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by swebs 5y ago
For reference, a school year is 200 days. Imagine skipping almost a year and a half of school.
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by swebs 5y ago
When did Jordan Peterson ever discuss race?
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by swebs 5y ago
>which would easily be resolved by having better/more scientific data There's already quite a lot of data on the subject. Here's a 30 year meta-study from 2005 for example. https://www1.udel.edu/educ/g
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by swebs 5y ago
>progressive dogma ... contrasting with conservative dogma That's a false dichotomy and really the core of my complaint. Instead of dogma, we should be striving towards facts based on empirical evidence. Science.
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by swebs 5y ago
This is really more of a science-religion issue than a science-science one. It is more akin to Galileo being tried for heresy for claiming that the sun is the center of the solar system. Though in this case the religion is progressivism. An
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by swebs 5y ago
>Hasn't TikTok been proven malicious in it's excessive user tracking and data theft? Try watching this video on Youtube without giving Google your passport or credit card info. I found it impossible, even with youtube-dl. http
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by swebs 5y ago
Wasn't all steel before the 1800's or so made with wood?
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by swebs 5y ago
You'll see very few diesel cars in the USA either.
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by swebs 5y ago
There was a recent podcast that goes into deep detail of the causes of this phenomenon. How immense social, political, and even legal pressure suppresses those critical to transgender theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by swebs 5y ago
If someone's quadcopter keeps hanging around your windows at night, this would be a good way to knock it out of the sky.
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by swebs 5y ago
Links on 4chan's CDN tend to get pruned a few hours after the thread dies. Here's an archive of your image: https://archive.is/4RJwu/6ec51706a8b44347b50d6ee38cc56191a7d...
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by swebs 5y ago
So does cash, but its not like I'm clamoring to outlaw that.
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by swebs 5y ago
Well most outlets aren't really secretive of who they're rooting for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_endorsements_in_the_...
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by swebs 5y ago
After a certain point, you have to start noticing patterns.
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by swebs 5y ago
Microsoft would not want to stop since it keeps users locked in to Windows. The majority of games now support Linux according to ProtonDB, but the few popular games that don't are almost always due to a kernel level anti cheat. https:
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by swebs 5y ago
Got a link? I'm interested to see how its even possible to distinguish that.
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by swebs 5y ago
Dedicated servers and active admins.
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by swebs 5y ago
You're trying to frame this as a scientists vs the everyman debate, but there were plenty of scientists who were against gain of function research and warned that this exact scenario could happen.
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by swebs 5y ago
54 percent of Americans believe "whether a person is a man or a woman is determined at birth". There is a wide partisan divide with 80 percent of Republicans agreeing (so probably not radical feminists) and only 34 percent of demo
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by swebs 5y ago
>2. Feminists (TERFs) who believe being a woman is a fundamental, biological identity and cannot be coopted by males. I'd wager that most people believe this. Not just feminists.
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by swebs 5y ago
>Electron You're really overestimating the Pinephone's hardware. Firefox takes about 10 seconds to open.
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by swebs 5y ago
>Do you think Linux's general usability (i.e., not for you specifically, but for the average computer user) is on par with other OSes? Yes. It is orders of magnitude more usable than Windows 10 at least, which is awful. I haven&#x27
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by swebs 5y ago
I just tried it on Imgur and was able to right click -> "Save video as". But yeah, I have seen a lot of more scummy sites do what you described.
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by swebs 5y ago
I've never had a problem with the web UI. My only complaint is that it doesn't render Jupyter notebooks.
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by swebs 5y ago
Didn't Apple make it extremely difficult to boot Linux on modern Macbooks?
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by swebs 5y ago
>Use the Chromebook for the 90% that I think I can use it for and use virtual machines in the Georgia Tech Computing Center. Most universities also have some sort of high performance computing cluster available, so you're not limite
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by swebs 5y ago
>Far left ideologies have a century of murdering tens of millions of people that didn’t agree with them or in some cases just didn’t cheer loudly enough. There was a big debate in 2019 of communism vs capitalism among two famous professo
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by swebs 5y ago
Yeah, I always just go straight to an archive site when I see a Gizmodo link. https://archive.is/MGCOA
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by swebs 5y ago
>the odds of someone taking actual BTC as payment are pretty low right now. It's way, way more likely I can just use another credit card company, a debit card, Venmo/Cash App/PayPal, etc. I think this argument, while commo
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by swebs 5y ago
Yes, and I agree. I'm not saying they should take that right away from Visa. But if a customer wants to do business online with someone Visa doesn't approve of, they have very few options. And currently Bitcoin is the best option.

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