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> There’s been black people in Italy for pretty much all it’s history. You may want to also read a few history books. (Black moors, Alessandro de' Medici, etc )

I hate this argument because it's disingenuous. It's in great part a lie and undermines the push for diversity.

Just because there were 1-2-5-100, in major cities, in countries with populations of millions, didn't make them common and frankly more than a curiosity people would gawk at everywhere except for their immediate residential area.

The vast majority of people until 1900 or so lived and died within 100km from where they were born, most likely a village.

The average Congolese in 1700 died without ever seeing a European or a Chinese person.

The average Chinese in 1700 died without ever seeing an African or European.

The average European in 1700 died without ever seeing an African or Chinese person.

Heck, even today, go to poorer and less developed countries and tell me how many outsiders from far away you see. Moldova, Belarus, Tadjikistan, etc.
Thank you! I can paste that into VLC's "open network stream" dialogue and now I have a decent way to listen to it. :)
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I think it'd be more accurate to say the will of some people given the effects of the current voting system. That's without going into the effectiveness of tabloid newspapers in inventing public opinion. While people bear at least some responsibility for their actions, I do think they can be put into perspective when you consider the circumstances which led to them.
Should have specified that in the contract when you bought the device.
You could filter out the reviews with less than an hour of view time.
You are making a bunch of assumptions, that, if true, are a strong argument for banning it.

In reality, if it is the case that this will satisfy some people desires, then it may be the case that fewer children are abused this way, in which case it would be a bad idea to ban it.
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If I'm following, the thought is: It's currently Sept 17th 2002, our counter will roll over in 2019 (17 years). But since we know 1999-2001 has already past, we can hard code logic to add 20 years to any counter that's reporting that range. That updated logic rolls over on Sept 17th 2022, which buys us three extra years. This works for devices that will EOL within 20 years.

I think devices that need a longer life should keep track of the last seen timestamp, then they can detect a rollover. The device would keep a local rollover counter and just add 20 years per count. This should stay correct until that counter rolls over, or if the device is offline for >20 years.
It's jarringly different from the books. Names are the same and a very few elements are similar but it's really something completely different. In Asimov's work, psychohistory is not about specific heroes or great people changing things but more about the inexorable trend leading to certain outcomes. The repeated sci-fi action scenes don't really match with the original work.

That said, it's not a bad show if you watch it not having read the books. There are some decent original ideas, I liked the idea of the genetic dynasty. But, it's not Asimov's foundation, it's so different that it can hardly be said to be inspired by it. So, I wouldn't be complaining about it if it had a different name. Taking a series of well beloved books and deciding to so loosely adapt them that the end results has almost no relationship to the books feels disrespectful to me though.
This is very clearly a one-sided propaganda piece written to minimize Sabatini's misdeeds. It even tries to "slut-ify" (for the lack of a better word) the person he sexually abused with statements like

> Knouse, Sabatini remembers, had ongoing flings with men who she referred to with nicknames like “anesthesiologist fuck buddy,” “finance bro,” and “physics professor,” and she wanted to keep it that way.

Even if you know nothing about it, do know that big and powerful institutions like MIT have investigated him and decided it's not worth their while keeping him around, and it's not just for the "wokeness".

> “What wormhole did my life take, to billionaires and protests and being called a sexual predator? What quirk in the universe allowed this to happen?” Sabatini asked me.

In the best case, it's just men in the position of power unable to see that women's panties do not drop at the moment's notice because of their "world class research position", and unable to see how their abuse of power can hurt others. In the worst case, it's predators using their power to destroy lives. Either way, he has no business supervising anybody.
> The fact is: its impossible to apply any real restrictions ML model

What? Of course you can curate what you feed and have filters to train your ML model

I am sure it is currently easier to train a model with legal sex content and without any children

Also the law is still the same, having and distributing pedophilia content is illegal
> I never understood this memo

I totally understood it as soon as it was leaked. MicroSoft exec joined a phone company as a CEO back when MS was trying to convince manufacturers to adopt Windows Phone. Double bonus: they could kill and incipient Linux competitor in one stroke.

