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by ardy42 6y ago
> When a person tells you their own lived experience, the thing to NOT say is, "nah, that's probably not true." As far as I can tell, your GGP comment wasn't actually talking about your lived experience at all . It
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> C++ offers direct, low-level control over memory, and C++ can be used to implement anything which can be implemented in Rust. Maybe Rust has certain advantages which made this problem a lot easier to solve for Mozilla, and I'm cer
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>>>>>> nothing mass-produces racism and extremist political views more than treating an entire generation of young men as though they are automatically racist, regardless of their actions, or lack of action. >> I&#x
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> Why does the intent of the person making the argument matter? The argument stands on its own merits or it doesn't. That attitude might work for arguments like mathematical proofs, but we're talking about social policy here.
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> It’s continually amusing to me that some of the most outwardly “anti-religious” people (I’m reminded of this Silicon Valley scene [1]) adopt belief systems and act in ways that are nearly indistinguishable from American Protestantism,
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> There seems to be a belief kicking around that if we could just help minorities in the right way, racism would go away faster. > I don't think this is so. Time after time in US history, the government has tried to institute &qu
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> How does one even become a monarch? They weren't always hereditary, and it would be interesting to see what they were based on. Seems like you need some kind of divine recognition, as otherwise you're just a dictator. IIRC, y
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> In 2016, 266 black people were killed by police in the U.S. [1] In 2020, that value is estimated to be 233 [2]. That is out of 46 million black people in the U.S., or approximately 0.0006%. No data available on "public torture&quo
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The OP was flagged to death yesterday, and this is an attempt to recreate a comment I couldn't submit. > Black students must be admitted to schools via adjusted grade and test score standards to ensure a representative number of the
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> Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it sounds like you're suggesting that philosophy can talk about anything that science can. Science's original name was natural philosophy, so in a sense, yes.
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> There are two kinds of pseudophilosophy, one mostly harmless and the other insidious. The first variety is usually found in popular scientific contexts. This is where writers, typically with a background in the natural sciences, walk s
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> Trying to use Reddit without the app is maddening. I am aware of old.reddit.com- but it is so annoying to have to change 'www' to 'old' every time I want to read something. On IOS/Safari, visiting any Reddit p
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Pick a region at random. Zoom in, scroll a little, zoom in, scroll a little, repeat until you find a galaxy. There. You're likely the only human who has ever seen it and all the wonders it may contain. It's yours to hold. Tha
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>> And most of the cases I'm aware of where they've used that power is to suppress viral lies, which is a good thing. Even then they were late pulling the trigger. > Why on earth would you suspect that the handful of inci
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> It's not size, but power. Twitter's curation algorithms have massive unilateral influence on public opinion (reaching far beyond its own user-base) probably including the ability to sway national presidential elections. I&#x2
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>> Has bitcoin actually solved that problem though? > Yes it has, anyone in the world can open their own "current account"/"deposit account" for free, right now. Maybe, but it simultaneously un-solves many
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> a statement like this is exactly why people still don't understand the value of Bitcoin. The usefulness of a store of value has no relation to its actual value. The value comes from the network effect of others also agreeing that
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> The OP said the only assets some poorer people will have will be some cash [in the bank]. Is this not correct? I’ve been near broke before. The only assets I had besides a dying car was money in between Venmo, PayPal, bank account, and
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> In this case it’s extremely important to distinguish between credible claims of genocide and the many who would without any basis in evidence be ready to support claims of genocide simply because they’ve seen pictures of mistreated Uig
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> Reading inaccurate information and taking it all seriously still leaves the reader ignorant, it just gives a false illusion of being well-informed. > I try to take everything I read with a giant grain of salt while remaining humble
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> Last I checked, major American newspapers barely run corrections anymore. I'm not so sure about that, I see them fairly often and I'm not even looking for them.
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What exactly is the "Save Journalism Committee," and what's it's agenda? The link "What is the Save Journalism Commitee" at the bottom of their pages brings you to this nothingburger: https://saving
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> If I want truth, I read or watch primary source material. Everything else is commentary. For the record, that is completely impractical for reasons so obvious that it's surprising people suggest it with the frequency they do. Take
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> Not only not every, but in fact “slippery slope” rarely is a fallacy. Personally, I think a ratchet is a better analogy. While it's theoretically possible to stop at any point, realistically each click is just one partial step t
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> I know, that's why I used "restricted". Well, I suppose that's technically correct (e.g. restricts ownership to people who can pay the $200 tax and fill out some forms), but I wouldn't describe that as a mean
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> reversing the National Firearms Act that restricts ownership of fully automatic weapons, legalizing silencers, etc. That's wrong. IIRC, the NFA only requires that machine guns and silencers be registered and taxed . See this Fo
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> In opposition, the Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund spent $208,357.84 IIRC, Everytown for Gun Safety is basically a front group for Michael Bloomberg. That's the guy who also spent nearly a billion dollars on his vanity pre
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> That isn't to say no criticism of the NRA is warranted. The accusations from the NYS AG that the organization has unfairly enriched its executives and their families seem spot on, even if the proposed remedy (dissolution) is unwar
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> This is horrible. It’s like the media ignoring everything Hillary Clinton ever did because they were “with her” in protecting democracy. You think this is horrible? > The handshake between business and labor was just one component o
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> It's one thing to be out of a personal computing device due to vendor policy IMHO, the only reason people tolerate that is because the culture was habituated to it in the 90s/00s, when personal computers were improving so qui

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