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twilio is firing and the hackers are mad:

anonym29 8 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]

To imply there is absolutely no overlap between the group of people espousing CRT and the group of people who believe the world would be a better place if every white person spontaneously died is to be willfully ignorant of an unfortunate reality.

We should be taking the opportunity to disavow the latter on behalf of the good intentions of the former.

anonym29 9 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–]

I'll believe this was actually racially blind when Twilio releases a count of each race that was laid off, and the sum of each race for employees in the company prior to the layoff. It's very simple for everyone to verify whether there was racial targeting outside the statistically probable bounds of random selection from the parent group.

I have no problem with people being woke as long as we're both working towards a provable shared reality with data rather than rhetoric.

Humans lie. Sufficient amounts of data analyzed by a suficient number of people do not.

Assuming it was possible to look at the data I call for above, would you be opposed to the public dissemination and analysis of it?

spamizbad 8 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]

That's not good enough. They could just lie. You need a formal audit conducted by a third party. Anything else is unacceptable.

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notch656c 43 minutes ago | root | parent | next [–]

I always hire a lawyer for traffic court. Show up with a lawyer and wear a suit. Don't want them to think I'm one of the poors to stomp down. If you go to low-level court in middle America you'll understand what I mean -- 99% of the people there are drugged out and wearing rags generally look like their poo poo is not together at all and these are the people the lazy/burnt-out prosecutor is geared towards crushing effortlessly.
They basically always offer some bullshit non-moving violation to make me go away. Saves me thousands on insurance premiums and has also saved me from a criminal record for my more serious tickets (like allegedly driving gasp 36 mph by a school, which apparently comes with jail time in Ohio).
Bring on the hate. Y'all know I speak truth.
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Ask HN: Strategies for working with engineers that are too smart?

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low_tech_punk 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [–]

If people consider marriage as a contract of exchange, then it is already a form of legalized prostitution. Monogamy might be a bigger underlying problem.
Esther Perel's Mating in Captivity in a good read on this topic.

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Qwertycoatl posted:

my god that thread

fritz posted:

thrown123098 4 hours ago | undown | parent | context | flag | on: Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational...

My computer is very much a Turing machine since each time it runs out of disk space I can buy more disks. The fact you think a Turing machine has infinite memory rather than finite but arbitrarily large memory tells me all I need to know about the sorry state of your theoretical education.

Xik posted:

I know this is like the opposite of what this thread is about, but I'd like to just take a moment to appreciate that is this YC Launch post about generating and cloning voices right now is mostly filled with comments about how unethical it is and how it will primarily be used to cause harm.

It might be filled with counter-arguments shortly, but I think it shows that the HN community actually has at least some posters that seem to give a poo poo about how the technology they create is used.

mystes posted:

Is that the jornada one? I didn't actually read it

post hole digger posted:

"In fact, most of American wealth that the US has been riding on, was accumulated before then" is either so deliberately weaselly or unfathomably stupid.

mystes posted:

That's an actual meaning of "competent" in English, not a "false friend"

It's just not super common to use it that way in the US nowadays

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pvaldes 81 days ago | prev | next [–]

Don't understand why they had seen a refuge there. Looks much more like a bonfire to me.
This wood looks cut in a tip and partially burnt in the other, and the fire makes this notches easily when two logs overlap. Also explains the preservation of the wood, as it was sterilized by fire (maybe minutes before a rain fell or a flood hit). Also the size of the logs (1,5m is too short for a home, but perfect to be carried and stored. Plus the near presence of the classical fire hardened sticks. Is pretty obvious.

So first evidence of "structural use" of wood is a too premature claim. nope. I don't think so.

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pvaldes 81 days ago | root | parent | next [–]

I would need to see it. Marks in wood would be totally expected in a bonfire used to create and test tools with fire hardened tips
If we are both talking about the same structure, I don't see striations, but the photo mentions two cracks. If those are really cracks (and not engravings carved superficially) this would reinforce my theory.

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pvaldes 81 days ago | root | parent | next [–]

> You do know that this paper is published in Nature, right? Unless you're an archeologist with a credible track record I doubt that you have the expertise to effectively argue that this is find is not credible.
> I don't think researcher would just confuse bonfire and modified wood That's their expertise.

Appeal to the authority. I'm not scared, baby. I'd go anywhere. If is printed in nature then is true, right? gods speak...

noope

We need to understand that articles published in nature can be retracted. Here is a small list of five pages:

https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=retraction

There is a detail in that photo that opens a door to the possibility that the datation could be incorrect all the way long. I wrote yesterday about it at home, but will reserve my opinion until ruminating a little more about it.