If you've read the Halloween Documents or docs from the Comes case, it's quite clear: classic "love them to death."
Oh, I see. That's very unintuitive, I had expected it would close the episode entirely.
I wouldn’t have given it 1-star maybe 3-4/10. The visual effects, costumes, landscapes are incredible, it may be worth watching for those alone. Everything else is basically syfy tier garbage. The whole point of LOTR was that it was this quixotic tale of good vs evil where the good guys were incredibly faithful to their quest and to each other (aside from boromir). It had this almost childlike idealism but you wanted it to be real and to believe and it somehow felt plausible. It was incredibly well written.

This show didn’t have the source material to pull dialogue from and so they come up with these ridiculous boat and rock analogies that are laughably stupid. Aside from that, most of the show is boring. The entire second episode for Galadriel was pointless. The hobbits are annoying, the soap opera romance between the Persian girl and the black elf is excruciating, really the dwarves are the only fun and well acted part of the episode.

The elves have no majesty. In LOTR, the elves were always this demigod-like beings who move and act with supernatural grace but in this they just seem like rich people.

It just isn’t LOTR
They may have nation, but they don't have a state. The basic definition of state is monopoly of violence over a territory and ability to defend it.
Seems cool, but the demo video is so corporation-y it's comical. When they said "experience synergy and convergence throughout the system" I almost thought it was satire.
Citation for that stat?

Like it or not, 30% of the world’s countries identify as Muslim majority and part of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

None of those countries recognize Israel as a state.

Just because a bunch of countries believe (or don’t believe) something doesn’t make it a fact.
How is RT better? 100% of RT scores are either 1 or 10.
It’s not just this show. How many Vikings had black queens?

This literally in every show. The question is legitimate. How about a show about slavery where the slaves are mixed, with some white some black?

(Btw if the slavers were Muslim this would actually be historically accurate. Would that be allowed today as a show?)
The kids all have the same potential in kindergarten and 1st grade. Sure, a few precocious kids are reading and doing basic arithmetic already, but most kids, even from affluent intact households, are just ready to get beyond recognizing sight words.
It's amazing how from one interview or technical test to the next, you can feel a worthless human being or a god amongst your peer.
When a woke / inclusive show gets reviewed poorly, what fraction of it gets chalked up to audience bigotry ?

There are excellent shows that are woke / inclusive (Arcane) and they are universally liked by much of the same audiences.

Then there are medicore shows that are woke / inclusive (Foundation) and they get mixed reviews again from similar audiences.

According to this action by IMDB which is owned by Amazon, if you rated the show below a 5 then you are automatically a bigot. Which seems heavy handed, and like a big conflict of interest to say the least.
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> 1) it's not a platform,

It is a platform. The creator of Mastodon seems to think it is.

> 192000 is the number for mastodon, there's a wider network that mastodon servers are a part of,

That is the daily active user count of the entire Mastodon network and instances that have been online for long enough to at least have one user login once a week.

> this is not some company like twitter or gab or whatever with quarterly performance announcements and user on boarding targets,

Yet, out of 3 million registrants and only 192k use it. That is more than 90% of people not using it meaning that there is virtually no one using it on a daily or even weekly basis. That is a failure for something that has been constantly compared to as a 'Twitter alternative' or 'alternative social network' ever since its 1.0 or 2.0 release and each time Mastodon is brought up anywhere else other than Mastodon; like this site for example [0][1], Twitter, Facebook and online news articles.

After 6 years of existence, it really is a total failure and the denial, constant contradictions by it's supporters (it is a platform like it or not) and deflections underscores the low usage with a clear majority of users still running back to Twitter after a few days of using Mastodon.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17788060

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I mean, Tolkien is dead. Shakespeare is dead. Homer is dead.

