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This is not dumb.

From the same article, "On a more extreme end, if someone intends to be racist, sexist, or exclusionary in their writing, and wants to draft that up in a Google document, they should be allowed to do that without an algorithm attempting to sanitize their intentions and confuse their readers."

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This is dumb.

"Cutting phrases like “whitelist/blacklist” and “master/slave” out of our vocabulary not only addresses years of habitual bias in tech terminology, but forces us as writers and researchers to be more creative with the way we describe things."

vice.com/en/article/v7dk8m/goo

Someone explain to me what the downside to nuking the moon is.

What was that country next to Yemen? O man I can't think of the name.

I guess RISC processors could be faster is you really optimize for them

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There's an episode of Scrubs about how the black main character doesn't like affirmative action. I don't think you could do that today.

@khird that might be more practical. Its hard to physically measure over oceans before satellites

Fun fact: the US Constitution is dated "year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth"

There was some effort to start dating things with year 0 being 1776 and this line is almost always left off of transcripts of the Constitution.

The process for getting a motorcycle is more difficult and expensive than I had assumed. It might take me a few months. Currently looking at the Kawasaki Versys x300 or the BMW G 310 GS. I don't see an American bike that competes with these. Indian needs to start making lightweight bikes.

I bought a nice sports coat which has five pockets so when wearing it I have a total of nine pockets. Its great. Sports coats should be more popular.

@straw quite a few UPSs have hard coded root passwords

@shibao Im supposed to get a bonus in June so if I do it will be then

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