BrazzVuvuzela

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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
> What people really mean when they talk about censorship is first amendment rights. I don't agree. The snarky and smug "nuh uh, cuz it wasn't the government" responses [often maliciously] assume that complaint
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
I'd never trust it with any data I care about. HN doesn't even let you delete your account with post history.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
So yes.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Another word for basically the same thing, yes. Excommunication is top-down directed shunning.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
> I mean are they being forced to do it and not being paid for it Slavery is forced labor, which is orthogonal to being paid. If you are forced to work but are also paid (perhaps rare, but not unheard of), you are still a slave regar
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
"Do with them" ? That's a truly chilling way to speak of people .
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Cancel culture isn't that either. Cancel culture is a rebranding of 'shunning', which I bet predates humans as we know them. I bet our social monkey predecessors had such tactics figured out. Read this and tell me it isn&#x
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
You're only feigning surprise.. right?
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Correct, but Chomsky wanted people to believe it was lies.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
If a body, then why not an egg?
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
It doesn't matter. YECs would say god created it to test them or the devil created it to trick them, it doesn't matter how precisely or imprecisely you word headlines about dinosaurs they still won't believe it. Stop worryi
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Quantity has a quality all of it's own. Wiretaps against a specific individuals is a lot different than dragnets covering an entire nation.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Wind turbines in cold climates also require deicing. If you don't deice them, the performance drops dramatically. Deicing takes power too though, a few percent of the total turbine output depending on how often it's needed and
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
With construction or moving? I'd rather keep my home the way it is, thanks.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
I guess I got lucky then.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Yes well, open office plans and cubicles are awful, no argument there. But a real office with a door can be attractive relative to the situation many people have at home.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
That assumes your town has such coworking facilities. Maybe a safe assumption in cities, but definitely not in all towns nor for people living in more rural areas. And if you're going to commute to a coworking office in the same city
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
It's also important to consider that many people don't have homes that are conducive to working, because there are many other people in the house, or because they don't have the space for a dedicated office, or any other numb
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Incidentally, the F-117's fighter designation was a misnomer; they were only armed with bombs.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
It's probably easier to list the invertebrates that aren't commonly called bugs than those that are. Squid, octopus and jellyfish get a pass. The immobile ones like corals and sponges as well, but I think that's about it.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
If you're speaking colloquially, earthworms are bugs but they aren't insects. If you're being pedantic, houseflies are insects but they aren't bugs.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
Seems like an arbitrary distinction which is considered important for historical/cultural reasons particular to America. Why is the federal/state boundary the important boundary, and not the state/county level? Or not the
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
They don't see it unless they choose to go look at it. I can stand on a step ladder and look over my neighbor's fence. But if I do that then start complaining that the grass in his back yard is too dry and ugly, then who's
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
TTS ebooks at 500-600wpm is easy for me, though I usually top out at 2.5x for audiobooks. I'm not sure what the conversion factor between those is, but TTS is definitely faster.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
It seems somewhat plausible. Identical twins often have broadly similar, although still distinct, fingerprints: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22558204/
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
It's not "misshaped" if it's precisely the way it's meant to be. The media need to stop trading credibility for clicks, before they run out. I flagged this article, if the idea is to give HN a pretext to talk abou
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
He means the One China Policy. But CogitoCogito is right. China is only be "contained" by Taiwan in the hypothetical circumstance of a war; during peace time they obviously have no trouble sending ships around the world and are
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
To be clear, I'm not faulting the EU for it. The EU should be concerned more with their own security, particularly if America gets tied up with China and is consequently less capable of helping to defend the EU against Russia.
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
My sub-point is America would deny the validity of China's invasion of Taiwan regardless of whether China's accusations against Taiwan were accurate or not, meaning the accuracy of such accusations isn't relevant. The outcom
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by BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago
> Of course the West would still try to dispute it Yeah, that's what I just said. > the world saw through WMDs in Iraq And Iraq got bombed anyway, it's a great example of how the actual validity of a casus belli doesn&#x

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