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by slavak 8y ago
Wow. I thought you must have been exaggerating somewhat but, no, he actually came out and randomly accused a guy he doesn't know and never met of being a pedophile, all for the crime of criticizing his mini-sub idea! Not just any guy,
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by slavak 8y ago
You tell me: > sexism | 1 : prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially : discrimination against women > racism | 3 : racial prejudice or discrimination
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by slavak 8y ago
From the same dictionary: sexism : Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex. Of course, referencing other (arguably more authoritative) dictionaries, one of the definitions for racism is also
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by slavak 8y ago
It _is_ a form of racism and sexism, by definition. You can make an argument that some forms of racism/sexism are not harmful, or even beneficial, to society, but let's not re-define words based on your convenience. And before you
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by slavak 8y ago
From the Merriam-Webster English dictionary: > sexism > noun sex·ism \ ˈsek-ˌsi-zəm \ > 1 : prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially : discrimination against women > racism > noun rac·ism \ ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm also -ˌshi-
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by slavak 8y ago
> Flying is the worst one because people come back from flights and they're telling you their story, and it's like a horror story. They act like their flight was a cattle car in the 40s in Germany. They're like, 'it w
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by slavak 8y ago
The very act of crossing the border is a misdemeanor, and thanks to Jeff Sessions' "Zero Tolerance" policy, almost every adult is being prosecuted, even if they are not dangerous and even if they apply for asylum. In other wo
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by slavak 8y ago
No, the implicit contract is far from obvious. Yes, everyone knows Facebook shows you advertisements in return for using their service; that personal information is used for that purpose, the extent of personal information collected, and wh
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by slavak 8y ago
In California it is! https://www.employmentattorneyla.com/blog/2017/06/what-are-c...
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by slavak 8y ago
The prices have actually finally started coming back down. It's now possible to find GPUs with more than 3Gb of RAM for MSRP or less again. https://camelcamelcamel.com/EVGA-GeForce-GAMING-Support-06G-...
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by slavak 8y ago
https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ > Unlike (literally!) every other language with a similar operator, ?: is left associative. So this: $arg = 'T'; $vehic
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by slavak 8y ago
Private prisons account for 8% of the total state and federal prison population in the United States+. Are they really a major driver of criminal policy? [+] https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso.
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by slavak 8y ago
This is great in theory, but the potential never seems to have come to fruition in practice. Google tries to figure out what I'm interested in globally, but what it tends to end up with are ideas that are either irrelevant, outdated, o
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by slavak 8y ago
FWIW Redis Labs already offers a Redis-on-Flash solution, which also happens to work really well with Optane: https://redislabs.com/blog/redis-enterprise-flash-intel-opta... Full disclosure: I work for Redis Labs.
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by slavak 8y ago
Kobe beef doesn't really affect the consumption of other beef in a material way not just because it's much more expensive, but (probably mainly) because it's available in very limited quantities and all but impossible to obta
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by slavak 8y ago
> 1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later
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by slavak 9y ago
That's not entirely accurate. Pressurized aircraft hulls are limited by the total number of pressurization cycles they can be subjected to. Everything else is repaired, overhauled, or replaced, but a total overhaul of an airliner haul
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by slavak 9y ago
Rotax can run on either MoGas or 100LL, so if you're at an airport that doesn't offer MoGas you can just fill up with AvGas and go.
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by slavak 9y ago
This doesn't seem specifically a linear vs distributed VCS thing, as much as it is a unique property of git. I previously used Mercurial, and at no point did I feel I had to understand how the VCS stores its commit graph in order to kn
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by slavak 9y ago
Not only that, but his company was taking bets from US citizens, which is a much stronger argument for presence in a territory than simply "your website is accessible to our citizens."
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by slavak 9y ago
Engine-off (so-called "dead stick") landings are absolutely possible even in a commercial aircraft, and are something you practise pretty much from day 1 of flight training: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deads
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by slavak 9y ago
Suppose women get paid less because they work less hours (this is actually part of the reason); Do you suggest women should get paid more per hour simply on account of being born with a vagina? What if women get paid less because they tend
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by slavak 9y ago
Welp, that's the whole field of statistics down the drain! Who needs complex analysis and accounting for confounding variables when the answer is simply "Big number good, small number not good!"
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by slavak 9y ago
This is an interesting thought! If an employer pays people who are a flight-risk more (a-la "the squeaky wheel gets the grease"), and women are on average a lower flight risk because they are more risk-averse - is the resulting pa
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by slavak 9y ago
Well, the suit only has merit if hiring is broken in a way that unfairly disadvantages a protected class. (In this case, women.) I think the poster's point was that hiring is broken equally for everyone, which is inefficient but not il
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by slavak 9y ago
> Honestly, I'd like to hear from them. Just look at this thread, the ratio of anti-Damore to pro-Damore people is like 1-to-10, and the other threads are even worse. I'm white and I agree a problem exists, although I'm no
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by slavak 9y ago
> Girls are discouraged from pursuing math and hard sciences through pre-college education, explicitly, culturally, and socially. The social blockers between girls and engineering are particularly acute compared to those between them and
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by slavak 9y ago
> You're ignoring that girls are socialized to think they're bad at math, science, etc. And yet over 40% of graduates majoring in math and statistics are women. How does this sit with your explanation of social conditioning? h
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by slavak 9y ago
Aviation has managed, through a great deal of hard work, to ingrain an overarching culture of safety first on all levels of the chain. Those involved on all levels are thoroughly trained, procedures are formulated and followed, and when som
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by slavak 9y ago
> It's barely one step above ebay for a lot of items. Is it, though? At least with eBay I know who the product I ordered came from and whom to blame if something goes wrong. If I'm ordering from the manufacturer's official

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