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by prvc 5y ago
I noticed that the previous article on this topic got flagged. This one has a less sensational tone, focusing more on the business and legal elements of the story.
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Elizabeth Holmes’s Lawyers Say She Suffered Partner’s Abuse(bloomberg.com)
2 points by prvc 5y ago|1 comments
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The Musical Mysteries of Josquin(newyorker.com)
1 points by prvc 5y ago|0 comments
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by prvc 5y ago
The above quotation is from README.md in the yt-dlp repository, which does list some differences, but I get the sense this is not the full story.
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by prvc 5y ago
>yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project yt-dlc's last commit was only 4 days ago,
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by prvc 5y ago
The considerations that would inform such an agreement are far beyond my comprehension. I suppose we may draw the lesson from the presumptive wisdom of this decision that software defaults are very important (hobbyist developers take note!)
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by prvc 5y ago
Health (comprehending stress, sleep, fitness, disease, etc.), and regimen, combined with a good mindset/ philosophical orientation, and good (perhaps in an unconventional sense) education, are certainly all important and necessary pr
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by prvc 5y ago
Based on a high-school level understanding, the cooling requirements would be just be proportional to the surface area, nothing special. Maybe there's an added risk of physical fissures developing, but that's hard to know a priori
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by prvc 5y ago
That's not the definition of notability used by Wikipedia.
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by prvc 5y ago
In this case you may be perceiving a different type of bias than you assume.
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by prvc 5y ago
>Restrictive covenants that allow private owners to discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, or religion were deemed illegal by the Supreme Court in 1948, and the 1968 Fair Housing Act prohibits refusing to sell or rent on the basis
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by prvc 5y ago
>I was told then when I asked this was an approximate value of their donation and it was used for tax purposes. So one is probably tax write offs. Anything preventing them from just making up that figure?
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by prvc 5y ago
Not ironic, as I understand the concept.
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by prvc 5y ago
>I’m saddened by the harsh reaction so far, which seems based mostly on the first couple of paragraphs of a thoughtful and well-written essay. The discussion of online persuasion being used by both advertisers and spreaders of disinforma
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by prvc 5y ago
Based on what evidence? And is the "signal to noise ratio" (I guess something like the ratio of "impressions" containing all true vs. at least one false statement) really measuring anything useful? And need that necessar
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by prvc 5y ago
The article author's role in the media, up to this point, was to perform the same function as what he terms "Big Disinfo", but in a pettier, vigilante fashion (i.e. pursuing "cancellations"). I suppose, in the view
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by prvc 5y ago
>If they can inoculate against AIDS, then the human race may just survive the next millennium. Can you elaborate as to how this would improve the prospects of humanity as a whole? If anything, such a development would enable a greater pr
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by prvc 5y ago
>If I want to transport music notation between software programs, I have MIDI for that, which does a good job of capturing all elements of a performance (keys, timing, velocity, pedals, aftertouch, etc.) These types of notation formats a
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by prvc 5y ago
Undoubtedly, the writers at the Guardian were thinking the same. However, one would do well to doubt whether the above described behaviors would be good were they to be performed by humans.
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by prvc 5y ago
Well, the law of large numbers makes it understandable.
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by prvc 5y ago
Is there any proprietary software from the era for the platform that is worth running today?
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by prvc 5y ago
>But back to pinyin, that was intended as an alphabetic alternative for native Chinese speakers to use instead of pictogram/characters. So it's audience wasn't foreign language speakers and thus will have shortcomings for
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by prvc 5y ago
>Pinyin was not designed as a system for making it easier for English speakers to pronounce Chinese, but as a way for native Chinese speakers to write their own language. In this case, it makes even less sense to blame English speakers f
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by prvc 5y ago
One thing that has puzzled me about complaints about English speakers' pronunciation of transliterated Chinese words (the only topic of TFA), is why the speaker is blamed rather than the transliteration. If the official transliteration
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by prvc 5y ago
I read "Dreams of a Final Theory" as a child, and have been contemplating some of the philosophical questions posed therein ever since. RIP.
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by prvc 5y ago
>CudaText: Alternative open source version of Sublime Text Doesn't seem to have any relation to Sublime Text. "CudaText: Free Software alternative to Sublime Text" might be a better title.
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by prvc 5y ago
This is a perfect example of "be careful what you wish for". The Wired position seems to be "just put more resources into policing speech, which is a good and necessary activity". My hunch is that cases like these (false
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by prvc 5y ago
"Sexology" is perhaps not an ideal exemplar of a scientific discipline.
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by prvc 5y ago
>There's currently a huge push online to make Solarpunk a thing Its proponents seem to be flogging the Green New Deal, or related policies, but is this spontaneous, done out of conviction, or is it more coordinated?
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by prvc 5y ago
He didn't specify the order (or/and script, if you prefer) in which the books were placed, so it's ambiguous.

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