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by thu2111 6y ago
Innocuous ideas like "the focus is on getting the right answer" being the same thing as "white supremacy"? That "white supremacy culture" can show up when "expectations are not met" or when "teac
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by thu2111 6y ago
Probably only a few thousand white supremacists in the entire USA: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-w...
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by thu2111 6y ago
Can you give a citation for Gab banning blasphemy? After a few quick searches I was unable to find any reference to that anywhere else.
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by thu2111 6y ago
I feel that's disingenuous. It wasn't the same way on both sides. This kind of false equivalence crops up in a lot of places but it needs to be called out. Many high profile Remainers claimed Leavers were/are racist, ignorant
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by thu2111 6y ago
Why not? Land used for crops that are then eaten by humans is more efficient than using it grow crops to feed animals. Even if you assume no animals graze on arable land (why would you assume that?) there's still large efficiencies to
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by thu2111 6y ago
Will happen, according to academic models that have been frequently wrong in the past. Projecting prior trends forwards doesn't get you anywhere near meters of rise, that's my point. And no they have not so far under-represented
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by thu2111 6y ago
Nobody "kept" half the world poor, they did that to themselves. Look at the vast amounts of aid that's been sent to nearly every poor country over the decades. Huge sums. In the end the big success is China, which didn't
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by thu2111 6y ago
Land? Enormous amounts of land are used to raise animals or food for animals, many of which could be replaced with slightly improved Impossible Burgers. Artificial meat is already pretty much acceptable and its primary constraint is the che
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by thu2111 6y ago
A few meters? That's the scenario where there's some runaway global warming and all the poles melt, right? Actual observed sea level rises are measured in millimeters per year. Historical trends can't lead to Miami needing to
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by thu2111 6y ago
This is not really in the wild or even the "wild" by any reasonable definition: 1. The exploit isn't by a real attacker. It comes from a pen-testing firm (white hats). 2. It was patched years ago, probably written years ago.
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by thu2111 6y ago
VAT used to be much easier in Europe because you were charged VAT in your home country, not the country of the customer. That's far easier to establish and means you're dealing with your local government in your native language.
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by thu2111 6y ago
There is a large Google datacenter in Finland. https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/hamina/
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by thu2111 6y ago
There is. It's called HOCON and I'm surprised it's not mentioned yet: https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/master/HOCON.md HOCON is the "human optimised config object notation&quo
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by thu2111 6y ago
The regulation argument seems weak to me for two reasons: 1. As the article itself notes, the UK may not be the heaviest regulated now but for much of the 20th century it was regulated into abject poverty by post-war socialist governments
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's why the guy wrote the article. California has 60% the population of the UK, possibly lower as actually nobody really knows how many people live in the UK. The official population stats are biased low by the government's own
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by thu2111 6y ago
Grenfell wasn't caused by lack of regulation but rather, a construction firm that knowingly defrauded the regulators, and regulators that were in turn incompetent and easily defrauded. There is quite some shocking testimony related to
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by thu2111 6y ago
You're ascribing bad faith where there is none. Spammers make it difficult to keep the email system alive at all, even between big firms. If you think it's easy, go set up your own webmail firm and show them how it's done.
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by thu2111 6y ago
HTTP isn't only about NAT. Lots of protocols have a clear notion of client and server, and don't require dialback. HTTP is successful partly because it's simple and "stateless", in the sense that all protocol state
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by thu2111 6y ago
How do you implement ACLs and other privacy-related transformations in that model?
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by thu2111 6y ago
These are accounts that are abusing your website, right, not sending email spam. The problem is Google doesn't know the accounts are bad so its systems never learn to spot the tactics being used to get past the bulk signup controls.
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by thu2111 6y ago
The problem is that providing email server debugging services is very expensive because not many people really understand the whole SMTP stack these days. You can't find anyone who will talk to you at these firms because there's p
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by thu2111 6y ago
Hmm, that's an impressive list of links. I picked one at random - the Vox link - and it starts with this paragraph: "When people talk about identity politics it’s often assumed they’re referring to the politics of marginalized gr
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by thu2111 6y ago
I wasn't thinking of actual censorship. The bad ideas arise because the people in question are being funded by a government that doesn't really care or have any way to judge whether the ideas are good. Just requiring them to find
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by thu2111 6y ago
Nobody uses the term identity politics to mean white supremacism. Even the left don't use the term that way. Marxism is not the right label to describe the post-1950s left wing politics in most countries. Yes, there were fringe wings t
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Marx was writing in Victorian London, somewhere that was racially homogenous. The distinctions between people were all related to wealth and social class. If he lived in modern America he would certainly have talked a lot about race and gen
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by thu2111 6y ago
Identifying leftism as a harmful ideology is certainly a critical step, however it's very difficult to gain traction with that because the term "leftism" is very, very close to "left wing politics", which is strongl
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by thu2111 6y ago
Which leads to the more fundamental question of how society should stop bad ideas leaking out of the professoriate and into the real world. That in turn raises difficult questions about the structure of academia and universities, its genera
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by thu2111 6y ago
Urgh, great. So Facebook presumably think this won't spread to other places, but now they folded it will. So the news industry is going to fix the problem of falling trust and falling revenues by becoming subsidy junkies extracting wea
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by thu2111 6y ago
In fairness to the USA, Biden was selected via the primary system. In fact voters very much did want 'out of touch old white men'. If the Democratic party had been able to simply pick the leader themselves it would be black women
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Arguably it is the wrong strategy, especially if the unspoken possibility of war with China becomes a spoken one. The USA has an edge in raw technological prowess. The F-35 plays to that strength, with tons of advanced technology that took

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