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by Udik 6y ago
BTW, throwing this out here. I guess many republicans are pretty outraged at the moment with Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. Those companies feel safe because a democrat won the elections and they don't have to be afraid of reprisals.
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> How we felt about what Trump said has become just as important as what Trump actually said. This free interpretation of words uses a new (repurposed) trendy term too: "dog whistle". Suddenly you are free to interpret anything
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BTW, where is that Press Release? Can't find it on the Twilio website.
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How is it different from having a private key + mnemonic phrase split between three persons? Once you have your private key stolen, you can recover your mnemonic phrase and transfer your funds to another wallet. Of course, this needs to hap
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> Because Twilio was no longer authenticating emails. Can someone explain what does this mean?
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Twitter spokesman Thrusday evening: "This Tweet is not in violation of our policies". Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/twitter-says-it-...
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Twitter spokesman on the same tweet Thursday 7: "This Tweet is not in violation of our policies", after being asked about it by an Ars Technica journalist. Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021&#x2F
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But of course they won't police everything, just what doesn't put them in trouble if they do so. Good luck with deleting a tweet from Netanyahu praising how ethical is the Israeli army.
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How did the tweet violate the TOS exactly?
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Oh well, for that he would have needed a mob of at least several millions. If that's what he really hoped for, he was off by at least four orders of magnitude.
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"Zionist regime" is not an anti-semitic "dogwhistle" (trendy term used to assign words whatever meaning you like, disregarding the literal one). It's a derogatory appellative for a country. Zionism is a political id
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How are Khamenei's tweets any different from those of US politicians against Iran or other "enemy" nations? Should we apply the same standard to US politicians who have tweeted threats to Iran or supported actions aimed to th
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Oh well, there's hundreds of tweets by US politicians threatening violence against other nations (Iran or N.Korea or Syria). That's what nations do, right?
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> Do the plotters use illegal and unconstitutional methods to seize executive power? I have no clue why the author checks this. The rioters entered a building (which is by the way the seat of the legislative power) and that's it. Ev
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This is a good analysis of why it was not a coup: https://theconversation.com/was-it-a-coup-no-but-siege-on-us... In short, a coup is an organised action to seize power. For that, it's essential to have secured the sup
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Except for the ADL, essentially a pro-Israel lobbying group, marked as "reliable".
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Vaping combined with smoking is likely as harmful as smoking cigarettes alone(sciencedaily.com)
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What you call "enemy" is, in this case, simply a fully independent nation. That is, one free to have goals and strategies that put its interest first. What you call "allies" are subordinate nations, free to pursue their
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I thought the lesson after the last crash was that bitcoin was valued at 10x what it was worth at the beginning of the rally. It lost 50% from the peak. And the price at the beginning of the rally was already insane: I mean, $1k for a rando
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This is a conspiracy theory, you know? Who would these mysterious owners of society be? Are they spreading conspiracy theories themselves maybe, for personal benefit?
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I thought about that sometimes. It's funny how the size and cost (and size of the crew) of an aircraft carrier can work as a deterrent from sinking it. As in "this weapon is so expensive that, even if you can destroy it, you&#x2
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While paranoid conspiratorial thinking does definitely exist, accusing others of conspiratorial thinking is a very handy way to dismiss other points of view. And as you rightly point out, what you consider to be a conspiracy theory depends
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And I thought that our failing to address climate change in time was due to a conspiracy by greedy oil companies. How foolish.
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I hope you're being sarcastic.
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Yes, just go to the interview wearing a wig and a skirt. Then on your first day you can wear your normal stuff, and if anyone says anything, you can just say you transitioned, and you really hope there won't be any discrimination aga
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And 3 days later, on the 23rd, they put the entire region of Wuhan, 60 million people, under the strictest lockdown seen anywhere. This is 30 days after the very first sample was sent to a laboratory for a suspect case of pneumonia, and 23
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> Tesla is being valued based on its potential future This is what I don't get. Tesla's potential (but unlikely) future is that of replacing some of its competitors. And yet it's valued more than all its current competit
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I agree, but then let's stop pretending that there's an underlying value which the price of Tesla shares reflect. If Tesla is like Bitcoin, then it's an asset with no intrinsic value except for its rarity. And the only reason
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Now that I think about it, "what you see in movies is a silly exaggeration" vs "that's a perfectly plausible depiction of reality" could be one of the deep cultural differences between Europe and the US. Maybe becau
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> This is literally the exact scenario pro-gun people argue you need a gun for. Yes, and they're wrong. That's exactly the stupidity I was talking about. This "shoot first, ask questions later", and more deeply, the f

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