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> Why didn't you just ignore it and keep scrolling? Doesn't work like that. If people who retain the values and views that formed the West (e.g. deep inquiry into all topics regard…

> systemic bias Ehh, I think there's a good chance the translation algorithm is guessing the likely gender correctly the vast majority of times here. I could see some improvement, …

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Anyone who finds themselves offended by something like this truly needs to take stock of themselves, their life, and their situation. Here we are in the age of wonders, where a com…

It wins them virtue-signalling points in the crowd who already agree with them.

In the sense that people with rhinovirus symptoms usually say "I have a cold", yes. It seems it's best to think of "cold" and "flu" as totally informal terms with a wide range of p…

Wonder if India will ever go through a forced linguistic convergence like China did

Hahaha, of course they aren't. Really, you should be able to calculate how much they paid for your facilities need (square footage of your workspace, connection, IT equipment, etc)…

Almost implies you have _bad_ luck, then, if there's nothing at all you can ascribe to fortuitous chance. My career was made by someone finding my resume in a trash can.

There is no reason to assume that what is being created will be any better than what precipitated it.

> disability/protected characteristic which is precisely why White people need the same legal protections every other group has under the Civil Rights Act.

What legal culpability do they have accepting payments for organizations that run websites that allow people to exercise their constitutionally protected rights to free speech?

Looks like MS-DOS 5's Dos Shell https://geekfolk.blogspot.com/2016/02/remembering-dos-shell....

> Don't take a job serving the public if you only like some people and not others. Seems like this logic doesn't apply to payment processors, web hosts, and anyone else who doesn't…

> A future where there are a lot more of 'them' than 'us'? Fine with me. Is that fine with you? Not in the slightest, no. I prefer the average IQ of the world to not drop by a stan…

The car problem is solved when I have a wide selection of used electric cars in the $10k price range that I can work on in my own garage. That's still a decade out. > I’d bet you t…

Remember selecting more than one of something, and then being able to drag-and-drop it somewhere, or right click it and perform actions on the whole list? Remember tables with sort…

I want to go to the alternate timeline where a major distro actually picked up the GNUstep ball and ran with it, and built out a full desktop based around WindowMaker. It's still f…

> That is my preferred outcome Mine as well, friend. I simply choose to live in a way where I believe this is also the likely outcome. You can pretend that this is an overdose of '…

> How is it that immigrants and especially their kids are a fundamentally unassimilable mass I didn't say this, but since you are perturbed, I shall address it for you, so that you…

> The COVID response showed that governments (not all) can take drastic action when needed, If this is our rubric and measure of good governance, why don't we all just become fasci…

Pity that most of this is still fuelled by oil, in one way or another; shoving that oil energy through several intermediaries does not actually decrease entropy. It's like the use …

> For the record, I've been what could accurately be called a climate change alarmist for over three decades now. It must be tiring, eh? I imagine it's a microcosm of the experienc…

Yet another media piece we can safely put in the rapidly growing pile of material designed to drive a wedge between White people and Asian people. You have to understand that this …

I'm actually totally willing to believe that ML for medicine is a great application. When I go to a doctor for a non-emergency issue, what am I doing other than describing a bunch …