ColanR

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by ColanR 7y ago
First figure out what you need to know, and stop planning /researching when you know it.
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by ColanR 7y ago
> moral and philosophical education along with ability to independently think That's a fairly good description of Machiavelli.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Freedom of speech ensures we can always debate the value of the rest of our rights. Without it, that amorphous 'tolerance' could remove the ability to speak against bad things. Who defines hate speech? Mobs? Who gets to enforce t
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by ColanR 7y ago
> Methinks we as a society can arrive to similar types of rulings for intolerance. Freedom of speech is too important to be of secondary value to something that can't even be defined clearly.
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by ColanR 7y ago
> "the ability to do X without legal consequence from the government" That would be, 'it's not illegal'. I think there are four different things in play here. a) a fundamental right, because you are human; this
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by ColanR 7y ago
> Someone has to. I don't think so. When there isn't a Universal Truth to turn to, we should not consider people who disagree with authority to be a threat to the security of the nation.
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by ColanR 7y ago
It makes no difference whatsoever: because otherwise we need to appoint a referee that gets to decide what counts as misinformation.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Your idea of the limitations of our right to free speech seems to depend on a referee; otherwise, it seems that you are conflating the idea of 'rights' with 'legality'. > I have no right to say "Hey, so-and-so is
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by ColanR 7y ago
I hope someone will. Intellectual discussion seems to always play second fiddle to emotion and personal attacks (attack the idea, please, instead of the person). Takes courage to stand up to a mob, online or in person. We need to defend th
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by ColanR 7y ago
> Making up new dots? That’s not. To clarify: does the FBI get to say which dots have been fabricated?
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by ColanR 7y ago
Can we agree that attempting to 'connect the dots' between known facts should not be considered a threat to national security? That's my concern.
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by ColanR 7y ago
> "this conspiracy involves a documented series of facts that are hard to explain together" I mean, that's a pretty good summary of the 'government surveilance' conspiracy theory, right up until the point Snowden
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by ColanR 7y ago
The article lists specifically 5 conspiracy theories: QAnon, Pizzagate, some kind of “Zionist Occupation Government” theory, Sandy Hook "Crisis Actor", and New World Order theory. Some of these I've never heard of. I'm c
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by ColanR 7y ago
> entire nature of conspiracy theories A conspiracy theory is, very simply, a theory about the existence of a conspiracy. You're implying that such theories will focus on false positives; but you're completely omitting that so
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by ColanR 7y ago
Paywalled, and political rather than technical.
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Environmental Health Trust: Screens and Sleep(ehtrust.org)
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Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery(tribler.org)
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Overnet(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ColanR 7y ago
From wikipedia: > organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. — M. Conway
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by ColanR 7y ago
However, that's orthogonal to the issue; documentation of your right to vote is not one of the requirements of possessing that right. (as parent said, "A person's right to vote exists with or without documentation.") I
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by ColanR 7y ago
I didn't know we were talking about hobbies.
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Eh, both. You demonstrate commitment by surviving the hazing ritual.
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> signalling to the world that you have the chops and the work ethic to go through with a major project with many frustrating stepping stone i.e., hazing.
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It sounds like you're speaking for yourself more than for anybody else.
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Typo in the last section. > He was attending a conference when he had a heard attack
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by ColanR 7y ago
This looks like the same ports, plus a single usb-c and hdmi, that a Thinkpad X230 has.
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Soulseek(soulseekqt.net)
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by ColanR 7y ago
if by 'conspiracy theorist' you mean the literal definition, then you're talking about anyone who theorizes regarding the existence of a conspiracy. There's nothing wrong with that. If by 'conspiracy theorist'
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Amazon claims to only send speech data home when you invoke it with a 'hey alexa'. Whether they're sending home just your query, or everything the echo has heard since the last invocation, they are very careful not to say.
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by ColanR 7y ago
> Most people won't support your opinion - because they are paid trolls (a large fraction of app posts, because a comparatively small - 'only' hundreds of thousands - trolls post in insane quantities) and because many onli

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