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by chroma 6y ago
A while ago I interviewed a candidate for a software engineering position. He seemed quite capable. I decided to find him on Twitter. His feed was full of things like, "All Cops Are Bastards", many images of the hammer & sickl
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by chroma 6y ago
I agree that Jack is well-intentioned, but I think he's making a huge mistake by choosing a half measure. Twitter's current policy allows Trump to claim he's being silenced while simultaneously allowing him to get his message
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by chroma 6y ago
It was clearly a joke. Are we also going to ban stand-up comedians for making Holocaust jokes?
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by chroma 6y ago
I’d want Westboro Baptist Church to be able to have a YouTube channel. Cloudflare still does TLS termination and DDoS protection for their website https://godhatesfags.com so it doesn’t seem totally out of the question.
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by chroma 6y ago
I have a neighbor who has a "Queers Hate Techies" sticker on his car. I don't like it, but I don't want him banned from YouTube or Twitter or wherever he's saying crazy stuff.
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by chroma 6y ago
Robert Watts said this about the draft during the Vietnam war: > They always holler at us to get an education. And now I have already received my draft classification as 1—A and I have got to report for my physical this Monday coming. I
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by chroma 6y ago
I don't think you understand the point I'm trying to make. I don't care about Alex Jones. I care about collateral damage: Deleting "communist bandits" comments.[1] Banning the Podcast Addict app.[2] Banning other ap
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by chroma 6y ago
OK, but that raises another question: Who decides? Censorship requires a censor. Who are you willing to let decide for you what you're allowed to read and hear? I don't know about you, but I'd like to decide for myself what m
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by chroma 6y ago
I was quoting verbatim from this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23242020
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by chroma 6y ago
> Are you saying that Alex Jones's views are just ahead of their time and the culture is not ready for it? No. In fact I thought I explained that pretty clearly. I said, "So far, we haven't figured out a way to separate go
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by chroma 6y ago
In the women's 800m in Rio, the top 3 all had XY chromosomes and lived with high testosterone levels through puberty. - Caster Semenya[1] (1st place). Here is an interview with her.[2] - Francine Niyonsaba[3] (2nd place). Here is an in
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by chroma 6y ago
John Milton in Areopagitica [1]: > Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest concoction; but herein the difference is of bad books, that they to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to
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by chroma 6y ago
You are conflating two forms of free speech: The right to freedom of speech enshrined in the constitution and the norm of free speech that we all tend to grant each other. Of course YouTube is a private company and can ban and delete whatev
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by chroma 6y ago
Jim Bridenstine sounds like a competent guy, but the fact is that NASA as an organization is no longer competent. They can't build rockets anymore. SLS has been a complete failure. The program was announced in 2011. The plan was to mak
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by chroma 6y ago
> Small-government libertarians in my experience are really ok with big-defense. I don't know who you're talking to, but the national Libertarian Party has always been against domestic surveillance and foreign wars. Unlike the
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by chroma 7y ago
I'll bite the bullet and say it: If the ADA requires UC Berkeley to take down 20,000 hours of lecture videos[1] because some of them lacked subtitles and some lacked audio descriptions of slides, then the ADA needs to be changed. And a
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by chroma 7y ago
If the law is so onerous that UC Berkeley can’t afford to follow it, what chance do small businesses have? Just because you say the law is written clearly doesn’t mean the law is clear. In practice, it seems to be so vague and so selectivel
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by chroma 7y ago
You must draw a line somewhere, right? For example: do you agree with UC Berkeley taking down 20,000 videos of lectures because they lack subtitles and therefore violate the ADA?[1] Should the ADA also require all businesses to be accessibl
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by chroma 7y ago
> No, I haven't spent that much time on this subject before to the point of digging up studies. What? But you said this earlier: > You can apply all the "autogynephilia" testing and logic to most cis women and they&#x27
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by chroma 7y ago
It really seems like you're asking, "Must I believe this?" instead of "What is true?" You picked a couple of questions on the survey to try to dismiss the study. Someone believing the opposite of you could have pick
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by chroma 7y ago
> You can apply all the "autogynephilia" testing and logic to most cis women and they'll come out with a strong diagnosis. That is not true. Trans women score much higher on tests of autogynephilia.[1] This is even found t
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by chroma 7y ago
If you look at MRIs of human brains, you can determine the sex with pretty high accuracy. Researchers have even trained machine learning algorithms to differentiate with >90% accuracy.[1] Researchers have tried this on transgender brains
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by chroma 7y ago
I think it would be more productive to show how the author is incorrect instead of declaring his statement "a disgustingly transphobic opinion". The DSM has always been political, though lately it's gotten worse. For the DSM-
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by chroma 7y ago
I'm rather surprised that there isn't more innovation in firearms. For example: Has anyone tried to build a rifle that fires inert pellets using a combustion chamber powered by hydrocarbons (say… propane) and an oxidizer (oxygen o
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by chroma 7y ago
I think we peaked 15 years ago. Today I have to worry about what I say lest I be branded a bigot and fired from my job. It's very stifling.
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by chroma 7y ago
I'm not diminishing anything. I'm just pointing out that people tend to imagine all minds behave like their own, hence why you believed that cis people would experience gender dysphoria in VR avatars of the opposite sex. I've
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by chroma 7y ago
I've played a few VR games that allow you to customize your avatar. I've tried male bodies, female bodies, robot bodies, ridiculous carton bodies... everything. At no point did I feel that anything was wrong or out of place. This
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by chroma 7y ago
Only if you have a cert that the browser trusts for that domain. If a CA was found to be illicitly minting certs, browsers and operating systems would untrust them. All their certs would stop working. Their business would be ruined.
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by chroma 7y ago
> When they're so big that no competition can challenge them. That's what people said about MySpace before Facebook. It's also what people said about IBM, Microsoft, AOL, Nokia, and Kodak. Big companies have a hard time ch
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by chroma 7y ago
Nonviolent communication comes up on HN every few months and it's always the same praises and criticisms. I've been on the receiving end of NVC quite a few times in my career, and every single time it comes off as patronizing bull

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