natestemen

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by natestemen 5y ago
Just to clarify, from their about page ( https://reallifemag.com/about-real-life/ ) they have the following > Three years ago, Snapchat offered to support the work I do as a sociologist, primarily applying social theo
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by natestemen 6y ago
I know this website has a penchant for anti-China everything, but it's funny because every terms of service I've ever read has something in it about complying with law enforcement about giving up data and terminating service. If y
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by natestemen 6y ago
people read/write chinese outside of China though...
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by natestemen 7y ago
in nyc it's quite common (maybe even required) to run simulations of changes of infrastructure before making them to see how they will effect traffic. source: my partner helps run these simulations as part of their job/their compa
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by natestemen 7y ago
this is such a bad take on the real issue which is the radicalization of these men by website like the *chans. saying "this is largely a mental health problem" completely ignores the problem of large scale violence the far-right i
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by natestemen 7y ago
i think the author probably wanted to draw attention to their gender, not their sex. hence female is off the table.
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by natestemen 7y ago
wrong could be contrary to your preferred style. that's just how it goes. just because you don't care if others misspell you name doesn't mean that applies to all others.
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by natestemen 8y ago
> I know if I hit them I'll probably be spending time in prison lol cyclists are dying left and right and barely anyone is going to prison. the privileged class (drivers in this case) will always protect their own.
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by natestemen 8y ago
there are cases when you should treat a cyclist like a pedestrian and others where you should treat them like a car. i don't think any driving teachers are doing a good job at teaching this, but as soon as you get on a bike you realize
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by natestemen 8y ago
i respect that though. happy devs is a precondition for happy users.
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by natestemen 8y ago
mathematics research is typically very social. if you look at the mathematics research community as a whole you will find a very small percentage working completely in isolation. also i would add Grigori Perelman to your list of mathematici
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by natestemen 8y ago
As someone who majored in math/physics I'm going to heavily disagree. I was quite poor when it came to multiplication tables, and monsters like long division, but was a pretty good student through university. I never felt like I n
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by natestemen 8y ago
on the one hand, id think the police have enough money and time to build a detection system like this. on the other, we have people building surveillance system for free in their spare time
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by natestemen 8y ago
i have a hard time believing fintech startups targeting developing countries are going to help improve the world. or any fintech startup for that matter.
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by natestemen 8y ago
I could imagine something like this being an amazing tool for teaching people about non-euclidean geometries and how things like distance can be so contorted in other spaces. In particular I'm thinking teaching people about special and
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by natestemen 8y ago
I'm glad someone has mentioned this here. It's something our industry is really not taking seriously at all and needs more people pushing for. As you mentioned company decisions have real racial effects, and those decisions are of
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by natestemen 8y ago
im going to take this a step further and say connecting accounts means sharing _no more_ data than is required for the integration. I don't understand why netflix gets to see all your DM's when all you want the connection to do is
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by natestemen 8y ago
i dont think it's really that simple. even it was i don't think the decision is that easy anyway. it's important to think about who your decisions affect, even if they may be a minority (which is bigger than 0.1%). why is it
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by natestemen 8y ago
anyone have any good explanations of the image linked? like what are ARIN, RIPE, why is some unallocated, what is multicast? that sort of thing would be cool to learn
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by natestemen 8y ago
speech is dangerous. hate speech promotes and incites violence.
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by natestemen 8y ago
to me, action matters more than intent. i understand sometimes people make mistakes, but sometimes those mistakes could've been avoided if they spent any time learning about current issues. in not spending time learning about these thi
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by natestemen 8y ago
im completely fine with getting rid of people who want to dress up as nazis for halloween.
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by natestemen 8y ago
could you give some examples of people being fired for "relatively minor violations"?
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by natestemen 8y ago
> If it doesn't enhance readability, speed, etc. I disagree. Having terminology that is clear (which master/slave is not) decreases the time needed to spend to get an understanding of whatever it is you're working on. Also
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by natestemen 8y ago
care to share some of the inaccuracies?
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by natestemen 8y ago
im curious to know how many emails you get from this. just want to know what kind of people we are dealing with here on hn.
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by natestemen 8y ago
but its not really random is it? its just a wikipedia page that the HN community finds interesting. how is it any different from a blog post that the community has voted to the top?
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by natestemen 8y ago
i love seeing wikipedia articles making it to the front page. no opinions, just a cool wiki article that probably most people have never heard of.
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by natestemen 9y ago
May have been suggested but would love to be able to toggle all venues in a certain city so I don't have to go searching for venues that I may be interested in.
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by natestemen 9y ago
To be completely honest, I don't think many people outside the tech bubble have realized the extent to which facebook used and collected users data. I just don't feel like it's fair to say everybody has known for years . M

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