ingsoc79
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
As a teenage nerd downloading and playing videos on his Pentium II with a 14" SVGA monitor this Onion article cracked me up
https://theonion.com/new-5-000-multimedia-computer-system-do...
Comment · 1 year ago
Yep, they also used 3D building data for correcting position in urban canyons: https://www.uber.com/blog/rethinking-gps/
Comment · 1 year ago
Seems unlikely that a Christian nationalist would be roommates with a trans person, no?
Comment · 4 years ago
PEX was banned, but the ban was lifted in 2010.
Comment · 4 years ago
...or suffer a more pedestrian fate of getting vaporized by bored Klingons.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes. Seattle had multiple chop shops scattered around the city, including this one dissecting cars under a bridge: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/is-chop-shop-operating-plai...
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, as it establishes the potential bias of the article author. If this article was written by typically a pro-nuclear author it would be much more noteworthy.
Comment · 5 years ago
While not the entirety of the under-representation situation, the pipeline is absolutely the biggest contributing factor. Take a look at any CS class today and you'll see a sea of white and east/south asian faces, an almost no black students – I took several CS courses at the University of Washington a couple years back (staff perk) and out of ~500 students perhaps 2-3 were black.
No amount of corporate diversity training or preferential hiring is going to fix that ratio.
Comment · 5 years ago
If you need me to explain to you how mobs attempting to burn down police and court buildings is indicative of advocating violence towards police officers, then you've got bigger problems then your misreading of my response.
Comment · 5 years ago
Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, and many other US cities saw mobs attempting (and in some cases, succeeding) in burning down police precincts and courthouses this summer.
Comment · 6 years ago
While the NYT has always had its share of bias claims, since Trump's election it appears that even the facade of balanced reporting is taking a back seat to their editorial agenda.
You have editorialized headlines[1] that incorporate common liberal phrases to invoke outrage. Other "How to Raise an Anti-Racist Kid"
Any story that mentions Trump will have a negative headline, even mundane stories about disaster declarations and normal government business.
The line between editorial and news content has grown increasingly blurry: scrolling through their app you'll need a second look to determine whether a storing is news or opinion - they're mixed together, often without delineation. For example in the app today you'll find an opinion piece calling for slavery reparations sandwiched between an analysis on Trump's reelection campaign and a story about a problem police officer.
As a long-time subscriber (and no fan of Trump), it's both frustrating and worrying to see the "paper of record" of my country begin to parrot leftist talking points in their daily reporting.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/health/trump-health-care-...
Comment · 6 years ago
I couldn't disagree more. The idea of denying the HN community an opportunity to read a touching and deeply personal story—simply because its ending isn't palatable to you—is incredibly selfish.
They have no understanding of (nor any desire to understand) what they're doing, but they are being given kudos by management for their "initiative" to solve the organization's "big problems." Guess who will be asked to clean up the mess if (when) it blows up.
It's getting cheaper and cheaper to kick the can down the road, and standing in front of that risks making you look like a dinosaur. It's going to be an interesting few years...