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by Nacdor 6y ago
Good point, I had forgotten that Rob of Errata Security was given an email to verify and it was proven to be legitimate: > So as I blogged before, the emails contained DKIM information, which the original reporters could and should have
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by Nacdor 6y ago
His point all along was "The laptop isn't a big deal, the censorship is". I don't know the details regarding Hunter Biden's business dealings or his laptop (although I've heard there is at least one ongoing inv
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by Nacdor 6y ago
Hard to confirm at the moment with Parler gone, but all the stories I've found seem to indicate he was mostly active on Twitter. I think a more interesting (and neutral) approach for Greenwald to take would be to show that all of these
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by Nacdor 6y ago
The story does confirm he wasn't there though, not sure if he had been released by then: > Tarrio does not appear to have been present during the insurrection.
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by Nacdor 6y ago
Glenn Greenwald has been investigating the planning of the Capitol protests and says "it was largely done on Facebook". So far he hasn't been able to identify a single person who was arrested and active on Parler: > Do you
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by Nacdor 6y ago
Is it better that they looted and burned local businesses rather than confronting the politicians who were the architects of their oppression?
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by Nacdor 6y ago
I'm curious why so many Democrats were allowed to encourage the BLM riots (more than 25 dead, $2 billion in property damage) without so much as a peep from Google, Twitter, Facebook or any other tech giant. Kamala Harris said "the
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by Nacdor 6y ago
This is a pretty vague announcement. What counts as "misinformation" or a "false claim" and who makes that decision? Will YouTube be contacting primary sources to verify all claims made in videos? Will they be relying on
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by Nacdor 6y ago
> Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine Live Nation is worth $16 Billion. This is like a person with a $100k net worth having to pay a $62 fine, basically an expensive parking ticket. They might as well tell them to
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by Nacdor 6y ago
> Life-changing technology “discovered”: Air Fryer They're just tiny convection ovens with a gimmicky name.
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by Nacdor 6y ago
> if I watch something on one subject it seems to assume the subject is now the love of my life and proceeds to offer a zillion on just that subject. There was a distinct point in time a couple years ago where this started to happen. Bef
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by Nacdor 6y ago
It's depressing to read this quote and then realize it was delivered in 1922, meaning our media has been suffering from this problem of extreme political bias for likely more than a century now. A lot of my friends spend all day "
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by Nacdor 6y ago
> I noticed a substantial improvement in my health when I started putting HEPA air filters all over my house, and another jump when I moved away from a major road. Same for me when I moved out of a stuffy old high-rise in Philadelphia. I
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by Nacdor 6y ago
I see pihole recommended constantly as a way to block ads. > I understand DNS a lot better than pihole Unless the mods did a survey this doesn't justify the title change. It's just as likely that more people are familiar with p
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by Nacdor 6y ago
Why did the HN mods arbitrarily change the title of this article? It's not the correct title and it's harder for the uninformed user to understand. If you told me about hard-coded DNS settings I would say "Ok, what does that
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by Nacdor 6y ago
> Those ethics were created from within a theistic worldview Animals behave ethically/morally and they have no religion. It's possible that ethics were first written within a theistic context but that has no bearing on how th
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by Nacdor 6y ago
It's really sad that philosophy isn't a core part of the US curriculum and I can't figure out why that's the case. We were required to read plenty of novels that attempt to be philosophical, but analyzing them was always
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by Nacdor 6y ago
Same, for all those reasons and more. I hate Facebook discussions along with any other site that uses this nested comment + magical sorting algorithm format (e.g. Reddit, Hacker News). It's impossible to have a lengthy discussion about
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The Censored: Ford Fischer(taibbi.substack.com)
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by Nacdor 6y ago
It's the 2-year, $35 million investigation that didn't indict a single person for colluding with Russia to influence the election: https://theintercept.com/2019/04/18/robert-mueller-did-not-m... &gt
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by Nacdor 6y ago
Was that before or after this: > My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly
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by Nacdor 6y ago
It's pretty hilarious that you picked the Trump Tower meeting as one of the most incriminating parts of the Mueller report: > The centerpiece of the Trump/Russia conspiracy – the Trump Tower meeting – was such a dud that Jared
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by Nacdor 6y ago
Facebook and Reddit are not publishers of news so that comparison makes no sense.
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by Nacdor 6y ago
I think one of the root causes of this is the increasingly partisan behavior of the "mainstream" media. People are sick of having their opinions dictated to them, they're sick of media outlets that all push the same narrative
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by Nacdor 6y ago
> When Microsoft and Apple were founded. > As those examples suggest, a recession may not be such a bad time to start a startup. I don't see how they suggest that at all. The fact that a couple tech unicorns managed to survive du
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by Nacdor 6y ago
> violent and authoritarian points of view I don't follow politics too closely, but I keep hearing Trump is the first president who started no new wars. He also supposedly brokered numerous peace deals and had 4 Nobel Peace Prize no
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by Nacdor 6y ago
The most shocking part of this whole fiasco is the way The Intercept's editors blatantly play favorites, allowing disinformation that helps Biden while censoring a legitimate story that hurts him: > 4) Finally, I have to note what I
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by Nacdor 6y ago
> He has stuck by his claim -- despite the findings of numerous national and international intelligence community investigations and even a Republican senate investigations -- that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election. I think y
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by Nacdor 6y ago
> I don't think it's fair to say it was the correct choice. It's absolutely fair and the Mueller Report proved Greenwald was right all along: https://theintercept.com/2019/04/18/robert-muelle
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by Nacdor 6y ago
> "If we had confidence the President did not commit a crime, we would have said so." Expecting them to prove a negative in a conspiracy case is laughably absurd. Mueller said that there was not only insufficient evidence for a

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