DarkKomunalec

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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Don't confuse the ideal of free speech, with its legal implementation in the 1st Amendment.
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> Socialist and Communist parties And how many votes did they get? While I agree it's a stretch to call the Democrats 'left', at least on economic issues, things like worker's rights have been neglected by the voters
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I was able to find no such suggestion. Perhaps you can point it out? Here's the full text of the memo: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I... It starts with "I value diversity an
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> often taking an strong side in either extremes of the debate. His memo is very firmly left-wing and liberal though, hardly an 'extreme'.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
"the kind of workers' rights that are traditionally the focus of the left." More than politics, it's the present tense that's bothering me. How long since the US left has focused on worker's rights?
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
The explanation I heard was in poorer countries, women are more likely to choose careers by how well they pay, instead of how interested they are in the field. http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
I must have missed the part of the memo where he used slurs. I've noticed this kind of statement often: "How can you say X about group A - don't you know group A suffers from Y??", as a way to try and associate X with (t
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> I remember that policy from the time of rampant privatization here in Europe. "Why should the government provide this service .." - well, a few years later we knew why. Going roughly by what I assume to be the GP's logic
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> designed to detect adversarial responses Sounds like an interesting topic. I'd love to read some articles/literature on it.
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So diversity impedes political organization of the people, and transfers power to the ruling class? At least until we end racism, which should be any day now...
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
As cynical as I am, I still expect the supreme court to take up this case, and issue a 9:0 ruling in favour of filming officials. SCOTUS has a strong free-speech track record: https://www.popehat.com/2017/06/21&#x2
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
In all the ways that don't bother corporate.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> So why aren't the management layers of tech companies composed of mostly women? Higher levels of programming may be composed of more work with people (coordinating a team, extracting requirements from clients, etc.), but the lower
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> hypothetically lol P.S.: I'm sure replies such as 'lol' are frowned upon, but I think in this case it conveys the idea perfectly and concisely.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> I don't see people running shell commands on the software before and after they vote to make sure it's the correct software. How would you know the shell itself, running on the machine you're trying to verify, isn't
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Because then you need to secure the computer used to access the website. Good luck with that.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> Is it much different from Hacker News deciding what sort of content is appropriate for this forum? Bad example, because one goes to HN specifically for curated content. > Would you be opposed to an airbnb clone that only rented to w
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Read my link ( https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli... ) - their democracy has failed. I find it hard to blame Americans for all the misinformation their media and politicians feed them.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Abiding by one's own moral standards is different from enforcing them on others. Of course things get blurry in common-carrier-like cases such as marketplaces, ISPs, postal services, etc.
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But it's never enough.
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The piece is also full of guilt for American foreign policy that's mainly decided by special interests, but then gets blamed on ordinary Americans. Aren't they lucky - first they get their democracy subverted by multinational corp
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> lack a shred of gratitude for the vast wealth, comfort and freedom they've been born into. That's 'privilege', and is something to feel guilty about. It's not something to be grateful to your ancestors for prov
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> that's not how evidence works It kind of is. He provided evidence for his claims (not your misrepresentation of them), and you get to provide counter-evidence. > the argument was that his coworkers were biologically inferior fo
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> the fact that these two groups are so over-represented implies that... Jews and Asians tend towards smarter rather than dumber, But when white people are over-represented, it implies privilege and racism, never intelligence.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> not a [...] statement of fact. He cites quite a few sources under the "Personality differences" section. Care to refute them? For your convenience, here is the memo in its entirety, links to sources included: https:/&#x
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
The parties take turns, advocating for ordinary people when they're the opposition, and serving special interests when they're in power. If only one could still vote for the people that broke up Bell.
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
Watch this be used selectively to prevent the public from finding out how capital flows and which politicians it buys. Publish the name of the owner of the company who built the bridge that collapsed due to cost-cutting? Now now, he didn&#x
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> Capitalism attempts to distribute the wealth produced by the nation according to the value each individual (and that individual's property) contributes to the economy. Where are you getting this from? I am aware of no such attempt
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
> Is the public shown only false news? There is no need for false news to shape opinion. Think of one's picture of reality as a point-cloud, each point one news report. By choosing which news they promote, and which they bury, the m
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by DarkKomunalec 9y ago
They should rewrite it in Rust.

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