Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 9y ago
If you don't want to talk about anything that's fine. However, this discussion is about speech about those ideas, not their actual implementation. You don't really seem to be distinguishing between the two.
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Exactly: Popular speech requires no protection; the principle of free expression (and free speech laws) protect unpopular and hated speech.
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> Intolerance, you draw the line at Intolerance. That doesn't work. There are lots of people who are extremely intolerant to people who hold views that weren't very controversial a decade or two ago and are still widely held
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> Jeans of all brands still have antiquated watch pockets, now too small to be useful I disagree. They make great coin pockets, which also helps keep my phone from getting scratched up by the coins. Things can still be useful for reason
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> Even though email is listed as a premier example of decentralization, it is also de facto centralized around gmail and a few other major providers. A few is a lot more than one, though. Even if 90% of email users are on gmail, you can
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> start using extreme examples ("cissexual heteropatriarchy" is a phrase I've literally never heard) Count yourself lucky. Seriously. These people totally exist. For instance: I have an white 20-something acquaintance wh
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Does that mean you'd leave your doors unlocked?
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Do, what can be done? Who should I support to fight back against stuff like this (organizations, not politicians)?
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> Except they have to get all of those millions of lawsuits dismissed individually by advancing that argument and failing in even a single of those cases through a novel argument on the part of plaintiff, sympathetic judge, etc could ope
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Especially since Amazon Logistics uses a gig-economy workforce. There's literally no telling who you'd be giving access to your home. Could be a burglar with a stolen identity who signed up for a 2-hour shift.
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> To handle low-level corruption, they are developing the social credit system [1], which is a kind of national reputation system. It is negative for individual freedom but might be deemed necessary for rampant corruption practices in ma
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> My house uses special Medeco keys (modified in violation of the Medeco license as it happens) because what I want to defend against is copying when I lend out one of my numbered keys. I would like to hear more about these modifications
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You also have to factor in the astronomical rent. How are you supposed to save that 100k when so much is going to rent? I know a non-tech dual-earner couple who managed to save a down payment like that in the Bay Area, but they were living
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> Most of these firms will strip the company bare, cut expenses to the bone and try to sell the company to someone else for a profit. While this strategy may work very well for traditional manufacturing firms, I'm highly skeptical o
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he looked like a wax figure from madame tussauds that was animate
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I just tagged myself in a bunch of stock photos (with the same few models) to foil the algorithms. Haven't tested the effects since I've long disabled facial-recognition tagging in my profile, though. I suppose someday they might
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Don't worry everyone! Apple's going to fix this in the next version by replacing the keyboard with a touch screen!
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> Google should be called out on their pathetic support culture. Are they afraid of hiring support folks, if this is not ideology driving business decisions what is? There is no way they can compete even 1% with Amazon's customer se
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> I don't think the question should be "Why would you buy from Wal-Mart/Target/etc?" It should be "Why would you buy from Amazon unless you absolutely can't avoid it?" This is exactly where I'
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> Have you had any actual problems with these "fly by night" shipping companies? Do "schmoes" not work at Fedex and UPS? Yes. Fedex, UPS, and USPS drivers clearly have a much better grasp of how to correctly handle d
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I don't think a rail train could detach a car from the middle without stopping and park it on the side of the track.
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> I bet you that the next generation of Intel processors will have patched this workaround from working, and maybe go as far removing the ability to kill IME unless you use some kind of rotating encryption dongle. Unfortunately for consu
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> so they race through their arguments at 350 words per minute like meth-fueled auctioneers Honestly, it kinda seems like they need a rule that forbids speaking faster than a certain rate, say 150 wpm or whatever a comfortable speaking r
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I did policy debate in the late '90s, and this sounds pretty much the same to me as debate did then. Really? I guess I've never watched high school debate, but my image was definitely not of hyperventilated slur-heavy slam-po
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Dongles are the future.
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> I just clicked the link in the email and turned everything off. That's false; Facebook demonstrably does not work that way at present. If you're getting Facebook emails, the unsubscribe link is scoped only to the particular
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> Vilifying "algorithms" only serves to distract from root causes. But that's the goal of some actors. They want to misdirect attention and responsibility away from themselves when their creations misbehave. The root caus
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It's kinda understandable, though. Whenever the services of Google, Facebook, etc. behave in an inscrutable, nonsensical, or offensive way, they blame it on their "algorithm" (for a recent example, see https://www
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Couldn't you get a durable power of attorney that only comes into effect once you become "incapacitated?" If you can, I'd imagine that I'd protect against this kind of abusive guardianship without being vulnerable
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They also have a neat way of doing wildcard delivery if you use them for DNS: tag@name.domain.com gets translated to name+tag@domain.com.

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