alex_sf

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by alex_sf 4y ago
Good. I don't want suppressing speech to be scalable.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
How does Canada define hate speech and obscenity? Both of those are categories of speech ripe for 'think of the children' authoritarianism.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
The only reason those spaces implemented content moderation was because they couldn't get hosting anywhere. Not because of 'merciless trolling and spam'.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
This isn't that complicated. Twitter can just take down content in response to court orders, unless their review team decides to fight it on whatever grounds. This is not only simpler for Twitter to implement, but provides a better le
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> unrelenting deluge of obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff that is constantly being pushed back on any moderately popular social media site. I keep hearing this, a
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Between actual moderation and community moderation, yes. The way moderation works on HN is somewhat hidden though: dead comments will disappear, post titles and such are edited with no (publicly visible anyway) history, etc. Inspired by St
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by alex_sf 5y ago
There is plenty of housing for plenty of people in most parts of North America. The 'problem' is that what people _want_ is cheap housing in urban centers, a.k.a cool spots. Because that doesn't exist, we claim to have a ho
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by alex_sf 5y ago
I mean, sure. That doesn’t change the fact that Europe is largely a protectorate of the US. Sort of an Eloi-like existence.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
I mean, they haven’t stopped.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Please explain how the US exploits Germany.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
It took less than 30 years for the first EU country to leave, and not exactly a small one.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Pacifist Europeans might do well to realize the long peace was and is enforced by US nuclear weapons. At a certain point you become a protectorate; and some gratitude is reasonable. A weak America is a dead Europe.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> But irrelevant: Things have already taken from others and they want it back. Who took what, from who, when? > Agreed, so because violence was used to obtain an UN-equitable position, they want it back. Again: what, from who, when?
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> That's like, your opinion man Well, and the opinion of people that don't like slavery and theft. > I don't know if you mean aspirationally, as in, there shouldn't be racist classist assholes out there so we shoul
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> And what happens when there's no jos where you live Then you start a small business, employing others and building up your community. How do you think the ‘places where jobs exist’ started? > the only places where jobs exist ha
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by alex_sf 5y ago
It is possible, and people are fine with it. Otherwise, either a) the housing would not exist, or b) there would be more local job opportunities. If there is demand for jobs locally and an economy to support it, they can start their own co
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> Property is a positive right. It requires that the state enforce your property claim. No it isn’t. We allow the state to enforce it on our behalf. In most reasonable states, you can defend against the commission of a felony on your pro
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> Okay then just die? Or work near where you can afford to live? If there aren't jobs that support living there, live somewhere else? You're presenting an absurd dichotomy. > The majority are screwed over by an ultra-rich
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> You don’t have an inalienable right to keep the area around your home exactly how you want it either. I agree. I was responding, in context, to the idea that people should be able to live wherever they want affordably.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> Democracy sounds egalitarian in principle, but in reality And your proposed alternative is?
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> Renters, on the other hand, have an asymmetrically difficult battle: pro-development individuals need to show up to all the proposed-development meetings, not just one for a particular street or block, if they want to expand housing. I
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> but at this rate we'll be saving for a decade to get there. That's normal. Median first-time homebuyer is 34, and that's for a starter house, which most people refuse to do nowadays.
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> There's no right to anything that people don't stand together to say they have a right to. This is ignoring the point: positive rights should not exist. They require taking rights from others, through violence, to enforce. &
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by alex_sf 5y ago
As opposed to now where it's 98% bots posting inflammatory political content?
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Sure, but you immediately cast a shadow on it by saying "oh, you know those bad people with their bad thoughts? This is one of their bad thoughts"
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by alex_sf 5y ago
The thanking part will generally get a downvote: it's polite in a normal conversation, but it's just clutter. An upvote is sufficient. The real issue (imo) is this: > Ah, yeah, I'd forgot about those areas having strong
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Is it actually incorrect or just associated with things that are incorrect?
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by alex_sf 5y ago
Why do you consider giving someone what they paid for 'abuse'?
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by alex_sf 5y ago
There are definitely dark patterns, dishonestly, manipulation to drive sales in F2P games. That's not a good thing. However, most of the people criticizing this did not grow up poor. When I was a kid, there were a ton of video games
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by alex_sf 5y ago
> This format is interesting at first I agree. > but when it starts getting to 5 paragraphs of dissecting each phrase, it gets too much. Yeah, that's true. > Reminds me of the someone-is-wrong-on-the-internet Isn't there

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