DarkKomunalec

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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> Explicit prejudice against whites is accepted in the Bay Area, and many Bay Area companies. I'm sure that, as the US becomes more diverse, things will turn around.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
The proportion of whites in San Francisco is steadily falling [0], yet the interviewees are upset that rich white people are moving in. Whites went from 92% in 1940, to 42% in 2010, and still there's too many? [0] https://
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> It is inevitable that the best "product" wins. If that were so, then pharma companies wouldn't spend more on advertising than R&D. And fat32 isn't ubiquitous because it's 'best'. There are many, m
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> the KKK and those guys with the swastika face-tattoos They, and the violent parts of anti-fa, are not the only groups.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Businesses are all too happy to use tactics that aren't 'fair', as long as they're legal-ish. Even then, they lobby for favourable laws, that are rarely also favourable for consumers, and more often hostile. Make no mist
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
I'd prefer it if, if you get sued, for any reason, you get a defensive 'pre-trial' with a public defender that does all the work, while you do nothing . No discovery, no anything. Since this isn't a 'full' def
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
"When private companies take down Web pages, it isn’t a First Amendment violation, but it does enrage many on the right." The right, and anyone who still remembers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Akre#Whist
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
So no word on whether the spyware authors can be identified and if they'll be prosecuted? Only teenage hackers can get in trouble?
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
RMS was right again.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> you are the benefitor He has to pay the taxes and has his social programs gutted to finance imperialist policies that primarily benefit the connected ultra rich, who might let him have a few crumbs of their wealth. Some benefit.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Sounds like the author wants an AI that only allows 'good' ideas to be discussed.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
I honestly don't even see such articles as negative. They're not destroying 'the economy', just a few businesses, by acting more frugally/efficiently. People don't serve 'the economy' - it's supp
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
The interviewees sure seem upset that rich white people are moving in, despite the proportion of whites in San Francisco steadily falling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco#... From 92% in 1
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Suddenly, HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF T
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> We value the novel and inexpensive over the durable. That's what we're sold, it doesn't mean it's what we value. If there was an easy way to tell durability at time of purchase, I think the trend would shift very qu
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> which had even unmasked in the majority, as ordered by police Honestly I find such an order repugnant. Anonymity is crucial to free speech, especially when protesting a group as powerful as G20. I'm sure no-one thinks they should
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Race is shared ancestry, just like family, but broader. It's as real as family, and just as fuzzy at the edges. It needs no tricky-to-measure differences in intelligence, or claims of superiority, to attest to its existence.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> the existence of differences in intelligence, temperament, and other traits between races Isn't that irrelevant? Would you allow immigrants to displace you from your homeland, as long as they were smarter and calmer?
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Some sources/examples would go a long way towards legitimizing that picture - without them, it's just a made-up flowchart, sorry.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> there is a time and place to analyze ideas destructive to open society Just like there's a time and place to question the war effort, right? Besides, some people want closed borders, not an open society - why should only ideas tha
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> When it comes to it, money will support only itself, and there won't be public oversight. The future tense is unwarranted.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> Your memo was a great example of what’s called “motivated reasoning” Guess he'll have to join the throngs of people fired for motivated reasoning to arrive at 'diversity is strength' and 'everyone is equal'.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> Left-wing academics across the country face this kind of speech suppression, yet they do not benefit from a strong, uniform legal response. Well, there's hardly any other kind: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news&#
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> guess what the diversity stats of the Google Brain team is? It is ~94% male with 44 men and just 3 women and over 70% White. She has a point complaining about the 94% males, but as the US is 72.4% white, I don't see what's wr
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
I was unable to find polls directly on 'hate speech', but http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/40-of-millen... says 49% support limiting offensive speech, and 46% oppose such limits,
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
"Free speech does not protect dangerous speech."
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
I'm confused - is your argument just 'Them's the breaks'?
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
It's at best doubtful that tanking a country's economy will make it less authoritarian and more open to foreign influence.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
So if homosexual acts are outlawed... ;)
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
What makes you think the discussion is limited to what the law is , versus what it should be, or more broadly, what the 'right' thing to do is, regardless of the law?

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