Oh, you mean that their friends were literally talking about a certain ancient group of professional assassins that have commandeered the DC metro, but accidentally said the word "thugs" instead of Thugee? That explanation sure makes a lot of sense!
Agreed. I sometimes get overwhelmed at subway with all the options I don't really care about - I'd much rather pick one thing I like from a list of ten than make ten binary decisions about ingredients.
You're kinda illustrating what I meant by my parenthetical, but I guess I didn't explain it very clearly - Libertarians often focus on keeping the government from restricting your rights, rather than focusing on ensuring that the government protects your rights.
For example, their platform reads "Members of private organizations retain their rights to set whatever standards of association they deem appropriate," which means that businesses should be free to openly discriminate against employees of a certain race, sexuality, gender, etc, in order to protect the business owner's freedom of association. Liberals generally believe that the government should be in the business of ensuring that people get a fair shot, in order to protect the employees' ability to earn a wage.
(Also, they want to entirely privatize schools, because nothing says "land of opportunity" quite like being too poor to afford first grade.)
Saying basically that "It's fine, as long as it's not government doing it" doesn't really seem "socially quite liberal" to me - it seems, frankly, like an anarchic appeal to the state of nature, in which only the strongest is secure in their rights.
Slashdot isn't conservative so much as it is libertarian. Which is basically conservatism that wants to maintain the quo socially, (except with fewer rules for them to follow, because freedom) instead of returning to the 1950's. Which is why you still see the misogynists and racists pop out on any thread that mentions women or anyone who's not white.
They share tenets with conservatives, mostly financially, but hate the way mainstream conservatives act (on account of GOP hypocrisy and their regressive social values).
Luckily, my job pays well enough that my savings account + unemployment can cover me for a while, once management finally wakes up and realizes I'm posting on Slashdot at work.:)
Impostor syndrome - the feeling that everyone else is more qualified than you - is especially common in women in STEM fields. Makes you prone to thinking that your own ideas and innovations can't be right if they contradict established wisdom
Most people don't even make use of 4 cores on their desktop, so it doesn't make sense for them to push 16-core consumer chips. If you want to do server-like highly-parallel tasks, maybe you should buy a server CPU.
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Nothing's surprising about it. Doesn't stop people from being too scared to sit next to a black guy.
Oh, you mean that their friends were literally talking about a certain ancient group of professional assassins that have commandeered the DC metro, but accidentally said the word "thugs" instead of Thugee? That explanation sure makes a lot of sense!
Well, when you consider that "thug" is dog-whistle for "black," maybe it's just that your friends are too racist.
Yep - it'll be way easier to view genomic data in the future than an excel document. Bioinformaticists are lazy, so we store everything as text :)
Agreed. I sometimes get overwhelmed at subway with all the options I don't really care about - I'd much rather pick one thing I like from a list of ten than make ten binary decisions about ingredients.
We store genomic variation data in VCF files - it's just tab-delimited-text.
You're kinda illustrating what I meant by my parenthetical, but I guess I didn't explain it very clearly - Libertarians often focus on keeping the government from restricting your rights, rather than focusing on ensuring that the government protects your rights.
For example, their platform reads "Members of private organizations retain their rights to set whatever standards of association they deem appropriate," which means that businesses should be free to openly discriminate against employees of a certain race, sexuality, gender, etc, in order to protect the business owner's freedom of association. Liberals generally believe that the government should be in the business of ensuring that people get a fair shot, in order to protect the employees' ability to earn a wage.
(Also, they want to entirely privatize schools, because nothing says "land of opportunity" quite like being too poor to afford first grade.)
Saying basically that "It's fine, as long as it's not government doing it" doesn't really seem "socially quite liberal" to me - it seems, frankly, like an anarchic appeal to the state of nature, in which only the strongest is secure in their rights.
Slashdot isn't conservative so much as it is libertarian. Which is basically conservatism that wants to maintain the quo socially, (except with fewer rules for them to follow, because freedom) instead of returning to the 1950's. Which is why you still see the misogynists and racists pop out on any thread that mentions women or anyone who's not white.
They share tenets with conservatives, mostly financially, but hate the way mainstream conservatives act (on account of GOP hypocrisy and their regressive social values).
Skyrim had a story?
For what it's worth, this is an editorial failure - the linked paper properly cites a factor of "400" - no V anywhere.
The Evernote app, at least, appears to "solve" this by putting a fixed-size window on the screen. Not resizable, or dockable.
The next line won't be "Okay, gtfo."
It'll be: "Sir, please step out of the car."
They are capitalist thieves! Ah, but I repeat myself.
Yeah, if you call "12 years of ongoing harassment and gross slander" "without a worry."
Nope, no misogyny at all in insulting a man by implying he's a woman.
Misandry don't real
Ah yes, who could forget famous terrorist organization, the "Women's Committee Against Genocide." It's so scary sounding!
Good thing she didn't lie, then. Neither group she was in was dedicated to the overthrow of the US government.
If they wanted to know if she was in a group that was affiliated with a group that had such goals, they should have asked that.
Doesn't mean that she "belonged to an organization dedicated to the violent overthrow of the US government," which is what they're accusing her of.
What do you think she's guilty of?
Luckily, my job pays well enough that my savings account + unemployment can cover me for a while, once management finally wakes up and realizes I'm posting on Slashdot at work. :)
AC is very clearly trying to promote his own useless face-generation technique.
Impostor syndrome - the feeling that everyone else is more qualified than you - is especially common in women in STEM fields. Makes you prone to thinking that your own ideas and innovations can't be right if they contradict established wisdom
Point taken. Anyway, prolly best not to feed this type of troll.
ARPANET ringing any bells?
(that said, GP post is xenophobic trash, even if it's meant to be satire)
Most people don't even make use of 4 cores on their desktop, so it doesn't make sense for them to push 16-core consumer chips. If you want to do server-like highly-parallel tasks, maybe you should buy a server CPU.