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Comment · 3 years ago
Emphasis on "some" since most of what was on display was manipulated, fake, coached, or just plain written for TV.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's so important to take these testimonials seriously, whilst also being careful we don't hurt the chances of those that are able to get the help they would have had no access to only a decade ago.
Comment · 4 years ago
Diversity is not important in and of itself, but it has been shown again and again that people will discriminate against it over of just selecting for quality. And it doesn't seem to be the case that having to overcome their aversion to diversity then negatively affects long term outcome. Since it is hard to measure and affect what people actually think, it's easier to measure and make policy based on outcomes, and in that sense, businesses should care about diversity as a metric. And perhaps as therapy, to cure their company culture of systemic discrimination - through exposure and by taking away the power of the drivers of discrimination to affect hiring.
Comment · 4 years ago
You say "special moderation treatment", as if it is something sinister. Have you considered that it may just be the fact that she was so broadly loved, that this happens naturally?
Comment · 4 years ago
As a rider of both motorcycles and bicycles (lifetime, being a Dutchie), I think this article is a waste of space and time. I just bought an ebike last year (nothing to do with the pandemic, but with my living in hilly Brisbane now) and I think it's perfect. I wouldn't ride my non-electric here in the heat or for long distances on the hills - I ride my ebike almost everywhere, often instead of taking the car, an Uber or public transport. My motorcycle remains a favourite for really long distance weekend outings, or a commute if I need to be quick. It fills a niche (or even gap) perfectly. This guy is a rigid conservative thinker, that doesn't know what he is talking about.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, because learning C will teach you about computing and how your computer works. However C is not the only language that could teach you and you don't have to become fluent in it to understand enough to help your Python. Learning enough about a few languages (i.e being able to write something in them) will help you appreciate what Python does for you behind the scenes, but also how Python limits what you can do with it. Ultimately, if you master Python, you may want to write some packages for it that aren't written in Python and then C is a sensible choice.
Comment · 4 years ago
OK boomer. Which is exactly what I felt when young left. I despise Rogan and I don't like that Spotify got in bed with him like they did. But the behaviour of these artists is hypocritical and tone-deaf.

Bring out a duet criticising Rogan and put it on the Spotify front page by promoting the hell out of it. I thought that was what these hippies were all about, positive change. Not this entitled precious rich person "I can afford not to be on here"-bullshit.

Comment · 4 years ago
I wonder: is this a technical issue, or just a practical joke by someone who has managed to convince Google Drive that they have the copyright to files containing only "1"?
Comment · 4 years ago
Sounds to me like the author should be using Windows, because it is not Apple and not Linux, but they have been duped into believing that this is the OS that shall not be named, if you want a shot at being a cool kid. I share the author's disappointment over no commercial business appearing to be able to take Linux and make it into a consistently good experience for new and veteran users alike - but that's probably more to do with the Linux crowd consisting mostly of people who seem to consider free as important as Free. All that said, I learnt next to nothing about Framework, so yeah - just Linux-on-the-desktop bashing.
Comment · 4 years ago
I generally don't mind it, it is a bit bland, but sometimes that's a good thing. But that capital 'Q' - why?
Comment · 4 years ago
On an individual level I just don't see the point right now. It's not that it's particularly bad, it's just that it doesn't fix anything important about 10, and there is nothing I could do on 11 that 10 won't let me. From a point of view of risk, changing is almost certainly worse, between fixing no major issues and introducing a lot of change all the same. From a group perspective, I imagine that slow adoption will put more pressure on Microsoft to fix what people are disliking about it, so politically I think not upgrading right now is better.

So that is a very mild "probably not" from me.

Comment · 4 years ago
I love Jad Abumrad. This is just an ad though. Did Jad consent?
Comment · 4 years ago
Science on this is great. However, don't parrot this to your friends until you see it replicated somewhere else (preferably somewhere not governed by ivermectin-peddling populists) and confirmed in a double-blind random-controlled trial (which this doesn't even get close to). After all, no reason to hold this stuff to a lower standard than the anyone want to hold the vaccines to (regardless of whether they realise these standards were already met there).
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm not sure about the author, but certain about many commenters here, that popular opinion and scientific standpoint are confused. Being charitable to the author, I feel they are writing about popular opinion, politics and zeitgeist and the sudden change in them - people just suddenly surrendered. Many commenters are defending the changes in scientific position, which is something else altogether - and nowhere near as sudden. With science, as should be, when the data changes, the conclusions change - and in a pandemic, what the response of the people is and is likely to be, is part of the data. The science is solid and sees only small, incremental change, there is no surrender there.
Comment · 4 years ago
(unless your problem was with someone sticking an MIT license on it in the first place, but that's hardly Google's fault in this case?)

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