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saxonww

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    To put it in perspective: an average eye blink is 100-150 ms. The worst outcome in this test was with XWayland adding 3ms of latency. Maybe this is truly important for some excepti…

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    It doesn't cheapen the word. If discrimination is intentional and has the effect of minimizing and eventually eliminating the target ethnic group, then you have the same result as …

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    Comment #48839910

    Was, yes. That policy ended in 2017 I think, which I don't know if I call that recent. Post-2017 some evidence pieced together by a journalist suggested that IUDs and forced steril…

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    Comment #48835347

    Well there are allegations of mass detentions, forced labor, destruction of religious sites, suppression of language, separation of children into Chinese-controlled boarding school…

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    Comment #48833268

    It's never meant only that, but that's not the argument. We decided that a long time ago. Genocide refers to a People (race, kind, tribe, family, etc.), not individual people. The …

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    Comment #48825595

    > you need to be killing people to call it genocide No, you don't. https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/... See Article 2.

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    Comment #48822807

    It's overblown _right now_ because this information is not broadly available. The fear is that pervasive access to this data would lead to e.g. you or your partner not getting insu…

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    Comment #48822160

    > How is unionization gatekeeping? If you are in a right-to-work state and you don't join the union, then union members know you're benefiting from the union without contributing b…

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    Comment #48817999

    Finding yourself in a genetically-determined out group, and being treated differently / discriminated against because of it.

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    Comment #48505536

    We don't, but the entire world currently does, and the amount of equipment deployed that depends on it is substantial. I would be willing to bet money that any "better call address…

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    Comment #48439645

    The default has the 'tang' slider at maximally tangy, which is where the yeast and wait come in. If you back off on that the recipe looks more like the standard quickbread I'm used…

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    Comment #48439584

    You've covered dairy and acid ingredients, but I honestly have no idea what "Unrendered Berkshire pork fat" is or where I would get it. Is that bacon grease? Saltpork? Lard is comm…

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    Comment #47927634

    FODMAP stands for fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols. FODMAPs generate gas as side effect of being fermented in the gut. Most people just pas…

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    Comment #47670839

    The point I'm trying to make is that I don't think we know, so we can't say either way. In your example, would the human have ever had contact with other humans, or would it be pla…

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    Comment #47669853

    > Human cognition is nothing like AI "cognition." I've wondered about this. Do we really know enough about what the human brain is doing to make a statement like this? I feel like …

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    Comment #47650306

    So I'm not disputing this, but I set up a similar scheme to the author almost 8 years ago and conduct 90+% of my online business through the custom emails. Everything from Amazon t…

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    Comment #47556005

    It's not a Tytler quote anyway, and as mentioned by others it's demonstrably false. https://web.archive.org/web/20110723192744/http://www.lorenc... https://freakonomics.com/2009/01…

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    Comment #47494513

    Does it solve anything? I don't see this as a GitHub problem, it's a "we built a dependency management system with untrusted publishers" problem. GitLab's `include` feature has the…

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    There's a completely reasonable comment by jamiemallers on this thread which is marked as 'dead' even after vouching. Not sure what's going on there.