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by r-w 10y ago
Don’t give them too much credit.
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by r-w 10y ago
The real question is this: should an entire company have to adjust to a few people’s sensitivities, or should those few people have to either develop a thick skin or switch teams? I get that the joke was made in bad taste, but why imply tha
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by r-w 10y ago
Avoiding funny jokes because they might offend someone won’t teach people anything. It’ll just make them feel like they have to suppress what they actually want to say. Most people have a thick enough skin to get over it, so the people arou
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by r-w 10y ago
It’s a shitty joke. Just move on. It shouldn’t be the company’s business to legislate whether jokes are in good taste. If just one person is uncomfortable on that team, they should just be put on another team, no questions asked. An entire
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by r-w 10y ago
So… they’re slowly turning YouTube into a video-focused Google+.
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by r-w 10y ago
Haven’t we known this for a while? I don’t see it as being all that scandalous if it’s available right on the history page along with everything else Google keeps track of.
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by r-w 10y ago
> You don't agree, then don't post on Facebook and go run your own website / printed paper. Except that Facebook essentially has a monopoly on information. Is there any other platform that’s so omnipresent and frequently u
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by r-w 10y ago
Can you think of any other single medium that’s so universal?
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by r-w 10y ago
Atheism is the lack of a religious ideology. It’s strange to assign an ideology to a group of people simply because they reject all religious ideologies.
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by r-w 10y ago
> I'd much rather struggle and advance than be happy doing nothing until I die Clearly you’re not capable of being happy doing nothing; otherwise, you would prefer it over anything else.
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by r-w 10y ago
I don’t think that model takes ignorance into account. You would be unhappy if you knew you were doing a disservice to future generations, but you might accidentally do something stupid that screws things up for generations to come.
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by r-w 10y ago
Although I kind of wish Apple hadn’t baked speech recognition into their parsing algorithm. Not everything I say will be in their dictionary, and there are times I’d rather just be able to type the query in myself than have Siri misundersta
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by r-w 10y ago
Found this while Wikipedia-ing the history of HBO. Ended up learning some interesting stuff about satellite broadcasts and the history of TV service payment models—arbitrary, I know, but enlightening nonetheless. Enjoy!
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The Story of Captain Midnight (2000)(web.archive.org)
12 points by r-w 10y ago|2 comments
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by r-w 10y ago
> Apparently I am targeted for ads related to bubble wrap. Isn’t everyone?
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by r-w 10y ago
Just because they’re not showing you all the data and analysis capabilities they have doesn’t mean they don’t have them. Why would Facebook waste their effort making sure that all user data is exposed through their decrepit and intentiona
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by r-w 10y ago
> Aramaic is a Semitic language which succeeded Canaanite (that is, Phoenician-Hebrew) in the Levant and resembles Arabic; it was the language Jesus Christ spoke. The reason it came to dominate the Levant and Egypt isn’t because of any p
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Women’s Gymnastics Deserves Better TV Coverage(newyorker.com)
61 points by r-w 10y ago|63 comments
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by r-w 10y ago
Yes, but the procession of emoji seems to be different from the order specified in Unicode, so it’s slightly more complicated than a regular Caesar shift.
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by r-w 10y ago
* squee *
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Few Clinton, Trump Supporters Have Close Friends on the Other Side(people-press.org)
2 points by r-w 10y ago|0 comments
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Countries That Still Outlaw Apostasy and Blasphemy(pewresearch.org)
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Identifying Gender from a Fingerprint(nytimes.com)
2 points by r-w 10y ago|1 comments
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by r-w 10y ago
This is an amazing chart! I wish you’d used great circles ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_circle ) though.
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by r-w 10y ago
Cue them saying something along the lines of “our goal is to prevent tracing, not fingerprinting”. But I hope they’re hard at work on a fix regardless.
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by r-w 10y ago
Doesn't seem far from what Google Translate already does; it's just a matter of automatically dictating the translation.
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by r-w 10y ago
Same with German. But even there, there are connotations surrounding those compound words that are lost in translation to English.
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by r-w 10y ago
Well, it does, but nobody listens!
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by r-w 10y ago
Strange. 1.6 million clicks on Feedly; 5 points / 3 comments on HN.
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by r-w 10y ago
These kinds of posts attract the Reddit-ier crowd of commenters that already exists within HN, if you know what I mean. The title gave me that feeling; the article confirmed it; and the fact that there were enough comments to require scroll

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