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by thu2111 6y ago
There is an alternative explanation to the biases people are seeing here, unfortunately, and it would render gender and age confounding variables. It's known that Valley tech firms of the type studied in this paper have a large left wi
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by thu2111 6y ago
I tried that but it's no different. AP and Reuters articles are written in a style no different to what you'd find in a Guardian or NYT article. The problem is journalists as a class, not specific firms. They don't have any i
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by thu2111 6y ago
Thomas Sowell's "Conflict of Visions" theory might provide better explanations. In effect, people with more left/liberal views tend to emphasise the importance of speech, ideas, things that seem expert or scientific. Peo
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by thu2111 6y ago
Eh, wasn't one of the main reasons Clinton ran aground the belief that her nomination was due to a stitch-up inside the DNC (selection of Presidents ... nearly, at least)? Isn't it true that many US laws are created by regulatory
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by thu2111 6y ago
They're based on calling phone numbers, which are tied to identities, and the President has access to the NSA databases that correlate everyone's identities with their phones, IP addresses, etc. If people in Congress or the Presi
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by thu2111 6y ago
Worth noting here something important: when people talk about the "educated" city people, what they actually mean is people holding a university degree. Holding a degree is to a large extent a proxy for age. It used to be that not
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by thu2111 6y ago
You shouldn't be downvoted. Trump "taking on the deep state" isn't even a conspiracy theory, he literally made that a major part of his 2016 campaign. If deep state/swamp/etc is interpreted as a vague reference
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yeah but polls routinely show that 4% of people think Obama is a lizard: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and... Very often you do encounter polls these days where an absurdly huge num
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by thu2111 6y ago
Were there any other than Trafalgar? And did Trafalgar miss as badly as their competitors? My understanding was no.
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Well not just Intel. Optane is a new point in the memory hierarchy. That has a lot of implications for how software is designed, it's not something Intel can do all by itself.
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by thu2111 6y ago
I think that's true for contributions to existing projects or other hard to notice stuff. On the other hand, I got my current job exclusively via my open source work. But I created a project from scratch.
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by thu2111 6y ago
JetBrains Marketplace is like this. It's a store for plugins to their IDEs but they also say they'll do co-branding and marketing with you, you get access to their reseller network, they handle a lot of the accounting etc. But it&
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by thu2111 6y ago
It's not exactly the same but this article talks about a gay guy being banned for (supposedly) pointing out that there are very non-binary people in the world, and objecting to the idea that language should be changed to accomodate the
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by thu2111 6y ago
It's not a completely different beast, is it? It's basically like a regular flu or severe cold, and yes rhinovirus can be deadly to the elderly, it's just nobody normally notices or cares because rhinovirus isn't "n
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by thu2111 6y ago
Isn't that a "if she floats she's a witch" type argument?
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by thu2111 6y ago
The article says that in one case they can evidence it, but an individual MP isn't a police force. At any rate, the reasons behind the design of elections is to pre-emptively block fraud because proving it retroactively is hard. Hence
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The outcome is "an election in which a large number of people don't believe it was a fair contest". What matters is people's belief that the process has integrity. By its very nature, most vote fraud is hard to prove as
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It's really not that abstract. Phrased another way, would you want the world to go back to a state where the sun never set on the British Empire? Most people wouldn't, including most Brits, even though it was a large free trade zo
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's Thalidomide which wasn't a vaccine. A more relevant example is Pandemrix, a flu vaccine launched in the EU in 2009. A year later it was discovered that it seems to increase the risk of narcolepsy in teenagers sixfold. The v
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It's amazing how people have consistently acted throughout 2020 as if coronaviruses are entirely new, never seen before and everything known about the immune system or viruses has to be thrown out. People have been getting infected wit
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So why are they slaughtering millions of animals, on the basis that any mutation might reduce the effectiveness of a vaccine? If you're right then Denmark is engaging in mass cruelty to animals on an epic scale.
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that people get contagious long before they show symptoms I don't think that's correct. Pre-symptomatic phase is supposed to be about 2-3 days. I wouldn't describe that as 'long' before they show symptoms.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yes, but in other cases there have been "independent" reviews that weren't really independent, e.g. test makers who did their own test validation but got academics to do the writeup ... who worked at the university the manufa
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's actually not that wise a strategy. Think of it like tech debt. Working around a bug can be useful if there's genuine time pressure. If you're doing it because you don't think you can fix it, or worse, haven't
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They wouldn't, it's just deliberate confusion. If an arm of the government knows someone is there illegally they're meant to report them for deportation or other handling, not offer them infrastructure and rights, but in the
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Actual MPs disagree with you about that: https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/there-is-wides... "I believe the overwhelming majority of my constituents would be shocked if they knew the extent of cor
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That's not the type of problem that usually happens with postal voting. Intercepting votes like that on a large scale would be indeed hard. But what people do get caught doing quite regularly and not just in the USA are things like: 1.
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by thu2111 6y ago
100% agreed. I venture that it's a side effect of our industry relying almost entirely on universities and self-learning to propagate knowledge, instead of trade schools. Academics don't want to teach "messy" real world
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The only conclusion we can reach is "he says the quiet part out loud" If you ignore the last 4 years of analysis of what motivates Trump voters, why he's popular despite his personality issues and so on, then sure, you can
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Well, change has high costs, that's why. So the benefits need to be big as well. I think the issue for Python 3 is the benefits weren't that large compared to the costs, and for IPv6 it's the same, albeit people know that the

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