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by will4274 7y ago
Minsky is relatively well known within the field of AI, but he's hardly that famous. Among MIT students - perhaps - but among teenagers in the VI? If elderly fat mildly famous academics get solicited for sex by random teenagers in th
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by will4274 7y ago
Mens rea ("guilty mind" aka criminal intent) is an important element for many crimes. People - generally - are inconsistent with regard to how much they think impact matters for a crime and how much they think intent matters. The
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by will4274 7y ago
> Legally, sex with underaged people is rape regardless of consent Yes and no. With a 17 year old, in some jurisdictions, it's rape in such and such degree, but in other jurisdictions, it's a separate crime, and in other jurisd
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by will4274 7y ago
"fed" is the word that is offensive. The notion that Trump supporters repeat lines that are fed to them like an actor on a stage, rather than analyzing different explanations and coming to a conclusion on which one was most accura
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by will4274 7y ago
Carrots are my weight-loss jam. Whole bag of mini-carrots - only 100 calories. They also give you particularly voluminous waste, which makes you feel like you're being successful at losing weight.
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by will4274 7y ago
It's not out of spite. Healthcare is a fixed cost for employees. Overtime costs more per hour in pay. Undertime costs more per hour because the same fixed costs are divided over fewer hours. If Uber has to pay fixed costs, they have a
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by will4274 7y ago
Just like add and remove features did in Windows of the era. However, the bundled Webkit components like system web view are not uninstalled, the icon for the front end is merely hidden
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by will4274 7y ago
And yet... Every smartphone on the market bundles a browser and none of them make it possible to disable or remove the browser from the rest of the OS today. History has proven Microsoft's argument - a web browser is a core part of the
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by will4274 7y ago
Uber wouldn't have to pay surge pricing to drivers if they set the drivers schedules to ensure enough supply was available.
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by will4274 7y ago
Do you believe that downvoters have no empathy or that they have empathy, they are just bad at downvoting well because the problem is hard? Your comments seem to contradict on this point.
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by will4274 7y ago
The signals aren't for the person who asked the question. Downvoting signals to other stack overflow users that this question probably doesn't contain the information they are looking for. When done correctly, this is considerate
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by will4274 7y ago
> lack of empathy I think this interpretation is colored by your own bias. Downvotes only show a lack of empathy if downvotes are a social mechanism to comment on the asker, not the question. Particularly given that the SO guidelines exp
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by will4274 7y ago
Honestly? Probably because partisan politics has wrecked my country. China as a trade manipulator has been a Republican talking point my entire lifetime. So Dems wouldn't touch it, regardless of the merits. And before that? Well, it wa
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by will4274 7y ago
It's not correct to say that prices never fall. I purchased 5 mbps fiber from Verizon when it was brand new - $60 / month in 2005, I think. Today, Comcast's bottom tier is 15 mbps, at $30 / month. DSL-speed internet (768
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by will4274 7y ago
The electoral college is a fault domain for voter fraud, and scaler to mitigate differences in voter accessibility, which cannot otherwise be fully mitigated given differences in geography.
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by will4274 7y ago
> Second, I think there are much better rules than spamming const to attain the same objective Like? > you might need more experience to really appreciate that. Practically a picture perfect appeal to authority.
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by will4274 7y ago
> const can be trivially casted away. Yes, types can be trivially casted away too. That's not a reason to use void* everywhere.
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by will4274 7y ago
You should fire yourself. Seriously. Understanding which object parameters to a function are inputs and which ones are modified is key information about the behavior of a function. It's omission requires devs to divine the intent from
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by will4274 7y ago
Yeah, because the WHATWG folks changed the spec after 20 years. Not because IE implemented the wrong thing. Not surprising folks in this thread remember the old spec, which was valid for longer.
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by will4274 7y ago
> Is ignoring racism racist? I think so. Is prioritizing something super trivial over racism racist? Seems close enough to me. Assuming that silence represents malice is a classic example of totalitarian group think. And fwiw, you don&#x
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by will4274 7y ago
Sitting here in Seattle working for a tech company where we have a Stonewall riot poster in every kitchen...
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by will4274 7y ago
Nobody can live those opinions in practice. If the imperative is so strong on this topic, then the imperative would be so strong on so many topics that you'd never be able to go to work.
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by will4274 7y ago
> I think reasonable people can disagree about whether this is racist. I disagree. Reasonable people recognize that being miffed that a protest is disrupting your commute isn't racist. It's only the unreasonable people who thin
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by will4274 7y ago
I'm sorry, I don't understand. What's the problem with what OP's co-worker said. She didn't think the protests were effective or useful. Surely she's entitled to feel that way? Edit: the gist of your post seems
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by will4274 7y ago
> [1]HTTPS encryption itself doesn't meaningfully require public key infrastructure, it's just that without PKI, you don't know who sent the encrypted traffic. Since domains are terrible "identities" and it'
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by will4274 7y ago
No, but some people are sensitive. I suspect most Google developers consider themselves part of "the masses"
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by will4274 7y ago
Yes. Companies often issue press statements after settling a case.
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by will4274 7y ago
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.
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by will4274 7y ago
I dunno, I guess I just thought the agenda was obvious given the "Why it matters", "between the lines" and "by the numbers" part of the article
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by will4274 7y ago
I tend to agree. This study has some pretty serious methodology problems that the article ignores completely. It seems like somebody with an agenda decided to fund some science and skip the rigor.

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