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by repolfx 8y ago
SJW is not a pejorative, it's a descriptive term for people whose overriding concern is social justice, which they define as equitable outcomes, and whose concern is sufficiently great that they spent lots of time engaging in aggressiv
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by repolfx 8y ago
Google Ads isn't a monopoly. Most obviously Facebook runs its own ad networks, but also, I see tons of ads when I browse around that come from other ad networks. There are hundreds of the things.
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by repolfx 8y ago
What kind of historical revisionism is this? Microsoft has always faced competent and well resourced competitors at every step of the way. Apple, IBM for consumer operating systems. Later on NeXTStep and BeOS. UNIX vendors for Windows Serve
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by repolfx 8y ago
And even then, you would still be able to buy stocks, expensive jewelry, gold, houses and so on. Yes, that's the idea! The point of negative interest rates is to force people to buy things, thus jacking economic growth like caffeine
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by repolfx 8y ago
Not quite. For one individuals don't have to comply with AML rules if they're just behaving as normal individuals, those rules affect companies. For another, banks don't have to show anything. It's risk management, they
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by repolfx 8y ago
Your opinion doesn't matter to me per se, but arguments do. I'm interesting in learning how you came to conclude that videos are mentally damaging and what you mean by that exactly, because I don't really believe people can b
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by repolfx 8y ago
Some genuine questions. Can you prove watching the video is mentally damaging? If it is, why is it damaging, yet movies with shootings, explosions and torture aren't? Can the damage be measured? Is there any grounding in experimental p
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by repolfx 8y ago
I was curious about the paper Hassabis wrote that had replication problems. It appears the paper disputing it is this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6140124/ This neural code is sparse and
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by repolfx 8y ago
It has never been a thing, that's why. Adverts have been targeted for decades before the internet existed at all. Do you think TV adverts are placed randomly? They aren't. Different times of day have different value to different a
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by repolfx 8y ago
That's not the problem, that's the entire point of democracy . It boggles my mind that such a basic point of civil society is so difficult to understand for so many. There is no reason to believe MPs can "do the right thing&
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by repolfx 8y ago
There are strong reasons to see it that way, the Leave campaign was built on them.
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by repolfx 8y ago
If leave won again, we'd definitely definitely have to leave. Leave already won twice. In the first referendum, and then in the general election called by May in which the Lib Dems ran on a "cancel Brexit" platform and lost
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by repolfx 8y ago
There's also the 'smart border' issue. At the start pro-Brexit politicians were saying the border issues can be resolved to a large or at least good enough extent with technology. Number plate recognition cameras, better IT s
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by repolfx 8y ago
"It depends" There is a sister standard to DKIM called DMARC that lets a domain publish instructions for what to do if unsigned emails are received. It can run in allow, report and deny mode. Report is useful, it asks the recipien
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by repolfx 8y ago
Does it mean the security of AES has been reduced to 25% of the original security level? No. I'm curious why that's the case. A plain reading of reducing the security level from 128 to 126 bits would seem to imply the answer is
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by repolfx 8y ago
Facebook aren't hosting it.
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by repolfx 8y ago
Why would they care about Russia specifically? What criticism do you expect to see from them? I read ZH sometimes. They also don't spend much time criticising Iceland. You seem to be assuming they should share the same obsession with R
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by repolfx 8y ago
I think that would depend a lot on how you define "bullshitters". Outright knowing scams? I'd agree with you. Startups with no plausible business model, a bunch of buzzwords and hopes and dreams and no clear elucidation of wh
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by repolfx 8y ago
It's not that good. Now travel for millions of Americans is becoming more of a hassle. This suits the political agenda of the EU because it wants all of Europe to be a single country run by itself and doesn't care about collateral
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by repolfx 8y ago
He starts his article by saying he's a political conservative who works for a think tank in DC. What 'appearances to the contrary' do you mean? I've never heard of him but having read his article knew immediately he was
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by repolfx 8y ago
That's not a prisoner's dilemma. That's exactly what the article is talking about: saying there doesn't need to be a "you first" because both sides are equally guilty, so someone has to put down their contempt
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by repolfx 8y ago
I mean, democrats are still white, by large majorities..so they "hate themselves"? Well, it seems weird, but yeah - haven't you yet encountered the spectacle of a white man who seems to be apologising for being male and whi
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by repolfx 8y ago
I was referring to simplifying procedures in general and yes, they have done a lot of that. Look at gov.uk, look at how there are now new banks in the UK after hundreds of years with none. The "hostile environment" is all about
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by repolfx 8y ago
Why is that surprising? The UK has had huge immigration numbers for decades and a centrist/centre-right government that is (mildly) interested in simplifying government procedures.
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by repolfx 8y ago
This is sophistry - the Remain campaign was the government. It was the official position of the government and the entire thing was organised by them. There was simply no distinction between them at all. Again, people here are finding way
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by repolfx 8y ago
Go is heavyweight: its runtime doubles your memory usage and gives you an incredibly slow garbage collector, it also gets fast compile times partly by not optimising much. Source-wise it has a boilerplate problem practically as bad as Java&
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by repolfx 8y ago
Without a doubt IBM got paid more because they did a lot more work than originally purchased. These sorts of big IT deployment disasters always have complex causes and often are caused by the customers. But that's one reason why not ma
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by repolfx 8y ago
Only during campaigns. This sword cuts both ways. The Remain campaign completely blew the legally mandated spending limits for campaigning in a single mailshot to every home in Britain, let alone things like unbilled time of the civil servi
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by repolfx 8y ago
But that's not what the word "equity" means either. Regardless, if she wants to define a word to mean "the structural hurdles that women face as engineers" specifically she should not criticise other people for usin
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by repolfx 8y ago
> Google, Ms. Emerson said, seemed to be advancing a “flawed and incomplete sense of equality” by making sure men and women receive the same salary This quote would appear to sum up the entire debate, using the term generously. There i

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