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by GW150914 8y ago
To me this circus around this particular assassination just appears to stem from having to justify sanctions against Russia by the UK. I’m not going to touch the majority of the bait you’re laying out and instead merely note that the “cir
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by GW150914 8y ago
I forget the word, but there is a Russian word that sums this up. It’s about saying things thst are over-the-top to accentuate reality. In the same way that Stephen Colbert pretended to be a kind of hyper-Bill O’Reilly as a way of pointing
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by GW150914 8y ago
It’s one of these classic situations that reveal the nature of a corporation as being distinct from an individual. An individual might follow the thinking you’ve outlined, but’s corporation comprised of endless layers of competing managemen
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by GW150914 8y ago
Ok, well, Twitter harassment is not illegal. The link you point to only mentions physical harassment (e.g. followig someone, making them reasonably feel unsafe, assaulting them). Harassing speech (and hate speech) is legal (in the US). In
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by GW150914 8y ago
Harassment is not illegal. That’s simply not true. https://definitions.uslegal.com/h/harassment/
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by GW150914 8y ago
All of these self-styled platforms have already taken editorial actions under the guise of enforcing their TOS, it’s called moderation. Unless what you’re sending is illegal, the post office doesn’t get to pick and choose what it sends; Twi
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by GW150914 8y ago
If you replace the word “coffee” with “drink”, “cigarette”, or “heroin” it’s pretty easy to understand where they’re coming from. Addicts are pretty miserable until they get their first fix of the day, and although I’m not comparing the sev
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by GW150914 8y ago
Jim Sterling went into this a few times, likening TT to a magician with one really exquisite trick. The problem as you put it and he explained, is overexposure shatters the illusion. Instead of trying to invent new tricks, or at least new w
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by GW150914 8y ago
In the Battle Royals space the place is littered with the corpses of devs and publishers who kept on the fad. PUBG got there first, and then FortNite leapfrogged them, and to be blunt all of other attempts are names with little or no recogn
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by GW150914 8y ago
So it’s somewhere between double and triple the award considering costs. That’s huge and if your point isn't purely pedantic then I’m missing it.
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by GW150914 8y ago
Some things are cliche because they’re so often repeated, and sometimes they’re repeated so often because they’re often apt. Are we really not allowed to call a spade a spade? I can understand that just saying, “whataboutism” and nothing mo
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by GW150914 8y ago
I like to remind people of shit like this when they claim that the United States government is an "oppressive" presence on the Internet. Not “uniquely evil.” I think if he’d said what you’re shifting the goalposts to, it would h
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by GW150914 8y ago
The question is are they here to stay like Microsoft, or Oracle?
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by GW150914 8y ago
The spinal cord in this case is injured, but not severed.
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by GW150914 8y ago
True, but in the context of a pilot program to target native species elsewhere. In short it wouldn’t meet that criteria, because the Asian Tiger mosquito is a recent invader. In the narrow case of targeting recent (decades rather than cen
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by GW150914 8y ago
It’s disturbing to realize that people here baying form this to be rolled out seemingly know very little about the topic. Mosquitoes aren’t just food for other insects, and bats, and birds, they’re also pollinators. In the context of how ma
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by GW150914 8y ago
The obvious and rational response to what you’re saying is that the US government is an oppressive force on the internet (and elsewhere), just not as much as China, which is the most oppressive except for North Korea. Then I’d ask if being
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by GW150914 8y ago
This is already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18058885
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by GW150914 8y ago
I would say that ITER has no potential to really point the way for fusion energy, it’s an international boondoggle born of Cold War/Post Cold War nuclear politics. As a vehicle for real science and engineering it’s bollocks. The real,
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by GW150914 8y ago
Essentially they’re talking about using electrical stimulation to restore function in people with complete paralysis of the legs due to injury of the spinal cord in the lower back (lumbar region). In particular they’re focused on injury to
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by GW150914 8y ago
Furthermore, a lack of evidence for gods does not mean that scientifically there are no gods. True, but it implies the need for skepticism, especially given how many people have desperately attempted to find said evidence. Depending on yo
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by GW150914 8y ago
As far as I know (which isn’t perfect knowledge by any means) MS has had a hardware division since 1982, it’s just that it was never their focus. IIRC Bill Gates famously didn’t want to become a major hardware vendor, but wanted to focus on
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by GW150914 8y ago
Google bullies hardware vendors, Apple is its own hardware vendor. That is the essential difference. If MS had done their thing only with hardware they made and sold, instead of twisting the arms of third parties they’d have been OK. There
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by GW150914 8y ago
Pewdiepie has the #1 spot on fairtrending and is no where on Youtube's trending. Ellen Degeneres and Jimmy Falon are you Youtube trending but nowhere on fairtrending. "Elitist corperate control over mass media is great because I
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by GW150914 8y ago
I have to ask, how much time have you spent outside of the US?
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by GW150914 8y ago
I had a border collie years ago, and I can’t agree enough. If he didn’t get the chance to run and play and work every day, he’d get really anxious. You could tell when he neeed more stimulation because he’d sit on his bed and suck on some s
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by GW150914 8y ago
Now, and always. It’s not like bear baiting and midget shows were ever popular because the average person has refined tastes.
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by GW150914 8y ago
What I hate about the algorithm is that I feel it’s constantly nudging me towards “that” youtube. It feels like someone pulling on your sleeve and saying, “You know how you watched five minutes of the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer? Maybe you’d lik
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by GW150914 8y ago
I’m sure people at FaceBook said the same smug things until they crossed a line they never saw coming, and now it’s all congressional hearings and “heartfelt” apologies. It’s true, you can dick a lot of people over for a long time, but you’
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by GW150914 8y ago
Too evil, so invert it instead. If you look at the right part you’re rewarded, and if you don’t the reward is withheld. Now people will fight for the right to stick their heads into the Skinner Box, even though the same reinforcement tricks

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