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by woooooo 4y ago
I think at this point there have been more debunked reports of Russian influence from our own propaganda organs than actual Russian influence. Not that you're wrong, they're trying, but we are just so much bigger.
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by woooooo 4y ago
There's still a huge blind spot in the west when it comes to "our" propaganda. You never see the BBC or Radio Free Asia get the "state owned media" tag on social media that's applied to anything Russian or Chi
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by woooooo 4y ago
China is unique in that their biggest acquisitions of land came from being conquered and then assimilating their conquerors (Mongol and Manchu). It would be erroneous to say that later events retroactively made Genghis Khan Chinese.
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by woooooo 4y ago
Amazing to watch the trends skyrocket after 2018 when the media started turning against China. I suppose it's possible that all of those people are deeply clued into the details of Xi's increasing authoritarianism, but it seems mo
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by woooooo 4y ago
If academia is overwhelmingly biased in one direction, and a free speech org is documenting cases of suppression.. then of course most of the cases they document will exhibit that bias. It doesn't necessarily follow that they're
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by woooooo 4y ago
Actual memo from the horse's mouth: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/aclu... Tldr: under the new policy, they consider impact of the speech to marginalized communities befor
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by woooooo 4y ago
It would be a problem if you're landing with it but I assume these would only be used in space. Decelerating into orbit is no problem.
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by woooooo 4y ago
I don't think the rocket flies through the plume? It's in vacuum and just keeps going, faster than the rocket and ahead of it?
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by woooooo 4y ago
Corrections officers are sworn officers in many (all?) states. Typically under an elected sheriff at the county level.
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by woooooo 4y ago
I was referring to professional DEI people and did not use the word "you" in that sentence. Are you one? That would track with the quality of this discussion, actually. Seriously, watch the video I posted and think about it. Con
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by woooooo 4y ago
I didn't accuse you of anything besides putting words in people's mouths. Watch the video, it's short and I think it would be enlightening. ("We" meant software engineers)
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by woooooo 4y ago
One of my principles is to be really suspicious of tribalism, especially the kind where they're putting words in the other tribe's mouth. Consider: https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc
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by woooooo 4y ago
You posted accusing people of some pretty racist hypothetical behavior. It's not charitable.
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by woooooo 4y ago
So I didn't post anything about cancer. And nobody posted that they really hope they don't sit next to a black guy. Maybe this tendency to demand total fealty or level accusations of racism is alienating people from your movement?
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by woooooo 4y ago
How many of your coworkers, historically, would have freaked out at having to sit next to a black guy?
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by woooooo 4y ago
Gotta hand it to the article author, though, the article practically writes itself and is guaranteed high engagement via hate-reading.
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by woooooo 4y ago
I was more offering an opinion on where we all fit into the class system. Not offering opinions on any variety of socialism.
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by woooooo 4y ago
FAANG engineers are still labor, they're just well paid labor. We don't have an AMA or Bar association gatekeeping entry, even.
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by woooooo 4y ago
How dare you call it not good. It did a really neat hack here.
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by woooooo 4y ago
She had only shared it with known journalists that she had a relationship at time of writing, and seems pretty bright. Hypothetically she might get scammed by someone and irresponsibly disclose but let's not condemn her for it yet.
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by woooooo 4y ago
Yeah, we all have biases, and fish don't know they're in water.. but is an attempt to be unbiased so much to ask?
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by woooooo 4y ago
Sure, but that argument also applies for GC. I suppose there's a window where you can't tolerate GC pauses but can have exceptions allocating memory unpredictably, but it's a pretty small window.
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by woooooo 4y ago
The kicker for me is if we want to anglicize Spanish because we know better than them... we could just say Latin! It's already a word! But it doesn't come with ingroup signaling and so here we are..
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by woooooo 4y ago
This thread is about the FBI, aka the actual jackboots, compelling private companies extralegally in order to shift democratic narratives. And you're saying it's conservative to be opposed to that? I understand it lined up with th
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by woooooo 4y ago
Please be more careful with words like "fashy" unless you have some quotes extolling the tenets of national socialism. "Disloyal to the team" is not fascism.
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by woooooo 4y ago
That's the point of the Twitter Files (tm). Shining a light on how that process worked. It is of course tied up with partisan politics, who won or lost this week from some particular story, but more transparency is good.
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by woooooo 4y ago
I'd love to see the reasoning where the California government, rather than prohibitive energy cost, is why we don't have privately bootstrapped desalination at a scale to replace the Colorado river.
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by woooooo 4y ago
Statistics. He has apparently 10 kids with however many women while being a workaholic and a tweetaholic. How much time could he possibly spend with them?
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by woooooo 4y ago
Wouldn't it create traffic problems if they start routing everyone through side streets around the main intersections?
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by woooooo 4y ago
Leetcode is the only thing that scales consistently. At small companies, a senior engineer can ask about past projects and get a sense of whether the candidate was a meaningful contributor or just along for the ride, but that's subject

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