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by chippy 6y ago
You might want to think instead about your country (as in, tax, red tape, government) about your neighbourhood and people you live with and your family. Do you want to improve the life of the people around you and how could you do that? For
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by chippy 6y ago
https://garygregory.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/java-lowercase-... In the Turkish locale, the Unicode LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I becomes a LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I. That’s not a lowercase “i”.
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by chippy 6y ago
I think the explanation about why certain things get more news is in the word "news". News is just that, new. New, interesting, unique, different, something to be talked about. An accepted truth like "climate change is real&q
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by chippy 6y ago
Let's predict two things: Firstly, how long until they silently announce unemployment of a large proportion of their employees, and secondly what proportion of the staff will they lay off?
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by chippy 6y ago
People don't want to admit that evil is done by people like ourselves. Asking what your dead evil ancestors would do is different from asking what you would do. If you were born back then, with no knowledge of the future, you would be
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by chippy 6y ago
turtles all the way down
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by chippy 6y ago
Agreed. I think the "opposing" aggressively conventional people would be believing in the rule of law, authority of the police and social and cultural conservatism. These, 10 years ago, would be seen as mainstream ideas.
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by chippy 6y ago
In HN people often flag submissions to keep the identity and content more coherent and to reduce flame. (e.g. flagging advertisements, political and culture war submissions) Perhaps it's the passive ones that flag submissions, but down
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by chippy 6y ago
Following on from the essay, the ideas are adopted by aggressively conventional minded even if they are "non conformist". Other aggressively conventional minded people believe in the the rules of ever explosive growth, exploitatio
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by chippy 6y ago
I think this was addressed in the post with the example of school conformists who "rebel" along with the rest of their group doing the same things, with the same clothes, language, fashion, music etc. In your example, the aggressi
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by chippy 6y ago
The ideas of social justice and equality spring from the independent quadrant. These ideas have become the rules that conventional quadrant follow and expose. This doesn't seem to contradict itself.
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Proteus becomes the world's first manufactured non-cuttable material(newatlas.com)
47 points by chippy 6y ago|44 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
even the existence of a widely accessed internal admin tool that has the ability to read "private" DMs would shake things up
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by chippy 6y ago
In the US currently it appears that "cancel" equates to "criticize". There's no nuance possible, seems to me, so why bother? It's no wonder so many people are not playing the game. Equally so it's telling
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by chippy 6y ago
There is a theory that much of what we think are universal human values such as morality or justice or democracy comes from the book. Indeed many would support the idea that all utopian movements such as the The French Revolution or Communi
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by chippy 6y ago
Humans are often the weak link here. The most common scenario is that the police had some control over the project due to a compromised person. I'd wager that the police did not start the project, but soon after it was being used for c
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by chippy 6y ago
Try to imagine something you know, rather than imagining something from scratch, as it uses different mental muscles. Try taking something you know and putting it someplace else you know but which is unexpected. Like your sofa in your super
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by chippy 6y ago
Let's say you are shopping for a new sofa. Often people will imagine their room and how imagine how the new sofa would look in the room. Usually people will visualise that imagination process. Now re-read the above and consider that I&
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A Geographer’s Perspective on Nature and Culture in a Landscape of Fear(linkedin.com)
1 points by chippy 6y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 6y ago
If we look at history and the Left then censorship also goes hand in hand with it. The common factor is authoritarianism. Zizek makes a difference in that the left always consider the offender as just brainwashed and potentially redeemable
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by chippy 6y ago
/r/movies had posters who literally and out in the open said they were employed by netflix to post netflix videos they said their manager thought reddit would like. I avoided the place ever since then. That was about 4 years ago.
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by chippy 6y ago
are people expanding their perspective from encountering non mainstream content dangerous? it appears many view the subreddit as being awful. Is it possible that another could view awful content and derive positive value from it?
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by chippy 6y ago
a strange game - the only winning move is not to play.
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could you link the report?
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by chippy 6y ago
It's a kind of philosophical issue at root. Parallels can be seen in the both the Death Penalty in the US vs. UK and more generally in Innocent Until Proven Guilty in both legal systems. In the UK the death penalty was abolished becaus
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by chippy 6y ago
society of the spectacle perhaps? even communication is done at the level of the image
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by chippy 6y ago
is there anything a resident can do? is the city run by the democrat or republican? is the pd or mayor a democrat? Is the police chief an electable position? (im in the UK and have been there for a day or 2, it seems pretty left wing) how c
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by chippy 6y ago
For policing if you are looking for "what areas have most violent street crime" - if for are actually looking for those areas to devote resources to and you use actual data, then you will devote resources to areas which suffer ac
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by chippy 6y ago
its an honest question but it is not possible to give an honest answer currently.
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by chippy 6y ago
and hire cheaper overseas developers. We Europeans finally get more of a chance and we don't have to relocate to the valley!

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