will4274

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by will4274 5y ago
That speech was given in person, in the school building, where other students were required to attend, during school hours. This speech occurred on snapchat, outside of the school building, outside of school hours, with no requirement that
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by will4274 5y ago
It's amusing to think that, if she had said it with her boob out, she likely would not have been punished by the school, because nobody would have saved and rebroadcast it for an adult.
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by will4274 5y ago
Have you ever watched The King and I ? The original
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by will4274 5y ago
> "he's so smart and talented" "I know, and he's black too!" The subtle implication is that most smart and talented people are not black, that smarts and talents are atypical in blacks and more common in oth
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by will4274 5y ago
I meant like, a quote. or an episode. Some raw data I can listen to, not just your conclusion.
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by will4274 5y ago
Can you give me an example of something Joe Rogan has said that you think a tech employer would fire an employee for? (Seriously asking, I don't listen to Rogan.)
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by will4274 5y ago
No, it's not too much to ask for, and visual studio supports that. But, it is too much to ask for as a default, because it's a terrible choice. The only reason somebody would want both #1 and #2 is if they put tabs and spaces into
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by will4274 5y ago
Spoiler - WASP kids listen to rap. Artists like Eminem were the mainstream when they were complaining about censorship.
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by will4274 5y ago
> Especially in the example case of music, "policing" has been a constant reality [...], yet no one complained Ummm. Did you somehow grow to adulthood without being a teenager? Did you grow up somewhere other than the United St
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by will4274 5y ago
Really funny to see stuff like this on hackers news. Liberals arts majors appropriate mathematical language in an attempt to appropriate mathematics' reputation. Why is racism "prejudice + power" in this philosophy rather tha
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by will4274 6y ago
> for some reason. Because it makes their racial stats sound good to affirmative action advocates without actually requiring the effort of educating somebody who is underprivileged? I don't think the reason is a mystery at all.
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by will4274 6y ago
> a place where corporations could frolic in the open fields of capitalism Do people like this style of writing?
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by will4274 6y ago
No. The browser vendors left the W3C. When the final browser vendor (Microsoft) left and joined the other vendors in WHATWG, the vendors collectively sent a letter to W3C asking W3C to please stop copying and introducing errors into the sta
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by will4274 6y ago
> intellectual property of the author Don't you assign this copyright to the social media service? Legally, if your Facebook photos get posted to another site, I think Facebook gets to complain, but not you - you signed those photos
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by will4274 6y ago
I was actually referring to electric water heaters, so the loss is to the air.
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> co-sign This is terrible advice. If you want to give somebody a gift, give them a gift, don't enter into a contract where you share their financial obligations and give them a financial incentive to leave you on the hook.
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by will4274 6y ago
It's about mature and immature technologies. 20 years ago, photovoltaic cells had efficiency ranges in the single digits, but rising. When efficiency rises from 5% to 10%, it makes sense to assume that it keeps rising. But electric hea
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by will4274 6y ago
I dunno. When I ate junk food and gained weight, I started getting out of breath easily from not that much exertion. Signals of poor diet and exercise are fairly self-evident - you don't need to read a bunch of anxiety inducing books a
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by will4274 6y ago
Yes. I'm not completely sure the mechanism, but I attended elementary school in a warm climate, at a school in which the hallways were exterior and only classrooms air conditioned. I reliably got nosebleeds on the three or four hottest
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by will4274 6y ago
Why not bother? This mindset is one of the core features of .NET-land - Microsoft just goes ahead and implements anything useful. It's why we have a gigantic standard library ("framework") filled with every function under t
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by will4274 6y ago
The other maintainers never released anything - they spent four years on a staled rewrite that was going nowhere and blocked any meaningful progress, per her commit. If accurate, I can understand the desire to nuke it.
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by will4274 6y ago
Alexander Hamilton founded the NY Post in 1801 to trash his political opponents. It's always been this way.
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by will4274 6y ago
The fairness doctrine was solution to a monopolist problem - there were only 6 TV stations (because broadcast frequency was limited and broadcasting expensive). It also didn't work that well - stations gave lip service to fairness by r
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by will4274 6y ago
I don't really understand. How could somebody simultaneously believe we live in a meritocracy and be afraid of a woke mob attacking them for saying something they believe is correct? Surely in a meritocracy, the mob would praise their
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by will4274 6y ago
> A number of people I talk to (curiously they tend to be production engineers) think we live in a meritocracy where racism and sexism have virtually been erased. Do they? I don't think I know anybody like this. Most of the people I
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by will4274 6y ago
> Google would likely make it a priority to drop the Wikipedia blurbs, either without replacement, or with data sourced elsewhere. That's an odd way of phrasing things. If Wikipedia were to take away free access to their data, Googl
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Bill Clinton? Most American presidents starting from Nixon and going until Trump?
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by will4274 6y ago
As it turns out, privacy preserving federated auth is actually typically bad for most users - as then the federated auth provider can't identify or ban malicious apps.
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by will4274 6y ago
> Autogenerating pages for white supremacists is wrong. Do we agree on that statement? Not really tbh. Is it wrong that Microsoft Word will do a mail merge for white supremacists? I would think that undesirables are bounced at the door,
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by will4274 6y ago
It's about politics and our never ending culture war. My university's grad students had an organizing campaign. Organizers used the standard SJW rhetoric - dismissing people who had questions with condescending answers like "

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