lsiebert

Those of us who work in tech operate with a lot of privileges compared to many many other workers.

All of these options technically exist, but make a lot of assumptions that aren't true for my non techie friends who are looking for work. It's not unusual in a lot of industries for companies to not continue to interview someone who doesn't let them decide everything about the process.

It's good to see this is still around, I was using it in the early 2010s while working in a county health department.

One of the ways racial hierarchies persist in the US in the culture are taught they are normal, natural, deserved when they are instead being perpetuated by culture and institutions and those who benefit from them. The effects of discrimination serve to justify and/or perpetuate the discrimination.

My take away from this is that there is nothing natural about one caste having an advantage in business, that success in any field has much more to do with who has financial and social capital than with what caste someone is.

Yeah, my understanding was that apple cracking down was merely the excuse Verizon, which owned tumblr at the time, used to justify banning porn, but it was about ad revenue.

Twitter certainly has plenty of porn.

Yes, sorry for the lack of clarity. Users shouldn't blame the machine when they control every aspect of it and how it's used. It's on you as a user to understand your tools and data.

the AI is just a product of it's inputs, how it's used, and whether it violates discrimination laws, are totally up to the users.

With a warrant, probably?

That's not why the postal service is federal though. Establishing a postal system is a power given to congress in the U.S. Constitution. "To establish Post Offices and post Roads;" Actually having a postal system run by the government was something that predates the U.S. constitution.

I think I'd rather some people be vaccinated without their consent with a safe vaccine than have some people be infected without their consent with a deadly illness.

We know mask mandates, vaccines, and other medical interventions save lives, reduce transmission, reduce hospitalizations, reduce long term symptoms and long covid rates, and reduce deaths, and they may even reduce mutation rates. So the choice to vaccinate, that you paint as one of conscience and consent don't just affect the individual making the choice, but all the people around them.

It's about secure messaging

With no written privacy policy or TOS, I'd be reluctant to use this.

So if someone created a document consisting of just these search terms (and nothing else) in the search order, that's always going to be the highest ranked item, right, despite a lack of any added information, right?

Forgive me if this is a dumb question, Clojure isn't a language I know at all so it was a little hard to parse the code, I couldn't figure out if there was something that indicated a minimum levenshtein distance threshold for documents, but I feel like only looking at documents which are longer than the search query would also be a reasonable optimization.

Wheat and corn and a number of other plants are wind pollinated, so we won't lose everything. And we'll probably keep some plants that need bees alive in conservatories through manual pollination.

Still scary, in that a single disruption, like a new illness infecting crops, would have a much bigger impact.

The loss of pollinators is scary. blueberries, cherries, every brassica (broccoli, cabbage etc), carrots, squash, melons, and many more are insect polliated.

A few other plants can also self pollinate, but with reduced yields.