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by woooooo 4y ago
Accusations of "Russian propaganda" are quickly becoming a great way to identify things that make our power structure uncomfortable. Like, we're talking about destroying important russian-owned infrastructure here, and the su
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by woooooo 4y ago
Everyone's playing against the house, but the house sets lines and odds with a goal of getting 50% of bettors on either side of the bet for a guaranteed profit.
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by woooooo 4y ago
I own zero apple devices outside of work and don't even like them. This article is a contentless hit job.
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by woooooo 4y ago
What threat? Are they going to storm DC? If the threat is "they will be more powerful than the US within like 100 miles of their borders", I can understand concern on the part of Taiwan specifically but it's a little greedy
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by woooooo 4y ago
What's the problem with them, specifically, that wasn't the exact same in say 2015 when they got no press?
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by woooooo 4y ago
I have. Shen yun are Taiwanese and really big on the KMT above and beyond the typical dance group, while epoch times is run by Falun gong people. Both dislike the ccp for their own obvious insider reasons. (Epoch times pivot to trumpland
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by woooooo 4y ago
It's been entirely media driven since 2018 on the topic. Nobody cared about China before then, and they wouldn't care now if it weren't for the constant hype. Anyone recall even seeing the acronym "CCP" in print be
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by woooooo 4y ago
Nobody's perfect but most of the "baggage" originates from Tucker Carlson rather than AOC herself. How would you or I look if we were the target of that kind of campaign?
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by woooooo 4y ago
As far as I know, "wet market" just means a place you can buy live food. It's the default rather than the exception outside of tier 1 cities for most of the third world, live animals are self-preserving and don't requi
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by woooooo 4y ago
I've also been to Wuhan and it's a big town with more than one place to buy food. It's absolutely possible that the epicenter wet market was on a particular lab worker's way home and that's how the spread started.
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by woooooo 4y ago
That entire criticism applies equally to "asian". I was alive in the 80s and 90s, nobody was mad about "oriental", especially and specifically immigrant communities that don't care about American culture war. It&#x
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by woooooo 4y ago
Never attribute to malice and all that, most people are probably just confusing fashion with offensiveness.
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by woooooo 4y ago
I'm saying it's being shoehorned into the middle of a series of events, in a way that is both irrelevant and unlikely. And I'm positing that the shoehorning is because people are really attached to the idea of blaming a lab,
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by woooooo 4y ago
I'm just lending some flavor. "Negro" is kind of like "oriental" in that it was never offensive but seems kind of old-fashioned now, which makes people assume it was.
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by woooooo 4y ago
Because there's no reason it has to be a lab worker involved. The ground zero wet market in Wuhan is several miles away from the virology lab, and across the river. The simplest explanation is that one of the 11 million Wuhan residents
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by woooooo 4y ago
But the lab is completely superfluous to the chain of events. It's jammed in the middle so we can still say "lab leak".
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by woooooo 4y ago
Martin Luther King preferred it to "black" for like the first 2/3 of things he wrote and said. Contemporaneous with when these books were written.
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by woooooo 4y ago
I think there's a bigger difference than quality. If I watch a bad episode of Star Trek, I don't come away disliking Gene Roddenberry as a person, it's just a bad episode. Some of the woke stuff is actively obnoxious and sel
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by woooooo 4y ago
Taxonomy is the lowest form of thought. Either it's an outrage for MSFT to do business with warmongering countries, or it isn't. Saying we only care about Russian aggressions while ignoring our own is just jingoism.
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by woooooo 4y ago
Slavery and racism existed in America before Europeans. You're right about the guns.
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by woooooo 4y ago
In the actual record, though, he's done a ton of actual journalism aimed at exposing corruption. His Twitter lovers and haters mostly haven't, and are generally making judgments based on "social group" rather than the fa
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by woooooo 4y ago
Documenting links between intelligence agencies and domestic propaganda is "reactionary"?
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by woooooo 4y ago
Taibbi is publishing a ton on the links between government agencies and Twitter right now, by doing the work of poring through thousands of emails. He's been doing it for months. His detractors are mostly doing far less journalism tha
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by woooooo 4y ago
How hard is it to make product decisions for a new browser? "Make it render the page like IE".
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by woooooo 4y ago
He has the code name of the operation and a ton of alleged operational details, attributed to his sources in the Intel community.
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by woooooo 4y ago
If your business domain is document-centric without a lot of strong foreign key relationships between them, then you do you. Just saying other domains can run into "denormalization hell" and "super complicated API traversal&q
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by woooooo 4y ago
We all did this from like 2008-2015. You wind up defining relationships in code instead, across dozens of API calls without a central spec and it's super easy to get wrong. If it were as easy as you say we'd all be using MongoDB
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by woooooo 4y ago
Yeah but sql is even harder as it implies an embedded engine to even execute a first "hello world" test. This gets even more complicated when you start using vendor-specific extensions for string manipulation, json parsing etc in
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by woooooo 4y ago
Most SQL centric projects I've touched had a severe lack of automated tests. Not saying it can't be done but that's my experience.
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by woooooo 4y ago
Does Rust have a high minimum stack per thread? I know managed languages like Java do, but for Rust couldn't it be a page or two of actually-mapped memory? Last I checked, the kernel allocates a bunch of address space per thread but i

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