13thLetter

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by 13thLetter 11y ago
You might want to try using an argument of some sort next time.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Some of the people who purged Yarvin are Stalinists, so I'm going to go with "no."
453.
by 13thLetter 11y ago
Then it sounds like you're fully on the side of Yarvin and fully opposed to Strangeloop's actions, since (even when he dared to write about unpopular political opinions) he was never anything less than calm and rational.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Well, then, obviously his writings should be ceremonially burned and he should be sent to the camps. Case closed.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
"On the other hand, if he was not going to be able to effectively run the foundation and there were schisms forming in the community that's so essential to the continuation of the foundation's work...what are you, as Mozilla,
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Does that apply to, say, the state of California when it votes to ban gay marriage?
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
There's a sad note of "it was okay when _we_ were doing it" which suffuses the article. A good lesson why scientists should rely on argument and evidence instead of memetic weapons that don't care what direction they&#x2
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
"Who on the right today has been similarly "silenced"?" Well, you just personally silenced Yarvin, so there's one.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
It's interesting how the people crowing "Free market in ideas! Free market in ideas!" tend to be opposed to free markets in almost any other context. How many of the people enforcing the thoughtcrime laws are self-proclaimed
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
"As a friend texted me this morning: "the talk on Urbit could have been dismissed on technical grounds". Perhaps it's interesting to you, but it brings very little that's new to the table in terms of research."
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
"Nominal consequences"?!! Eich lost his job. The scientist was forced to make a tearful apology on national television on what should have been the proudest day of his life. Would you be comfortable with losing your job and being
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Nobody is saying otherwise. Please put that argument away. What everyone here is saying is that the policies and policing they are carrying out is _wrong_.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Nobody on the entire planet is saying that Strangeloop doesn't have the right to kick people out because they don't like their political views, so please put that argument back in the drawer. What everyone here is saying is that t
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
Why read an article _about_ him, as opposed to reading what he actually said? Are you concerned about contracting wrongthink?
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
"Do we really need this kind of culture war nonsense?" Perhaps you should ask Strangeloop that. They're the ones who threw the first punch when they decided to boot people based on their political views.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
"A far better comparison might be to the fate of Brendan Eich, who did not publicly espouse views about same-sex marriage on or off the job." Yes, and what happened to him was also wrong.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
No more than if it relied on data that comes from a group that is interested in "proving" that fracking is unsafe.
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by 13thLetter 11y ago
The amount of "heat" pumped into the Earth by fracking is meaningless on the unimaginably huge scale of a whole planet, so you can relax.