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by AgentME 6y ago
Ethnonationalists and race realists aren't too popular here or defended by the people in charge.
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by AgentME 6y ago
Here's an unusually good video critiquing it too: https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo
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by AgentME 6y ago
>One question is, why did it take until now for these bans to come into effect? I think a lot of social media sites and platforms really believed that it was bad to try to be arbiters, and that an anything-goes system would go well. The
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by AgentME 6y ago
if you can justify one argument, then you can justify any argument, so all arguments are wrong This is total slippery slope. Zooming out to the point that you ignore all the specifics isn't useful.
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by AgentME 6y ago
>Social media companies have argued that they cant be held liable for things posted to their platforms in the past and have tried to position themselves at neutral platforms. When they start to become the arbitrators of what is and is no
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by AgentME 6y ago
If YouTube shows itself as an unfair judge, then let's criticize them for that when it happens. Otherwise, having a judge is much better than having no judge at all.
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by AgentME 6y ago
I think the anti-brigading rules were put in place because of them.
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by AgentME 6y ago
A counterpoint to the post: wasn't r/ShitRedditSays, a subreddit that repeatedly brigaded threads that had racist/bigoted comments, one of the first prominent subreddits to get in trouble for brigading?
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by AgentME 6y ago
The internet is a huge part of many of our lives, especially with the quarantine. I think we should be more hesitant before deciding on "harassment victims should just stay out of it" as a general solution to harassment. For som
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by AgentME 6y ago
I think it's not super useful to generalize things down to being about censorship in the abstract. It can be true without contradiction that many people are against censorship in defense of DRM, and are for censorship targeted at keepi
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by AgentME 6y ago
Oh I wasn't trying to make a relative comparison, just pointing out that there are a lot of people here who repeatedly choose HN over 4chan.
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by AgentME 6y ago
The Tor Browser Bundle is just a tweaked version of Firefox, so Firefox extensions should work for it. https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/4771 implies that it works, maybe with some bumps.
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by AgentME 6y ago
With this logic, there's no difference between "our cops will enforce speed limits by pulling people over or sending fines to later" and "our cops will immediately beat or shoot anyone on-sight that [the cops say] are br
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by AgentME 6y ago
If you removed the voting and moderators, then the site culture would rapidly change. It wouldn't surprise me if it rapidly approached the culture of other tech sites with similar systems. If that's fine with you, then you could u
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by AgentME 6y ago
I think there's a large difference between threatening arrest and threatening direct violence. For one thing, arrests ostensibly may lead to review and double-checking of the case with lawyers and judges and the chance to defend yourse
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by AgentME 6y ago
If you go to a bar or a park and play loud music over everyone, or amplify your voice loudly enough to try to have a conversation with everyone simultaneously, then they can kick you out. These locations can define their range of acceptable
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by AgentME 6y ago
I think people really tend to undervalue good moderation and related systems for shaping good discussion. It's extremely common on HN to see people write off all moderation as censorship and an absolute bad, but then it's really i
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by AgentME 6y ago
Ethereum (the 2nd most popular cryptocurrency system) is planning to switch to using both sharding and proof of stake instead of proof of work within the next few years, which will solve the problems of high electricity usage from mining an
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by AgentME 6y ago
Metamask seems to be available on Firefox.
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by AgentME 6y ago
>Now I remember reading something about an "antifa" flag, that seemed unconclusive... You're probably thinking of this case recently where Trump ran ads on Facebook which called out antifa and used the same symbol for them
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by AgentME 6y ago
What are you calling reasoning? Is reasoning something entirely separate from choosing what word is expected next in a sentence based on the logic of the words? You can give GPT-3 things like "Alice was friends with Bob. Alice went to
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by AgentME 6y ago
Something that's as dynamic as HN seems to me like a bad fit for IPFS. A blog seems fine for it; I make my own blog accessible through IPFS. DNS seems like the best and currently most popular option for letting you have an address with
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by AgentME 6y ago
It's built into ipfs already: ipfs mount
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by AgentME 6y ago
I swear by auto-formatters, and I've always been good at making readable code. I love auto-formatters because it makes everyone else's code readable too even if they're bad at formatting it themselves.
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by AgentME 6y ago
I had this experience too about 7 years ago. It was extremely frustrating because the origin IP being exposed to the DDOSers meant I had to move servers too instead of just upgrading my CF plan. To be fair, at the time I believe "DDOS
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by AgentME 6y ago
Are you talking about this case? https://twitter.com/morphonios/status/1268370620418527232 . There was tear gas too even.
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by AgentME 6y ago
* If someone criticized newspapers for yellow journalism and inciting violence with sensationalism, would it seem so weird to push the newspapers to regulate the content posted on themselves? * Is the way that people view large public figur
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by AgentME 6y ago
A double spend is generally what people mean by "rewriting history". A 51% attack only lets people steal money by taking back recent transactions and sending them elsewhere. Transactions that have been received a long time ago are
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by AgentME 6y ago
>But isn't it weird as well how much people are willing to let these massive tech companies essentially become fact-checkers for the content posted on it? * If someone criticized newspapers for yellow journalism and inciting violenc
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by AgentME 6y ago
I think that's a really good point to bring up. Decentralization solves some problems but it doesn't automatically make everything better. An interesting example relevant to this case would be Mastodon: it's an alternative to

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