We can't make more Tolkien, Shakespeare, or Homer. We can just put our own spin on the stories they told, retell or reinterpret them as we see fit. The "most faithful" adaptation of their stories to the screen is still an adaptation.

If you enjoy the original works ... enjoy the original works.
>That and train breakdowns... Hate them :)

There is an option in the settings page to set the frequency of vehicle breakdowns to low or none.
I'd agree with this.

I've never done psychedelics (at least not the kind that are experimentally used for mental health; I did Molly once but fuck that comedown), but I spent years depressed, anxious, guilty, etc. and then I started using weed. I went a little TOO hard for a while, because it was the first time in years I'd had my body and brain giving me primarily GOOD feelings.

Which led to me ending up in therapy and actually addressing my PTSD, because then I knew that feeling shitty wasn't just how I was programmed to be biologically because something was Wrong with me.

The 'too hard for a while' is probably why these things should be done under medical supervision. I basically spent 8 months blazed out of my mind.
Oh that totally sounds like the civilized definition of a State.
It has nothing in it banning or requiring an ID.

The fact of the matter is the histrionically the left has cheated by ballot stuffing and the right has cheating by making it harder to vote.
I think you hit the nail on the head here. I am a lot more understanding at this later stage in my career when someone shows me a big ball off spaghetti in a project. I don't know why decisions were made, what trade offs for time or requirements were made in the past, what designs might have made sense that got turned upside down with new features, etc. I tend to shut down sentiments like "This all needs rewriting" or "What on earth was this person thinking" as much as I can.

Most of us are decent enough at our jobs, and generally the industry does a good job of weeding out those who can't perform or they end up lost and irrelevant in some big company. There are certainly some bad developers out there, but there's bad doctors, bad lawyers, etc. in the real world too.

That said, the impact a bad manager can have is definitely of a greater magnitude than a bad engineer, generally speaking.
It's true there's nothing about what she really got up to, but there are hints that she's hardly benign, e.g. in the speech discussed here https://reprog.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/i-wish-jackson-hadnt... (that was just the first result I found on Google).
And this slashing process does not solve the issue. Or well, it does, but it makes the whole system centralized and introduces a single point of trust.

The bounty hunters, who find misbehaving validators which signed orphaned blocks, will slash the validators stake. But those bounty hunters are programs which are being run in Vitalik‘s basement. Not everyone will be able to run one like a normal validator. They are trusted entities within the network.
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It's called lord of the rings. Not lord of the woke and flops.

They could have started a new saga with whatever setting they wanted but they picked a story with a (strong) legacy.

Strong legacy comes with strong fans. Since they don't live up to the legacy they deserve (rightfully) to be mixed with dirt.
As an avid movie enthusiast and IMDb user this concerns me. I have been using IMDb for years writing my reviews and reading other people's opinions not just for high budget movies but also for smaller self funded movies. This is not good for their independence and honesty.
Cable noob here: can someone explain how this is possible? It's faster than a max speed cpu, so is this done by multiplexing things in parallel over like 10+ wires or something at a low enough voltage where there is minimal induction between them?
It’s a useful metric on Steam where you can disregard reviews from players with low time spent playing the game, so I imagine it would be useful in this scenario as well.
It's largely due to that alliance that ISIS even cares about Europe. The "alliance" itself is largely one-way - the US and Europe topple the government of any country that looks at Israel funny, and in return they get.. what?

The usual answer is oil, but the cost of the Iraq war is estimated at $1.9 trillion [1]. Even if all of Iraq's oil industry was taken by the US, and its revenue was 100% profit that went entirely to the US, at the current record-high export of $11 billion/month [2], it would take 15 years to break even.

But neither of those assumptions hold - oil industry profit margins vary between 5% and 30% [3,4], and the media seems shockingly disinterested in reporting how oil company ownership or profit flow changed following the war, but let's be generous and say it resulted in half of their total profits being diverted to the US (that weren't already diverted before).

