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by wmil 8y ago
The problem with discussing IQ is that people like to focus on the performance of very high IQ individuals where it's predictive power is weakest. But it's very strong in other areas. For instance say you have two groups of woodwo
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by wmil 8y ago
I've seen plenty of articles along this line, but the author always seems to blame the players for the system failing. To me it looks like their ecological model failed because it was deeply flawed. Real ecologies aren't really cl
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by wmil 8y ago
You're looking at it as a parallel of real life, which it really isn't. With a few minor exceptions (there was a tame skill you could learn) killing animals was the only way to interact with them. Players looking to be entertained
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by wmil 8y ago
Hospitals are required to treat the uninsured, but the government doesn't actually compensate them for that. So they jack up everyone else's bills in the hopes that enough people will pay that they'll make a profit. Insurance
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by wmil 8y ago
There was a story a while back about sales of NYC apartments over 5 million slowing. I think this is actually due to Trump capping the state income tax deduction. States with high income tax rates are seeing less real estate speculation.
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by wmil 8y ago
The big issue was that ocean liners were the method of crossing the Atlantic for the rich and poor. There was a strong sense of "That could have happened to me!", especially among the elite. Imagine how terrified the tech communit
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by wmil 8y ago
On a practical level you need to accept that most people trying to loose weight fail, succeeding will still take years to lose the weight, and that most of those people will suffer significant medical problems from sleep apnea in the mean t
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by wmil 8y ago
I believe that's partly a government issue. They're considered a prescription medical device. So they can only be sold by specialty stores that can validate the prescription.
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by wmil 8y ago
Is there a good place to go for the current state of client certificates? I've heard that there was an issue where other websites could see the certificate, so there were privacy problems with having them installed. It seems like somet
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by wmil 8y ago
If he hadn't stepped aside it would have been paired with activists calling for him to be forced out and putting pressure on corporate partners to denounce him and take over control of kernel development.
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by wmil 8y ago
It's not really a conspiracy theory. A "New Yorker" writer has publicly claimed credit for Torvalds' change of heart. There was a massive hit piece ready to go if he didn't accept the CoC and step down. https:&#x2F
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by wmil 8y ago
There are a far fewer far right groups, so you can't really compare compare them by counting the number of infiltrated orgs. In general righties aren't big fans of decentralized organizations. At least in the US far right groups a
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by wmil 8y ago
It's not really accurate to call it a conspiracy theory. It's really just an attempt to name a group of ideas. The "conspiracy theory" charge is just push back because it's easier to criticize ideas if you can name
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by wmil 8y ago
That would have created a legitimacy problem for the EU. Brussels is hard set on pushing for "an ever closer union" and London has had a policy of ratifying new EU treaties without a referendum. So a majority vote for Brexit that
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by wmil 8y ago
The Code of Conduct is just standard social justice activist jargon. It wasn't written for linux. It's not based on specific incidents.
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by wmil 8y ago
In practice CoCs are never enforced symmetrically. Activists pushing for them will regularly attack "cis het men" and create a toxic environment without consequence.
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by wmil 8y ago
Vegans have a lot more influence in the media than most people realize. There are a lot of writers who use their positions to push veganism. They're often willing to mislead. A non-activist writer would have given us answers to some ob
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by wmil 8y ago
Designers are probably dealing with white balance issues. Daylight changes colour throughout the day. It's enough to throw off their work. As a compromise you might try daylight balanced photography bulbs. Consistent color but it feels
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by wmil 8y ago
I feel like all of these articles can be summed up with: "C strings and string functions aren't designed to be safe. If you want safe strings use a library."
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by wmil 8y ago
Yes, but it was MIT licensed.
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by wmil 8y ago
I'd recommend watching Stefan Molyneux's interviews with Jason Richwine. They're on Youtube.
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by wmil 8y ago
> So glad the free market regulates itself so well. It's nimby rules passed by the municipal government causing the problem. The free market would be a huge step up. Whatever other problems it has, it's good a building new stuf
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by wmil 8y ago
The major risk is the FEC. This push is coming from a desire to prevent Jones from being active in the 2018 midterms. If a Republican files a complaint with the FEC and there are employee messages talking about how they have to ban Jones to
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by wmil 8y ago
Wasn't Google Docs doing that?
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by wmil 8y ago
Google Translate still screws up and can frequently sound a little "off" to a native speaker. Professional documents are still going to need a real translator to give them a once over at a minimum.
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by wmil 8y ago
Stripe just cut off Bitchute, so distributed platforms are facing some clear hostility from Silicon Valley insiders.
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by wmil 8y ago
Given the speed there might have been a legal reason. Perhaps they were in violation of either the GDPR or their customer data agreements.
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by wmil 8y ago
I don't think anyone honestly believes that this was "coincidental".
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by wmil 8y ago
> Much easier to make compatible with modern settings, much easier for new and casual players to get into, much easier to maintain, I'm not sure that's true. Implementing classic wow in the modern client sounds like a straightf
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by wmil 8y ago
Also being able to boost to the beginning of the current expansion is a huge time saver. Leveling in late vanilla involved a lot of grinding in empty zones.

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