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by romwell 4y ago
Yeah, including telling your friends in a personal conversation . Or simply having an account on Mastodon, and other people Googling it. It's absurd.
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The policy says: >At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, *such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter*, or *prov
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by romwell 4y ago
Obsidian is a TiddlyWiki[1] alternative ;) While TiddlyWiki is both a Wiki and a personal knowledge database, I am also using it as a basis for my personal website about ADHD[2]. [1] https://tiddlywiki.com/ [2] https:/&
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by romwell 4y ago
>Edit: E.g. see the left opposing voter ids in the US. FYI, the left wasn't opposing voter IDs . The left was opposing Voter ID laws , which required a voter to have an ID, while selectively providing these IDs to the population.
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>Knowing the location of your plane is theoretical harm. It's not even theoretical harm. It's not harm. You are not entitled to privacy when owning and operating a jet in public airspace.
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Yo dawg[1]. [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg
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You're paying for the innovation.
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See my other comment. TL;DR: we have as much basis to believe he raped anyone as we have to believe thart he literally raped Frank Herbert : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKjpH2qO8XY That's to say, nothing aside fro
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by romwell 4y ago
>I am anti-jodorowsky because he raped a woman That's a fact? My understanding is that the only source for that were his own remakrs in an interview, and that he later retracted them[1]. No other person ever claimed anything of th
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>I'm surprised that Snow Crash hasn't been adapted yet It's because there's a pedo rape scene in the book that's central to the plot, and the book itself doesn't disapprove of it in any way. Neither do Neal
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>Tbh I thought David Lynchs Dune captured the oddity of the universe, the cruelty of the universe, and did it's own stuff as well. Wait till you hear about Jodorowsky's Dune[1][2], the best film never made. With Pink Floyd doin
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>The author was right in that there’s a lot of smart people there. By far the best place I’ve been for that. Oh, Google had the most amazing intelligent bright coworkers when I was there. The saddest part was seeing these people directin
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>Let employees to start new projects and shut it down later if it does not seem to be profitable. That's not the strategy though. The strategy is "I'll get promotion for launching, not maintaining" for employees, and
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Exactly, hence no true Scotsman : "Oh, it's not a true Google org!". No, it is a Google org. Whatever was said in the top comment was applicable to Geo a few years back. And the infamous "need-to-know" memo, wh
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by romwell 4y ago
>Google Cloud is not the real Google. Culture-wise, you are closer to Oracle. Incorrect. Google's culture has shifted. Culture-wise, Google is closer to Oracle than what people think is Google. 20% hasn't been a thing in Goog
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by romwell 4y ago
'tis the Slashdot hug effect. Pardon, HN DDOS. Mirrors: [1] https://archive.ph/nzKWP [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20221128230655/https://scribe.ci...
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by romwell 4y ago
True. My comment was to highlight how wrong my initial intuition was. Looking around, this article[1] by Arun Maiya and Tanya Berger-Wolf explores this in the context of social networks. Fascinating stuff! [1] https://arxiv.org
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by romwell 4y ago
As a mathematician, my immediate reaction was: duh! Of course! Why is this interesting? The go-to example would be a person having 10 friends, being the only friend for each of them. It's not too hard to generalize from there, or at
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>"Forced to share a bed with someone" could also mean... That's an extremely gratituous reading of the situation that is unwarranted. You were not "forced" to share a bed, because nobody would give a fuck if you
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>Notwithstanding, I have avoided virtually all NSFL stuff and don't understand trigger warnings. How? Trigger warning = NSFL tag on the post Allows you to have informed consent to consume content - or nope out of it. For most pe
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>cars are increasingly banned in downtown Paris I drove in Paris past August, and didn't notice any bans. Parking availaibility and price varies a lot, but it's workable.
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My comments were about the study, and how it fundamentally fails to achieve the state objective.
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>The analysis seems to be more about cases where people read the warning and then _consume the content anyway_, but is that really the common case? It's not, which is why the entire analysis is BS. If the subject of the experiment i
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by romwell 4y ago
>He explains this in the thread - it appears as though trigger warnings only serve to increase anxiety until the trigger is experienced, and at no point does it improve or worsen the experience. Did it occur to the author that perhaps co
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by romwell 4y ago
Don't forget: 4. The doctor didn't keep track of of how many patients ditched him, forever, because the doc doesn't understand the above ----- Thank you for a thorough reply and debunking of the argument by broken analogy. Th
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This study seems to be pretty limited regardless of how it's carried out. People seem to be hung up on the new term "trigger warning" when we've had content warnings since time immemorial. Nobody seems to be writing
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>Sounds like those people are in strong negotiation positions You'd be surprised, but that's not necessarily the case. One of my friends was such a person in a shoe making company as a designer. Instead of giving her a raise, t
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Egine , noun 1. a machine that converts power into motion. By definition of the word, they didn't print an engine . It's an art piece.
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Same, putting an 11/12 gear in the hub would've been more elegant IMO.
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So glad it was helpful!

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