supergauntlet

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by supergauntlet 7y ago
I can agree when the problems brought up are phrased reasonably, but to ask questions like "does racism still exist" is just going to get you meaningless data. I dunno. The linked article seems like p hacking to me.
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
(The GP was making a joke)
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
I haven't actually seen a single 1080p raw bluray file with a higher video bitrate than 35 Mbps. Maybe with TrueHD/Atmos audio the total bitrate could push past 40, but 100 Mbps is way more than you need for 1080p. Even 4k doesn&#
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
>Video playback at 4K requires H.265 Not really a con IMO, I haven't seen anything on a 4k bluray encoded in h.264, everything seems to be 265. The microHDMI is kind of a bummer though. I actually wonder if the A72 CPUs onboard are
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
These questions are meaningless. Seriously? They asked a question like "Does racism still exist in America?" and thought many people were going to say no? Democrats and Republicans both agree there are problems. The difference is
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
>And the GI bill comparison is disingenuous because it's disgusting to compare the millennial English literature major whining about being unemployable to men who fought and died in Europe and the Pacific. It's not a comparison
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Sure, but the majority of it comes down to "money": https://i.imgur.com/aUvpH0S.png The fact that we can't solve homelessness "just" by giving everyone easy access to affordable housing isn't a
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Housing is not a market that should be governed by capitalism. I honestly don't care if the ultra-rich trade 30 million dollar homes and speculate on their value, but the fact that homelessness is even a problem in the first world is
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
>We can throw in as many other causal factors as we want in an attempt to explain the current socio-political state of the country, but we can't really deny that it looks as if the new counterculture exists somewhere on the right. I
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
"Tracking people through their entire use of the internet and using that to sell them things (and poorly at that) is bad!" "Actually it is good." Yeah kinda not seeing how the "correct" choice is right in the m
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Both Amazon and Apple have law departments larger than most large startups. It was intentional. They know nobody will do anything. So really, it's a case of "tech company pretends to be incompetent at pretending to be a bank.&quot
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
How does a DNS blocker know what requests are caused by what site? It's a stateless protocol.
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
It actually reads like the quote from Airplane! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn0WdJx-Wkw How oblivious and callous do you have to be?
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Isn't it more likely that economic inequality is the primary cause? https://i.imgur.com/2kfyBPt.png
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
> The media is one example Read (at least an outline of) manufacturing consent. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky pointed out 40 years ago that the media is complicit in propaganda dissemination for the government without any active coercio
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Science fiction. The poster you're responding to I think means that the common philosophical issues brought up in science fiction aren't being thought of by the creators of this technology in advance. Basically, they're too p
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Never mind that, how on earth is GDPR a bad law? Is making the bare minimum effort to safeguard customer data such a high cost of doing business?
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
It is honestly ludicrous to see the results of decades of economic warfare and the nonstop closing of proverbial doors of economic opportunity done by boomers and to a lesser extent gen X and then boil everything down to "Social media
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
>My interpretation is that something went wrong with bank regulation in the late 70s or early 80s. That is when the too-big-to-fail snowball started rolling; since then the stresses in the system seem to have been building. 2008 was a na
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Don't take this the wrong way because I'm genuinely asking - how is this useful? All this does is cut out the sidebar/header content along with the graphs. I hate bad web design as much as the next guy especially on text and
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
Losing your primary source of income for the last seven years for an apparently bullshit reason doesn't strike you as adequate justification for extreme distress?
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by supergauntlet 7y ago
https://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/ not only is he a programmer, but he has opinions on teaching programming.
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by supergauntlet 8y ago
I hope in your old age you never have to interact with people as devoid of empathy as yourself.
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by supergauntlet 8y ago
At any reasonably sized company individual managers are going to have a lot of control over their subordinates, and their underlings aren't going to have any say pretty much at all. What are they going to do, complain to HR? HR at any
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by supergauntlet 8y ago
Doesn't 'fell for' imply they aren't posting in bad faith? Seriously, what person over the age of 15 actually thinks calling a number on a dog collar is gonna get them prosecuted by the big bad FCC? That's ludicrous
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by supergauntlet 8y ago
"it's not an explosion, it's a rapid oxidation event"
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by supergauntlet 8y ago
>People also agree to lower insurance premiums in exchange for having a GPS tracker installed on their car. and that should make you uncomfortable too! how on earth can you justify this with an equally insane analogue?
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by supergauntlet 10y ago
This is disingenuous - he's obviously referring to image and text articles, not complicated web apps. Obviously such a website is going to take longer to load, just as complex native applications take a while to load. But to claim that
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by supergauntlet 12y ago
well swiftkey iirc does some data analysis on stuff like commonly used words and then uses those for suggestions for new users. its not totally without user benefit, though the potential for evil is certainly there.
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by supergauntlet 12y ago
Perhaps they’ll allow the use of both through some settings option.

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