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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
While it may be true that your country is the result of your ancestors having fought and killed people for the land it's on and the wealth and privilege it has today, that argument doesn't support what you think it does.
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
> "Passports" based on strongly held beliefs about identity (global, regional, tribal, or otherwise) as opposed to national citizenship and the legal frameworks Those are also just strongly held beliefs, only they're hel
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> It's a bit like saying developers demanding 6-figure salaries is extortion. Developers don't typically make that much in any country except the US, and that seems mostly attributable to protectionist immigration laws. So I w
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
Moxie Marlinspike expressed this idea beautifully in his article "The Worst." https://moxie.org/2012/11/27/the-worst.html
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> Another interesting example of this is the image result for “European art”. The image results have been modified to the increase diversity of the skin colours of people portrayed. One of the first results I get on Baidu is the cover of
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
There's already a :checked selector, so you don't really need JavaScript at all in this example. <input type="checkbox" id="discount"> <label for="discount"></label> &lt
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_grandmother_to_suck_e...
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
I'm not going to read or respond to any of the comments in this thread because I don't want to self-harm today. However, I have to comment on the site linked in the article, noconflicttheysaid.org, because it's absolutely hil
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
Depending on your definition of "bias," the solution might be to counterbalance historical settings by making scifi and fantasy skew towards female representation.
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
A similarly blunt-but-informative measure is counting "he"s vs "she"s. In Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve , Ben Blatt found that among New York Times bestsellers, "he" appears more often than "she&
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
It doesn't have an RSS feed and it's presumably banned from the sites he got deplatformed from, so how is anyone supposed to follow it?
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> The question is, what is the alternative? I see two main funding models: / Paywalls. You pay with your money. / Ads. You pay with your attention. There's also the alternative-which-must-not-be-named, which is non-regress
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
Don't violate the prime directive.
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They should put the spectrograms of Noc's speech on the final exam of a phonetics class and tell students to identify the words without knowing that they were produced by a beluga. Then we'll know what he was saying.
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
Are there any communities similar to Hacker News where humanities-related stories like this show up more often?
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
What if you set og:image to a female-presenting nipple?
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
It's in the list: https://developers.google.com/style/word-list#grandfathered
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
Some people use "kebab" as a pejorative term for Muslims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remove_Kebab
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by pgcj_poster 6y ago
Frontend: HTML Backend: Lib/cgi.py Database: Ext4
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by pgcj_poster 6y ago
> For example, in the command line, deleting a file doesn't send it to the "Recycle Bin" or your OS's equivalent, it simply deletes it. Use trash-cli: https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli
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by pgcj_poster 6y ago
Kids need to encounter something before they're motivated to seek it out on their own.
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Japan appoints “Minister of Loneliness” to cabinet(bigthink.com)
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by pgcj_poster 6y ago
Have they replaced the Google Analytics on the add-ons site with this yet?
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America’s Soviet-Style Vaccine Rollout(theatlantic.com)
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How well do people do on estimates like this compared to estimates about other subjects? Because it kind of seems like a lot of the respondents are just plain innumerate. For instance, on the open borders question, the plurality of both par
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by pgcj_poster 6y ago
I'm wondering what the "Other Votes" dimensions is even capturing, as Democrats seem to have been more conservative than Republicans on it up until the 2010s.
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> Are there psychotic devs out there who call it something other than `self`? I call it "me".
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<title>My stack will outlive yours</title> <meta name="description" content="My stack will outlive yours"> <meta name="twitter:title" content="My stack will outlive yours
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> Are we even allowed to assume 'gal's 'use she/her pronouns' though? Fortunately we don't have to, because what she wrote was "One gal's quest to optimise her life."
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> I do think there's a gray area between immigration generating diversity and immigration serving the same ultimate purpose as invasion Sure. For example, historians debate the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain w

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