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by p-e-w 3y ago
What constitutes "conservatism" for the purpose of this study was based on self-assessment of participants, who were exclusively Americans and Italians. In both the US and Italy, conservative ideas are strongly associated with t
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by p-e-w 3y ago
It's not to the credit of the journal Psychological Research that they published the abstract in this form. A sentence like this one should have raised red flags during peer review, and at minimum they should have demanded clarificat
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I just love the label "soft science". It's genius marketing. Basically, it means that they get to call themselves a science, with all the hard-earned trust and authority that comes attached to that term, but without actually
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by p-e-w 3y ago
From the abstract (emphasis added): > Thus, we hypothesized a relation between forms of social rigidity, including Socio-cognitive polarization (i.e., a factor capturing conservative political ideology, absolutism/intolerance of a
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by p-e-w 3y ago
They haven't. There is https://redditmigration.com which lists some attempts to create alternative communities in the Fediverse, but few of those have gained any traction. Most Reddit communities are still where they were b
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by p-e-w 3y ago
It's just a variation of the standard "all modern software is garbage because Facebook and Twitter are garbage" nonsense complaint.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Considering that such scandals tend to be revealed publicly only by a chain of coincidences, sometimes long after they occurred, the baseline assumption should be that those things happen much, much more frequently than is apparent. The Wor
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Publically funded does not equate to newsroom not being able to operate independently Of course it does. Whose bread you eat, their song you sing. "Publicly" funded ultimately means funded by the ruling government, who can de
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> What is the best course of action here? Where can we report this? There is a huge button "Report this add-on for abuse" on every single extension page on addons.mozilla.org.
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Yes.
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> I would prepend 'for-profit' to the title I wouldn't. "Not-for-profit news" usually means public networks, which by definition are controlled by the government or legislature to some degree, and have been propa
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I'd say the crucial difference is that back then, such crises were created and resolved behind closed doors and the masses were helpless onlookers, while crises today are created in public, and the masses are active participants. This
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The whole concept of "News" falls apart the moment you ask what its purpose is. The American public is being informed that twelve militants have been killed in clashes in Sudan. Now what? What are they supposed to do with that inf
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by p-e-w 3y ago
It should be noted that Moby Dick is (in)famous for its very large and unusual vocabulary. Some lighter reading might yield better results for demonstration purposes. Also, while fairly long for a single novel, the number of words is stil
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That's comparative performance vs. absolute performance. Yes, there are people who can beat others 10x more often than those others can beat them. That doesn't mean they perform 10x as well. In fact, it can be enough for them to b
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The 10x concept isn't "generally true", it's generally false, and reeks of ignorance and hero worship. "10x" is a quantitative claim. If you really meant 1.15x, why not say so? Is it because that sounds rather
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Please name a single sport where the world record is 10x of what average hobby athletes perform at. To show how ridiculous that idea is, that would make "average" 100 meters sprint times more than 1.5 minutes , and "average&
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Olympic athletes don't outperform average athletes by 10x. I'm sorry, but that's just complete bullshit. The world record for 100 meters sprint is 9.58 seconds. High school athletes routinely break 11 seconds. There are one-l
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Those guys weigh 150+ kg though, since deadlifting is a rather informal competition without weight classes. Unless you weigh the same, comparing yourself to them doesn't make sense. I am not physically active at all, and the world reco
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Computers today are great - but you can do quite a bit of programming without understanding how anything really works. Did the "computer kids" of the 80s understand the quantum field effects that make transistors work, and ho
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> There are 10x people in every field. I very, very strongly doubt that. That's just not how human performance works. There is a lot of variation for sure, but not by arbitrarily high amounts. Instead, there is a maximum humanly ach
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> They either need to maintain full compatibility with existing tools, or users need to learn the idiosyncrasies of Nushell tools. The existing tools aren't fully compatible with each other either. There are significant differences
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by p-e-w 3y ago
You're right. Those things are stopped by other tools, such as query builders and web frameworks.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That's the first time I'm hearing about this project (which I take you are the creator of?). Very interesting! How would you say Murex compares to Nushell? The syntax seems vaguely similar. Are there any fundamental differences?
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I've used both saws and both programming languages. I still don't know which is worse.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I assume you are aware that you have the most in-demand qualification on the planet, and you don't actually have to submit to degrading hazing rituals in order to land a job. You made the right call in telling them to fuck off.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> and actually knowing, on code level, how it manifests and how you avoid these things You avoid them by using tools that make it difficult or impossible to introduce such vulnerabilities to begin with. Such as modern, memory safe progra
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by p-e-w 3y ago
While I agree that the software industry suffers from ageism and anti-intellectualism, these vulnerabilities are actually the symptoms of elitism, cargo culting, and traditionalism, which it also suffers from.
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Anyone can sue anyone else over anything. If those grocery companies actually fought them in court instead of caving in, Apple would get their ass handed to them.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
There's a fairly successful version control system whose name is an insult in British English. And wait until you hear what the most popular open source alternative to Photoshop is called...

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