WindyLakeReturn

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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
>Pretty much anyone with any intelligence can determine this This seems to be another way of saying 'if you don't agree with this view, you are likely stupid'. That's not a great opening, and in general if one finds
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
>You could reverse that no? One thing that continues to bother me is that on almost any political issue (or even non-political issue) where people point out a double standard, you can easily reverse it and get a reciprocal double standar
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
You may want to reread the comment I was responding to. I quote it again. >The western liberal value of free speech has never extended to incitement of violence. Never implies going back in time. I was pointing out the historical opini
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
Well for starters, realizing it isn't just a lone political assassin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden... Second, if you look at only those with the intention to kill or gravely wound,
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
Given that the attempted assassination of congress members at a base/softball game was not a good place to start, I don't see how one could justify starting at the invasion of a federal building except in considering the teams inv
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
And previously a few bad actors attempted to assassinate a number of GOP representatives, yet we didn't see a comparable reaction. I also seem to recall there were people staging faked but realistic looking beheadings of Trump which wa
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
>I'm distressed and saddened at how many of the free speech proponents on HN are treating the events of January 6 as if it was just another protest and not an existential threat to the republic. Could you present an explanation for
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
>which might mean needing to revoke a bunch of passwords That doesn't help much because many people use patterns to their passwords and use the same passwords elsewhere. Seeing the expired passwords of many important people would h
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
Turns out that isn't exactly the case. While Nazis were thrown into Soviet concertation camps, it didn't stop there and did not turn out 'kind of fine' for many innocent people who later shared a similar fate. >A stu
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
> that ultimately led to This seems a very dangerous line of reasoning. For example, I wonder how many violent crimes alcohol ultimately led to. How many violent crimes Facebook ultimately led to. How many violent crimes encryption ult
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
I wonder how many of the current group is armed compared to past incidents were rubber bullets were used. Is it possible that there is a concern that escalating force may result in an increase in violent response? Is it like a smaller ver
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
If our society decides it is necessary to act with the full weight of the law behind it, then it would seem better to have the information available for the public to verify than not. I'm not saying it is all great, but that it is far
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
Isn't that a bit like asking what if the parent is given 10 weeks off and then has another kid. Do they get another 10 weeks off or is it unfair that they get 20 while the person having a single kid gets 10? There is also not a need t
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
>It's hard to see how far some companies are willing to go for parents today, when I see how little we do for others. I think much of my own negative emotion about unequal treatment in many sectors of life, not just child care, stem
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
>This is true, but it's not the entire truth either. Most congressmen don't have access to the really sensitive intelligence that comes from these surveillance operations, so it can't be that useful to many of them. Pretty
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
>Reddit, at one point, was just science, memes, an occasional atheist post, and and A list Celebrity AMA every other day - a platform that provided niche content mostly for age 18-30 year old Americans. This seems to mostly outright igno
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
Probably could just include a * that points to the infrastructure it runs on with a link to the update history of that infrastructure. It only becomes an issue when the infrastructure isn't standardized, but that is just exposing the
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
I think there is a question to be asked if Constitutional rights apply to foreign entities like companies that are actively working against the US. At the level of nation states, one has to take care that they are holding themselves to the
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
The outcome of this case may change that possibility.
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by WindyLakeReturn 6y ago
>This seems like pretty straightforward break of the terms of use to me. And closing the account is retaliation. I think people are giving different meanings to words, with moral judgment tied to some of these meanings, and these meaning