CogentHedgehog

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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
My impression was the opposite. Greenwald went around slinging wild accusations of censorship and bias, and the Intercept's response was fairly measured in comparison. They even included an acknowledgement of respect for his work.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
There we go. A journalist is supposed to follow the facts wherever they go -- even if it reveals something they're uncomfortable with. They build a reputation by researching and checking their stories, and not running stories unless
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Yes, it was a calculated move to try to paint ALL the protests as riots and justify potentially deadly use of force.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
> You didn't read it properly, because he never said protesters. Changing "rioters" to "protesters" completely changes the meaning of what Cotton said. This was a calculated move to paint all the protesters as r
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
I did, when it came out. Labeling them as rioters did not make the piece any less concerning. Read up on the Reichstag fire and how it was used to justify suspension of civil rights. The parallels are striking.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
> Nobody really knows what fascism is. It's more of an excuse to make up the rules as you go along to obtain a certain objective. Both left and right are susceptible to it. This really only serves to muddy the waters. There are a f
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
One of Gentile's elements defining fascism is "a police apparatus that prevents, controls, and represses dissidence and opposition, including through the use of organized terror." Sending in the military against protesters w
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Keep in mind we're just seeing Greenwald's side of this. It sure sounds like he's trying to paint it a way that makes him look good and the Intercept look bad. Lots of claims of "censorship" etc. I want to hear thei
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
They did also say in AFUtD that the Zone boundary isn't smooth and continuous, it's like a foam with ripples and bubbles near the boundary and moves around some normally -- which is why ships that ply the Low Beyond near the Zone
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
I agree with a lot of this -- although I hadn't put the story about the galactic core together in the same way. A lot of this isn't made clear though. Can you point to some of the evidence you used to arrive at the conclusion th
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Maybe I missed something about the location, but I thought the On/Off star was just inside the Beyond, where a lot of advanced technologies start working, and had the remnants of a Beyond civilization (including antigravity materials)?
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Republican politicians fast-tracking a lucrative no-bid contract for a company they invested in? Yup, sounds like garden-variety corruption.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
I edited my comment to add some proper numbers. Reddit has grown but it's still almost an order of magnitude smaller than Facebook+Instagram. The competition isn't even close.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
If lots of people see a clear pattern forming, doesn't that make it MORE credible rather than less?
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
The Trump administration has been laying the groundwork for this action for a while, yes. That doesn't mean it's any less suspicious that they actually file suit right before the election.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Apple's app store policies are probably going to be forced to change, yeah. But that's an easier change than the other ones. Apple is not in a situation where they need to be broken up to ensure a free market like Facebook, Amazo
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Facebook controls Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. If you add those together, Facebook controls an overwhelming majority of the social media market share -- way more than the relatively tiny niche held by Reddit and Twitter. Edit: Faceboo
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Google definitely needs anti-trust scrutiny. The timing is suspicious though. Could political motivation be at play here? And why didn't Facebook get sued too? They're just as anti-competitive. Was there an implicit protection
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Google definitely needs anti-trust scrutiny, but I find the timing suspicious. It smells like a politically-motivated hit job, especially since Facebook didn't get a suit as well.
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
That's a good speedup but why are they not using locality-sensitive hashing? Or doing some basic math to convert X and Y to binned indices for a lookup table -- you can easily precompute values for a few million cells and hold them in
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Anker, Belkin, and Cable Matters cables are solid. For chargers, Anker and RavPower. Aukey can be good too. For other brands you need to check the specs carefully to see what the rated power and transmission speeds are (and take anything
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Yes, the signal degrades more with longer cables which reduces the usable bandwidth. Short cables up to about 0.5m (1.5 feet) can use the full 40 Gbps. Slightly longer cables up to 1m can still carry enough signal for Thunderbolt 3 but us
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Same, USB-C is one of those things that for me just works. I buy USB-PD chargers and cables from reputable brands, and everything just charges. When I use the cables for data transfer, it just works -- no muss or fuss like there were w
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Free speech protects your right to not be arrested or otherwise punished by GOVERNMENT institutions for things you say or actions classified as speech. But it does not protect speech that is intended and likely to cause violence or intende
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Are they NOT supposed to report credible threats of violence or terrorism? I believe we all agree that Islamic terrorist groups such as ISIS should not be allowed to use the platforms to propagate violence. Why are violent members of the
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
Governments are generally slow to change guidance when evidence is limited or ambiguous. The problem here is that while we have pretty solid evidence for short-distance aerosol transmission in some cases, it will take time to understand ho
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
> There is no reliable evidence of the effectiveness of non-medical facemasks in community settings. There has been only very limited study of non-medical (cloth) masks so far, because there was not a prior crisis that NEEDED them (where
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
If you're claiming there's "isn't much evidence" indicating aerosol transmission, I would once again encourage you to read the article closely. There are several well-documented case clusters cited in the article w
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
That's true, in this case "further away" is a 4-dimensional distance vector (it includes time). :D
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by CogentHedgehog 6y ago
There's one key paragraph buried in the article that will help a lot of people: > However, to date, there is also no evidence of truly long-range transmission of COVID-19, or any pattern of spread like that of measles. Screaming “it

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