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Agree, it is great to have a rational discourse on social media. It is very rare. "as a very imperfect solution since it doesn’t deal effectively with parasitic elements in our society" I think this is a very deep subject specifi
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Before regulations, pollution was solved by strict property rights enforcement. Courts eventually stopped enforcing property rights because it allowed for zero pollution. Regulation agencies were created to allow pollution, but in a manner
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Government is involved in science everywhere. Through both policy and investments. Everyone always points out how some politician has failed to understand some aspect of technology or some particular deep domain of knowledge. This proble
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And yet, when they get involved it completely distorts what is known. https://www.livescience.com/56396-americans-misinformed-on-c...
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This is why those we elect should never be involved in science. It was never supposed to be the role of government. The expectation that those we elect should be knowledgeable over the entire domain of knowledge that represents important t
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I don't believe that is what Damore said or intended. The discussion revolves around preference not capability. They are not the same thing.
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Furthermore, when we can not distinguish between "is vs. ought", then we have a complete lack of understanding of the world. This becomes a circular problem, in that our lack of understanding means that we propose the wrong soluti
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However, there are possible links with burn damage to cancer. https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20180206/hot-tea-linked-to...
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This is now a cultural battle over free speech more than a legal battle. Regulation and freedom and generally in opposition. Attempting to regulate to get free speech will just open another opportunity for control. Laws tend to follow cul
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1. speed. On a million+ line code base chrome starts the app in about 5 secs. Firefox over a minute. 2. Blackboxing. Easy to setup and configure in chrome and you can preserve you settings. 3. Blackboxing combined with event breakpoints.
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Cultural appropriation?
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NeutralinoJS says it can run in as little as 1MB https://neutralino.js.org/
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> b) We distance ourselves from the lyrical content. Well, duh. Otherwise we'd all be serial killers. You'd have to be a psychopath not to. Not everyone distances themselves from the lyrics; however, the perspective is that it
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There is also the aspect that apparently there are plenty of people who are completely happy with exchanging data for free services. For example: "No Cash Needed At This Cafe. Students Pay The Tab With Their Personal Data" https:
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But is GDPR really making the kind of difference people wanted? What I see, is that mostly companies continue the same behavior, but now with a disclosure you are prompted to accept. I predicted everyone would just accept those terms in exc
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The problem is this entire ideology is paradox. Improving inclusivity through exclusivity filters. Being accepting of everyone by closely monitoring all parameters of all individuals to determine if they should be accepted.
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I wonder if the 'No Code Of Conduct' concept would actually be better in many cases. I am curious if this has been tried on any larger communities. https://github.com/domgetter/NCoC
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There is also some related supporting information lectures given by Profressor Robert Pape. He dives into the evidence based data supporting the actions of terrorists which is in complete contradiction to popular narratives. https:/&#
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Aren't echo chambers mostly self organizing? I just see this as a general problem and not something unique to Facebook. Culturally we seem to be moving increasingly towards echo chambers as we are losing the social skills to be capabl
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The interesting observation if I understood Wil's account correctly, is that it appears he was likely mobbed by the very people with whom he would likely share common values. I think this speaks to a deeper more disturbing pattern of s
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1) no 2) no attempts to justify. Police search for motive for the purpose of understanding why, not to say any particular actions were just. However, understanding why is often important when attempting deescalation of conflicts and possi
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Maybe you would like to point out exactly who you are talking about and describe how they have affected the content. This is the author of the content. https://www.cato.org/people/ted-galen-carpenter There are other ar
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There hasn't been much questioning of the narrative in MSM. This might by one of those rare instances https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=58259 However, outside MSM, there are questions across the political spect
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Seriously? did you read the article? Talk about selective observance to the extreme. The irony of such a response on thread that started with context is important and you immediately disregard all context not inline with your narrative. Ju
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This is a very one sided viewpoint. If we are going to attempt to understand why the current state of matters exists in the way it does, we need to include much broader context. For example, whenever someone brings up Ukraine, when is the
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Prior to this Russian threat narrative, it was always China who was in the news doing the hacking. Our government banned some Chinese built computers for use in government due to fears of builtin hardware spy devices. There is a long hist
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Fasting also seems to be protective to your health cells from being damaged. https://news.usc.edu/118758/fasting-during-chemotherapy-may-...
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Harassment is a distinctly different action than putting out ideas that people don't like. Harassment could be done using speech, but is not a free speech issue. You could harass someone with ideas they agree with by spamming or other
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I have collected a few here. Mostly around topics of programming. https://github.com/dakaraphi/development-resources/blob/mast...
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I didn't introduce anything electronic to my son until he was about 7. I then told him, he wouldn't be allowed to use a computer until he learns to type first. One year later, he was typing over 100 wpm. Now a teenager, he types

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