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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Well, "fast enough" is pretty vague. But bear in mind that Minecraft has never seemed to care about optimisation. For the longest time it was still running Java 7 even when Java 8 with the G1 collector had been out for a long time
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
It did not. The EU issues software patents anyway.
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
And they will do what, exactly? The EU Parliament has no real power. It can only say yes to things or delay them. As a consequence the only people who run for seats in it are either fanatically pro-EU or anti-EU, but none of them are going
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Vote for what? EU Parliament doesn't make policy. Therefore the parties have no manifestos worth a damn. You can't "vote for the other guys" if you care about copyright because none of them have any real influence over t
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Don't have issues? Gab was banned from the Play Store. If you want to use their mobile app you have to flip extra switches and download it yourself. Voat was the target of massive DDoS attacks. Also, apparently, people posting child po
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
It's not related to the Nazis. Please. If it were really related to memory of abusive governments they wouldn't have just written a law with phenomenal penalties and ultra-vague language that everyone can be argued to violate - ex
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
It's all PII. People post personal details about their lives here, some use their real names as their username, the site asks for email addresses, how is it not PII? As for IPs. Any website could claim they need IP addresses for analyz
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
The cookie law was never well thought out, that's why nobody read it in the way it was "intended" (what was the intent anyway). The distinction between a regular cookie and a tracking cookie doesn't exist except in the m
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
That doesn't work though. Sure, if it was some industry initiative then a broad statement of intent and people figure out the details as they go would be OK. But this one comes with massive, company destroying fines attached. If you an
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
I wonder to what extent you've tried arguing positions that are unpopular with the San Francisco set. Yes, HN has good comments on average. But my experience of moderation has been that it often seems wildly random and can be very poli
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
I'd probably just abolish downvoting entirely: rely entirely on upvoting. There's already a bias towards upvoting in the system due to the min cap but not the max cap. You make it sound like voting-as-disagreement is rare but in
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Twitter's bot problem is largely imaginary. If actual humans are acting "bot like", given the fact that nobody has made a bot that passes the Turing test so far, perhaps that means these accounts and tweets are actually human
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
I do not believe it's ironic. Yes, after stating repeatedly how much she hates men and manliness she says words to the effect of, "oh guyzzz I don't REALLY want to kill you all! Chill out!" and then goes back to hateful
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
That's just a shared experience, not a struggle.
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
I'm sure she has a bunch of ideas that offend lots of people. Seems like a distraction. Yes, obviously Medium can do a bait-and-switch in which they attract people by claiming to value free speech and then abandoning those ideals after
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Well, unimpeded, unless you make the mistake of using Google's DNS services and they decide to steal your domain name for the greater good. Or someone decides to impede your right to speech with DoS attacks (see: Quillette) and you mad
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Did they? The article is suspiciously silent on what, if anything, might have triggered bans and Medium themselves refuse to say. I went and found a cached copy of the "How I'd run for Congress" article it talks about: http:
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Yes, such studies do occur and they do show bias against white men. Typically these are studies that are trying to find bias against women, by anonymising hiring processes. Replacing names on CVs, even voice masking. What they discover inst
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
How did you suggest it? I can see "hey, let's hang out" in the generic form might be considered a bit odd and like a pass. "Man, today was rough." ... "Yeah, same here. Want to grab a drink at the Kings Head th
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Lots of supportive replies to this post, but I'm going to take a different tack - I think you may have pretty badly mis-diagnosed what's going on there. Firstly, getting more conservative as you get older is normal. And having few
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Don't read too much into the struggle thing. I made tons of friends in my 20s and early 30s. Many of them moved away to other cities with time, so I have fewer friends now, but that's also partly due to being in a long term relati
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Right - that's a no, then. I described the argument as a straw man because it is one. Damore verifiably did not say he thought women at Google were inferior. I'm not surprised you're tired of people saying "straw man!&qu
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
And how many of them are in those positions because their professorship was advertised as being exclusively for white men only? How many of them were unqualified, but given the job over a more qualified woman, just because they were a man?
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
But he didn't argue that, did he? Can you give a quote from the memo that makes you think Damore argued or believes that?
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Perhaps you posted elsewhere in the thread, but do you have any substantial criticism? I mean, beyond "that's a cartoonish view", which isn't really helpful to informed debate?
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Why don't you ask him why he thinks that, instead of writing it off? I agree it seems odd to believe that anyone could be against having children. But the world is full of large groups of people who hold odd and unsubstantiated opinion
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
I oppose racial diversity and am not a racist. The problem is that the word "diversity" doesn't actually mean merely having the presence of different races. Nobody who argues for "racial diversity" ceases to argue t
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
The same argument works in reverse though. Clearly conservatives feel discriminated against at Google, and with good reason to do so - look at all the screenshots in Damore's legal complaint. Many comments from managers flat out statin
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Sigh. As the sibling comment points out, what you are saying is not true . It is contradicted by the text of the memo itself. Moreover he wasn't "very vocal about it", he wrote a memo that was then deliberately leaked by his
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by peoplewindow 9y ago
Your memory of that time is significantly different to mine. I recall Bush being constantly vilified by the left for having a tiny intellect, for constantly making gaffes like "is our children learning", for the Iraq war (he'

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