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by repolfx 8y ago
That's the explanation when men get paid more than women. When women are getting paid more than men, there are no known explanations beyond sexism. Especially at Google who notoriously fired Damore for stating that maybe men and women
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That's not the case. Many of the politicians who campaigned for Brexit have a very deep understanding and had been campaigning for it for large parts of their adult lives. Indeed, so far their predictions appear to have been more accur
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Actually you can now get two open source pauseless compacting collectors: ZGC and Shenandoah.
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That is a weird, unconvincing post. His first point about why it's different is "Wasm won"? Really? Back in the day Java applets were everywhere. They had "won". They disappeared because browser makers kicked them o
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Or they thought he was running cryptocurrency mining and the bills might bounce.
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I don't mean investigations that hit dead ends and never get published. I mean investigative journalism that turns out to be wrong or fraudulent. Claas Relotious is a particularly notorious recent example, but there is plenty of meta-i
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by repolfx 8y ago
Er, well, yes. I've never used a LinkedIn account to get a job. I've found work via knowing people. (I have one, but almost never update it, rarely check messages and have not obtained any work through it). How much money is know
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by repolfx 8y ago
Nobody forced them to create websites at all, certainly not "the model of the internet" which can't make anyone do anything. And of those websites, nobody forced them to not implement paywalls. You seem to be claiming that th
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Twitter is indeed a very strange thing. I have mixed views on it. The character limits clearly contribute to the fact that it's so overrun with drama. It literally prevents anyone from writing a long form, nuanced thought, let alone an
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I think this is where I do my usual comment and observe that print media isn't struggling to stay afloat. There are plenty of publications that are profitable. This is invariably ignored and a 'crisis' generalised to the enti
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That argument is assuming government directed 'philanthropy' is more efficient, better directed or somehow less supporting of the status quo than private philanthropy. But private philanthropists got where they were by being good
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That one is super hard when looking only at the face. Look at the clothes and necklace. The clothes are different on left and right sides of her face - the moment you see it you can't unsee it and it's obviously wrong.
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by repolfx 8y ago
How does that work? I don't think asking job candidates out on dates is especially smart or professional, but the comments here seem backwards. If a man asks a woman out on a date, that means he DOES want to spend more time with her ..
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Turkey is in a customs union with the EU.
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Here's an interesting question about uncertainty. Can you measure it? What units is uncertainty measured in? If there are any, is there a curve that maps uncertainty to changes in GDP and if so on which historical events was this curve
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by repolfx 8y ago
"Using the pool" is not a good analogy here. The EU has been trying to force airlines to become majority EU owned. That's not a "pool" that's being "used". It's a simple economic attack in retali
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Most of the things said about Brexit in both directions were predictions about the future. Many such predictions were obviously nonsense but could be justified on the grounds that it could happen, or rather, that the speakers believed str
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You have no idea if such propaganda even exists. Here is the UK culture minister today writing about the need to control the internet because of "disinformation" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/
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No, it's useless and I speak from experience of dealing with spammers who forged mail from friends family and colleagues in the past. People are not trivial automatons who can have their opinions rewritten on the fly by auto-generated
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Most obviously IntelliJ itself. I read a lot of praise for Visual Studio Code these days and then when people describe what they're so in love with it for, they're describing basic features IntelliJ had years ago. It's quite
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But why is that a problem. So you get access to a big community and lots of libraries. Are you working in an environment where you can't run a JVM at all for some technical reason? Maybe very constrained? But then you wouldn't be
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I'm not sure it has much in the way of implications. There is no real profit to be made by generating realistic looking text. Spammers don't work that way, spammers haven't cared about realistic looking text for years. Nor ha
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As other comments observe, the replication crisis predates the use of ML, so the causes are clearly deeper. I think there's actually a very simple explanation for this which lots and lots of people hate, so they're sort of in deni
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The EU didn't even formally exist until the early 1990s, before then it was just an overgrown trade federation. The EU is if anything a force against peace, as it takes a totalitarian "you obey us on everything or we work with you
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That seems ridiculous and wildly over the top. Hitler took a peacetime situation and started a war because he wanted to rule the world and abolish democracy everywhere. Churchill was one of the key men who stopped him, was forced into the s
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It's extremely common that Accept-Language headers are wrong because people don't know how to configure their OS or browser with the right language preferences, e.g. they add their language preference second or not at all.
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I think it's definitely worth exploring this angle because modern JIT compilers have become very advanced, and there's still a lot of juice left to squeeze there. Look at some of the things Graal is doing and it looks a lot like w
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The first is about testing for banned words deliberately. The second link appears to be about anti-spam suspensions related to people who controlled many different Twitter accounts simultaneously using bots, not content related enforcement.
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Well the weird thing is that Twitter is a network defined by length limits on messages. It exists because it forbids users from raising the bar by writing anything long enough to be interesting, intelligent, insightful or polite. Now he&#
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These businesses are not sustainable because their costs exceed their income. It's perfectly possible to make profitable and sustainable news outlets. The Times of London is profitable and has been for years, for example, because it pu

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