notsureaboutpg

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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
>what does the death penalty actually achieve, with a high burden of proof (beyond reasonable doubt) that as a policy it actually benefits society as a whole. I think the death penalty does deter people from committing certain crimes. Bu
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Scala and Haskell are also in the most loved languages, why do you think there's a lot of hate for them?
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I think putting the blame on people for weddings, religious ceremonies (aka normal everyday life which is going to happen, even during the Afghanistan War people had wedding celebrations despite the danger) is misguided. Governments are get
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
I run commento on my blog right now, and it works fine for me. You can even deploy it relatively painlessly. A little googling brought up an ansible playbook to set it up with minimal configuration: https://github.com/kathaw
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This hasn't led to a decrease in trafficking in the countries that have tried it though. Many of them in Europe have become trafficking destinations for women from other countries. There's lots and lots of studies out there that s
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
Veblen is well known to anyone who went to college and took a sociology course (he and C. Wright Mills)
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by notsureaboutpg 5y ago
This sucks. Just because I read or own a book does not mean I agree with what's written inside it. You can never learn things you don't agree with if you won't even read them or if people will assume you believe everything in
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"terrorists" It should be noted that many legitimate (democratically elected) government agencies and political figures are deemed "terrorists" by the US gov
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I think psychologists / therapists are also to blame. I faced some kind of trauma as a kid (who hasn't), and while visiting a therapist to see if therapy was right for me regarding my lack of sleep and depression the therapist con
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localStorage doesn't work in many browsers' private modes, so no... it's not
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They won't ruin your life. It's an offer you can't refuse.
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by notsureaboutpg 6y ago
You can get put on a "kill list" as well as the "no fly list" even if you are a US citizen and the opacity and inability to remove oneself or correct the issue is the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by notsureaboutpg 6y ago
The article is being too generous to these accounts. Here is an example: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_D... In this account of the relationship between two men they are terme
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by notsureaboutpg 6y ago
No there were not. The other reply confuses acceptance of homosexual activity with acceptance of homosexual marriage. The latter is a new concept, the former was common in many cultures (notably Ancient Rome / Greece). Homosexual activ
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by notsureaboutpg 6y ago
Indian govt shutdown internet in Kashmir for a year (maybe a bit longer maybe less) much more recently so they could de facto annex the region: https://thediplomat.com/2020/08/kashmir-internet-shutdown-co...
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by notsureaboutpg 6y ago
From my understanding of the events, there was not really anything wrong with the way Google handled the AI Ethics researchers it fired. One threatened to quit unless a long list of demands were met. The other was exfiltrating company data.
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>For a while we've had a take-home test and that has increased our success rate somewhat. But as you say, we really don't want to lay unreasonable expectations on people who may have other obligations These are mutually exclusi
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Exactly, OSI is going to happily go to conferences at MIT and Harvard without mentioning anything about those institutions' multiple, documented actions to protect child rapists when they attend, but they will essentially do a social b
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by notsureaboutpg 6y ago
This sucks. All over a few comments people didn't like (from a person who comments on the news publicly online every single day for the past 20+? years) about the scandal regarding Epstein and Minsky. Stallman thinks both men are crimi
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If you get an entry level TC of 140k and save 50% of it, you'll be a millionaire in 15 years. That's without any kind of growth, investment, stock options growing in value, raises, etc.
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I left emacs for vscode. The intellisense and code snippets did it for me.
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The defaults aren't powerful, thought they are sensible. Windows (and most Linux DEs like KDE) come with out of the box snapping windows to the four corners of the screen and to the left and right which is perfect for how most people u
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by notsureaboutpg 6y ago
>Dancing is physically close, intimate, other-person-way-closer-than-your-regular-comfort-zone by nature. Add to that that eye contact, again inherently intimate, is crucial for coordinating any nuanced moves and you'd be hard press
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by notsureaboutpg 6y ago
Playwright is the Microsoft one yeah? That's the best one. Of all the browser automators, playwright is the best. Never had a wait fail or anything like that. maybe I just got lucky, but if you're looking to do something with brow
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by notsureaboutpg 6y ago
I have always used https://www.pluggedin.com/ It's run by a Christian org but to their credit they seem to be the only group that actually cares about what kids see and hear in movies and tv. And they cover the most po
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Why? Israel denies citizenship, voting rights, and equal rights to Palestinians (who still have to live according to the law Israeli citizens decide because Israel controls their territory). And the entire basis for doing this is that Jewis
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They do meet the factual definition whether you like it or not. If I'm Palestinian, I live my life completely according to the rules of Israel (because of the blockade and checkpoints and control of the territory). As a Palestinian, I
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Well anyone who ever visited the Israeli Palestinian border or ever had to go through a border crossing security check would see how obviously it is apartheid. I'm sorry it hurts your feelings but real people are losing their homes and
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I'm actually okay with this. I only watch movies with my family and I'm sick of having to pass up on actually interesting movies because they're excessively vulgar. If there was a service I could pay to censor movies for me,
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There's a huge fallacy where people believe that non-profits are supposed to be inherently more equitable and nicer than for-profit companies. And people who believe this fallacy get upset by executive pay at non-profits and turn to si

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