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by z3c0 5y ago
Trying to pitch empathy to somebody who just referred to "person" and "woman" as exclusive concepts may be a waste of your time. You seem like a much better person than they do, at least.
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by z3c0 5y ago
Or, you know, BitTorrent, which works perfectly fine.
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by z3c0 5y ago
I enjoy the tag line for Adam Curtis' Hypernormalisation: "They know we know they lie". So for them, the game becomes to make everything look like a lie so that we can't distinguish what the truth is. Demonizing media an
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by z3c0 5y ago
While I believe "boldness" is more related to personality than to gender, I have noticed the "bragging bias" you've described quite a bit. But it goes both ways. That is to say "people respond to surveys when t
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by z3c0 5y ago
Not a bad thing, really. It'll be what's needed to win over skeptics. I mean, they'll more likely just move the goalposts than be won over, but at least they're running out of things to complain about. Between this and t
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by z3c0 5y ago
It is - they know their market and they serve them well. One of the few VPNs that actually don't log traffic. That said, I've had websites flat-out refuse me because of using Mullvad (not just because it's a VPN, but a suppos
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by z3c0 5y ago
I can't tell if you're just being humorous, or if you actually believe that the Mozilla Foundation deserves speculation here. If it's the latter, I'd like to know more.
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by z3c0 5y ago
To give the original commenter some credit, they did warn us that they lack knowledge on the subject.
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by z3c0 5y ago
I've noticed a tendency towards pseudo-intellectual snark amidst the comments these days. It relies a lot on misused logic and eloquence to present itself as a knowledgeable opinion, but often never goes deeper than a semantic nitpick.
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by z3c0 5y ago
By positional indexing, of course. Just kidding, that's horrendous.
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by z3c0 5y ago
The notational value of derivatives is the whole point of derivatives . They wouldn't be traded at all if they were priced solely by the value of their underlying asset.
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by z3c0 5y ago
No, my point isn't irrelevant, and you thinking it is means you almost certainly missed it. Most of the world's value is speculative in nature (derivatives, credit, real estate, you name it), so I couldn't care less about the
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by z3c0 5y ago
...you do realize that most of the world's money supply exists in the form of derivatives, right? A single-digit percentage is actual cash. You're committing a strawman. They didn't say anything about how the proportionality
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by z3c0 6y ago
It's very much "whataboutism". Best case, it's tonedeaf and overly-dismissive. Worst case, it's a deliberate distraction. I try to follow Hanlon's Razor, so I'll go with the best case and just assume these
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by z3c0 6y ago
There's more legal recourse for a mistake from law enforcement, and furthermore, they aren't going to show cases where you were acquitted. In my case, the background check company reported a crime that I HAD been arrested for but
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by z3c0 6y ago
A noble effort, but I'm certainly concerned about the use of a background check company. This is anecdotal, but I've missed out on a job before due to misreporting from a background check company. The amount of hoops I had to go t
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by z3c0 6y ago
Hey HN! I made this. I'm here to answer questions or field any critiques. If you know of a good dataset that would be at home in Vistos, feel free to throw that in as well.
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Vistos: Download Congressional Data from the US Government Publishing Office(github.com)
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by z3c0 6y ago
And also a great graphic novel series https://www.amazon.com/dp/0375422307/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_OO...
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by z3c0 6y ago
Then we're choosing the lesser of five evils, except now, none of the evil parties alone have a strong enough electorate to squash any sixth party that emerges from the disenfranchised of the other five. That's completely unlike t
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by z3c0 7y ago
I sure hope so. Telling people I build multidimensional data structures for a living has only yielded glazed-over eyes thus far.
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by z3c0 7y ago
As one of those people, I can say the reason is for the C-level processing power with the approachable syntactic sugar. Out of all the languages gaining popularity for their ability to run natively (Rust, Go, D, etc), I've felt that D
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by z3c0 7y ago
As someone who's currently trying to carry their company into data science (I know, we're late to the party, but homebuilding usually is), this is something that keeps me up at night. I've been hammering the idea into my supe
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by z3c0 7y ago
I think the "no one is looking" argument is valid, but can be damaging in the long run. The same line of reasoning was applied to the Snowden Leaks by those who wanted to spin it as a "nothingburger". The reason nobody i
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by z3c0 7y ago
To funnel people towards the native app with more analytics capabilities... ...I presume, at least.
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by z3c0 7y ago
What's more, I know plenty of people who hold unsavory views of PayPal... but still use Venmo. I'm one of them.
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by z3c0 7y ago
In a practical sense, yes, there are innumerably easier methods for determining the presence of a a person within a building. On a legal basis, however, in some states it's illegal to even look over a privacy fence without a search war
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by z3c0 7y ago
The answer is as horrifying as you'd expect, but impressive nonetheless. Recursive regex is really fun and powerful, when it works. I once made a recursive regex for matching a full name, complete with checking for suffixes, prefixes,
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by z3c0 7y ago
It's almost impressive how long it's taken for Excel to comfortably mimic "SELECT Prefix FROM Whatever WHERE Country = 'Brazil'" I have no doubts why it's the de facto data tool, but this is laughably over
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by z3c0 7y ago
I think you're conflating "deserved" with "entitled", when they're not the same at all. Deservedness is more an ideal concerning what one is merited, whereas entitlement is the practical application of "wh

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