reagank

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by reagank 5y ago
I’ve had a lot of dealing with the folks at TACC in my day job, and their work is pretty amazing. Add in a Top10 supercomputer and you have something pretty impressive.
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by reagank 6y ago
> Because of downvotes? That's probably just because you brought partisan politics into the discussion. Wut? Mentioning a politician’s name isn’t partisan politics. He said nothing about the politics of Cruz, he compared the Senator
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by reagank 6y ago
Seriously. Blaming the intern is a bad look, but here it reinforces the idea that they don’t even understand what was wrong. The fact that it leaked is only relevant is that it shows 1) how bad their password is and 2) how deficient their p
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by reagank 6y ago
The headline doesn’t accurately capture the substance of the article. The article does say it doesn’t find evidence for “mass hysterectomies”, but it does say that a review of medical records indicated that several women had procedures pe
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by reagank 6y ago
But the second doesn’t apply - you can’t listen to Apple Music with a different app, you have to use their app.
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by reagank 6y ago
Was he advocating a course of action that would cause people to die? Because if he wasn’t (he wasn’t) then no, they wouldn’t be removed.
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by reagank 6y ago
It has nothing to do with opinions, and it has nothing to do with ideology, except insofar as these two doctors were motivated by their ideology to profoundly misunderstand or misrepresent statistical sampling. It’s not one side thinks this
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by reagank 7y ago
It’s a flawed system when human individuals are treated like “tax burdens”
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by reagank 7y ago
I’ll put in a vote for Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla. I knew very little other than “Tesla == weird genius”, and the book gave me a much deeper view of his work, from trying to run power through the ground to building drone boa
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by reagank 8y ago
The article explicitly says that Improbable was told by Unity that the new TOS “specifically disallow[s] services like Improbable’s to function with their engine.”
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by reagank 8y ago
Saying ‘I won’t stand for building a system explicitly designed to control and oppress people’ is “whining” and “screaming like privileged babies”? Have you read the reporting on this? The Intercept described Beaumont, G’s head of ops in Ch
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by reagank 8y ago
> I feel speaking out loud with a real person would force answers to a lot of these questions Oh, hey, we've arrived at the reason that phone number doesn't exist. The ambiguity gives Apple flexibility, and I doubt they have an
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by reagank 8y ago
There's no refuting of anything in the article. They actually CONFIRM that they've gotten document requests from DOJ, just voluntarily provided rather than after a subpoena. Watch your bias.
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by reagank 9y ago
I love the idea that you have any concept at all about whether or not someone needs an item. We're all glad you aren't materialistic, but we don't really care about your opinions on other people's spending habits
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by reagank 12y ago
Beware anyone who lumps all those who disagree with them into a single group. Beware even more if the person then imputes motives and thoughts to the opponents. The author spends quite a bit of time calling out opposing arguments as fallaci