Notorious_BLT

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by Notorious_BLT 6y ago
By the same argument, Google could exclude a political candidate from their search results entirely, or bolster a fabricated news story claiming the candidate was a child-molsting satanist to the top of their results. Would you also conside
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by Notorious_BLT 6y ago
So just to be clear, are you arguing that rules shouldn't be clearly laid out, because then people would be able to follow them?
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
I'll tell you what I do really need: one pack of toilet paper, because I just happened to be running out of my last Costco pack right now. Trying to make whats left last. Maybe now is the time to buy a bidet add-on seat.
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
Logic would dictate that that would continue to be true, since the cost of flying from China is unlikely to get drastically cheaper. So I'm not sure what you're getting at.
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
The United States has already been handling the few cases it has pretty aggressively, and following up with anyone who might have come into contact with each person. This feels like you're just jumping on the opportunity to say "U
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
I wish that we're still viable, and I want to return to that world, but it's pretty much impossible to compete with the reach a major platform gives today. It's possible that a publisher/platform legal split would do eno
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
Oh I'll definitely agree I'm oversimplifying it, and there's room for improvement. But I think the core issue remains: if they are allowed to control discourse by choosing who can speak and who cannot, then they must be held
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
So you're saying that Social media sites have more power than the elected government of a country, and you're arguing that's a a GOOD thing? Or am I misinterpreting that?
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
I believe this proposal would more or less be the DEFAULT were it not for Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Section 230 has had both good results (bloggers aren't going to get in trouble because someone posted some
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
The solution to this seems pretty straightforward: force social media companies to choose to identify as a "platform" or a "publisher", rather than a mix of the two that gets to claim the most convenient aspects of both.
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
His words were - "Looking at what happened last night, looking at all of the data that we've got, it was an extraordinary night and we are absolutely victorious coming into New Hampshire." That's not lying about turnout
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
The man gave a victory speech with no results in that show him winning. This, along with the delay in announcing the results, is all an effort to influence the outcomes of the upcoming primaries by showing false "momentum" in Iowa
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
When I bought a home, I got a wave of homeowner spam mail with "postage-paid" envelopes. I started mailing them their own mail back, torn to shreds, in their prepaid envelope, and eventually it stopped.
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
Every time I start thinking about ads being made illegal, I think about the small businesses who don't already have their brand established. Banning advertising entirely would crush many entrpreneurs for whom advertising is the only re
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
I work for a consulting company and any time we work alongside offshore developers (hired by the client to do parts of the work) its a nightmare. Maybe its just the clients being too price-sensitive and not knowing how to oversee offshore d
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
Godwin's law is very clearly dead, have you seen the state of discourse in the US? "Nazi" is thrown around so liberally it has lost all meaning.
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
Then the junior developers never get the benefit/mentorship of the best senior developers, instead they get mentored by the senior devs with poor productivity. That seems like a recipe for more unproductive developers
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
I believe that's meant to be part of the meaning of one of the statements in this page: >Governments at all levels—federal, state, and local—should have access to the best technology
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
I can think of several reasons that homeless activism groups would suggest as reasons to use gift cards instead of cash. Most of them are pretty evident if you consider what kinds of goods are only available through cash-only purchases.
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
As a user of several of those services, that sounds awful.
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
That's a city planning problem, though. Designated small-vehicle parking that isn't explicitly for bikes seems like a good idea to have. No reason bike storage should be bike-exclusive
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
I know all jobs are jobs, and all work is work, and I have no plans to bail on my software job for another field. But like you mention, the tangible, physical, lasting product of your efforts is an attractive concept. That's probably t
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
Is it common for knowledge workers to fantasize about more labor intensive work from time to time? Because I definitely found myself relating to that sentiment. Usually my mind goes to construction or carpentry in those moments. My favorite
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
Just to add on my own experiences, Since starting to collect toys and also make my own, I've been entirely unable to find a better community for both of these than /toy/. Every other community is brimming with an endless barr
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
I would argue that the city should solve for this, because bikes and other small personal transport devices SHOULD have more designated secure parking. One person could park their car, or 15 people could park their scooters and bikes. In ci
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
I wish the metric system didn't have shortcomings in the medium units, though. There's no (commonly used) parallel to feet in metric. Centimeters are too small for the kind of estimations feet are useful for. That's really th
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
1. PiHole (seems popular in this thread) 2. OctoPrint for my printer (with a touchscreen because I hate using the knob-based interface on the printer when I'm leveling the bed or doing maintenance) 3. Sitting on my desk because my Terr
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
This isn't "killing" anyone, the car simply pulled off onto a small piece of paved ground adjacent the main road instead of at the intended exit. Despite the fact that the title does its best to make you THINK the car just dr
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
If YouTube wants to be treated like a TV station who can choose what to air, then they need to stop receiving the benefits of section 230. If they are allowed to choose what content is allowed and what is not, then they must be held directl
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by Notorious_BLT 7y ago
If you're sent to prison if you continue to not pay taxes, then yes, the system is still using force.

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