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by tcbawo 5y ago
Being aware of biases is difficult in an attention-starved society, where specific opinions and confirmation biased news reports are pumped to social media with a Denial-of-Service-like frequency. Tribes have formed. We've gotten to
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I know someone that was suffering from alpha-gal for two years. Desperate for any hope, he found a doctor in North Carolina that developed a novel form of acupuncture involving the inner ear. So, he flew out for treatment. He had to leav
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Also, std::functions are not comparable. This makes it harder to use for registration/de-registration or an Observer architecture.
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Grouping every mistake, oversight, over/underestimation with intentional falsehoods can be a slippery slope that leads to conspiracy chasing and paranoia. Discrediting people and organizations by association just leads to tribalism. I
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If someone could offer this as a service, I would pay for it. I get a lot of social pressure from family and certain friend groups due to being one of the few non-iPhone users.
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This article comes from April 21, 2020, not Feb 2020 as GP mentioned. Apparently it was a Democrat response to a tweet announcing a border closure after the US had already seen 42000 deaths (fta). This looks like Democrats criticizing a
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I've heard multiple references to experts/politicians/media "calling border closures racist" in early 2020, but only from conservative media claiming that liberals were espousing this viewpoint. Can someone provid
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I can imagine a good portion of the population would not be inclined to take the advice of any President on self-moderation. The number of people struggling to keep their head above water is very high. The best chance we have is to make th
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In my town was a single mother who lived with her adult son that struggled with mental issues. She probably had very little help through the years, but somehow managed. One day, her son murdered her with a knife. It's very sad, but I
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Sometimes I think we're in the midst of a cultural version of the French Revolution. We're going to experience some wild extremes before it's done.
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Vocalizing casual judgements and self-righteous moralizing seems to have become the norm. I guess we're relearning the hard way what previous generations knew: don't talk about religion or politics in polite company. Unfortunate
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Doesn't free guarantee a lack of fat profit margin, unless you can add some sort of proprietary value on top of a reference design? It's hard to imagine who would make a big investment other than to undercut on price. You'd
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I have first hand knowledge of IP theft by Huawei dating back more than 15 years. It's not surprising they can outclass competitors on price over the long term. Perhaps this behavior should not be rewarded?
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I don't think enough people are willing to pay for email servers or clients. The corporate customers that would are probably also buying other services. So it's probably not worth it for them unless there is decent bundling&#x2
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Honest question: for someone whose priority is maintaining an ecosystem of general computing devices with freedom to run software of my choice (rather than privacy paranoia), what companies should I get behind and/or avoid? Between cu
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It seems that in America, we attach too much of our identity and life's purpose to our occupation. It's no wonder that people have a hard time in retirement. The embarrassment of retirement comes from some fear that one is no lo
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Is there any email service that can be used in concert with a password keeper like 1Pass or LastPass to generate unique email addresses in addition to unique passwords per site? I think this might be a nice way of improving privacy and s
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What seems especially common are indirect incentives such as dinners, drinks, vacations, and other entertainment perks.
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That reminds me of another Bill Murray quote: "When you become famous, you've got like a year or two where you act like a real a**. You can't help yourself. It happens to everybody. You've got like two years to pull it
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The point he makes about eschewing fame to stay grounded could probably be applied to modern society and social media in general. I have only a passing familiarity with Tim Minchin from the past, but he seems like a thoughtful and introspe
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It is far more likely for the government to step up investigations into tax evasion and money laundering. They will have the opportunity to take civil forfeiture in a whole new direction. Instead of a ban, it will be far more profitable f
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Faith seems to have a part in it, for sure. But it also seems that people are demanding more and more certainty in their lives. I compare this to my Grandfather's day when kids had nearly complete autonomy and could travel to the nex
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No, it's an iPad. Have not used VLC for iOS, but I might try. Luckily, the wired aux input has been working well enough.
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I've tried to set my kids up to watch movies in the car during long road trips, but the 10+ second bluetooth delay is brutal. Thankfully, we still have the headphone jack for wired audio.
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The ability to tell an engaging and concise story without gaps is a difficult skill. I imagine it can be required through practice and attention. I have noticed a certain deficit in this regard with my own family and I would love to hear w
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Perhaps due to a pervasive desire to maintain backwards compatibility, bugs and all?
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What a great learning tool the early personal computers were. It's a pipe dream, but I would have loved to have given my children a simpler device and restricted the internet until they were capable of assembling the hardware/so
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I assume he meant an Atari video game system rather than an Atari personal computer.
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I understand the appeal of radical portability that a floppy-based OS gives you, but the fragility of floppy disk media is something I don't miss!
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With a majority state-owned joint venture

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