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by newen 6y ago
For comparison, US film industry revenue is around $11 billion a year.
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by newen 6y ago
What's the difference between a union and a guild? Do Americans just have an aversion to the word union now?
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by newen 6y ago
Hah, yeah you have polls in France right after the war where people say Russian contributed the most in WW2 to polls now saying the US contributed the most. At the rate this is going, people in the future will think Russia was an Axis power
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by newen 6y ago
Yeah, it's pretty unethical. Looks like they just stole the name without any care. There doesn't seem to be any relationship between these guys and the original YOLO group.
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by newen 6y ago
Probably because they understand the value of labor.
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by newen 6y ago
It's not just Germany. Police killings are significantly lower in many many other countries compared to the US.
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by newen 6y ago
The city had already started out with an extremely high crime rate and it dropped significantly after the PD was disbanded and remade. It hasn't gotten to typical levels but I don't think people are expecting magical results her
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by newen 6y ago
I kind of want to see the baby name stats for Karen in a few years lol. Guessing it'll drop to almost nothing.
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by newen 6y ago
They didn't really have the county PD expand into the city. They created a brand new PD, rehired a lot of the old people, named it the county PD (I guess for optics), had new management etc, had drastically different training, prioriti
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by newen 6y ago
How can you possibly think so when there are about 25 police killings in Germany in the last 30 years and about 25 police killings in the US in the last month?
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by newen 6y ago
> He led the city’s high-profile pivot to community policing from 2013 until last year and oversaw what turned out to be a steep decline in crime. Homicides in Camden reached 67 in 2012; the figure for 2019 was 25. That's significan
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by newen 6y ago
I think interfaces in Julia might go something like interface AnimalActions function walk(x::Animal) end function call(x::Animal, y::Animal) end function eat(x::Animal, z::Food) end end struct Dog
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by newen 6y ago
Pizza delivery guys have higher work death rates than police. We should be paying the delivery guys at least as much.
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by newen 6y ago
Thank you. I see too many "I was just following orders" arguments in the internet.
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by newen 6y ago
Libertarians are by their core policy positions all about “I got mine, fuck the rest of you”. In the libertarian paradise, if you’re rich you’ll do fine, you’ll have your gated community and private security, but if you’re poor and starving
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by newen 6y ago
Twitter thread by a Minneapolis city council member about how they tried to do police reform. He talks about wanting to do changes slowly but was met with resistance by police, including the police delaying responses to call from areas wher
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by newen 6y ago
Why should the looters care? How do the looters benefit from having stores in their area that they are too poor to buy from? The taxes from these stores are less and less helping them with social programs etc and go more towards funding pol
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by newen 6y ago
I can relate. I worked at a temporary position for a few months last year and I experienced this a lot. There were a couple of "brilliant" coders who convinced their coworkers they were the smartest by using their personality, the
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by newen 6y ago
So you look at arrests of violent crime and decide that is the only way to asses racial/gender disparities in excessive use of police force?? Why is that a correct way? What about stops by police, arrests of non-violent crime, murders
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by newen 6y ago
Propaganda machine at work. Americans will always believe it is the best and most moral country in the world even if it the exact opposite.
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by newen 6y ago
In US universities in machine learning fields, a lot of labs work with private companies or do interships during summer at private companies and the grad students eventually graduate and get a job at the private company. Software engineerin
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by newen 6y ago
There seems to be a misconception among non machine learning programmers that ML is all about multiplying matrices. In reality, there is a lot of architecture involved and having a programming languages that facilitates that would be enormo
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by newen 6y ago
Why is some random non-academic's uneducated opinion about academic paper relevant, important, literally anything at all?
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by newen 6y ago
Guessing tech companies learned their lesson in the 90s and started sending lobbyist to Washington.
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by newen 6y ago
I mean..everyone can be kept in line with a).
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by newen 6y ago
There is a good chance it will be something else in a few months.
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by newen 7y ago
This is conspiracy theory level thinking. There is absolutely no evidence that China is lying.
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by newen 7y ago
Eh? Aside from the initial lag, China was extremely successful at halting the spread of the virus.
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by newen 7y ago
Sadly enough, even if the FBI says it you will have to consider how much you trust the FBI first before believing it.
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by newen 7y ago
Democrats have the Russiagate conspiracy theory, which is spread by almost all US news media... So Republicans are not the only ones that engage in conspiracy theories.

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