briholt

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by briholt 9y ago
ITT Nazi hysteria. The only thing between us and the Fourth Reich is Twitter and an intrepid band of internet commenters.
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by briholt 9y ago
> because they started breaking laws I'd prefer the court system decide who has broken which laws, rather than domain registrars or random internet commenters.
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by briholt 9y ago
No.
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by briholt 9y ago
"Extremists" like that communist agitator Martin Luther King and all those "extremist" satanic homosexuals spreading AIDS? Good thing we stopped them from speaking, right? Go to Saudi Arabia, they support free speech, ex
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by briholt 9y ago
Another cowardly "free speech but..." Either you support free speech (including Nazis or whatever today's boogeyman is) or you don't support free speech at all. Claiming you support free speech only when you like the spe
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by briholt 9y ago
Something like passive voice was used in that comment.
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by briholt 9y ago
I grew up trying to make something like Facebook and be rich while my dad (and everyone else) told me to graduate and get a 9-5 job. The times have certainly changed.
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by briholt 9y ago
Let me predict right here, right now, that someday something bad will happen somewhere and someone will be unprepared for it. You heard it hear first.
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by briholt 9y ago
The biggest fake news story is that all of my news is true.
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by briholt 9y ago
I'd be careful, both Politifact and Snopes have been caught pushing their own slanted narratives. Example: When Bernie says black youth unemployment is ~50%, it's true. When Trump says the same, it's false. http://
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by briholt 9y ago
"Some groups" includes the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Rolling Stone, etc.
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by briholt 9y ago
"Fake news" appears to be "news I don't like" and has no correlation with the accuracy of the content. Conveniently, Facebook seems to agree with many major media outlets about what news they don't like, so the
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by briholt 9y ago
By wildly mischaracterizing Antifa a "harmless joke" you're tacitly condoning their violence.
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by briholt 9y ago
The abject denial of left-wing violence in the media and the correlating hysteria about right wing violence is disturbing and is obviously fueling the false sense of self-righteousness that is driving that very violence. Anyone with a shred
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by briholt 9y ago
So you're saying individuals' wealth may differ from the average of other people sharing their skin color? Too bad we can't measure a person's wealth directly and have to rely on racist hysteria as a proxy.
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by briholt 9y ago
Every individual black/Hispanic person is born with exactly 40% less wealth than every white/Asian person? It's time to re-evaluate your life choices when you think it's a good thing to promote blanket race-baiting ste
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by briholt 9y ago
It is a poor reflection on tech's echochamber when Tor has to re-explain the principles of free speech for the millionth time. We've already had this debate about Monarchists, witches, real Nazis, Commies, Satanists, Anarchists, b
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by briholt 9y ago
Famous last words before you get silenced.
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by briholt 9y ago
"...the workplace isn't the venue for [discussing your company's potentially illegal hiring practices]."
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by briholt 9y ago
Are you serious? This is exactly the criticism leveled against the left. They've abandoned free speech, they judge people based on race, they've ignored working class voters in favor of coastal elites, yet they keep telling themse
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by briholt 9y ago
Flagged. To be fair, if we give people too much information about this issue they might form accurate opinions and that'll really dampen cult membership.
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by briholt 9y ago
It would've been a week of impotent whiny tweets, then the outrage machine would've moved on to the next faux issue. What kind of insane world do we live in where leaders are too cowardly to withstand mean internet comments? Now t
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by briholt 9y ago
I already had a small business do this for me on Amazon voluntarily. They refunded my small purchase price and asked me to donate the item. I felt so guilty I wouldn't have even asked for a refund if I had known. You bet I did give the
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by briholt 9y ago
Metallic humans that will be 1000x faster to produce, cheaper, and capable.
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by briholt 9y ago
You're thinking about it wrong. It's not about tediously inventing thousands of different kinds of robots with niche jobs. It's about inventing one robot that can replicate, iterate, and specialize endless versions of itself
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by briholt 9y ago
No, robots will take literally every job. Every single task a human can perform, a computer will eventually do better. We're horses and James Watt just built his steam engine. Enjoy a few more decades of relevance before getting put
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by briholt 9y ago
You're bringing up the other extreme (postmodernism), which I wouldn't agree with either. I'm arguing against certainty. We are stumbling along trying to communicate information as accurately as we can in order to produce pre
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by briholt 9y ago
This is a naive viewpoint I see pop up a lot. People pushing "fiction" think it's a "fact" and there's no full-proof way to convince them otherwise or even perfectly distinguish the two. People will tell you th
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by briholt 9y ago
Are the parenthetical males all cis or do transmen earn that badge as well?
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by briholt 9y ago
After the Bezos acquisition, the Washington Post abandoned their already lowered standards. They're now racing to the bottom to become BuzzFeed 2.0.

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