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by bytelines 5y ago
That its difficult to do today, you need to manage your own private key infrastructure. So it becomes reserved for a few important things, like a digital ID. What if it were easy and dirt cheap to make a provable claim about anything, in se
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by bytelines 5y ago
Dr Morning's assertion is that "race is a social construct" is a minority position, and one that sociologists overemphasize. This is very different from saying "race being a social construct is an idea of social justice
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by bytelines 5y ago
> This supports the theory that the "the science says race is a social construct" started primarily with sociologists. Who? Dr Morning is the only sociologist here. And you're using her to support your argument. You'v
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by bytelines 5y ago
Bozo was intentionally funny though. "they also laughed at DeLorean"?
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by bytelines 5y ago
Wow, this is amazing. In a way Letterman absolutely had great points: you don't need to watch baseball on your computer, you have a radio for that. You don't need access to this information via a computer, you can use magazines fo
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by bytelines 5y ago
I don't see how that supports your assertion? Dr Morning[1] was arguing that the dichotomy of constructionist vs essentialist (and what you appear to be arguing) - is a "blunt tool". And that the at least in the northeast US
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by bytelines 5y ago
> Race being a social construct is an idea of social justice ideology, not of science. Source?
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by bytelines 5y ago
Don't forget crypto's monetization of computer crime! You don't need to get that pesky data and figure out what to do with it, the processor time itself is money. More seriously - I can't really speak to web 3 in general
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by bytelines 5y ago
https://archive.ph/2EhuB
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by bytelines 5y ago
You're not missing anything here. The article is about race, so there's all these comments who already know what the article says without reading it, what their pre-established attitudes are, and why they are superior. It would be
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by bytelines 5y ago
>Human geneticists have mostly abandoned the word “race” when describing populations in their papers, according to a new study of research published in a leading genetics journal. That’s in line with the current scientific understanding
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by bytelines 5y ago
> Similar to how the PRC ratcheted up control over Hong Kong in 2020 when the rest of the world was basically "Sorry HK we got COVID issues k'bye" Little more complicated than that - with HK there wasn't much the west
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by bytelines 5y ago
I mean it's published by the Cato Institute. Regulatory gatekeeping is the root cause of all problems. Joking aside, I didn't see the prohibition on branching specifically called out, other than to say that Scotland (which did all
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by bytelines 5y ago
Glad to see you concede the point.
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by bytelines 5y ago
Your argument is ill conceived, pedantic, and seeks desperately to justify previous positions. But you are not someone who makes ill conceived, pedantic, or desperate arguments to save face. That would be nonsense. It does not follow. Don&#
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by bytelines 5y ago
> Straw man arguments are a fallacy, not a "rhetorical device" They're both? But agree with everything else
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by bytelines 5y ago
Ignoring your last sentence, I do find the idea of ethics on rhetorical devices peculiar. Like - if I were to use a straw man device, would that be unethical? In a sense - maybe. I'd be misleading which is a form of lying. I certainly
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by bytelines 5y ago
Thank you for the great example. You've made your point in two sentences. Adding "That is nonsense" contributes nothing to your argument. However, by labelling the idea as nonsense, by extension I must be someone whose ideas
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by bytelines 5y ago
Ideas shouldn't be beyond criticism, sure. But if you can't criticize an idea without being unkind, resorting to name calling, and misrepresenting someones view -- at best you aren't haven't a dialog, at worst you don&#x
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by bytelines 5y ago
HN stays online through the work of humans. The community thrives by following guidelines, among them: * be kind * do not sneer * do not call names * respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one t
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by bytelines 5y ago
> the ops team flat-out told him no, if he needs to print env vars, he can do it in his own code This is still the wrong attitude from a "productization" of infrastructure perspective. Configuring the environment a program runs
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by bytelines 5y ago
According to a study [1] from the University of Oxford, "147 distinct outcomes recorded for the Panama Papers investigation over 35 months", summarized as: """ • The most reliable outcome of Panama Papers reporting
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by bytelines 5y ago
Reminds me of Varys' Riddle: > In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the
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by bytelines 5y ago
> That's where your mind went This is in the post he's replying to: > There could just as easily be a Brock Turner in the woods seeing an incapacitated girl and fiddling around, except this time the victim would already be o
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by bytelines 5y ago
What prevents that from happening in a web-based experience?
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by bytelines 5y ago
Wow, that's very insightful, and explains the dev's response. He genuinely thought he was being insulted. This says a lot about me, but I empathize with that. That the reason I strive to be perfect in everything is that I feel lik
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by bytelines 5y ago
Reductio ad absurdum
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by bytelines 5y ago
I can't really comment about other "social justice" protests because frankly I don't really care about them, but yes this absolutely is about power. What DHH neglects to address is that he's claiming the power to si
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by bytelines 5y ago
Nobody is doing that. What people are saying, in this thread even, is that making fun of names is innocent fun. The pyramid is intended to show that its foundational to hate. Thats then being immediately taken out of context to equate stere
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by bytelines 5y ago
I haven't seen the employees "escalation to genocide", but as I understand it, it was an employee sharing the ADL pyramid of hate -- that such attitudes such as stereotypes were foundational to further hate.

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