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am_i_down
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Comment #13859277
The distinction often is more akin to "promising" and "not promising". Universities, employers, creditors, those looking for a spouse, etc. Everyone does it to some degree. Why can…
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Comment #13858456
Professional Tetris players and people who classify pictures of cats and dogs. Machine learning is not a mature or robust field. Real world applications are brittle and extremely n…
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Comment #13853867
The poster is likely referring to track-trump.com.
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Comment #13853162
> One can't disobey "conventions" You are playing a semantics game. Replace disobey with ignore, and the intent is the same. > you can't be disobeying if you're the boss and decide…
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Comment #13849893
There is no human organization that should be free from scrutiny. Actions taken by members of the media and academia have significantly contributed to public distrust, long before …
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Comment #13848120
What do you mean by "lack of intention"?
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Comment #13844364
Modify your hosts file to block all porn domains. Here is an extremely popular list on github: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts . It can block malware, adware, porn, gambling, …
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Comment #13831186
What is a criteria in which China is "better" ethically or "better" by some criteria you select? I can think of none.
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Comment #13823451
Neighborhoods are segregation. Let's all live in a big, happy neighborhood together because segregation is bad. My point being that you cannot, by definition, eliminate segregation…
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Comment #13817858
Willingness to generalize an entire group seems far more deserving of a black mark.
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Comment #13812063
Hard to imagine how that could be done in one month.
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Comment #13807578
Almost every day for the past several years, I have eaten whole wheat biscuit cereal. I don't think I'll ever stop.
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Comment #13797412
My dog doesn't care that my factory job vanished.
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Comment #13787719
I meant that the refugee crisis fueled populism, not that it prompted this potential visa change for US citizens.
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Comment #13787692
What's the big deal with climate change and famine? I am sitting in an air-conditioned room and have a pantry full of food! We as a species have hilariously overblown reactions to …
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Comment #13786672
Are you serious? It is largely a reaction to globalization and the refugee crisis.
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Ask HN: What would you do with six months?
I plan to leave my job and spend the next six months doing interesting things, before graduate school starts, all on a budget of ~10k USD. Currently this plan includes internationa…