daveFNbuck

Both things can be true. People can be racially biased and also find it harder to sentence someone to to death while looking them in the eyes.

It matters if sentencing you over a video call makes it more likely that you'll be sentenced to death.

I think there's a good chance that people are more willing to sentence people they haven't seen in person to death.

How does the granularity help block trackers and ads if you're not doing enough of it to regularly break sites?

That's not how it works for me. When I enable ajax for one site, it doesn't enable for other sites. I guess I have an option checked somewhere.

It's actually 3 dimensions, as any selections you make in that UI only apply to the site you're currently visiting.

If that's your goal, why would you use uMatrix and not ad and tracking blockers?

It sounds like you're saying that Facebook has a lot to lose when employees in the US get upset enough to leave.

If it makes sense to hire the best of the best, then leaving it should actually hurt Facebook when the employees leave.

If they have an unlimited supply of labor and we're living in a corporate hellworld, why do they pay so well and include so many perks? They sure seem to be acting like a company that's competing for a limited talent pool.

Gerrymandering is about how you break up people into districts. Those districts elect their representatives by popular vote, so popular voting for these representatives doesn't fix gerrymandering.

Statewide votes are mostly done by popular vote, so they're not affected by gerrymandering. Nationwide votes like the one for president are not done by popular vote, but they're also not done by district, so gerrymandering doesn't affect them.

Climate change seems to be one of the problems where acknowledging the cause is key to solving the problem. The only viable solutions we have right now involve mitigating the cause.

If everyone agrees that the fire is causing the smoke and needs to be put out, we can do that.

The problem here is that we have a bunch of smoke, and a good chunk of the population is either saying that there's no smoke or that the smoke is unrelated to the fire.

How do you fix the smoke problem if you can't get enough people to agree to put out the fire?

If we can't agree on what the cause is, how can we agree on what to do about it?

I was responding to the question of what we should name buildings after, if not donors.

I was responding to the question of what we should name buildings after, if not donors.

Why name it after anything? "UCSF Children's Hospital" tells you everything you need to know.

I've never read the HTML spec directly until checking it now to verify your comment. I usually use MDN, which says that the alt attribute is not mandatory. [1]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Im...

What is that email not conforming to?

I spent a minute looking up the results of existing studies. If a professor at a public university spent a minute to look up an answer for a reporter, I'm ok with that professor having a salary.

html/css has a similar problem. A lot of my email is just a collection of images that contain text.

A lot of the things that "everyone knows" are wrong. The point of science is to have a systematic way to tell the difference between things that seem intuitively true and things that are actually true.

I did a quick search and found a study about percentages of couples raising children [1]. They have a table by couple type and marital status. The difference isn't as stark as you might think.

Looking at the smallest difference in the table, married female/female partnerships have a 30.2% chance of currently raising children, while married male/female partnerships have a 38.7% chance. Is it obvious to you that this would be so close? Would you be surprised if there were countries where the numbers are reversed?

[1] https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/same-sex...

If time is moving at a different speed, it wouldn't just be a constant offset. You'd also need a multiplier. Think of two cars moving at different speeds on a road. They don't stay the same distance apart.

I didn't and don't consider your comments to be rude. I was just trying to understand your point. To me, remapping caps lock seems unrelated to RSI but isn't counterproductive as I thought you were suggesting.

I'm honestly not sure how I type the uppercase A, as I don't normally think about typing and now I'm in my head about it. I suspect that I use the left shift key, as it's easier to hit than the right and feels a little more natural as I try both now.

Just because I was trained by a proper instructor on a typewriter doesn't mean I've kept all the best habits in the decades since. I'll be putting in an effort to train myself out of the bad habit of using the shift key on the same side as the key I'm pressing. Thanks.

I'm having trouble squaring the things you've said at this point. You commented earlier with

> The writer says "CapsLock is useless... remap". I have seen that statement a lot of times, and I deeply feel it wrong. That means the author hasn't been properly trained at typing.

If the capslock key is obselete, why is it wrong to remap it? Why would remapping an obselete key indicate improper training? Perhaps the author was trained properly on a different system, or had the same training as you but has since adapted.

I get that it's part of your muscle memory and you'd prefer to keep using an obselete key, but why say it's wrong for others to not use the capslock key?

As another anecdote for your collection, I was taught to type on a typewriter in a course in middle school in the 90's.

Having to type multiple capital letters in a row is rare enough that I never developed a habit of using the capslock key. I get by using shift on the rare occasions that I need to type multiple capital characters in a row. It's rarely more than one word.

How does capslock remapping have anything to do with proper training? I remapped capslock because it had been years since I pressed it intentionally, but I use escape all the time.

Does remapping capslock mean I worked too hard to type this comment?

What makes remapping capslock wrong? Does proper typing training make it easy to reach the escape key?

This seems likely to me. Programming is a relatively lucrative profession, so people who do it a lot tend to try to get paid for doing it. People who get paid to program will tend to write closed-source code for 40+ hours per week.

The article described drivers as walking up and syncing to them to get a job, so they're not always sitting by the phones.

So I shouldn't view the government as being some sort of evil lunatic, but it is already becoming a dictatorship?