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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Ah, this appears to be correct. Thanks for pointing this out, I read the article a little hastily.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The worst part is, bits of this were known from the beginning of the pandemic, but that didn't stop him from becoming a national hero on the left, despite a pandemic performance that ranged from unlucky at best to inept/corrupt at
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> The excess death statistics would like to have a word with you, I think you're misunderstanding the conversation. The thread is talking about the risk _to vaccinated people_. What excess death statistics are you thinking of that s
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> legally and ethically The ethical complaint is that they accessed data without consent: > "Facebook defended the action Wednesday, saying: "We repeatedly explained our privacy concerns to NYU, but their researchers ultimat
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
His page on the Cambridge website, as well as his Twitter account, also use "Aleksandr". So far, there are multiple examples shared on this thread of him being referred to as Aleksandr and none of "Alex". Do you have _a
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Except that Uber claims that the value-add its "marketplace" provides is vetting riders and drivers and providing safety. Uber doesn't vet riders, and I'm quite sure their marketing material wouldn't claim that
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
In the same sense that Apple is not at fault for allowing its hardware to connect the assailant and victim. I'm aware that we don't consider manufacturers to be culpable for the actions taken with their hardware, and that there&#x
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I generally agree with you that much of git's conceptual complexity is irreducible if you want to retain git's power. But there's plenty of examples of poor-quality and inconsistent porcelain that provide no extra power. Inde
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Ha I get you, I tend to have a low opinion of Apple products so I try to temper my assumptions and ask questions about the products with an open mind. Hm, my understanding is that this combination of positives wasn't especially novel i
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Airpods, which are near-universally lauded and undoubtedly innovative. Are airpods innovative? I thought wireless Bluetooth headphones have been around for ages, including ones with better (subjective) aesthetics and sound quality than
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Thank you for the links, but I was asking about the (since-edited-out) claims that these comments were being downvote-bombed. Submission ranking is considerably more complicated, and is not what I was asking about.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> It wasn't even related to their point. Your comment says: > If the author could use examples from reddit to illustrate their point, it'd be great My comment did the exact thing you had already complained about, and my foot
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Lol, good one. I think it's a holdover from when the forum was a lot tinier, and discussion (especially on the topics it focused on) was a lot more suppressed in most other internet fora. While I don't understand your assumption t
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This isn't my experience. I occasionally make pretty strong statements about traditionally polarizing technical topics, and I find that people are a lot more likely to respect differing opinions than when talking about, eg, urban plann
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Do you have any examples of downvote-bombing simple claims that climate change is real? I'd be beyond surprised to find out this phenomenon is real, even just based on the demographic prior of HN. No worries if not, I get that it'
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> TFA does some handwaving about how it'll save democracy, but it's a crock of shit. All it does is make fewer people participate. crazy_horse tried to tell you that. The solution to saving democracy isn't reducing partici
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> But downvotes? I pretty much won't post on HN or Reddit because of them (and the culture associated with it) /snip > It's not that I can't take being told I'm wrong, I just don't want to be involved in
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> That we here in the US tend to think of cars as an expression of our identities is a deep-rooted issue. I actually don't mean it this way. The people that I'm thinking of aren't in a social class/subculture that ta
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I can almost assure you that poor people would love to shop at their local downtown if they could but right now with the lack of accessible public transportation and cheap housing near downtowns, shopping at big box stores is the best
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Is there any indication that the parent comment is opposed to all of these systemic solutions, especially given that he identifies himself as primarily a biker/pedestrian vs a driver? Some people are able to consider an issue on both t
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Don't make it a moral argument that frames drivers as sinners and pedestrians, cyclists, etc as The Good Guys. I agree with you, but as someone who's been vocally anti-car for a long time _without_ ever blaming drivers, I&#x2
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I mean ok, but the parent commenter's claim is that the US is _losing_ standing as a spreader of democracy. This is the premise of my question, and I'm not really interested in a random third-party's view that the premise is
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> It doesn't matter if it is happening more or less. The goal is to always be improving. I'm not sure what you think "mattering" means, but I was responding to a comment that said "the US is loosing[sic] more and
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> US is loosing more and more of its standing when it comes to "spreading" democracy. You can't go and try to preach democratic values to, say, Belarus, and then do exactly the same in your own country. Is there any indica
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I doubt the study would fail to control for this; it's literally the most basic thing you can control for.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I'm not super familiar with Perl, but I gather that it shares much of bash's, er, ergonomic hurdles. Is there something about gaining scripting power that requires such poor usability? I resisted it for a while, but I just write a
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Code is never legacy at the time of writing. That's... Not what legacy means.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Are you interpreting chrisseaton's comment as being in response to the original comment denigrating Perl? It seems more like it's a response to the defensive comment from petereps
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I write software for Apple systems. It’s modern, high-quality code, but it’s for Apple. There are people that have never met me, and have never had any prior interactions with me, that hate (and that’s not hyperbole) me; simply because
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> the basis by which other people will (apparently) judge their technical expertise You lost me here. Even if someone thinks that Perl is an unholy abomination to work with, it doesn't follow that those with expertise in it are less

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