- Apr 2022
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akkartik.name akkartik.name
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I want an hour of reward
marktani asks (not unreasonably):
what is an hour of reward?
Kartik's response[1] is adequate, I feel.
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- Jun 2021
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www.theserverside.com www.theserverside.com
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"Both Conservancy and the Git project are aware that the initial branch name, 'master,' is offensive to some people and we empathize with those hurt by the use of that term," said the Software Freedom Conservancy.
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- Feb 2021
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github.com github.com
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Good intentions, but I doubt there's any relation of the origin of the terms blacklist/whitelist to race. There are many idioms and phrases in the English language that make use of colours without any racial backstories. I haven't met any black person (myself included) who was ever offended by the use of "blacklist".
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www.theregister.com www.theregister.com
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Redmond suggests nuking 'profanity, geopolitical, diversity' terms from browser source
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a proposal to cleanse the open-source code of "potentially offensive terms."
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- Aug 2016
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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forest fires
Technically correct, in that drought due to lack of rainfall is linked to Indonesian forest fires in some El Nino years.[] (http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/features/201608_heat/)
The lead sentence for the paragraph implies a link between climate change and the following events, including Indonesian forest fires, which is not established. To the extent climate change might be affecting the frequency and intensity of El Nino events or rainfall patterns during El Nino events, it might then be playing a role, but that is not claimed in this article. For example, Dai (2012)[] (http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v3/n1/abs/nclimate1633.html) documents a decreasing observed precipitation trend in Indonesia, but Trenberth, Dai et al (2014) note that "it is probably not possible to determine reliable decadal and longer-term trends in drought without first accounting for the effects of ENSO and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation." [] (http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v4/n1/full/nclimate2067.html). Trenberth, Dai et al (2014) also note that drought due to ENSO effects on precipitation may also be exacerbated by the effects of warming on evapotranspiration, which is an area of ongoing study.
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- Oct 2013
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rhetoric.eserver.org rhetoric.eserver.org
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A thing may be accompanied by another in three ways, either simultaneously, subsequently, or potentially.
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- Sep 2013
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Does this comment exist at article level? If so, the interface of this tool is rather confusing...
Yeah, that device at the bottom is not that clear...
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