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by zorpner 6y ago
It appears the user I was responding to added the word "above" to their comment.
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by zorpner 6y ago
Literally Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) asserted that today's rioters were antifa, a few hours ago. Please stop spreading disinformation.
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by zorpner 6y ago
> A typical Bay Area TC of $250-400k for a senior engineer will also include great healthcare Notionally, yes, but in reality it will be the same blighted hellscape of insurance denials, out-of-network complexity, and lack of consistency
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by zorpner 6y ago
> No central server to setup or required, period. Someone should let every single person and organization that uses git know about this!
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by zorpner 6y ago
> I think you'll find from a legal standpoint, it does. In fact, it specifically does not: https://cuiab.ca.gov/board/precedentdecisions/docs/pb39.pdf
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by zorpner 6y ago
In fact, Timnit Gebru's actual manager has issued a specific statement on this. It's on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=34697380164672... Full text: Just wanted to say that I was stunned b
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by zorpner 6y ago
Yes, this happens frequently. They are termed "facilitation payments" rather than bribes, they are budgeted and accounted for as expenses, and the official direction of briefing materials at at least three Fortune 100 companies (
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by zorpner 6y ago
The lesson of the past ten years should be that most people are incapable of looking at the content and context and deciding on their own if it is true, and additionally are being subjected to a constant barrage of paid-for (whether by adve
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by zorpner 6y ago
That's literally the invention -- the idea that a real, competitive gaming console could be built from commodity hardware.
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by zorpner 6y ago
It's quite the essay, defending a man who purchased a house for a low price and made a piece of art decades ago, and continues to extract value from both without making any additional meaningful contributions as regards either. It&#x2
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by zorpner 6y ago
You're a DBA.
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by zorpner 6y ago
Could you clarify what you mean by this?
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by zorpner 6y ago
Ideally we would have a professional organization, like literally every other discipline that calls itself Engineering, both to educate, license, and enforce ethical and safety norms, and to support engineers asked to violate those boundari
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by zorpner 6y ago
What's the takeaway here supposed to be? That you understand the subject so deeply that no concrete or constructive content is necessary in your criticism? Because I take from your comment the exact opposite conclusion.
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by zorpner 6y ago
The global temperature anomaly is already out-of-range for not only the lifetime of this tree, but much of its evolutionary history. We are entering an out-of-context situation for a large portion of the earth's extant lifeforms.
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by zorpner 6y ago
...and the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.
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by zorpner 6y ago
This is a normal, regulated, and common use of the USPS.
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by zorpner 6y ago
Every book IA lent, they physically owned at least one copy of. Suspension of waitlists meant that they were lending more copies than they owned; copies physically held by partner libraries.
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by zorpner 6y ago
No. The ramp needs to be built when the thing is built. Accessibility is not an afterthought.
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by zorpner 6y ago
If you're not paying to read it, someone else is paying to have you read it.
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by zorpner 6y ago
Most likely one or another optical cement, for joining lenses into a lens group, for example: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/661086-using-norland-uv-c...
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by zorpner 6y ago
Git is notionally decentralized. It should be neither as difficult or uncommon as it is to have multiple repositories, but we have collectively let convenience get in the way of reliability.
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by zorpner 6y ago
Passive-voice is frequently nonfactual. Cars do not run people over (unless they are rolling, and not being driven); guns do not shoot people (unless they experience a mechanical malfunction). This phrasing is _designed_ to mislead, to di
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by zorpner 6y ago
Particularly in America, the police exist primarily to enforce class/racial divides (this is not hyperbole -- one of the best quick introductions I know of came out quite recently and is a very worthwhile read or listen: https:/&
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by zorpner 6y ago
"The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375" https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
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by zorpner 6y ago
Race has always been everywhere. You've just been able to ignore it.
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by zorpner 6y ago
Got it -- true virtue requires not encouraging others to be virtuous. So what are you doing?
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by zorpner 6y ago
Both of these represent the same phenomenon as the modern police force, which is class oppression (in the first case anti-intellectual misogyny, in the second the same base racism underlying the current struggle). Communities can and will
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by zorpner 6y ago
How do you distinguish between an evil virtue signaler and a virtuous person?
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by zorpner 6y ago
How far do you think he would go in order to try?

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