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There was an interesting discussion about this clip when the ad landed. The persona that Larry David presents in his show is someone who is selfish and doesn't care about fads and what others think. More often than not, this let'
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I agree: it's not racist to acknowledge race. There's two things at play here: 1. Some people don't want to be racist, so they over correct. That's OK, but we can also take a step back in some cases eg "actually ack
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I wanted to read the article but it appears to be paywalled .
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Keep in mind it's easy to break down the adoption argument. In many situations, the adoptive parent is considered the parent, if the parent and child are OK with it, so is society in general. But at a doctor appointment, it is imperati
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Completely agree with you. It reminds me that in the USA there are rules for what constitutes a bourbon whiskey. You can make and enjoy other types of whiskey, just don't call them Bourbon. There's also Jack Daniel's, from wh
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Open source is not a just a term with margin for interpretation: to be open source, you must comply with the 10 rules defined by the open source initiative. Restricting commercial usage goes against rule 6. You can call it readable source o
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I was doing this drink and a friend of mine said it was not sensible given the current times. He was kidding, but it really threw me off.
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Parent explained in a metaphor how both metrics (more lines, less lines) can be bad. Maybe engineer A has a easy feature to do. Lots of lines of code but it's smooth sailing. Another engineer, B, has a tricky bug fix to do, which requi
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I think it's a form of greenwashing. > Companies that intentionally take up greenwashing communication strategies often do so in order to distance themselves from the environmental lapses of themselves or their suppliers. It was one
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Where I'm from, minimum wage is around 15k per year. So hiring 5k people would cost 75M in salaries, and let's just double it for other operation costs, 150M. People don't work 24/7, so we must quadruple it for triple sh
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People who don't like him really downplay his past achievements. I currently don't like him, but he's been involved in PayPal, Tesla and Space X, all companies which had/have a big impact in our world. Some will say he b
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You can have both of best worlds using BLUF: bottom line up front. I didn't read the code because it's too early to debug someone else's code, but here's an example: These endpoints break REST conventions and will be ha
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I think the classic conservatives are a dying breed. Alt-right conservatives generate outrage, and clicks and views. They add an irreverent touch to an otherwise kind of boring ideology. They "say it like how it is". They make it
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From what I read here, they throw punches at transsexuals, and write some light hearted jokes about conservatives. It's mild. Probably an excuse so they can claim to joke about both sides without genuinely doing it.
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A neural network doesn't panic, so there is no blue screen, only bad decisions. I think that's even worse, as that would be a strong signal to take over driving. This might be mitigated if the result includes a confidence percenta
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I don't!
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Often the market is at odds with the public, preferring short term profits over all else. It seems to serve itself. I fear applying it to governments would accelerate us into an hyper-capitalist dystopia much faster than we're already
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The basic license is 5 dollars a month. I think that's a low price, if you consider the time cost of exploring alternatives. Additionally, it's a shame that the docker company struggles to profit from their revolutionary technolog
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TFA mentions the website creator actually congratulated their achievement, advised them and worked with them to fix the cheating problems. That's spectacular and not often seen. I think most of these platforms are created in good faith
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Doesn't it result in a similar scenario? Rich people can still opt to drive heavier cars and even fewer poorer people still cannot afford them. I get that adding taxes is less fascist than straight bans, but it also raises inequality.
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2 objections: I don't think talent is moving in - at least in tech, there are lots of foreign companies opening offices and hiring local talent. And for number two, it seems you're part of the problem the article mentions. You com
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Quite frankly, it's an absurd comparison, and I'm not even a fan of sports. A football team does not have a fraction of its players qualified to participate in a championship. There is no podium. The goalie is doing a completely d
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Two objections: 1: you cannot produce thousands of detailed pictures in a day, this program can. The argument gets pretty clear if you transpose it to other objects, ie why is it fair to ride a bicycle in the sidewalk but not drive a car? 2
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Even worse is instagram entertainers who go by influencers. They don't even claim to produce content, just that they can influence users behavior. Obviously this is is valuable for the customers of social networks (advertisers), but it
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Is it knee-jerk? Alcoholism is pretty serious, but you wouldn't say "beer is an addiction". Same with video game addiction and many other things. I find it a pretty prude generalization: it's a catch phrase for people w
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I listened to mgdlbp also and it's nearly the same comment with minor variations. Imagine finding dozens of posts where the rants are all the same, but with very unsubstantive reasons in phrasing, as the old userbase complains about th
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The opposite can also happen: people who can afford it not changing their habits because they are paying for the offset. If something is carbon neutral, many will pay to do it and not feel guilty about it. This also increases inequality: th
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They actually removed subscriptions just because of that: they were required to keep some info to process payments, but this was incompatible with their vision for privacy. With single payments they don't need to keep it for so long.
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There's not much to discuss there: "man shares information company forbid him to". Yawn. But thinking about his concerns, how he tested the AI: that's interesting. Or it could be interesting, as it seems he just asked lo
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That's what the upvote button is for.

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