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by throwaway19937 6y ago
The 2000 election was a mess. ( https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/publications/working_pa... ) makes what I consider a credible argument that Gore was in the wrong. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
That's just Hanlon's razor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor ) in action. I have edited my post to correct this omission.
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
https://i.redd.it/om90nwadqca61.png is a Parler post with a racial slur and 25k upvotes. The court documents ( https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/parler-llc-v-a... ) from their case again
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
Claims about electoral fraud are a regular occurrence in American politics. Democrats made similar claims about at least the 2000, 2004, and 2016 elections. Trump's claims about election fraud and the sheer number of lawsuits are an es
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
> I fundamentally don't understand why the Times didn't explain this early on. Not necessarily release these statements verbatim, but certainly provide some of this context. This message is too complex to be accurately relayed
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
> Participation is a discussion usually implies an interest and a willingness to spend your time considering various arguments. My only posts in this thread have been to explain why I flagged the post and why I feel it's valid to di
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
> We should evaluate arguments on their merits alone, ad hominem is destructive to effective discussion. That doesn't consider the opportunity cost; time that I spend on this argument can't be spent on another better argument.
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
I'm not a Rust user. I flagged it because it's poorly written flamebait that doesn't add anything to the comments on the GitHub thread.
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
> What does his position on masks have to do with the arguments he is making here? The Internet doesn't have a shortage of rants. If you're wrong about other areas then why should I care about your opinions on technology?
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
I haven't found any online sources that discuss them in detail; it's certainly possible that I'm mistaken about this.
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
> I'm actually scared that she's either so incompetent and didn't realize what's happening in her prisons. Or that she didn't care. They weren't her prisons. The Secretary of California's Department of
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
How is an attorney general or district attorney responsible for knowing about a covert program in one of the prisons? It's not like they receive monthly reports about all the illegal programs that other departments are conducting. If y
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
If you aren't a Bloomberg subscriber the article is available at https://archive.is/9dQsP
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
AFAIK gender balance quotas are no longer in effect. Gender ratios are widely tracked within the industry, though, e.g. ( https://ylw.yale.edu/top-firms/ ). Also clients for legal services often have their own diversity
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
> 3) they don't fix the underlying issues Quotas and affirmative action have worked successfully in other fields. Law in the US was a hostile profession to women in the 1950s and 1960s. Ruth Bader Ginsburg (first in her class at Col
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
> Women outnumber men as graduates, in medicine, in law. What is the difference between those fields and IT? I'm not sure about the UK but law and medicine in the US used affirmative action to address sexism in the profession. There
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
This is #4 (Pollution of Agency) and #8 (Anomalousness) from Joanna Russ's How to Suppress Women's Writing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Suppress_Women%27s_Writ... ). Poorly written papers are a regula
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
It's a great approach if it worked for them; protest and activist groups started with that approach but have changed their processes because of the problems mentioned by the sibling post. People interested in this topic may like the bo
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
> sounds like they put some words together to make it sound like it’s all standardized and automated and not result of human actions Part of my job is administering a system for detecting unauthorized sharing, exporting, or printing. It
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
I haven't found any evidence that she posted anything offensive. According to ( https://reclaimthenet.org/literary-agent-fired-gab-parler/ ) and ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25924637 ) her G
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
This change would substantially benefit large providers at the expense of smaller providers. AWS can afford to be sued for hosting a forum or the costs of a boycott for hosting Stormfront - a smaller provider could easily be wiped out. Edit
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
AWS cut off Parler after several months of moderation problems ( https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/13/parler-llc-... ).
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
My goal was only to point out that Scott's article missed the substantial effects of affirmative action in law and medicine. I find any theory that doesn't account for the reduced sexism in other fields unsatisfactory. I haven&#x2
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
I'm generally a fan of SSC but the second link is missing some significant factors on why law and medicine have become open to women. > "This makes no sense. There were negative stereotypes about everything! Somebody has to exp
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
> So, you always make the more "convenient" decisions instead and pretend there aren't any problems? Denying a problem is senseless but you have to pick your battles. It's a waste of time and political capital to ques
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
Any large organization is already using virtually everything. My employer, for example, is much smaller than Google and we are using at least a dozen programming languages. It's kind of a given that they're using Python 3 somewher
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
We have at least 3 currently supported vendor apps that use Python 2.7.
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
> I dunno but perhaps it was better to spend the money on human support staff. Or on means to become less dependent on advertising income. Or on open-sourcing those "shut-down by Google" projects. Or on improving the sandbox&#x
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
My biggest struggles are fatigue, depression, executive function, and my codependent relationship with my girlfriend.
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by throwaway19937 6y ago
> Is it selection bias that commenters on the internet tend to be more depressed/lonely? Most of what you read on the Internet is written by a small percentage of people ( https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex&

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