DenisM

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by DenisM 6y ago
Well that’s just awful. Changing the name is the only thing he could realistically do. Clearing the history is dicey - internet doesn’t easily forget even when the NYT does. I believe it’s the NYT responsibility to not just report facts but
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by DenisM 6y ago
This makes sense. I would even take it further and make it a law that if there is an online article about you, then you must be given a chance to attach your side of the story right at the last line, and if material developments have occurr
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by DenisM 6y ago
The government has more guns than your garden variety rich guy.
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A possible explanation is that when you are “watching tv” you’re not obligated to do anything else, hence you loosen up and stop thinking about those other things. A safe space of sorts.
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Why not dual boot Windows or Linux? VMs work fine too, been using them for a decade now.
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It seems that influence of a link is comprised of their awareness of the cliques discourse and reputation among the clique members. The algorithm on the other hand seems to latch on to traffic. There is a room for a wedge here. Perhaps the
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How about betting? That would be fun.
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That difference might not be observable from the outside at all. How do you separate "good old incompetence" from "malicious withdrawal to allow the coup and seize power" from "malicious withdrawal to allow the coup
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> he government never takes people's grievances seriously until there's a "real" threat of extremists getting off the porch I haven't noticed any gay-marriage terrorists on their porches, and yet here we are. Wom
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Every nation needs something that unites it, a sense of identity and purpose. The French, for example, were united by the King and the Church, until they were not. After the revolution they became very united by their nationalism, in the or
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by DenisM 6y ago
> Gee, I wonder what the difference is between this and Apple banning an app on their own store? Truly, it is a stupefying mystery. Don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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[...] in the words of the Supreme Court - where there is time for better counsels to prevail, the remedy for speech is more speech. [...] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55640437 This is the American way. Euro
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> haven't actually been able to form a leftist worldview free of economic liberalism Very good point! I did not think of this at all. Perhaps the collapse of the Soviet Union discredited the planned economy as means of social equali
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Likewise UBI has both a left-wing and a right-wing appeal. I think MFA is not entirely antithetical to the right ideology and could be over time incorporated - it improves labor mobility which is in line with core right values (freedom of a
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by DenisM 6y ago
Sometime during the last year the usually heavily statist left became heavily corporatist. I'm not sure what to make of it.
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Thanks for replying. Your perspective looks entirely alien to me, but I respect it and appreciate the opportunity to understand. If I may use an analogy. Suppose four major airlines refused to carry one political group. Your logic then woul
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I feel like you're ignoring the competition aspect of it. If one party finds it 100 times easier to spread their message than the other the latter would not be heard even if their message is twice as appealing. If both parties found it
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by DenisM 6y ago
> Is the author seriously arguing that it was easier to distribute information in the late 1700s and early 1800s than it is now if you're off of the internet No. He is arguing that 200 years ago distribution was about equally hard
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So what is your proposal? A blanket ban on all social media as a public health hazard? I'm on board with that. Maybe just add them to the Schedule 2 drug list?
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Girondists? Aristocracy?! No way. There were many royalists in France, but none in the National Assembly. The Girondists were considered right only because Jacobins were super left and ended up killing thousands of priests, what few nobles
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Historical times!
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This is not hard to square. If you believe in free markets as the most efficient mode of production and the most liberal way of life you will be against anything that undermines the freedom of the markets, be it private monopolization or go
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It’s not unusual to see a newcomer decrying HN as hypocritical, where in reality it’s just not a uniform group but many different people with different opinions becoming prominent at different times. Many accusations of hypocrisy boil down
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The term “right” comes from the delegates seating in the French National Assembly during the revolution. Both the Left (Jacobins) and the Right (Girondists) voted together to behead the King and dispense with all noble priveledges and title
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I would think it should be covered by the same doctrine. Just as an exercise. Suppose a private club is where all members are know to the owner and all associate members are know to a member. A public square is a place where people can stum
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by DenisM 6y ago
That might be the wrong way to go about it, but I sympathize with the sentiment. If you pretend to be a public square you must act like a public square. As it happens the US Supreme Court is also sympathetic - https://en.m.wikipe
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A national security concern would have been easier dealt with by coercing parler directly rather than going to the trouble of coercing each vendor individually. It makes no sense.
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Lawyers routinely represent the worst of our society. That includes literal baby killers, tobacco companies, companies that have catastrophic environmental impact or even mass poisoning. The idea that lawyers spontaneously decided to quit r
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Legal counsel is not essential?
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Why would law enforcement care at this point? That’s a lot of trouble to go through, and likely illegal for them. But the precise timing is suspicious. I dunno.

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