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by ardy42 6y ago
> This is literally the foundation of American govt structure namely the respect for unalienable rights of individuals to express themselves. > It’s the first line in our enumerated rights. > This isn’t “oh we should rethink things
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by ardy42 6y ago
> This is a non sequitur. Free speech is an ideal. We would like google to preserve free speech, even though they are not legally obligated to per the Constitution. If their EULA does not uphold that ideal, then they should change it, no
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by ardy42 6y ago
> If you reject the idea that people are intelligent enough to think about politics for themselves then you reject the idea that they're intelligent enough to govern themselves. I mean, the American founders already rejected a lot
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I voted to wait. It's because I'm in an age and fitness bracket where I'm unlikely to be in serious danger from becoming infected, and a lifestyle bracket where I'm unlikely to be infected at all. I expect supply wi
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It is not being left to die because you can’t afford treatment. It is bad enough that we don’t need to exaggerate. If you don't have the money to pay, hospitals in the US are only required by law to stabilize you . So, for inst
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by ardy42 6y ago
> This is answered quite clearly in the article - because he's well connected. Largely that means people with money, but influence doesn't hurt either. He cut the line as a VIP. > Is that ethically wrong? Probably. Is it new
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I was thinking of specialists within the same specialty disagreeing. That's a thing too, which I was trying to get at with my comment about fringe specialists. But it's not like every specialty is homogeneous (especially tru
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Forcing other to wear mask has its consequences too. As you've said before, people like you would be forced to wear something you think is uncomfortable. I'd even be forced to play the world's smallest violin for you. T
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> This is an interesting point insofar as the second and third sentence seem to contradict each other. Am I over-simplifying? It's not a contradiction. For instance: maybe you have an specialist (a consensus epidemiologist) that sa
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>>> One. Wearing Mask can be uncomfortable, and it is real downside (at least for me) >> I'm sorry. Grow up. I wear a mask 8 hours a day. Surgeons do for longer. Is it really that much to ask? I honestly don't under
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by ardy42 6y ago
> America is and has always been predicated on the idea that the ordinary person has the capacity to make decisions that guide the republic, either as elector or elected. This idea is the basis of all democracies, generally.... > I’ve
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by ardy42 6y ago
> This is democracy, both side will fight and to convince other. Whoever gain the majority/power is the winner. > Unless facebook taking sides, i don't think it harm democracy. Both side too can utilize facebook for their ad
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> But we also live in a world that is more educated than ever, and a lot of those people who went to school can't figure out why they should believe in the moon landings, or dinosaurs. How often you do come across a posting from
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> If there's a fundamental flaw in their model that allowed horrible things to persist despite their efforts, they can't just throw up their hands and continue with the excuse that "they tried." That's a situ
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by ardy42 6y ago
> "The New York Times has long given its op-ed columnists a virtual free hand, exempting their copy from the layers of editing and fact-checking that a regular Times news story would undergo before it appeared in the paper. " L
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Did you notice that article is in the opinion section? That implies it's a work of fiction. No fact checking needed. That is factually untrue (as I also pointed out in the other sub-thread where you made the same claim): they do
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by ardy42 6y ago
> If the opinion section isn't fact checked, why would you believe the premise that results in call for advocacy is correct? You're just plain wrong that it isn't fact checked. Read this description of their process from
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It's likely the DOJ is pressuring them. Look up Operation Choke Point. No, this is driven by public and media pressure. There was a really blunt expose about PornHub a week ago by a prominent NYT columnist.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I wasn't the person you responded to, I just wanted to point out the expectation should be the article is fiction. The women may not even exist. They may not have been quoted correctly if they even exist. There is no expectation i
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by ardy42 6y ago
> If they had been diligently trying to remove them from the website, I don’t see anything wrong with it. But what if their diligent efforts failed or proved to be inadequate, and they still kept their site up ? If there's a fundam
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I think there’s a pretty clear difference between “3rd party smartphone software distribution” and “3rd party smartphone software distribution for ~45% of all American phone users, and I get to pick which users, and coincidentally I o
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by ardy42 6y ago
> …which has its own track record of subtle website breakage, something that is difficult to notice and impossible to mitigate short of disabling this globally. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice that this exists, but it’s disabled by default
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by ardy42 6y ago
> There you go, the website will now see the same display resolution for everybody, right? Well, that’s unless the website does this: delete screen.width; delete screen.height; > And suddenly screen.width and screen.heigh
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Every monopoly dispute comes down to defining the market in question. Whether the market is phones, tablets, smartwatches or personal computers, Apple's market share comes nowhere near close to being a monopoly. Exactly, which is
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It's pretty much the whole world that got screwed by this, and China itself hasn't exactly escaped unscathed. But authoritarian China has done far, far better than most of the rest of the world (and especially better than
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Such incredibly bad timing, too, with the vaccine coming ASAP. That just means whoever wants to prove natural herd immunity theory right has to act now, before it's mooted. /s > If we had delayed the second (third?) wave a
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by ardy42 6y ago
> 1) The "market" (for what, you don't say) was created by government policy hundreds of years ago (but not thousands of yeas ago?) By market, I'm referring to what we refer to as the market today , which is a relati
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by ardy42 6y ago
> First, if you look hard enough, you can see traces of the hand of government in almost anything on earth, including any market.... > In general, markets are sustainable in the long run without government interference (and usually ac
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by ardy42 6y ago
> You're being disingenuous. But I think you know that. No I'm not. Transmission is a kind of repetition, but some people seem to think that YouTube has some obligation to transmit (i.e. repeat) their lies about "widespre
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The alternative you're condoning is to make decisions for these people and tell them what to think; that is tyranny. TIL not repeating lies is tyranny.

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