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by apostacy 6y ago
> - Virtue signaling is a critical component to personal and social moral growth. Showing where you stand and putting your money where you mouth is necessary to decentralize authority and improve the standards that are "baked"
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by apostacy 6y ago
> On the BLM side I see a subset of violent criminals in a movement aiming to reform policing and governance. Again, the arson, the vehicular terror attacks, the kidnappings, and the mass shootings are bit too much for me to stomach. And
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by apostacy 6y ago
> The question is really about objectives. The BLM movement isn't fundamentally anti-democratic or revolutionary, it's reformist. I think you are judging Trump supporters by the worst of them, and BLM by the best of them. When
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by apostacy 6y ago
The problem with defending violence, is that you have to defend the underlying grievances that led to violence. Can you blame people who engage in violence if they had a sincere belief that they were justified? What if it turns out that act
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by apostacy 6y ago
> We can clearly observe circumstances in which the goal of political violence is to achieve liberal democracy in a situation where it is perceived to be failing. A functioning democracy is one in which political violence is rendered unn
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by apostacy 6y ago
My critique of this essay is that Eco implies that it is a contradiction for there to be an external enemy which is overpowering and humiliating, and yet at the same time easy to defeat if our people would just stand up to them. That is not
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by apostacy 6y ago
I read a paper that asserted that the internet was racist against SE Asian people because it didn't have support for eastern languages out of the box. Never mind that the Chinese still have not completely made up their minds about exac
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by apostacy 6y ago
I for one find the idea that there is a "white" way to hear music to be pretty offensive. Does he have any evidence for his race-realist perspective? I wish we could move past these outdated ideas. Of course mp3 is limited by the
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by apostacy 6y ago
> They did not. They fought against it until it was clear they weren't going to win the fight. What a losing attitude. Nobody forced them to do anything. They chose it. I would argue that Firefox is what held back DRM from becoming
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by apostacy 6y ago
> The window into the internet shouldn’t be controlled by big companies. It’s a principle thing for me. That's exactly why I stopped with Mozilla. They are just a proxy for corporate controlled interests. And it is heartbreaking. Ev
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by apostacy 6y ago
I don't see any benefit to having this terminology, other than as a pretext for censorship. Calling it "mal" information implies that truthful information can be bad. Calling it something more neutral like "unfiltered&qu
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by apostacy 6y ago
> I also wanted to point out that there's a technical term for true information that causes harm, "malinformation." Wow, that is such an Orwellian thing to say. The definition you just gave could be used to justify censors
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by apostacy 6y ago
And this strategy really benefits big institutions like Google, and harms smaller competitors. They are raising the barriers of entry. It is pretty clever.
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by apostacy 6y ago
> I believe Firefox is a good enough browser to go toe-to-toe with Chrome. It and it's developer are not without problems. However, at this point I'd use Firefox even if Mozilla was just as bad as Google because I think the div
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by apostacy 6y ago
> Now do some Asian American demographics face greater challenges? Sure. You named one, Vietnamese Refugees. You could also include Muslim refugees escaping genocide in Myanmar, to provide another example. But what that really illustrate
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by apostacy 6y ago
It's from Urusei Yatsura[1]. It indeed looks like a bunch of Anime stuff. Scans of animation cells and other ephemera. It would have taken awhile to download on a modem. The HTTP header is reporting: curl -I " http://ftp
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by apostacy 6y ago
Nearly everything said about asian Americans can be said of jewish Americans. Now substitute what you just said about asians for jews. Still ok with it? Jews are disproportionately over-represented in elite universities relative to the popu
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by apostacy 6y ago
> The rioters/protesters are largely white as opposed to the more-diverse BLM protesters (more on that later) > And of course the irony here, when compared to the BLM protests, is that if a sizable segment of these rioters/p
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by apostacy 6y ago
Interesting, I've been using bup[1] for years but it looks like bupstash is scratching the same itches I had. [1]: https://github.com/bup/bup
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by apostacy 6y ago
The fact that the Chinese government was reacting to is so severely was all the evidence required. And all I wanted was temporary travel moratorium while data could be gathered, and some temporary mask mandates. We ended up doing it anyway,
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by apostacy 6y ago
About 13 months ago, there was this conspiracy theory about a pandemic in China. Conspiracy theorists and untrustworthy alternative news outlets were trying to sow dangerous misinformation about the Chinese government doing mass lockdowns a
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by apostacy 6y ago
Yes, I don't think Buddhist monks claim that they are robots. What matter is your reaction to your emotions. I believe that anger is a signal. But anger can be really dangerous and addictive. However, it does have a place in the human
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by apostacy 6y ago
For me, anger is usually something internal. And in moments of anger, I can often get emotional insights that I might not otherwise have gotten. I think that eradicating anger can actually blind you to important signals your subconscious is
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by apostacy 6y ago
I was like you for a long time, but in the last few years, I've learned that in small controlled doses, in some circumstances, anger can be beneficial, and you should learn to harness it. Anger is probably our most dangerous emotion. B
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by apostacy 6y ago
I for one agree with you. There is no rush to get vaccinated. Personally, I doubt I will get it at all. The authorities have a very long way to go to win back my trust, after the chain of screwups over the last year. We've seen that th
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by apostacy 6y ago
In The Philippines, my understanding is that they have ample bandwidth via Korea and other countries in the region. But the reason they have such expensive terrible internet is because of a lack of net neutrality and deregulation. The cellp
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by apostacy 6y ago
I totally agree with that. Git's flexibility is great. In practice, I can synthesize the functionality I want. Unless a merge is fairly straight forward, I often use --no-commit and only select the files I want to merge, and defer a co
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by apostacy 6y ago
> That example, while technically correct, is a little bit misleading. From a practical point of view, the thing that Pijul/Anu both do is not "automatically resolve conflicts" but rather "allow repo operations to hap
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by apostacy 6y ago
Are you comparing Facebook's property to a person's lawn? Because that is nonsense. I really don't agree with people comparing ubiquitous global telecom monopolies like Facebook to small businesses and private citizens who wa
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by apostacy 6y ago
That's really gross. But it is sadly not at all unusual. In fact, Google's obscurely named "Keystone Agent" isn't much better. Apple should expose services in Control Center instead of making you use the terminal.

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