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>> Has the free expression of all ideas through current means allowed rational minds to prevail? It seems that the status quo has failed to facilitate rational discussion. > Which matters more: rational minds, or truth? That questi
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Jan. 9: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/us/politics/state-dept-ta... > WASHINGTON — The United States said on Saturday that it would relax its restrictions on interactions between American off
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> The truth track record of State Department is still much better than that of CCP. Maybe over the long run, but maybe not the current State Department at this moment. IIRC, over the last month it's literally been trying to stir up
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> As someone in the pro-censorship camp (private censorship, at any rate) I find it exasperating that Matze sees no parallel. Their "reasoning" nowadays seems to consist of self-serving double standards, false equivalencies, tr
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> Reliability is more important than privacy for messaging most of the time. Some major balls are being dropped here. Obviously, The Signal team should have done a better job of coordinating the mass user migration with the WhatsApp team
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> In reality though we just went from one anecdote to two. We are unable to tell when something is universal experience just by hearing more anecdotes. And even if we somehow got to negative universal experiences, those very well could b
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> I love the design of the MagSafe chargers, you point out a great advantage of them, but sadly they aren't durable. I was only talking about the MagSafe connector, which was genius. I agree that they made a few very poor decisions
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> The propaganda unfortunately also comes from folks direct experience with unions. In the US, most unions are public sector. So folks see that That's like arguing against private business by citing anecdotes about people's dir
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> It will not be the magsafe of old. I could see them making a magsafe adapter similar to the iphone’s, that snaps onto the back of the screen on either side. What would even be the point of something like that? It makes no sense, and w
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> My favorite part of my touchbar MBP is that it uses USB-C charging. MagSafe is neat, but I don't miss the $80 proprietary charger with a cable that's fixed to the brick and will probably fail if you do anything other than lea
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> I can see how this would work for new things invented outside the Amish community. How does this work for new Amish inventions? How do they judge an effect a thing will have on society while they are still building that thing? I'm
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> What are you talking about? The story was worth reporting and it wasn’t until the election was over and verified that major news sources decided to push it to the public. "Hunter Biden" is not one monolithic story. IIRC, Giu
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> That's pretty messed up. You as a 14 year old send a nude picture to your 15 year old boyfriend and suddenly you're banned from Facebook from life? It's worth noting that is far from the typical case of "being a s
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> For that matter, should convicted murderers get their accounts suspended? I think not solely on the grounds that they’ve committed murder - but maybe if they are using their platform to cause further harm. On a related note, Facebook p
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This is in reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25780482 , because I can't reply there. > what's the thing about zip ties? I think that's in reference to participants in the capitol attack that wer
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> Yes, and don't forget the 24 hour news cycle with its focus on getting outrage and attention through fear. Yeah, social media is just one in a series of possibly misguided techno-social "innovations," and it probably won
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> So is Google going to throw them out of the Play store? What's the argument for banning one social media and not another. Where do you draw the line that manages to keep Facebooks app available, while still being able to defend th
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> I don't have a solution, but Amazon + Apple + Google coordinating to shut down a platform for communication - even a platform that contains expression that I strongly disagree with, I might add - is a problem that requires a solut
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> I have seen countless comments from vegans that said meat eaters should be butchered instead of animals. The comments didn't get deleted. An no, I did't want to complain about them, venting is healthy and without victims on t
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>> "I'm fine with all this stuff getting taken down" > I understand this on a visceral level, but I wish more people would look beyond that to the implications for communication on the web. This action by Amazon happ
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> The Hacker Who Archived Parler Explains How She Did It (and What Comes Next) I'm really glad she did that. I'm fine with all this stuff getting taken down, but it really needs to be archived somewhere for historical purposes
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> while I was locked in solitary last year as a political prisoner of Iowa Chief Justice Susan Larson Christensen and her brother 4th District Chief Judge Jeff Larson. As a lion's paw she named every first degree blood relation exce
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> You have an anonymous comment that claims to have caused a data beach of unknown data from an unknown company. No users are even mentioned. I don't think you can even call it that, since he didn't cause the breach. It's
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Or we could go with the birthday cake solution: just slap a big "51" on it (maybe traced out with 51 stars), and call it a day. There's some precedent for something like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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> You have likely confessed to a crime. What crime, exactly? I doubt what he did is any kind of crime. Honestly, some PMs would probably do the exact same thing (e.g. focusing on the "customer" by de-prioritizing "tech d
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>>> Fab has lifetime of 2-3(?) years >> Many Intel fabs are from the early 2000s. Some are from the 90s. What do you mean 2-3 years? > I think they're referring to each line as a new fab, rather than the complex of bu
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> Indeed, a similar situation happened in the mid 2000's before Intel moved to the Core architecture. I wouldn't be surprised if something like this happened again. Though that may have been a bit easier for them to solve, beca
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> Of course they are still there! But the conversations increasingly aren't taking place there. If free speech is essential to a liberal democracy, we're moving to a place where the majority of speech takes place in non-free-sp
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> It _is_ censoring. It's not just different search results. The website is nowhere in the Google results, just the Wiki page and news publications. Google does that all the time. At the rate this is going, I think we're soon g
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> You preventing signs on your lawn are fine, you preventing specific messages on systemically important communications infrastructure you happen to own is not. It’s the same reason that AT&T was heavily regulated back when it carrie

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