zamazingo | 6 years ago | on: YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki: 'Where's the Line of Free Speech... '
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zamazingo | 6 years ago | on: New research on PTSD in elephants and other animals
Anyone who ever interacted with any animal who had trauma in their part already knows this. The experiences of "other"s that people are too ready and wanting to ignore simply because those experiences were not rubber stamped by academic journals is astonishingly depressing.
zamazingo | 6 years ago | on: Tinder Bypasses Google Play, Joining Revolt Against App Store Fee
You just listed 30+ countries and regions yourself and proved parent's point.
I'm sure they weight a ton or more when combined.
zamazingo | 6 years ago | on: Tinder Bypasses Google Play, Joining Revolt Against App Store Fee
> There’s only one extensive app store for android
This is incorrect. F-droid is quite extensive.
zamazingo | 6 years ago | on: Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land or urban areas
That means a global / multinational movement against governments cutting trees (eg for lucrative construction deals) is needed.
zamazingo | 6 years ago | on: If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can control our lives
They do though.
zamazingo | 6 years ago | on: New Swiss studies claim 5G increases body temperature of insects
I cannot find a link to the study or studies mentioned.
zamazingo | 6 years ago | on: Animal cultures: how we've only seen the tip of the iceberg
Do we really want to see more of the iceberg and see how badly we keep hitting it though the countless genocides and systems of torture?
I don't think so, no.
zamazingo | 7 years ago | on: Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population
The subtitle of tfa:
> Research by author reveals corporations and aristocrats are the biggest landowners
zamazingo | 7 years ago | on: Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Masking and Passing (2017)
To the contrary, she told you what the actual diagnosis was and why she put on paper what she put.
Get a second and third opinions.
zamazingo | 7 years ago | on: Creeping on You in the Cold Drinks Aisle
OP link worked in Firefox mobile
zamazingo | 7 years ago | on: My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
Unless you want your own dns server used at all times.
zamazingo | 7 years ago | on: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store
They are actually $5 at microcenter in the US.
zamazingo | 7 years ago | on: From “Hello World” to VP of Engineering at Reddit (2017)
> You may be living in an unjust society, but if you can score X on this test, you will get Y.
In an unusual society, those who are disadvantaged will also be disadvantaged on this test if it becomes important enough to predict one's future prospects. Think private tutoring, specialized schools, summer camps, all focused on teaching you to get a good score on the test, and all expensive as ever (ie inaccessible). And now, your education system develops you for the test, not for life or jobs.
It's an easier sell, but it's a lemon and not a well designed and performant product.
zamazingo | 7 years ago | on: Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool
Does it provide any linting or other code checks? I'm curious because I'm looking for something that can teach me proper SQL coding style and practices as I write it.
zamazingo | 7 years ago | on: Women were written out of science history – it’s time we put them back in
This part stood out for me the most:
> Science and nature were regularly personified as women up until the early 20th century, with the male researcher characterised as penetrating their secrets.
zamazingo | 7 years ago | on: Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?
> Play store isn't part of Android.
It is extremely well integrated into it, by design.
zamazingo | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
Would you happen to expect any new positions for data analysis / research or similar? Or a way to subscribe to hiring announcements? Thanks!
zamazingo | 7 years ago | on: She Posted a Bad Yelp Review. Then Her Nightmare Began
> “Thanks for a sloppy drunken night, she snorts coke off my c*ck like a champ,” another anonymous user wrote.
What would be the other perspective you need in this context?
zamazingo | 7 years ago | on: Some notes on running new software in production
Sorry, cannot describe infrastructure (not a throwaway account).
Prod and Test are out of sync in terms of mission critical software, Test is not powerful enough to handle Prod's tasks, and there is no formal procedure to use Test for testing. So Test is never actually used.
When a bug is found in Prod, it's fixed on Prod, while it's live.
By fix, of course I mean an iteration on and combinations of:
qc: we found bug
dev: it's not a bug
qc: it is a bug: [insert evidence]
dev: it's fixed now
qc: no it's not
dev: how about now?
qc: no
dev: and now?
qc: yes but now this other thing is broken
dev: here's another attempt, please check again
qc: Prod is down
dev: try it now
qc: it's still broken, along with the other broken part, and now these three other parts are broken too
ceo: it's fine, close this ticket
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However conflicting it may sound, arguments against freedom of speech and freedom of expression cannot be supported in an economic of free speech / expression. This is not actually a dilemma, because fascist politics are incompatible with these freedoms; one cannot exist when the other is the norm.
And just like in any culture and community, the best way to counter fascism is not incarceration and bans but heavy investment in high quality education, on the one hand, and heavy communal shaming and stigmatization of fascist politics and policies, on the other hand.