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by richbell 4y ago
I would also like to see "friendly" SQL syntaxes like what DuckDB offers, but I doubt they'd add it without an update to the standards themselves. https://duckdb.org/2022/05/04/friendlier-sql.ht
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> Why would they make it a felony if they aren't going to enforce the law. Laws that are arbitrarily enforced is authoritarianism. No need to exercise the law if its mere existence is enough to alter people's behavior. ;) http
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I'm sure there are people who'd love to keep the "theory" of evolution out of schools as well.
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A bit of an unfortunate naming/seo clash as GO Transit is the public transit service in Ontario Canada. https://www.gotransit.com/en/
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> The social dynamic exists independent of dating apps which monetize and exploit it. > The dynamic is the same in real life... While I agree it isn't unique to OLD, it's vastly different to real life. In real life you can
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The problem with dating apps is that there is an inherent divide, and Match Group (the company that owns pretty much all online dating apps) actively exploits this. Lonely men are deliberately targeted and charged more for services. It ma
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It's fairly common, if you're familiar with how big agro-chemical firms influence research into the harms of their products (lookup Oki's Weird Stories video about Syngenta and Tyrone Hayes), how Purdue influences academia an
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> Access to medical services continues to be the same thing that Canadians have complained about for decades. Everyone bitches about it, but all-in-all, they are fine. Ontario's health-care system is collapsing. In the past year sev
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It's exacerbated by the rich heavily relying on cheap labour and fresh credit to keep wages low and the GDP growing. Lots of companies rely on the Temporary Foreign Worker program to fill menial minimum-wage jobs, often paying those TF
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"I'm a Software Developer at MindGeek, a prestigious global industry-leading information technology firm."
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> Canada seems to be doing just fine with a quarter of its population being foreign-born. Canada is not doing fine. There are major problems with wage suppression and lowering standards of living, as well as dwindling access to housing
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> In Canada, we finally passed a law to allow merchants to add a credit card surcharge. People accustomed to getting free rewards will be paying up to 2.4% for the privilege. And yes, they're crying about it. Didn't the CTRC ul
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by richbell 4y ago
Usually they take responsibility by throwing a single lowly employee under the bus and firing them. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/26/politics/solarwinds123-passwo...
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> My pet peeve about using "they" is it seems to imply an undue politeness or superiority I suppose it could be considered similar to Spanish and French where you have "you" (peers) and then formal "you" (au
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I agree, and didn't necessarily mean to focus on a specific issue (though I disagree that it isn't a socially acceptable prejudice, there are a considerable number of people in academia and social justice circles that advocate for
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> Sure, and the solution isn’t “wow google is so biased the solution is to show no results for anyone in the name of fairness.” I'm not saying it is; indeed, I recognize that fairness is often about equity and not equality. However,
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> But as it happens, Dobbs himself provided some perspective on his thinking in an email exchange with KrebsOnSecurity back in 2020. I’d reached out to Dobbs because it was obvious he didn’t mind if people knew he operated one of the wor
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Or they didn't add filters for misandry because they were only concerned about misogyny. This is a classic pattern. For example, people have complained numerous times about Google's search suggestions and results for certain topic
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by richbell 4y ago
Asking ChatGPT to write fiction isn't "propagating" anything. You could argue that questions like "what are some reasons Republicans think Joe Biden stole the 2020 election?" may be prone to misinformation, but sele
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> I'm saying that if they had targeted this individual, the feds thought he was up to something but had no real evidence, it would be really easy to find this guys IP address and then say he went to X website and he needs to go to j
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by richbell 4y ago
Wouldn't they need to know who he is before they could target him and acquire his IP? Unless your suggesting parallel construction?
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by richbell 4y ago
I don't really see what this has to do with the submission. Furthermore, I think it's a bit of a strawman to say that people who think "The West" is evil (usually in reference to the USA's long history of spying on
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by richbell 4y ago
Vendors like Sonatype already offer this for enterprises. I feel we're a long way from it being available in core OSS repositories though. https://help.sonatype.com/fw/best-practices/release-integrit...
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What's the breakdown of women in the context of this discussion (caste)? Is there an equitable ratio?
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by richbell 4y ago
> Why should Google let Tamil ethno-nationalists like Thenmozhi hold a talk? Can you elaborate on why she is a "Tamil ethno-nationalist", and why this should disqualify her from giving a talk about caste equality?
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by richbell 4y ago
This is a real problem that doesn't get as much attention as it ought to. Google canceled a planned talk about this earlier this year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/02/google-...
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by richbell 4y ago
For what it's worth, I agree that it looks strange . However, the fact that he offered to send the PSD and progress pics but was still banned makes the mods look incredibly bad.
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by richbell 4y ago
IIRC GallowBoob was known to work for a company that advertised things on Reddit, and was still allowed to become a moderator of a large number of subreddits. He then used that power to remove competing posts and ensure his own reached the
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34275644
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We shouldn't shame people for performing obvious studies: studying it can either disprove false beliefs, or yield more insight. There is a very real problem in the sciences that doing "unsexy" science is treated a waste of

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