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Just to clarify, from their about page ( https://reallifemag.com/about-real-life/ ) they have the following > Three years ago, Snapchat offered to support the work I do as a sociol…

I know this website has a penchant for anti-China everything, but it's funny because every terms of service I've ever read has something in it about complying with law enforcement …

people read/write chinese outside of China though...

in nyc it's quite common (maybe even required) to run simulations of changes of infrastructure before making them to see how they will effect traffic. source: my partner helps run …

this is such a bad take on the real issue which is the radicalization of these men by website like the *chans. saying "this is largely a mental health problem" completely ignores t…

i think the author probably wanted to draw attention to their gender, not their sex. hence female is off the table.

wrong could be contrary to your preferred style. that's just how it goes. just because you don't care if others misspell you name doesn't mean that applies to all others.

> I know if I hit them I'll probably be spending time in prison lol cyclists are dying left and right and barely anyone is going to prison. the privileged class (drivers in this ca…

there are cases when you should treat a cyclist like a pedestrian and others where you should treat them like a car. i don't think any driving teachers are doing a good job at teac…

i respect that though. happy devs is a precondition for happy users.

mathematics research is typically very social. if you look at the mathematics research community as a whole you will find a very small percentage working completely in isolation. a…

As someone who majored in math/physics I'm going to heavily disagree. I was quite poor when it came to multiplication tables, and monsters like long division, but was a pretty good…

on the one hand, id think the police have enough money and time to build a detection system like this. on the other, we have people building surveillance system for free in their s…

i have a hard time believing fintech startups targeting developing countries are going to help improve the world. or any fintech startup for that matter.

I could imagine something like this being an amazing tool for teaching people about non-euclidean geometries and how things like distance can be so contorted in other spaces. In pa…

I'm glad someone has mentioned this here. It's something our industry is really not taking seriously at all and needs more people pushing for. As you mentioned company decisions ha…

im going to take this a step further and say connecting accounts means sharing _no more_ data than is required for the integration. I don't understand why netflix gets to see all y…

i dont think it's really that simple. even it was i don't think the decision is that easy anyway. it's important to think about who your decisions affect, even if they may be a min…

anyone have any good explanations of the image linked? like what are ARIN, RIPE, why is some unallocated, what is multicast? that sort of thing would be cool to learn

speech is dangerous. hate speech promotes and incites violence.

to me, action matters more than intent. i understand sometimes people make mistakes, but sometimes those mistakes could've been avoided if they spent any time learning about curren…

im completely fine with getting rid of people who want to dress up as nazis for halloween.

could you give some examples of people being fired for "relatively minor violations"?

> If it doesn't enhance readability, speed, etc. I disagree. Having terminology that is clear (which master/slave is not) decreases the time needed to spend to get an understanding…