ELMs are just neural nets with random hidden weights. This idea has been around since the 60's before being rebranded to get unoriginal papers published. This is equivalent to a low-rank Fourier approximation of Gaussian process regres
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by lenticular 7y ago
Well, monads in programming are modeled on category-theoretic monads, so you do know a bit. Monads, functors, arrows, etc are just patterns that show up a lot in functional programming that also happen to have analogues in category theory.
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by lenticular 7y ago
kixi.stats is very nice, but Incanter has been unmaintained for a few years.
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by lenticular 7y ago
I'm surprised that managers are actually being held to account in Germany now. There initially was quite a bit of resistance to doing so; the government seemed eager to believe the obviously bogus claim that it was just a few rogue eng
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by lenticular 7y ago
The sound waves in the ground actually are seismic waves, there's no real distinction. The difference is that air essentially just has longitudinal pressure waves (like P-waves), whereas the ground has transversely oriented shear (S) w
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by lenticular 7y ago
Interesting that that low, deep tones were the first the author heard. This is due to sound waves traveling through the ground arriving first. The higher frequencies are attenuated much more. I've always noticed this occurring with on-
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by lenticular 7y ago
This is a great article. The EU has done tremendous damage through its obsession with austerity.
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by lenticular 7y ago
The Paris agreement, even if it were implemented faithfully, was still woefully inadequate. Not only that, but the longer we wait, the more severe cuts will be necessary. Because of these considerations and our previous track record, I just
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by lenticular 8y ago
>One thing I found a little concerning is there's no mention of effect size. That is, how did they measure immune response, and what was the actual effect on health? The summary says "more severe weight loss," but how seve
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by lenticular 8y ago
Does anyone have any slides or a preprint of this? I've grown quite skeptical of studies like this in general due to poor statistical practice.
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by lenticular 8y ago
I've been around the block enough times to know homophobia when I see it, thanks. I've been dealing with it for a long time, and I'm more than happy to put homophobes in a bucket. The poster's homophobia was blatantly ob
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by lenticular 8y ago
Yeah, your tax refund was an interest-free loan to the government.
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by lenticular 8y ago
The EU is quite neoliberal. Austerity was the policy there after the recession. It has also presided over a massive financialization of the European economy. The US is far out of the political mainstream with other wealthy countries. In com
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by lenticular 8y ago
Thanks for the tip!
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by lenticular 8y ago
This kind of reminds me of the story of promises in javascript, which are almost but not quite monads. Among other things, this has made implementing cancellation difficult. In addition, if it were monadic, the async/await syntax could
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by lenticular 8y ago
>Yeah, umm... plenty of "racial realists" and ethno-nationalists here too, and incels, and anti-semites. I'm sure you're right, but I haven't read. Generally, bigots go for the whole meal deal. Still, I notice th
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by lenticular 8y ago
Are you seriously asking me for evidence of my claim that homophobia is a big problem? Do you need similar evidence of racism being a big problem?
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by lenticular 8y ago
Sorry, my mistake. However, you are repeating the claims of crypto-homophobes that deny that anti-LGBT discrimination is still a very big problem. It is still a horrible scourge, and minimizing it is morally wrong. You may not experience to
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by lenticular 8y ago
>Reality disproves the sensationalistic headline I linked to Psychology Today. Your evidence is from a site promoting some anti-porn hysteria that there is an epidemic of people crippled by porn addition. How is my article the sensationa
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by lenticular 8y ago
Try google. This information is easily available.

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