shaki-dora

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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Maybe start by not conflating privacy with concerns about censorship. Then, it'd be great if privacy-focussed platforms would show a commitment to find privacy- and freedom-preserving ways to tackle the very real problem of these platf
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
You seem to have trouble understanding even your own arguments. Above, you asked for "an example of a country that hasn't had to use violence to exit a communistic regime". So, pray tell: how exactly were East Germany's
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
This sort of ham-fisted attempt to shove your specific fascination with a two-hundred year old food fight that became irrelevant thirty years ago at the latest is a good example of what's wrong. FWIW there have been both communist and
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
The quickest way to autocracy is pretending there's no difference between it and democracy. This is civics 101: There is no "one ruler". There are parliaments, with multiple, opposing fractions. Then, there are administration
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
That argument is trivially true for most any civil liberty: the promise of a fair trial is protected only by the next higher court's fairness, etc. To categorical discount the value of the rule of law, and to apparently consider that i
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
In the US, very little. That's because there really aren't many meaningful protests these days, because the US has effectively killed the public spaces protests rely on. But the Tea Party movement was arguably influential, and pro
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
I hate to break it to you, but the BBC being British and public hasn't exactly been a secret.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Do you have any examples from, say, an EU country supporting your accusations?
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Erdogan is a corrupt fascist and a war criminal (most recently: killing civilians in Syria). But I agree: the coming economic crash is the least offensive consequence of his regime.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
I really don't understand how protests became conflated with violence (mostly in the US, as far as I can tell). Protests are a basic right in every democracy. The vast majority of protests (as in: >99%) is peaceful. Protests are
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
One person squarely at the center of this scandal is Boeing's Chief Test Pilot. Here's his bio: > O’Donoghue’s military experience includes 12 years of active duty as a U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot and test pilot. He flew op
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
That statement seems wrong in the strict sense, since the "Havlak" benchmark from your link has a more extreme difference between Crystal and Nim and was not included in the article's tests. The word "bias" has seve
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
OT: This is the first time I've seen "Energy" being measured in a benchmark. That strikes me as a really cool idea, both because it measures CPU usage over time, a figure that has always been of interest for such comparisons,
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
FWIW, my experience with quite a few (usually small(ish)) tasks I implemented in Crystal is in line with the article's. Once, a CSV-parsing and string-wrangling data batch job in python indicated it would take 27 hours to finish. I got
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
All employees are free to leave... That does not excuse misconduct by managers or violations of law. But the specific outcome here, I. s. suicide, is fiendishly difficult link to any one cause. The usual standard for negligence is somethin
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Click on “jsmol” under “Structure”: https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/164 (No, it’s not a complete brain simulation. But there is serious neurological science done in cool browser toys)
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Note that “the oldest species of <x>” doesn’t make any sense. Both that species as well as its closest evolutionary relative have a last common ancestor, meaning they are equally “old”. Do this a few times and you will notice all sp
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
If there’s been one positive development in politics in the last few years it’s the disappearance of the sex-scandal. Sure, anything too extreme, funny, or illegal would still be problematic. But someone’s run-of-the-mill pornhub playlist i
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
A/B testing is pretty much the gold standard. It took medicine a thousand years of bloodletting to get there. Of course its’s not always possible , which is what economists and nutritionists and a few other sciences struggle with. But
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A Top Antitrust Official Helped T-Mobile and Sprint Merge(nytimes.com)
3 points by shaki-dora 7y ago|0 comments
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Today's data concerns Saudi Arabia, somewhat contradicting your theory.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
If there's nothing to hide, why not publish it where people would check first, i. e. on your website? There are countries where that's required by law. And while that may be on the rather too heavy side of regulation, I have on oc
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
> With regards to being able to scrape your data or just get your data back from 3rd party's, I think that's a losing battle. Both Google and Facebook have tools that allow you to export your data in both (usable) JSON and HTM
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
That's the sort of tough-guy prepper-with-a-slide-rule speech that people (apparently) just can't get enough of. But does it mean anything? There is no bright line delimitating what's on the "critical path" and what
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The State of JavaScript 2019(2019.stateofjs.com)
1 points by shaki-dora 7y ago|0 comments
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
I'm a man, and for the life of me I don't get how people are feeling personally attacked by feminism. Same with racism: I just don't connect these issues with me as an individual. And I've never experienced an interactio
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
If your concept of self requires the subjugation of others, you neither deserve happiness, nor will you ever find it.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Is this reading comprehension in 2019? The clear intent of the sentence is to state that journalists do understand the need for their publisher to function as a business, i. e. to rebut the other stereotype of journalists that they ofte
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Cocoa and the Foundation framework have been around longer than MacOS / OS X, i. e. more than 20 years. How many different concepts has Microsoft called ".NET" since then?
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
I believe GitHub strongly discourages automatic issues and PRs.

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