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by rhizome 5y ago
I wanna say speed skating is the only dependably crossover sport so far? Not just from the Heidens 40 years ago, lots of other examples here: https://www.google.com/search?q=speed+skating+cycling
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by rhizome 5y ago
> You need to measure the KPIs. What KPIs do you use when the statistics are being used to measure whether the KPIs are the right ones?
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by rhizome 5y ago
The politician's syllogism comes to mind: "Something must be done, this is something, so we must do this." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism
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by rhizome 5y ago
Huh, I'd assume they are all storing start, stop, and skips.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Except for the meager controls they already give you, the data flows only one way: from their db of history to your screen. You fencing off your interests would complicate this immeasurably. I would guess that it would raise the same proble
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by rhizome 5y ago
You have discovered: fraud Let us return to those thrilling days of yesteryear when a firm named "Prenda Law" was still a going concern: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/copyright-troll-john-st... It
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by rhizome 5y ago
It's definitely "other organizations" that are the engine of this stuff.
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by rhizome 5y ago
No, in the Foxy Woxy version everybody believes CL and accompanies them to warn the king. The problem comes when they believe that Foxy Woxy knows a shortcut. Point being: Chicken Little is a crappy analogy to use against doomsayers. BwCW i
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by rhizome 5y ago
You don't have to see the film, it was a text fable for a couple thousand years before that. Plus, I'm skeptical that they all die at the end of a Disney movie version of the story.
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by rhizome 5y ago
In the Chicken Little story everybody except Chicken Little is eaten by the fox, do you mean the boy who cried wolf? Except oops, everybody dies in that one too.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Sox was a significant player in a pipeline I wrote for a YouTube-y company 15 years ago. Worked well enough to (help) get the company acquired!
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by rhizome 5y ago
I've thought that a great grassroots response to GDPR and superfluous cookie banners is for websites to start respecting DNT on their own.
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by rhizome 5y ago
I probably could have quoted it, but I was referring to "giving them good fulfilling lives is hard and expensive." Absolutely the captive nature of assisted living makes any transgression worse, but I guess underneath my unintenti
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by rhizome 5y ago
But where is the part that Americans were at risk if they didn't enter the war, presumably via some kind of invasion?
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by rhizome 5y ago
You could say the same about my use of an antidepressant.
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by rhizome 5y ago
People/apps that use alternate payment SDKs aren't going to care how difficult it is to unsubscribe, and very few people (citation needed) care enough to look into an app's cancellation flow before buying in.
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by rhizome 5y ago
> To play devil's advocate some, it's not possible to know but.. how many millions of Americans would have been killed and/or subjugated if America had a timid and weak military in world war 2? None? If the idea is that t
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by rhizome 5y ago
Every family of every person who has an interest in the fortune should be followed by hecklers wherever they go for the rest of their lives.
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by rhizome 5y ago
> There is no acceptable punishment for a crime of this scale that doesn't adequately deter future criminals. Well this is just a self-justifying statement. "Acceptable," "adequately," so many ways to weasel out
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by rhizome 5y ago
Are you trying to say that the availability of food along the way can supplant a bird's entire migratory instinct?
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by rhizome 5y ago
Since "I can't prove algorithms are unethical" implies a demand or requirement to prove a negative, I'm inclined to conclude that you're misrepresenting your source.
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by rhizome 5y ago
No, they're largely (the Venn diagram isn't a circle) the ones who want to require it.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Your explanations here are pretty vague and feel like they're trying to say "do your own research (on my claims)." I'm not saying you have to cite chapter and verse, but know that when you're gettin pushback here th
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by rhizome 5y ago
There's no reason to use symbolic logic on a mixed-audience webboard, it's just a flex.
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by rhizome 5y ago
No, here it means "came to a different purpose than I and everybody else using science did."
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by rhizome 5y ago
The masks work, but he only mentions a narrow use that isn't the current reason for wearing them. That's the misinformation; he got you, too. Think of it this way: "Don't wear a seatbelt because they don't keep ot
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by rhizome 5y ago
Pure solipsism.
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by rhizome 5y ago
The first version of .sigs that I ever encountered were on BBSes that allowed ANSI codes in posts. I'm not sure which BBS software it was, but on at least one it was common for people to create fairly elaborate animations, slash-spinne
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by rhizome 5y ago
Chattel slavery was relatively rare, and my understanding is that in most systems of slavery the slave was either working off a debt or could buy themselves out of bondage. Like you might with a student loan.
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by rhizome 5y ago
No, it's a more accessible way of saying it.

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