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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
There's still a few weeks left in 2022. It's not too late for this to be the year when you learn that freedom of speech isn't just a law, it's a value . Something that doesn't involve the government can still be a
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
> Because of laws passed after the Enron scandal, publicly traded companies are required to retain internal communications for long periods of time. I've heard it phrased this way: never send an email that you wouldn't be happy
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Prison? I think Twitter was wrong to censor this story, but what crimes were committed?
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Trump's running for president again. If something comes out in October 2024 that looks bad for Trump, and Elon's Twitter censors the story at the request of Trump's team, will it please you to hear that Trump isn't (yet)
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
The Hunter Biden story wasn't misinformation.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
> A two party system works. It's not working in the US at present.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
You read HN; you're not a normal person. 95% of everyone you know didn't hear about the Hunter Biden thing at the time, and most of them probably still don't know about it.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
At least there's competition in legacy media. If one newspaper buries a story because of naked political bias, you might still read about it in other newspapers. If Twitter decides you're not allowed to read something, where else
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
> citing different policies that are obviously inconsistently applied Here's a better example: the Canadian trucker protests. GiveSendGo was hacked, and the names of people who had donated to the protests were made public - and Twit
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Ah I see, so if country A has a million people and country B has a billion people then people from country A have a 1000x higher probability of getting a green card? Now I understand the problem.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Accents in the UK also have a strong class dimension. Middle class people often speak in a very different way to working class people from the same area.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
The general pattern observed in linguistics is that accents/dialects/languages and language families have the greatest level of diversity in the area where they originated. E.g. Austronesian is a huge language family that covers a
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
There are said to be multiple variations of the Liverpool ("Scouse") accent: https://wikiless.org/wiki/Scouse?lang=en
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
British people also talk like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5bqYlsXDdg
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
I remember a few websites having "buy with Bitcoin" buttons circa 2015 but they all seem to have disappeared by now. What can you still you buy with cryptocurrency, except drugs or tickets to crypto conferences?
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Switzerland Contemplates a Partial Ban on the Use of Electric Vehicles(eugyppius.com)
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Just because there are multiple ways to take the queen, doesn't mean that none of them is clearly better than the others.
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Almost as if the US is the third-biggest country in the world!
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
What's the 7% rule?
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Too late to edit but I realised there's another one: William "IV" was only the third William to rule Scotland. I guess we're in for another round of this when Charles dies and William the "fifth" takes the thro
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
James isn't a good example because he was and still is commonly referred to as "James VI and I". I learnt that in primary school. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I Likewise for his son, Jame
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
> I was not making any judgement or criticism of Ruby, I was.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
If you don't like dealing with confusing and unexpected `NoMethodError` exceptions, stay away from Ruby.
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This is the same reason why some Scottish people object to the late Queen Elizabeth being called "the Second".
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> Isn’t the UK also known for repeatedly trying to ban porn online? No. Ten years and four prime ministers ago the government was briefly talking about making it harder to access online porn if you're under 18, but nothing ever came
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
> idiots can carry guns Not in the UK, usually.
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
It's also worth noting that if you actually watch the video it's very, very, very obvious that it's a joke and that the video's creator isn't actually a Nazi and he doesn't actually want to gas the Jews. (And n
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
And to the surprise of no-one, this system has also been used to control the movements of political dissenters for reasons that have nothing to do with COVID: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bank-protest-
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Okay, so we should just stay locked in our houses for the rest of our lives?
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by chrisbaker98 4y ago
Skin in the game. If he thinks the economy is going to crash, he can put his money where his mouth is and short the economy so that he stands to lose something if his predictions are wrong. Until then, I don't care what he predicts.

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