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by topaz0 4y ago
Odd metaphor, given that one of the defining features of dark matter is that it is transparent.
602.
by topaz0 4y ago
Small correction: eigenfunctions are analogous to eigenvectors, not eigenvalues. In fact they _are_ eigenvectors, in the sense that they are vectors in a vector space of functions (or some restricted set of functions, e.g. continuous functi
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by topaz0 4y ago
Raising the price is only necessary if you can't figure out a way to dispose of it properly. Maybe that's the case. If so, then we shouldn't be using it at all. So it would be a good outcome in that case if it is "unreas
604.
by topaz0 4y ago
It would take political will, yes.
605.
by topaz0 4y ago
I think this makes the same mistake that has always been made with respect to plastic -- it assumes the responsibility of making recycling work should fall to the consumer, when it should really be imposed on the producer. If the responsibi
606.
by topaz0 4y ago
Suddenly realizing that 14% of your employees are not necessary for your business seems like a sign that something is wrong...
607.
by topaz0 4y ago
The LaTeX input for Word equation editor makes it a lot faster, but it is still quite limited and often doesn't do what you expect for more complicated things. It makes the easy things easier, but the hard things harder.
608.
by topaz0 4y ago
That's also how I learned it, but I prefer the way OP wrote it. I think it's nice.
609.
by topaz0 4y ago
Needs a (2012).
610.
by topaz0 4y ago
That's a lot of major versions in just a few months!
611.
by topaz0 4y ago
I had an SSD start failing writes, which quickly made it fail fsck, so I couldn't boot. I rescued pretty much all the data that mattered with dd. The arbitrary offset for starting the copy was essential, because the failing SSD would o
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by topaz0 4y ago
If you can set up nginx to do what you want, you can learn how to use systemd. In my experience it is quite usable once you get a handle on it. I'm sure there are plenty of "getting started" kinds of introductions that could
613.
by topaz0 4y ago
My heart was stolen.
614.
by topaz0 4y ago
The fact I learned about NYC fare evasion yesterday is that Andrew Cuomo's crackdown on fare evasion in 2019 cost more in police officer pay than was ever lost in fares. Not just more than was recovered by cracking down, literally more
615.
by topaz0 4y ago
Extremely relevant here though. It's propaganda in the sense that there is much more media handwringing about a missing package on an upper middle class person's porch than there is about thousands of dollars of wage theft a year
616.
by topaz0 4y ago
Amazon stole (to the court's knowledge) 8.2 million dollars from its workers and was not penalized. Was there a poll about that too?
617.
by topaz0 4y ago
Much to the contrary, it is foisted upon you.
618.
by topaz0 4y ago
I'm sure it would be more expensive if they did.
619.
by topaz0 4y ago
I have no objections to your claim that race is socially constructed. I agree. Where I disagree is in the logical leap that that means it doesn't exist. Your specific examples are irrelevant to this point. (Added: and for what it'
620.
by topaz0 4y ago
As has been pointed out elsewhere, benevolent sexism is a technical term in the field, and is just as applicable to situations where positive traits are assigned to men as it is when positive traits are assigned to women. It has nothing to
621.
by topaz0 4y ago
Most of what you said was irrelevant to what I was saying. I feel no need to address it.
622.
by topaz0 4y ago
They do exist... the fact that they are not biological does not mean they do not exist. They have a social-historical reality. They exist in the minds of people making decisions, overtly or not. Trying to become conscious of that and counte
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by topaz0 4y ago
Society defines racial categories according to made-up rules. The basis of these rules is not biological. All good so far. But, then we have to live with these categories, and they get applied to how we organize society, sometimes explicitl
624.
by topaz0 4y ago
"Rules made by society" is exactly why it is relevant here.
625.
by topaz0 4y ago
Have you read Marx then? I'd love to hear about the core dialectics of the "race theory of value" in your words if so.
626.
by topaz0 4y ago
> all 5% will be seen as having been given an unfair advantage. Only by the kinds of people who tend to assume the worst about Black people.
627.
by topaz0 4y ago
If you go to the FAQ, they say that they are likely several years from opening.
628.
by topaz0 4y ago
I laughed too, at "CI/CD pipeline", but this is actually pretty trivial to do with a git post-commit hook. Literally one line in a shell script.
629.
by topaz0 4y ago
Point well taken. To be clear, I didn't think the tweet exchange was out of line in any way.
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by topaz0 4y ago
Also note: a few tweets down in this thread, the tweeter says "you're right, I retract my criticism". So maybe not extremely well thought out critique after all. On twitter of all places.

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