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by marricks 5y ago
No an obituary and discussions of a person’s passing must take into account their failings, especially their greatest ones. Otherwise we will begin to forget those mistakes and be doomed to repeat. In particular the failings that lead up to
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by marricks 5y ago
His lies at the time legitimized a war where hundreds of thousands of people died.
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by marricks 5y ago
You don’t get rewarded for questioning the state (or any large power) unfortunately, at least not in media attention or promotions. That said, of course he should have.
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by marricks 5y ago
While I hate FB I also hate headlines like this, why poll the public on something the media affects? Just report what findings are and the effects. It’s like a couple months ago having headlines saying “more American’s (USA) are afraid of c
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by marricks 5y ago
That's a good point!
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by marricks 5y ago
A far more believable source would be a university studying causes of depression. Literally anyone else not profiting off meat would be more believable though.
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by marricks 5y ago
As others have said, Apple does this with only 13% share. The important point is Apple has to make money selling phones, that is their business model. Android's is making money in a number of other ways, mainly user's data.
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by marricks 5y ago
I always figured they stuck with 10 because they wanted to change upgrade cycle/business model, and MacOS is stuck at 10 too so they won’t be “behind.” Then we got MacOS 11 and, well, here we are.
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by marricks 5y ago
Always bugs me when a news source like this is so small it doesn’t have a Wikipedia listing. With only their “about us” to go by who funds them and what their angle is is hard to divine.
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by marricks 5y ago
All these comments seem to live in a fantastical world where money doesn't corrupt or influence behavior. Police were paid to do a job and did it to the benefit of an oil company. You can't pay a detective to investigate a family
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by marricks 5y ago
FB has money to buy the smartest developers, psychologist, and advertisers to make you buy stuff, keep you on their platform, and make you feel what they want you to feel. Is it as addictive as heroin? Probably not, but if they can do that
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by marricks 5y ago
Last year a story like this would have more comments questioning the company's policy, or at least the ones that did wouldn't be down voted. Now it looks like times have changed a bit and more pro corporate winds are blowing...
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by marricks 5y ago
Totally, with all the free time I have between performing at work and caring for my dying partner I’ll be sure to study applicable law, meet with my doctor to get a note, then defend myself to HR
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by marricks 5y ago
I'm a vegan but also not a fan of lab grown meat, it may sway some people but ultimately plants give enough that any special meat replacement product is just a diversion from the plentiful non-meat-centric cuisines and meal choices out
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by marricks 5y ago
Yeah, and perhaps someone who knows rust well could argue some things are easier to do right in rust. For example, in the second bullet, pass readers could be more of the norm in libraries since rust in a systems programming language. Third
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by marricks 5y ago
Totally, anyone who wants privacy is obviously a criminal /s
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by marricks 5y ago
It seems like for any tech company to be successful and sustainable it has to destroy the openness and community it was born from. I discovered couch surfing right as my wandering days came to a close and I feel I sorely missed out.
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by marricks 5y ago
Cratering seemed like it deserved "scare quotes" though, this trough is still one of the highest prices of wood compared to almost any time before 2017.
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by marricks 5y ago
Delta was the dominant variant only by end of July so the data set for the 0.1 number could have been based mostly on a virus which is 2.5x less deadly. We're now facing an endemic virus which, even with vaccination, approaches (or cou
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by marricks 5y ago
> The flu season is typically about 8 months. A weekly death rate of 0.1 per 100k over 8 months would be 3.5 per 100k. That's still depressingly high, and the 0.1 rate doesn't is before July 17th, so wouldn't really accoun
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by marricks 5y ago
I think you bring up good points and I was wrong saying it was only slightly unclear. I don’t fault him as he didn’t post it here but it is definitely not fully clear from reading it what’s going on.
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by marricks 5y ago
He called out specific things and had a tweet which was pretty vague about some bad behavior. If you want to focus on that and imply it's childish you are the one distracting from discussing more important issues. That's probably
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by marricks 5y ago
Steve Klabnik is well known in HN and in the Rust community, he mentioned it privately and doesn't seem to want to air dirty laundry more than he has too. You can either see his history and trust that he wants to get as much done with
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by marricks 5y ago
In all these cases if you asked a human for their initial gut response I imagine they’d make the same type of mistakes as GPT3, the difference is if you have someone a minute to think about it and review they wouldn’t.
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by marricks 5y ago
A 2 week lockdown caused this? I'm not advocated for a year long one again, but having 100k+ cases a day might be more harmful.
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by marricks 5y ago
It’s depressing how all these stories just reinforce the idea that the US could never suffer another lockdown. We have exploding cases and even a brief lockdown would greatly decrease them, but the political will to try and stop it has comp
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by marricks 5y ago
I opened it from the site and thought that :(
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by marricks 5y ago
I imagine that could have hurt their case if Epic was always going to sue anyways.
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by marricks 5y ago
Uh, didn't it always seem like Epic was itching for a fight no matter what happened? That's the impression I got from the case but I also didn't follow it super closely.
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by marricks 5y ago
It's a case of choosing how you lose. Android certainly is more open and free in terms of what you can do with it, but you become Google's product and they will mine all meaningful data from your interactions. What would be swell

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