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by lisasays 3y ago
Racism (colloquially) comes from bad people's intentions. Racism can also be measured by its effect, regardless of intent. What would be racist from this outcome is if it kept doing this and no one did anything. After 8 years, that
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by lisasays 3y ago
If a system consistently misclassifies persons black persons far more than white persons -- and does so in a way that's obviously provocative and offensive -- then by definition it's racist in its effect (regardless of intent).
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by lisasays 3y ago
Whether cash is on it's way "out" (as opposed to contracting a bit and settling to a certain niche level) is -- as the article indicates -- far from an obvious, final matter. And in my view quite doubtful in fact. Either way
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The Python Language Summit 2023: Burnout Is Real(pyfound.blogspot.com)
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A very interesting research find. Unfortunately (in terms of upvotes) the HN community has decided that the Rust community keynote flap is infinitely more interesting.
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by lisasays 3y ago
All the drug dealing, child prostitution ... would be fucked overnight Then they'll just turn to some virtual currency. Remember, their buyers are highly motivated.
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by lisasays 3y ago
They weren't talking about people who prefer cashless as being brainwashed by the globocorps. But rather merchants who insist that you go cashless - and not only refuse to serve you, but look at you as if you just emerged from a sw
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by lisasays 3y ago
How is this different to cash? Of course there's no difference in regard to the risk of getting physically lost. I was referring risk of carrying a single value store (independent of type). I also have Apple pay on my phone and watc
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by lisasays 3y ago
Not having to carry a wallet anymore. And when we inevitably leave our card somewhere and we need to get home? Or it's blocked for some random reason? Nevermind the services that just don't take cash, or the fact that their c
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by lisasays 3y ago
Right, but those benefits come from being in stable, committed partnership with an awesome person. What the poster above is saying is that one can also have essentially all the benefits of a strong partnership (the ones that really matte
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by lisasays 3y ago
But hey, it's serverless and scales to zero. And some guy banged it out over the weekend, which means he's a rock star.
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I think it depends a lot on the sources one pulls from, actually. It would be a major scandal indeed if a stalwart source (like the New Yorker, say) were to be caught trolling its readers with generative content. Also very difficult to kee
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by lisasays 3y ago
That's the subject at head. By "environment" I mean of course apps + devices (combined with real-world sources, perhaps).
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‘Succession’ Nailed the Unreal Way We Live Now(nytimes.com)
2 points by lisasays 3y ago|1 comments
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Yup and it's key to how they operate. Stockholm syndrome all the way down.
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In a response to Handelsblatt, the company urged the outlet to delete the "stolen" data and threatened legal action against the paper and the allegedly "disgruntled former employee" they believed to be responsible for t
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Is This Octopus Having a Nightmare?(nytimes.com)
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So what might a useful environment look like for you?
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The most important being of course сука and блять. What are the other 3?
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https://archive.is/Aw6dD
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“It's Time”: Ukraine’s Top Commander Signals Counteroffensive Could Be Imminent(nytimes.com)
5 points by lisasays 3y ago|1 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
Here's what it all boils down to, by my reading: (1) While there were signed treaty agreements ruling out NATA expansion (beyond Germany) -- notes by Baker (and others) do acknowledge that the Soviets/Russians were left with somet
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by lisasays 3y ago
C'est bon - thanks for tidy summary.
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Interview: The 'War of Clans for Putin's Throne Has Begun'(rferl.org)
7 points by lisasays 3y ago|7 comments
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So real quickly - how does this app differ from the little green bird?
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https://archive.is/7qVfc
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Sought Out by Science, and Then Forgotten(nytimes.com)
1 points by lisasays 3y ago|1 comments
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by lisasays 3y ago
Thanks for the compliment. But actually my concern about people, and how gullible they seem to be for every shiny new gimmick the tech gods put in front of them. Not the cloud, per se.
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I would put it this way: the "problem" is ships running over these poor whales. Not the whales doing what they've been doing for millions of years.
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‘Stick over carrot’: progressive Portland takes a hard turn on homelessness(theguardian.com)
5 points by lisasays 3y ago|5 comments

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