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by sgift 5y ago
> I predict that the anti-political movement is going to take off and pick up steam in the intellectual circles. Only in anti-intellectual circles could an anti-political movement take off. Anyone with even a shred of intellect understan
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Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech(wired.co.uk)
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by sgift 5y ago
> one would think it would be easy - just compare counts of innocents killed by each side. It would also be a very flawed measurement unless you count the innocents the "evildoers" wanted to kill. The difference between what
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by sgift 5y ago
> The SJW religion > but so are those who are worse in the name of "good". And how exactly is the "sjw religion" worse in the name of good? I get it. You don't like people calling you out if you do shitty thin
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by sgift 6y ago
But Tech also enjoys the benefits of this. You make a product once, sell it thousands of times. Or allow thousands/millions of people access without much overhead. I'm simplifying here of course, but compared to e.g. a machine whi
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by sgift 6y ago
You are always free to add "conservative figures and/or counter points" if you can support them according to the Wikipedia guidelines. The lack of said counter points on such a high profile topic(1) suggests there aren't
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by sgift 6y ago
That would require the GPs comment to be false. RT and Sputnik are Russian government propaganda pieces. Anyone who denies that either lies to themselves or to others. CNN and NYT may write/send things you don't like, but they are
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by sgift 6y ago
Elasticsearch is not a car manufacturer. They are an after market manufacturer for a car which they got without paying themselves. Too many people completely ignore that the heart of Elasticsearch is Lucene. Elasticsearch adds things on top
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by sgift 6y ago
Next round is already called: "BREAKING: @RWDSU says that Amazon illegally interfered in the #BAmazonUnion vote in Bessemer, and the union will be filing unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB." https://twitter.com
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by sgift 6y ago
> I disagree: given that nothing changed, I don't think any details need to be provided. You sound like a typical enterprise customer. "The whole system stopped working!!!!" "What did you change?" "Nothing!!
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by sgift 6y ago
Obviously, I cannot say anything about "all" API designers, but I've read the opinions of a good few of them, including some who wrote the APIs in question here (i.e. the Java SE APIs), and they were unanimous that making API
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by sgift 6y ago
> Yes, Chernobyl. Unless you can point me to a _single_ non-nuclear power plant accident that has rendered 1,000 square miles uninhabitable for 35 years (and counting) then my point stands. So, let's not build shitty soviet designs
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by sgift 6y ago
> That isn't an accident. Germany and most of Europe have no tech sector to speak of as a direct consequence of their labor and regulatory policies. The EU is a huge economic block, comparable in scale collectively to the US or Chin
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by sgift 6y ago
> This is what's funny to me about the HN crowd. Saying they won't take jobs in Embedded Software/Hardware or the Video-Games industry because WLB is poor and it "pays peanuts" but at the same time preaching that
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by sgift 6y ago
> Nonsense. This isn’t really about countries exporting/not exporting. These vaccine deals are with private companies who produce their product around the world. Just because vaccines are manufactured in a specific country doesn’t m
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by sgift 6y ago
Use a private window to get around this. It's not a very advanced mechanic (yet).
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by sgift 6y ago
> The most important is that the subjects in this experiment were not, in fact ‘wine experts’. They were undergraduate enology students. They are probably more knowledgeable about wine than the average person, but they were not in any wa
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by sgift 6y ago
> There are many other factors that go into the making of super value wine, but the bottom line is this: You get what you pay for. And if you’re not paying much for Two Buck Chuck or California Roots, you’re not getting much, either. A l
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by sgift 6y ago
> One fringe punishes any criticism of the establishment view viciously (the epidemiologists & medical experts who weren't for lockdowns comes to mind), This is rewriting history. At the start of the pandemic the position of &qu
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by sgift 6y ago
No one said uncle Bob is old. Maybe uncle Bob is your hip cousin who still has no idea how these things work and zero interest to learn it . IMO, the biggest failure of tech discussions is to ignore that technology is there to solve a prob
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by sgift 6y ago
Do you have any proof or even hint for your suggestions or is this just a doom 'n gloom mixed with "they are out to get you" paranoid trope of the week?
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by sgift 6y ago
Maybe it's because English is my second language, but tenet is to me just another word for principle or axiom? Nothing cult/religious/military about it?
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by sgift 6y ago
People always self-censored. Far worse, people were censored. Really censored, not "oh, I cannot write on my platform of choice, so I have to use another one which can reach the whole world" censored. You wrote something the peopl
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by sgift 6y ago
It doesn't match mine since there's usually far more work to do than time available to do it. Most projects have to heavily triage bug reports and "your program fails on my platform that no one has built in 30 years" has
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by sgift 6y ago
So, the revolutions in Europe (which lead to democratization) happened because of whatever happened in Africa, India and the Americas? Or what do you mean?
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by sgift 6y ago
If you open it in a private tab mediums free article limit goes away.
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by sgift 6y ago
Funny, there is a state in Europe which had exactly the same position: We are all individual states, we fight with each other, we are weak, we should be together under strong nationalism, so we aren't victims of others anymore and so o
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by sgift 6y ago
In the banner they look okay. In the videos they look (to me) more fake to me than MetaHumans. E.g.: https://www.soulmachines.com/2020/12/florence-learns-5-new-l...
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by sgift 6y ago
The Wikipedia article doesn't tell this (which is okay, it's not the main topic), but you have to be really poor to get legal aid in Germany. When I needed this years ago I wasn't eligible because my parents had paid into a
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by sgift 6y ago
Everyone? No. A majority? Probably. I think over long times and always voting for the same "feds are bad" and "regulation is bad" people you can infer that at least a significant part of the voters thought this was a goo

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