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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I recognize the tendency that you are referring to. But in this case, it seems to me that race is more of a correlation than a causation. Yes, urban poverty is very entwined with blackness but, unlike things such as police brutality or crim
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
He already said "Second, the fact that I disagree with the title has nothing to do with my opinion of the story." Why do you keep accusing him of dismissing the importance of the story? If he takes a moment to let you know that he
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
Ugh, sorry Frozenlock. I can't believe you attracted TWO commenters who used the increasingly common "How dare you bring up a minor point, WHEN THERE ARE GRAND INJUSTICES?!?!" tactic. I thought the title was odd too.
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but it struck me as funny to see a much-criticised practice in the pharmaceutical industry being defended by comparing it to F2P mobile games, which are also widely reviled.
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
Is this a meta-joke about pedants?
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
This may or may not be what you mean by "goes green" but I've noticed that when DVI cables go bad it often results in green noise all over the screen. My office had a mix of both HDMI and DVI adapters for their macbooks, and
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I've heard some good snarky comments about the way police interact with black people that brought race and humor into dangerous proximity. I wouldn't say that there are topics I would never joke about, but there are implications
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
Damn, whole lot of hate in these comments. Chill out guys, nobody's trying to kill QR codes here. samfpetersen, you made a cool thing. Expiration of small tags is an interesting way to solve the landgrab problem. I think these would be
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I really hope that this doesn't becomes something that's NEVER OK to joke about. When in a situation where someone might say something terrible, I'll sometimes go ahead and say it jokingly. The way I see it, getting everyone
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I suppose parking garages would let a lot of the water flow through the open sides, whereas a regular building would receive a lot of force against the exterior walls.
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
It was known, but oddly not widely known. During the r/jailbait shutdown, Reddit was more successful in getting the word out about exactly where the line was drawn. This time around many users claimed that it was the beginning of a cle
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I've enjoyed a lot of Ted Chiang's other work, but I didn't know about this. Thanks.
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
>>Is there a single Windows Phone user that asked for that?! This guy! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9851687
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
With over half of people currently in the Portland metro area having been born elsewhere, it would be hard to sort out whether cavities were the result of fluoride deficiency or some sort of selection bias in who chooses to live there. I ne
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I'd heard that users can see a complete history of all commands "heard" by Alexa. I was also told that you can "delete" entries from this history (similar to cleaning your browser history). Is that true, and is that
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
With many freemium services capping free accounts at single-digit numbers of users, "no limit" is a reasonable way to let people know that they can stop looking for the catch. It would be more confusing if they said "up to 5,
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I don't think most people have multiple Facebook accounts.
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
I think you're bending the term 'McGuffin' slightly past its limit. Originally it meant "interchangeable object of pursuit that drives the plot" - a secret document, a special microchip, a stolen diamond etc. Recent
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
In one of his recent interviews, Stephenson said that he was intentionally playing off the silly trope of Star Trek type aliens that are basically just caricatures of humans with this-or-that trait emphasized. Not that he was trashing Star
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
Although I'm sure there are examples of inappropriate dogmatism in the Deaf Culture conversation, I think you're painting the whole situation with too broad a brush. Unlike autism or OCD, deafness inducts you into a culture that e
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
Although almost everyone is better off in material terms than they were two generations ago, I fear that the level of wealth required to live a "comfortable" life may have outpaced that increase. How many hours does a blue collar
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
Thank you so much for pointing that out. I was having trouble finding the category theory book but finding the Pi one by the same author everywhere!
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by pavedwalden 11y ago
From where I'm sitting, it doesn't look like we're remotely close. Renewable energy and effective urban planning are not at all common, and worker co-op business models are quite rare. I like your vision of the future, but I
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by pavedwalden 12y ago
As an interested layman, I've wondered about this myself. Ecosystems take a while to stabilize around local maxima. So, although diversity may prevent you from falling into any particular deficiency, it seems possible that a well balan
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by pavedwalden 12y ago
I'm just speculating here, but it's probably 6x NY's footprint in square miles yet with large open areas that are not built up.
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by pavedwalden 12y ago
The tone of that letter was "Here's a general framework for responsibly building more powerful AI systems", whereas the lay press is reporting "Musk predicts Skynet in 5 years" http://futureoflife.org&#x2
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by pavedwalden 12y ago
Hasn't Uber already done a lot of the bush clearing? Sure, there's plenty more to get hashed out, but it might be nice to draft behind Uber, only entering markets once the legal situation stabilizes. I've always been fond of
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by pavedwalden 12y ago
Ted Chiang's story "Liking what you see" speculates about what it would be like if science messed with the other side of the equation. How would we relate to other people if we silenced the part or our brain that recognized p
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by pavedwalden 12y ago
I don't mean to be dismissive of the struggles that people in rural areas face, but I don't think that's an apt comparison. There's a difference between being disadvantaged by location (which can be changed) and disadvan
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by pavedwalden 12y ago
From paragraph three: "The caloric intake for all the mice was the same." So, at least in the opinion of these researchers, it is more complicated than calories in vs calories burned. I can think of at least two ways that a mammal

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