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by ardy42 6y ago
> Sounds like some serious mental gymnastics to me. And also not provable with any specific metrics. It's not really, it just takes the concept of collateral damage into account. Should a billion Grandmas be denied their baby pic
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> Still in the app stores I see. That's because this stuff was a tiny fraction of the activity on Facebook (it's HUGE, and still mostly for baby pictures), but a substantial fraction of the content on Parler and Gab (they'
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> We have a marketplace of ideas where bad ideas die and good ideas spread. If that were true, neither QAnon nor "Stop the Steal" would have gone anywhere. Instead, they spread like wildfire to the point where their adherents
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> We can be ban false claims of election fraud, we can bad true claims too. I think the terms "shun" and "ostracize" fit the current situation better than "ban."
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> Oppressing Nazis is still oppressive, nazis are people too. But choosing not to associate with Nazis isn't oppressing them.
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> Framing this as purely based on political views is disingenuous at best. No one is getting banned because they don't like the tax rate, or because of their view on universal healthcare. Exactly right. Nothing would have happened
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> You would be surprised how many third party companies support closed source software product of another company. This is very common in enterprise world. It is also a common way for a vendor to get their foot into an enterprise entrenc
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>> Bandwagoning isn’t coordinating > This is a loophole that deserves to be closed. How is it a loophole? It's freedom of association, which is protected by the First Amendment.
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> I have no issue with app stores moderating their own service. I just want 10 equally reach weighted stores instead of 2 that coordinate. Do you have evidence that Apple, Google, and Amazon actually coordinated (e.g. met and agreed on a
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> Leveraging your monopoly to compete in another area is illegal. Leveraging a strong position isn’t and Amazon is a long ways from a monopoly. That really depends on interpretation, which has shifted over time and continues to shift. I
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> A relevant question is "would they have been that successful if Elastic were 'just another closed source enterprise product'." > Elastic was successful because a lot of companies tried it out for free and then pu
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> You're kind of right about this, but it's the issue that AWS just has a massive head-start with any client that already uses AWS. They don't really out-compete, they just use their existing vendor lock-in to gain an adva
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>> Are you claiming that Iraq did not in fact invade and conquer Kuwait? > I am claiming that the Nayirah testimony helped manufacture consent for US military involvement. Oh, I see. I think the difference is that wasn't real
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> so I think it's fair to point out that this is not in fact a new problem, and that private companies probably aren't going to solve it. The new problem is is not the successful spread of lies, but the frequent successful spre
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> I've seen the demos of AI systems that can be trained on an individual's voice, and generate new speech in the same voice. If I was waterprinting a meeting, I would train a system like this on the fly on the people in the mee
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> FWIW I used to order kitty litter on Prime. Free shipping and all that. Turns out they hugely marked up the retail price for the free shipping. I’ve since found it on Walmart’s website for about 40% cheaper. Free shipping if I order 5
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> "I think Cruz would want us to do this, so I think we're good." Wow.
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> And what of the lies which led us into the Gulf War and the Iraq War? Hundreds of thousands of people are dead because of those lies, and they were broadcast from coast to coast by every credible news media organisation in existence. T
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> I don't see why a future collapse into tyranny of a country in Europe would have to involve a revival of the symbols of any particular defeated regime. In the US, at least, the current (seemingly unsuccessful) slouch towards tyran
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> The trouble is when people conflate “free speech” with “absolute prohibition on any societal, cultural, or personal means of making any value judgment about any speech, as well as any mechanism whatsoever to encourage any type of spee
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> I think free speech ends at specific threats or calls to violence. Call me the n word all you want. But if you threaten my life you should be stopped. Either by the police or by me. Then what about lies? The real problem of the last f
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> Other way around. Alt-right is attempting to co-opt "freedom of speech" the same way they've co-opted "patriot". This is it. Also, the main result of these efforts is mainly to stain the term try to co-opt. I
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That's all true, but misses the point. HR is presented to employees differently than those groups (e.g. they're the people you're supposed to go to for help when you see a wrong happen). In some cases, their actions may eve
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>> What if we tried to make it so there were no lords? Just a thought. > Any different group with a semi-competent lord will absolutely destroy you and take your resources. You'll soon send around resumes begging for a lord to
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> And if you are willing to buck the system completely, which as you point out is not compulsory admit was before, you can leave and go live off the land. Unfortunately almost everyone has lost the skill to do this. Huh? Whose land? The
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> Ye quite worthless graphs without explaination. Also the sentiment and the amount of comments should just be two lines not colorcoded bars. xyy-plot. You can kind of infer that blue means bad and yellow means good with some background
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>> meritless lies such as ..."Stop the Steal" > I sincerely hope to see this election put to a thorough legal test after the inauguration, because I'm falling short of agreement with you here. Why? It was already he
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> we have already seen a few(russia, india etc) doing this without a second thought, not just china. The damage can be attributed to someone else when you own the communication channels. Russia might fall under the category of "regi
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> Governments can easily block AWS as well and they have. Even simpler, they just go for the kill-switch and kill internet. They can, but the collateral damage of doing that is high, which is a deterrent. The only regimes where that&#x2
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> Normalising relationships with Taiwan is a great idea, and Iran stirs conflict throughout the region. I personally, I'd agree with the Taiwan thing in isolation, but this last minute decision is clearly intended to put Biden in

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