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yuja_wang

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    Comment #12459203

    Exactly! That's why he should have gone to the Police.

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    Comment #12455584

    They still say it! On a page on their website in 2016. And their paid AstroTurfers are here on hn, with the downvotes.

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    Comment #12455527

    I thought MacOS was "Secure By Design". This is what Apple states in their official product descriptions. In fact, it says it on this current page: http://www.apple.com/business/ma…

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    Comment #12455127

    Fat people can fast for a year with few problems. Here's a write up from the NIH. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/pdf/post... Overeating is a psychological diso…

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    Comment #12455075

    The "Body Positivity" movement that encourages people, especially young woman, to be obese or overweight, and tries to criminalize images of slender people in advertising may be th…

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    Comment #12440438

    I wonder if this is in response to out-of-control GitHub employees enforcing arbitrary "Codes of Conduct" on their users, including flagging repositories for using language that's …

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    Comment #12432020

    Isn't this what you _want_ the U.S. spy agencies to do? See what other countries are up to? I think the only problem is when they take this technology to look upon their own citize…

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    Comment #12432013

    I do that too! I have the same "suffix" that's on all of them that I leave off the written version for a tiny bit of extra security. It's just a few characters that I've been using…

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    Comment #12426005

    I've never seen this in the Verilog or CUDA/C++ communities.

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    Comment #12425980

    Exactly right. These non-programmers and non-engineers simply search github for potentially offensive words in comments.

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    Comment #12425971

    I think it's because it's a word that used to be "gendered" (in the correct use of the word gender). There was "host" and "hostess."

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    Comment #12425936

    These types of issues come up a lot in well-meaning organizations. What they don't realize is: "You an include the most people by having the narrowest platform." So if you're a "pr…

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    Comment #12422620

    I've noticed this too! The communities I deal with that spend the least amount of time worrying about tangential issues like "who's offended" are the CUDA/C++ and the Verilog/VHDL …

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    Comment #12422209

    They could use a "hinting" system similar to what fonts use. Type 1 fonts and Metafont both do this.

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    Comment #12421738

    I can assure you, having spent most of this month in and around San Francisco, that most people--even those on bicycles--have no idea how to use them! For example, they don't know …

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    Comment #12420138

    I liked twitter, but some products have a "time" and their time passes.