Under these more realistic but still very generous assumptions (using the 30% high-water mark for profit margin), it would take 97 years to break-even. That is also assuming Iraq would remain a stable pawn to US interests for that entire time, and it wouldn't take more military spending to keep them in line.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/2/iraq-oil-exports-11-...

[3] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/012015/what-average...

[4] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/oil-industry-ranks-60-by-prof...
Actors should be a good match for the role they play. That includes accent, build, height, sex, attractiveness, characterization (Will Smith couldn't play Sauron) and skin colour.
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What you described in your original comment has some truth to it, but I think you're overestimating the involvement BoA has. The relevant facts to this story are:

1. you can write a check without having the funds in the account[1]

2. banks places a hold on check deposits

3. you can cash a check at the issuing bank

If you deposit the check into your account, it goes through the normal check deposit/clearing process, which involves a holding period. This applies to all check deposits. It's probably true that writing a check gives your boss a few extra days to come up with the cash, although realistically speaking that only gives you a day or two. I doubt he's conspiring with BoA to deprive you of your money. You brought up the BoA class action lawsuit to support your case, but that actually goes against your case. If your boss didn't have the money in the account, it would be in BoA's interest to process the checks as soon as possible so they can charge your boss overdraft fees.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_kiting
this is true but the dwarf lady was actually one of the best castings in the show
Where was the last time you visited a museum, any museum?
Besides 99% of that collection (any collection really) is mass manufactured tat you can get for $xx-xxx on craigslist/swap meet/ebay. Just because someone spend 10 year collecting toothbrushes doesnt mean they are worth $1m and pilgrimages from all over the world congregate to see those beauties in action.

Most of hoarders never play with their toys, the mere act of purchasing is all they crave. All the things they couldnt afford, now in some basement under a mountain of other highly desirable garbage.
Article is a good round up of US and European incentives and isn't as jingoistic as the headline.

https://archive.ph/0yXKp
Due in part to "net zero" CO2 emissions policies.
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This policy is nothing compared to the reality of the situation on the ground. The treatment of the native Palestinian people is much worse than this and Israeli crimes are consistently covered up by the mainstream media and Internet companies like Google.
i think Kanye was trying to make something like this — the slaves would all be white, iirc
Guess the israelis are doing their darnest to get them to try a fourth time.
Hello, please deliver the salt.

Of course "knows" is not that precise. Postgresql is vast and complex.
I think that does not apply. That would be if criminals in prison were given GTA would they have better or worse chance of rehabilitation?
Are you sure it wasn't because of all the trouble caused by people on bicycles?
Source?

Also, blaming that while there's a pandemic and war impacting the supply of the most critical raw materials (energy and foodstuffs) is a curious (being very generous here) choice.
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What kind of industrial applications? Are we talking about manufacturing or grid/infrastructure?
The scale of IMDb reviews makes them more vulnerable to review bombing than other review aggregators.

Steam gets the scale this right by only having up or down reviews, and collecting reacts to the review to sort out what people think of the review.

They shouldn’t have removed all negative reviews, and it earned its 3/10. But having a tighter scale removes the 1/10s outsized drag on the average.
As a friend of mine defined Zurich in the mid 90s - Zurich - the Swiss city where one of ten is Swiss ...

The irony - she was mail order bride that just got her Swiss citizenship.
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So you wouldn’t mind white Wakandans? One or two Vanilla Panthers? How about caucasian voodoo gods, or demons of Japanese myth? They’re fictional too.

Of course that would be silly, and we both know why. Tolkien’s work is explicitly based on Norse myth and the peoples of Northern Europe, who were and are quite real. He wrote about these intentions and influences at length.

There’s no need for writers to rely on European culture as a crutch. I’d personally love to see more epics set in the Mali Empire, Ghana Empire, or Kingdom of Dahomey. Sub-Saharan Africa has lots of its own rich mythology, too. It seems bizarre that besides Black Panther, the most I’ve seen these stories represented on TV is still the 1990s PBS series “Wishbone”.
But that's exactly what apartheid was: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantustan
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