SenAnder

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by SenAnder 3y ago
> This tough lesson was taught by AFA Sweden, a group of Stockholm-based anti-fascists, who ruined thousands of the site customers' holidays by releasing Midgård’s customer register. The article omits it, but AFA Sweden has a very v
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> The government isn’t some nefarious entity that acts on its own volition, it is US Unless you are not, in this case, Canadian. In any case, despite your attempt to paint it as malicious, the distinction is very relevant when reporting
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by SenAnder 3y ago
The universities were just being consistent - calls for genocide were supported before, and sure didn't result in congressional hearings, so why should it be different now? Professor behind 'white genocide' tweet says he has
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Some say it would be more democratic to simply leave unpopular content online, and let it naturally wither by virtue of being unpopular. But what if the people choose wrong ? That is when the guiding hand of brands and advertisers must int
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> At some point, I realized that I wasn't using the right arguments either. Explaining that the software will be 'more stable' or 'make maintenance much easier' is not palpable for someone who doesn't work i
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Europe may be small, yet there are measurable genetic differences between its peoples: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2735096/ Looking at a larger, but still relatively closely connected region,
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by SenAnder 3y ago
The accelerating rate of species going extinct doesn't look like "opposite" to me.
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by SenAnder 3y ago
How is wake-on-LAN patentable? It's literally just "send signal to device that flips a switch". Can each application of basic remote-control be considered a new "invention"? These patents aren't about overcomin
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> It's solving a problem that few care about. Security?
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by SenAnder 3y ago
This is getting to be a lot like "no sane peasant should farm the feudal lords land"
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> That smells more like money laundering or fraud. Does Apple get to decide this, and just keep the money, without involving any court of law? Someone mentioned anti-money laundering laws and secrecy, but can that manifest as losing your
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Notably, "justification" is an affirmative defense (they don't have to prove you were unjustified - you have to prove you were justified. Guilty until proven innocent, in other words), and in practice must meet a very high ba
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Let me be more precise then: he shows little concern for free speech outside a legalistic understanding. From https://popehat.substack.com/p/my-free-speech-means-you-have... People who are sincerely concerned about
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Public sphere as in the places and platforms hosting most public conversations these days. I am aware they are privately owned.
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> If you’re an economic loser as a result, that is not a failure of free speech This neatly avoids the question of whether we should want advertisers and multi-billion dollar corporations to be gatekeepers of the public sphere. As usual,
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by SenAnder 3y ago
It should be noted that even if there is a non-discriminatory explanation, it is still illegal under the disparate impact legal theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Musk's incoherent stance aside, the author is afaik a lawyer, and has a habit of conflating the ideal of free speech, with the 1st amendment. Placing advertisers and billion-dollar corporations as arbiters of what may enter the public
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> No one is shaming developing countries for burning coal I deliberately said "much", not "all". You want them to completely ignore the developing world, that, unlike during the industrial revolution, has wind and sol
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Much of environmentalism is aimed at developed, mostly white countries. You frame it as whites lecturing others, but much of it is whites lecturing other whites. Any tortured logic will do, so long as it finds the right culprit.
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> They must be happy they managed to get a ‘white man bad’ comment in there. They also dedicated a whole article to complaining that it's whites doing the most for environmental movements. Their conclusion is always the same, no m
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by SenAnder 3y ago
I assume he would support his claims with server logs and such.
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by SenAnder 3y ago
The most relevant figures would be homicide rate by perpetrator country of origin. Allegedly, 85% of shooting suspects are 1st or 2nd generation immigrants [0]. But reliable figures are hard to come by, partly because if scientists, even
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> look for problematic tweets and then look at what ads run next to it. But this wouldn't answer the question at all, would it? It's like surveying only murderers to determine how many people commit murder - the only answer you
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Related submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38330040 The gist of Musk's complaint seems to be extreme cherrypicking by Media Matters. In his words: "Of the 5.5 billion ad impressions on X that day, le
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Are you referring to their Affero GPL relicensing? That only makes it impractical to deploy versions with proprietary alterations, no?
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by SenAnder 3y ago
According to Musk, apparently citing Twitter logs, Media Matters presented an extremely skewed story: "Of the 5.5 billion ad impressions on X that day, less than 50 total ad impressions were served against all of the organic content
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> Many of those "progressive" academics put politics above truth. Such a claim needs a citation. So here it is: 157 university [institutional review boards] provided reviews of 9 hypothetical proposals that were identical in t
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by SenAnder 3y ago
I wouldn't consider multinational corporations defrauding me into thinking I'm dealing with my fellow countrymen as positive. In fact, it's literally the plot of the movie They Live. Imagine if Chinese companies masqueraded a
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Limiting yourself to voting with your wallet/feet, while corporations use every trick in the book, is like trying to win at chess using only pawns.
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by SenAnder 3y ago
I understand your objection to my other recent posts, but what is the issue with this one? It has a few rhetorical flourishes, but it doesn't seem like ideological battle to me. But maybe I'm missing something - while it didn&#x27

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