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by aestetix 8y ago
It's not just scientists. It's most fields and most opinions that don't agree with whatever the cause of the day is. I deleted my twitter account over a year ago (after ten years of it), and stopped using twitter. However, I
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Wikileaks Veteran: “I Cooperated with Feds in Exchange for Immunity”(thedailybeast.com)
1 points by aestetix 8y ago|0 comments
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This kind of nonsense happened rather frequently when Google+ was suspending people for using "not-real" names. The suspension extended to youtube, to gmail, and to other services.
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The blame for that falls almost entirely on Vic Gundotra, the VP who was in charge of the Google+ project. From what I understand, many, many Googlers hated him, and actually left the company specifically because of him.
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> I do think humanity would be served by a "real names" database by an entity we could trust to help us connect with each other. Unfortunately, that valuable info is currently held by an unethical company like Facebook. (My pre
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I'm unclear whether this is due to an account being suspended, or an account on hold due to some kind of fraud detection. I'd say the one clear indictment here is Patreon's absolute shit communications. Traditional companies
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Call with Patreon’s Jacqueline Hart about Sargon's Banning(docs.google.com)
8 points by aestetix 8y ago|5 comments
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> Some people worry that we are reviewing content not posted on Patreon. As a funding platform, we don’t host much content, but we help fund creations across the internet. As a result, we review creations posted on other platforms that a
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by aestetix 8y ago
How does Brave make money? My understanding is that their entire purpose is to block tracking and ads, but those ads is how a lot of places fund their services.
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I'm currently halfway through Volume 1 of the Gulag Archipelago. I find most criticism of it-- the ones that say it is too literary-- clearly have not actually read it, because many of his assertions reference specific names, events an
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Must have been made by moderators, as I posted it with the original title.
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Patreon has banned the accounts of several controversial public figures(news.vice.com)
31 points by aestetix 8y ago|17 comments
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I think the phrase "Old Books" here is a bit dated, ironically. A phrase that would be more immediately understood to us might be "original sources."
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Is it really that hard to provide an email based login?
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>> Technically there are 23 questions but I grouped the last one together as a question for new potential teammates. Also 23 questions to ask before joining a startup didn’t have as good a ring to it. Actually, I'd argue 23 has a
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by aestetix 8y ago
Seems to me that, despite our best efforts, we have been unable to avoid falling into yet another Thucycides trap.
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Aren't political views a protected class in California? This could turn into a lawsuit against Facebook.
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Nice PR pitch to mask the real reason: it's cheaper to not have to pay real people to do the work when you can have a machine do it.
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Why was this comment downvoted?
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> Those "thousands of diverse communities" include the ones who were using their religion as a pretext to burn heretics/witches, torture homosexuals and in general oppress the weak and the diverse as well as the ones that
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by aestetix 8y ago
Upvoted for the reference. If only we had a copy of the Second Book of Poetics...
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The question is not whether you use the word in the workplace. The question is whether, if you have used one of those words anywhere, ever, should your life be destroyed?
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That's odd. Try hn [at] $my_username [dot] com.
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That's actually not the reason at all. Given the current climate of tension in the English speaking world, I'm not going to comment publicly anymore on this issue. If you are genuinely intellectually curious as to my opinion, I&#x
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by aestetix 8y ago
Seems like a good time to recommend people read The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
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For the record, when I posted that comment, its score was in the negative, and now it's positive again. So I guess it was just a matter of waiting for more people to read it.
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Can anyone explain why they downvoted me instead of just downvoting?
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Except that Cloudflare terminated Daily Stormer after allowing terrorist groups to operate under the guise of "free speech": https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/cloudflare-and-...
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Given that Jack Dorsey just testified to Congress that he considers Twitter a digital public square, does the "it's a private company" work to defend them on such matters anymore?
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Testify Before Congress(youtube.com)
2 points by aestetix 8y ago|0 comments

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