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by baddox 6y ago
I think it is largely irrelevant, except that it can be useful to debunk people whose arguments depend on false claims about what the founding fathers believed.
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by baddox 6y ago
I’m not too familiar with Gab, but are you implying that Twitter is exclusively a platform for left wing mobs? If so, you are mistaken, and this coarse impression of what Twitter is should not be projected onto every single tweet.
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by baddox 6y ago
That’s simply not true. It is a mistake to project your coarse impression of Twitter onto every individual tweet.
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by baddox 6y ago
The parent comment referred to sparsely populated states. That is a function of population and land area.
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by baddox 6y ago
> They could be privately supportive of Black Lives Matter... Of course they could. This person didn't claim anything to the contrary. The complaint was not about the webmaster's personal beliefs, but rather about the webmaster
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by baddox 6y ago
That seems to imply that all public disagreement about a popular or controversial movement is "public shaming" and thus that you would oppose all such discussion.
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by baddox 6y ago
That only makes sense if you believe that land area is the appropriate unit to attempt to equalize political influence over, rather than people. If you think the people are who should have political influence in a democracy, rather than u
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by baddox 6y ago
Why is that not okay? Do you think that is sensitive private information? Or do you believe that no content of any private conversation should ever be publicized?
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by baddox 6y ago
> However, it's still not mob rule, by the virtue of the fact that mob rule is necessarily non-legal, while the electoral college is the essence of "legal". Okay. I'm not attached to the particular semantics of "
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by baddox 6y ago
That's certainly not the case. The electoral college was designed such that each state's legislature chooses how to attribute their electoral college votes. Many states in the first few presidential elections just had their state
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by baddox 6y ago
> That's not mob rule, that's completely and absolutely how the legal US government operates. Those aren't mutually exclusive. Middle school civics class explanations of the electoral college are fine. You can understand t
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by baddox 6y ago
I can easily imagine dealing with a tweet that asks me to do something, and then another tweet that says that I didn't do the thing that was asked of me. That doesn't sound too bad to me. What am I missing?
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by baddox 6y ago
Do you have an example of a similar banner that is specific only to the United States?
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by baddox 6y ago
Do you mean that your system theme (e.g. the UI of system apps like Finder) doesn’t switch between light and dark based on the time of day? I haven’t encountered that problem, I’ve only seen third-party apps not keep their theme in sync wit
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by baddox 6y ago
A calorie is a calorie, except that different kinds of calories that you eat will almost inevitably cause you to change the amount of calories you consume and the amount of calories you burn.
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by baddox 6y ago
I think it’s dependent on the app. Lots of third party apps don’t seem to correctly implement listening for the theme change. In Chrome, for example, I always have the Dev Tools open in a separate window, and the theme seems to change while
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by baddox 6y ago
What government doesn’t use propaganda?
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by baddox 6y ago
Of course news agencies should report that the US Senator has that opinion. There are plenty of news agencies that reported on the fact that the NYT published this opinion piece, for instance, and I don’t think people are too upset about th
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by baddox 6y ago
GraphQL is quite similar to SQL. They’re both declarative languages, but GraphQL is declaring a desired data format, whereas SQL is declaring (roughly) a set of relational algebra operations to apply to a relational database. GraphQL is rea
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by baddox 6y ago
You do have to be logged in, and I am logged into YouTube in Safari.
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t think that’s the only difficulty. There’s something else going on in iOS. YouTube links don’t even open in the YouTube app on my iPhone (I have to load the safari page, add them to Watch Later, then switch to the YouTube app). It do
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by baddox 6y ago
Me too. It’s fascinating how that level of incompetence can persist for so long. I can’t believe that someone who is in charge of their visitor numbers hasn’t realized that they are surely missing out on an utterly huge number of visits due
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t understand why it would be a problem if making a moral choice is also advantageous for other reasons. In fact, surely we should strive to arrange society in such a manner that these things align.
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by baddox 6y ago
I have not seen any video or even claims of police using tear gas to cause looters to stop looting. It has probably happened a few times, but it looks abundantly clear to me that tear gas is overwhelmingly used on large groups of organized
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by baddox 6y ago
I’m not playing semantic games. I consider what happened to be a healthcare disaster, and if you don’t, that’s fine. We’re still talking about the same thing.
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by baddox 6y ago
How good is your memory of first-hand accounts of weird, extra-severe flu-like illnesses from coworkers and friends in previous years? One possibility is that people get weird severe flu-like illnesses fairly regularly (perhaps every few ye
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by baddox 6y ago
It’s not a “unique symptom” of the disease exactly, but health care disasters like we saw later in Lombardy and New York would not have gone unnoticed even if we had no particular virus test.
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by baddox 6y ago
That “only angle” is precisely the problem, as the parent commenter explains quite clearly. It makes sense that some doctors could be briefly silenced for a few weeks at the very beginning of a large virus outbreak (but as we saw, even that
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. I don’t know much about machine learning, but I’m pretty sure a common technique is to use a model that is trained on a huge number of relevant data, and that model outputs a fingerprint of a given inp
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by baddox 6y ago
And it would be worthy of public outrage if a tool manufacturer were supplying hammers to child abusers for the purpose of child abuse. The fact that hammers can also be used to construct buildings is completely irrelevant. This entire “too

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