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by thu2111 6y ago
The reality is if YouTube was committed to free speech this wouldn't even come up at all. People would 'brand' YouTube this way about as much as they do Chrome for letting you browse websites claiming the election was stolen,
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If you're implying that this means masks have no effect, you should know that correlation does not equal causation. No, I'm implying what I said explicitly: some people have taken to deceptive tactics to try and argue mask manda
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Basically everyone trusts the scientific method. However, there are a lot of people who don't trust certain types of 'scientists' because they've observed that those people don't seem to use the scientific method,
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by thu2111 6y ago
Masks don't work at all so your whole premise is false, and there's a lot of lying about this unfortunately. Here's just one example: https://twitter.com/uncivengin/status/1337536854753595399/ph
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by thu2111 6y ago
The point of QALYS analysis is that yes, even though it sounds harsh we should in fact care less about a 90 year old with multiple severe problems who's going to die in the next few months no matter what mountains are moved for them, t
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by thu2111 6y ago
How are COVID deaths preventable? They generally haven't been and still aren't. Especially given that so many deaths labelled COVID deaths are of people who were about to die anyway and the COVID label took priority over other cau
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It is a problem and it should absolutely be paid attention to. US excess deaths aren't like in other countries, where they are generally on a long downwards trend. In the US they've been rising since the financial crisis. Oddly th
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by thu2111 6y ago
I don't like appeals to authority, but this perspective that people who have spent their entire lives studying epidemiology have just got this all wrong, don't understand what they are doing, and that appeals to "common sens
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Bytecode is very compact compared to native machine code. Android converts on the fly on the device. That's at least a part of it.
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Yes totally botched. We know because have can compare to Kotlin, a project which started around the same time. Google's migration to Kotlin has been progressing very well with no disaster stories like this one. Kotlin was engineered ve
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Mozilla eventually beat IE only because Microsoft disbanded the IE team. The years of product stagnation due to the Mozilla/Firefox rewrite didn't matter in the end because AOL acted as a sugar daddy for a while and then IE was al
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think a lot of it is driven by dysfunction and legacy at Apple. Their whole mindset is they want to review every version of the app manually and every bit of code that executes must be signed. They don't allow a lot of obvious softwa
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They really aren't, at least not where I live.
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The existence of affirmative action is not in any doubt, and it's not racist to suppose that some people benefit from it, given that's the entire purpose it exists for. the company doesn't give a rat's ass about diversi
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by thu2111 6y ago
What AI research has she done that isn't related to "ethics"? She doesn't seem to have any track record for creating new algorithms, for example.
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by thu2111 6y ago
In what legal universe could she claim any damages at all, after making it clear that she was quite happy to resign if her ultimatum wasn't met? And with no evidence anywhere that her 'departure' was racially motivated? Are C
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by thu2111 6y ago
What a nasty, horrible reply. You didn't even call out what specific things you object to. Try it on the other way around: the phrase "dog whistle" is a notorious dog whistle for extreme-left collectivist thinking. You might
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by thu2111 6y ago
Well, Damore was fired after being explicitly invited to give feedback. Probably anyone at Google who agrees with the firing is going to keep their head down because why risk being chopped like Damore was?
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ICBMs are far smaller and designed to travel far faster than any rocket carrying people would presumably go. It doesn't seem likely they could be easily confused.
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Einstein's breakthroughs happened alone, in a tiny window of highly productive years in his twenties. The rest of his life contained little of note and he never needed to build a huge/excellent team to accomplish what he's fa
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I don't think that's really true. My understanding from talking to people there is that Java funding was increased for so many years despite losing money because Larry Ellison just thought it was cool tech and they use it a lot. L
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Read the article? The article manages to describe it in the first paragraph like this: The object in the photo has been described by U.S. officials as silver and “cube-shaped,” according to a report from The Debrief, which first shared the
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by thu2111 6y ago
For people who agree with this comment and would like a more formal treatment, UFO debunker Mick West writes about the "low information zone" here: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/are-the-navy-ufos-real-or-j.
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by thu2111 6y ago
I agree, but the word Nazi doesn't mean "anyone who desires power". It has very specific meanings and connotations. That's why these people constantly abuse it, it's a form of linguistic parasitism. They find a word
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Yeah, but do you have a formal list of academic fields labeled as scientific by media/government but which are not actually scientific? The term "social science" doesn't cover it, as epidemiology is proving. Not many wou
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I'm curious what price range you feel a library like Qt can justify? (genuine question, I'm doing a bit of market research in this area)
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Where is Sundar Pichai in all of this? Why is it up to Jeff Dean to publicly represent the company? Pichai appears to be in hiding, as per usual. It's astounding how weak he is, especially compared to the very strong decision making th
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by thu2111 6y ago
There's another Googler who needs to be fired. Anyone who uses phrases like "minoritized" (that's not a word) or "the silenced ones" is quite clearly fighting the culture war and not even slightly interested in
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Yeah. That's the real story here and a very interesting one, but journalists would rather commit suicide than cover it.
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No clue what part of Google you worked at but that's the exact opposite of the company I worked at. Non-eng lived in fear of eng employees because the latter were widely seen as unfireable regardless of how bizarre or problematic their

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