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by ForrestN 9y ago
Thiel persecuted the publication (Gawker) that outed him to an incredibly disproportionate degree, hatching an elaborate scheme to destroy them. As a gay person who absolutely loves being gay, it is my opinion that Thiel is... not exactly u
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It completely depends if you are white or not. If you are white, and speak politely, the agent will care deeply about your concerns, including potential firing as an example. If you are not white, and especially if you appear black, Latino
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While you may find it creaking, myself and many other people find the experience of using Apple software far better than any competing systems. I wouldn't work somewhere that asked me to use Windows. For me, and maybe I'm overly a
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by ForrestN 9y ago
For almost all consumers who have never owned super fancy headphones the sound quality is great.
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by ForrestN 9y ago
Mine have never fallen out, even when running or jumping or leaning over. Do apple's wired earbuds fall out of your ears? Seems like this varies by body.
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On Call at Any Size(increment.com)
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by ForrestN 10y ago
Sincere question: how did you find such professions credible given how frequently and baldly Trump lied about basically everything? In other words, how can anyone be surprised by this or any other lie he tells?
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by ForrestN 10y ago
TLDR: please read every word, because this work is that brilliant and that important.
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by ForrestN 10y ago
I'm not sure that's good math, if I understand you correctly. Because a person can be a MAU of many sites, adding up the MAU counts of various websites doesn't tell you anything about whether or not publishers are exaggeratin
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by ForrestN 10y ago
If you work for Google, push back on this in whatever way you can. Especially now that the government is putting a fox in every regulatory hen house, developers need to hold their employers to basic standards. Connecting visibility in listi
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by ForrestN 10y ago
It's sad that sweatshop owners have to go to such lengths to avoid busybody government officials from interfering in peaceful commercial transactions with children. The people of the United States should fire these officials. Not only
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by ForrestN 10y ago
Nancy Pelosi is right: "... the Attorney General must resign. Sessions is not fit to serve as the top law enforcement officer of our country and must resign. There must be an independent, bipartisan, outside commission to investigate t
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by ForrestN 10y ago
This is simply not accurate. The ACA is a deep, deep compromise compared to what liberals wanted, and was in fact largely modeled on the Republican plan crafted by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts. If Obama had crafted Obamacare without any reg
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by ForrestN 10y ago
Obama tried to convince congressional Republicans to do an infrastructure bill for all eight years of his presidency. Republicans refused to even try to find common ground. Obama talked about it a lot, too, during both of his campaigns.
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There certainly is a kind of mutually entrenching equilibrium between the major political parties and media conglomerates. There are certainly structural factors in terms of how our political and media systems work that arguably disfavored
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Not at all. You're describing a real problem, but it is in no way a conspiracy, in no way is it new, and in now way is it uniquely related to Hillary Clinton. The media has a problem with "horserace" coverage, which is the su
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by ForrestN 10y ago
Again, I'm responding to this statement: "the corporate media [...] colluded to stop a once in a lifetime opportunity in Bernie Sanders to help their friend and collaborator Hillary Clinton, and so we ended up with Donald Trump.&q
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by ForrestN 10y ago
What? From the summary of your link: "Why was Clinton’s coverage substantially more negative than Sanders’, and why did Sanders get so much less coverage than she did?" Did I ever claim the media wasn't biased? Of course the
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by ForrestN 10y ago
Second. The writer and the others should sue, not only to be compensated for their own injuries but to protect others who might be harassed as well.
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by ForrestN 10y ago
Sure—and I'm not excusing Brazile or the DNC. But that wasn't the parent's point. Longtime establishment Democrat operatives acting on behalf of a longtime establishment Democrat against a non-Democrat who was constantly talk
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by ForrestN 10y ago
I would love to see a source. I can't seem to find anything that reflects this. Campaigns reach out to journalists constantly, every day, to try and influence their thinking. That's called discourse, and I'd hate to imagine w
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by ForrestN 10y ago
Those very narrow allegations about one incident within the DNC are not the same as the entire corporate media colluding in Clinton's favor. I'm not happy about what the DNC did but it's not clear that swayed the outcome from
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by ForrestN 10y ago
What is your evidence that they colluded? I agree that the media in general (at all levels, not just the corporate media) disastrously failed us during the election. But I don't think anyone has proven that they "colluded to stop
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by ForrestN 10y ago
I recently saw a very astute analogy between Facebook and cigarette companies. I suspect that in some years there will be testimony about what Facebook knew, and when, with respect to the addictiveness of its product and its links to mental
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I agree with you. This post, and the comments on it, felt incredibly creepy and inauthentic. So much self-congratulations about transparency and happiness while clearly obfuscating something very simple: the two that left wanted to grow rea
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Yes, that sounds much more useful to the world than, you know, not partnering with people that are happy to harm it.
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by ForrestN 10y ago
It's funny you say this—the first thing I did, even before reading the article, was search for "Thiel." It's going to be hard for me to take this sort of thing seriously, this telegraphing of benevolence which is so cent
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by ForrestN 10y ago
This is a bit odd considering that Musk knows that even a substantial minority of self-driving cars on the road would dramatically reduce traffic. Does he think we can deploy tunnels in every city before we can get to, say 25% self driving
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No. Any reasonable analysis comparing the two presidents shows immediately that Trump is in a whole other league. I'm not saying Obama was perfect, but he was most often misleading. Trump is saying the sky isn't blue, over and ove
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by ForrestN 10y ago
No. The new administration is systematically undermining the norms that held up our strong democracy, on purpose. Any student of history recognizes moves like lying about crowd sizes, delegitimizing peaceful protests, and undermining the pr

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