wonnage

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by wonnage 6y ago
You're commenting on an article where a person was fired due to being a racial/gender justice advocate, and you're worried about "Even being accused of being racist can ruin someone's career in this current climate&
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by wonnage 6y ago
Please share why you think a person who was hired to address race/gender bias in AI writing a paper about race/gender bias in AI is tending to "bring race/gender into anything and everything"? Or let's cut to t
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by wonnage 6y ago
I would rate his series of books more historical fantasy than anything else.
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by wonnage 6y ago
The thing you're expected to "give a shit" about is whatever it takes to make Alexandr rich. Unless someone finds particular life meaning in building a specialized mechanical turk? Of course there's grifting from the mil
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by wonnage 6y ago
They do if you want to use most of the functionality (e.g routines, scenes, connecting to a smart assistant, etc.) Using them without an account basically just lets you use your phone to turn them on and off.
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by wonnage 6y ago
I think homekit works over your local network, I could be wrong though. Latency for commands is much lower than Google/Alexa for me. I will never buy another TP-Link device. Life is too short to be creating accounts for your smart pl
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by wonnage 6y ago
No it's pretty obvious, one side is literally pro-fascist
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by wonnage 6y ago
What's wrong with blacklisting fascists?
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by wonnage 6y ago
I'm not sure but it seems like biodegradable plastics are easier to degrade by design. Most won't degrade under ambient conditions (since you don't want your spoon dissolving into your soup...), but heat is one of the main wa
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by wonnage 6y ago
Lots of things break down in boiling water, it's one of the most aggressive solvents we have.
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by wonnage 6y ago
Nobody is saying that it has to be their full time job.
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by wonnage 6y ago
For certain games (e.g Dark Souls, Sekiro, etc.) the constant repetition and grinding is the point. If that's not your thing, the game wasn't made for you, it's for masochists. There's a video on YouTube [1] of a guy bea
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by wonnage 6y ago
I never understood this particular viewpoint. The Times is fairly centrist to begin with, and we have to balance that out by inviting the occasional fascist to write a column? What does anyone gain from that?
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by wonnage 6y ago
You could consider donating to a nonprofit news org like ProPublica, then. Also you are throwing out the baby with the bath water, just because news is funded by the rich doesn't mean every little mundane article they publish is biased
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by wonnage 6y ago
The US hegemony exists because we have projected military force across the world, and our companies are the primary driver of globalization. Leaving the Middle East would end any dream of bringing those regions under the western umbrella (a
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by wonnage 6y ago
You expect the agency responsible for putting secret backdoors everywhere to be publicizing their state-sponsored killings? The NSA isn’t really in charge of the killing part anyway, that’s the CIA/FBI’s job
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by wonnage 6y ago
I believe Uighurs have been rounded up and forced to watch indoctrination videos, in a gross violation of their human rights. Forced sterilization seems plausible too given the history of the one child policy. I don't believe this stuf
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by wonnage 6y ago
You can resort to name calling if you want but the fact remains that none of the countries we've sanctioned for human rights abuses have stopped them. Which becomes continued justification for maintaining sanctions. At what point do we
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by wonnage 6y ago
Not the first and won't be the last time this has happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
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by wonnage 6y ago
You can only say this because you've been brainwashed into thinking all the atrocities committed before, say, 1950 don't count anymore. That was a different time! Racism is solved too. *edit, that should probably be 1975 because w
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by wonnage 6y ago
This trope of cultures growing decadent and lazy before being overthrown is simply not true outside of fantasy novels. Here's a series that goes through actual history: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/colle
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by wonnage 6y ago
Whether or not you use an ORM, you ideally have your own abstraction on top of it, defining a set of known queries. This avoids the classic Rails problem where the User model has a million methods, and you don't know which of them migh
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by wonnage 6y ago
He references his own terrible seroprevalence study in this paper.
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by wonnage 6y ago
There's the Thinkpad T14s. I think the screen is worse and you miss out on an easily-accessible SD card reader, but I think Lenovo tends to be more reliable than Dell build quality-wise.
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by wonnage 6y ago
Seems to support the general conclusions of less detailed reviews - Xe graphics are a big upgrade over Ice Lake, but general CPU performance is not. Even loses out to a Ryzen 5 4500U when parallel tasks are important.
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by wonnage 6y ago
India and China both have fewer deaths. The US is also a large and sparsely populated country. Best to suck it up and admit that the US has failed in every aspect and measure to respond to this pandemic.
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by wonnage 6y ago
This is kind of related to the lean supply concept that's been waylaid by COVID-19. You think you can just pay for capacity when you need it, until it turns out everyone needs it at the same time. I can't imagine anyone who lives
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by wonnage 6y ago
I think the death rate in particular has been the victim of politics. Each side has in interest in presenting it as higher or lower, particularly relative to the flu. The true value is unknowable as it requires perfect test data. And the av
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by wonnage 6y ago
They're not good-faith scientists. Bhattacharya is a co-author of the widely debunked Stanford seroprevalence study. Kulldorff doesn't believe in child-to-adult transmission. I think this is an appropriate response.
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by wonnage 6y ago
This is 50% of the reason, the other half is that all the tracking/ad requests hit an API endpoint on bloomberg.com (no dot at the end), which is now a separate origin as far as the same-origin policy is concerned. But the code is not

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