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by chr1 6y ago
This is a good example too. A baker cannot be forced to do unusual or creative work he doesn't like, but refusing to sell pre-made cake, or refusing to do routine customizations (like selecting colour or text if these are always done f
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by chr1 6y ago
There is difference between association and between singling out someone and refusing service that would be at no additional cost to you. Twitter not only banned Trumps account, but also sci-hub account which is far from being a "wretc
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I am not talking about laws in any particular country, but the way things would work in practice. If you see a shop owner refuse service to a girl because of green hair, would you say "that's ok, not a protected class so she had i
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by chr1 6y ago
Why is the choice between government control and supporting censorship by tech companies? One can be against government control out of fear that government will use that to do something unintended, and at the same time condemn the destructi
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No, his argument is that such things can't be decided by arbitrary whims of unknown group of people, there must be clear, consistent rules, and a way to appeal.
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Just like shop owner shouldn't refuse to sell you something, because he doesn't like your hair color, social media company shouldn't refuse to broadcast your speech. Note that this is different from tv or radio, because then
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Russia just recently introduced laws that would allow to fine Youtube and social networks if they hinder propagation of important information, so according to them not only banning their propagandists, but even removing them from suggestion
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Person C threatening to no longer communicate with person A, is different than person C threatening to do additional work to not conduct business with person A. This kind of weaponization of everyday business does not lead to anything good.
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Twitter was very happy when after vote fraud in other countries it was helping to promote revolutions, several years ago. Section 230 specifically frees them from responsibility if they behave as a platform and opens to much more liability
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We are thousands of years late, these forces had created these sites way before invaders have assimilated the ancestors of current day Turks.
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Maybe the solution is to use 21st century tools for democracy in 21st century. Issue based open voting, flexible mechanism of vote delegation, and ability to trade votes to reach compromise can fix what social media have broken https:&#x2
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Yogurt have been eaten from Greece to India for 5000 years, way before Turkish invasions, so why would anyone say that it is exclusively Turkish?
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Most often our bodies see lot more artificial light than than natural, so numbers on clock have much more power than they used to.
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There was a similar change in Russia and Armenia several years ago, and nothing fun or spectacular have happened. Only old computers without internet access had required manual update of clock settings.
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They are being followed by the state, not companies or ordinary people, and incompetent government agencies collecting then leaking travel information helped them to find the agents who have tried to kill them. So why would they disagree?
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by chr1 6y ago
Yes, there are many possible issues, but most of them can't be identified without real use. One way to create a sandbox for finding edge cases would be to create a general petition site using voteflux, or convince change.org to impleme
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1. Issue based direct democracy allowing to trade votes https://voteflux.org 2. longevity research https://www.sens.org
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I would say this is another proof that fears of privacy advocates are misplaced, and reduced privacy is more beneficial to ordinary people. Of course all people have secrets that they want to keep hidden, but revealing secrets of ordinary p
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by chr1 6y ago
Most people misunderstand how the futures work. This fee podcast explains well why it is a useful tool and not a fraud as many think https://fee.org/shows/audio/words-numbers/a-game-of-risk/
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Is there a need for more proof of impossibility after prohibition? Which have been tried in multiple countries and always with similar results. The issue with alcohol, smoke, caffeine, soda, refined sugar, is that they are not very harmful
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In two months you'll be asking why did that year end. God was so kind to us back then.
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The songs are especially great, and the last words of the video are very sad: "we know that robots are almighty, it's a pity that robots are not us"
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Any cell can become a human if it is placed in a favorable environment. My argument is not about intrinsic value of sperm cell, fetus, or a newborn, my argument is about maximizing the amount of life in general. Every human alive by simply
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by chr1 6y ago
If you have resources to support the third child, and you chose to not spend them on the child, you should feel some guilt for slowing down the progress of humanity. There is limited time until a meteorite hits the earth, or CO2 runs out, o
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I was not saying that the idea of not having children is genetically determined. (There might be some genetical component related to being susceptible to depressions, but that's not the point). I was trying to say, that the idea itself
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If we do that kind of thing on a massive scale, we could use that not simply to reduce the global temperature, but to control the local weather, reducing area covered by deserts.
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Reducing meat consumption and other similar measures will have vanishingly small effect, especially compared to the amount of CO2 that is going to be released from Siberian permafrost, which is already melting, and has more carbon stored in
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From the evolutionary point of view, if some people are susceptible to believing in harmful ideologies that lead them to die off, maybe it's better to let them to die off instead of spreading their mind-virus further. There are many sm
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Why do you think suffering is worse than not existing? If they find their suffering to be unbearable they can end their lives, But unlike us they will have more information to make such a decision. With suffering they have a chance to at le
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They arise very naturally, but unfortunately it still doesn't seem to give an intuitive geometric example of objects that are described by spinors. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/

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