PEX is banned in California. I think most other states its normal now.
PEX was banned, but the ban was lifted in 2010.
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When was the launch date? It's been out there for almost my whole
life. Maybe it will turn up in the 23rd century in female form with a
shaved head and calling herself Vega.
...or suffer a more pedestrian fate of getting vaporized by bored Klingons.
ingsoc79 commented on Houston moved 25k people from the streets into homes of their own nytimes.com/2022/06/14/he... · Posted by u/js2
Is there a rash of homeless people running chop shops? That seems shocking. Tools are expensive - where do they keep them? Are they dissecting cars under bridges?
Yes. Seattle had multiple chop shops scattered around the city, including this one dissecting cars under a bridge: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/is-chop-shop-operating-plai...
ingsoc79 commented on An argument that nuclear power makes the climate crisis worse m.dw.com/en/nuclear-clima... · Posted by u/stadia42
Is it particularly noteworthy that an anti nuclear article was written by an anti nuclear author or am I missing something?
Yes, as it establishes the potential bias of the article author. If this article was written by typically a pro-nuclear author it would be much more noteworthy.
Respectfully, this is the wrong way to look at the problem. It’s true, objectively, that there are fewer minority/female CS graduates. But there’s no way that gets better if a person who is “not a subject matter expert” gets dismissed. That person needs to be trained. If they want to be expert at that subject, we as an industry need to be able to help them get there.
Increasingly I believe the problem with diversity in tech is a retention and training problem, not a pipeline problem. If you’re a woman and you want to be a coder but all you hear about is hell stories, why would you sign up for that major? Our job is to make those who are generous enough in spirit to decide they want to do this thing, in spite of all the pain they might face, the best coders they can possibly be. Only then will they be able to provide the positive reinforcement necessary to improve input pipelines.
Same applies to any underrepresented group.
While not the entirety of the under-representation situation, the pipeline is absolutely the biggest contributing factor. Take a look at any CS class today and you'll see a sea of white and east/south asian faces, an almost no black students – I took several CS courses at the University of Washington a couple years back (staff perk) and out of ~500 students perhaps 2-3 were black.
No amount of corporate diversity training or preferential hiring is going to fix that ratio.
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You've subtly avoided answering the question I asked. As far as I know, there was one (abandoned) police precinct burned. Was the burning of an abandoned building avocation for violence against police officers?
If you need me to explain to you how mobs attempting to burn down police and court buildings is indicative of advocating violence towards police officers, then you've got bigger problems then your misreading of my response.
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ingsoc79 commented on Stripe bans Trump campaign axios.com/payment-process... · Posted by u/benguillet
When you say "coming for law enforcement", do you mean actively advocating for violence toward, or just, like, advocating for additional regulation?
Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, and many other US cities saw mobs attempting (and in some cases, succeeding) in burning down police precincts and courthouses this summer.
ingsoc79 commented on Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing nytimes.com/2020/06/23/bu... · Posted by u/megacorp
What exactly is the propaganda part? Can you provide a specific example, so folks have something concrete to agree or disagree with?
And, do you mean with their news reporting, as opposed to their editorials?
While the NYT has always had its share of bias claims, since Trump's election it appears that even the facade of balanced reporting is taking a back seat to their editorial agenda.
You have editorialized headlines[1] that incorporate common liberal phrases to invoke outrage. Other "How to Raise an Anti-Racist Kid"
Any story that mentions Trump will have a negative headline, even mundane stories about disaster declarations and normal government business.
The line between editorial and news content has grown increasingly blurry: scrolling through their app you'll need a second look to determine whether a storing is news or opinion - they're mixed together, often without delineation. For example in the app today you'll find an opinion piece calling for slavery reparations sandwiched between an analysis on Trump's reelection campaign and a story about a problem police officer.
As a long-time subscriber (and no fan of Trump), it's both frustrating and worrying to see the "paper of record" of my country begin to parrot leftist talking points in their daily reporting.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/health/trump-health-care-...