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by conz 4y ago
Why not unfollow all who present material that you find egregious or banal? Try and connect with people who are more interesting or more sympatico with respect to interests/fields/profession?
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by conz 4y ago
One way ticket, yes?
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by conz 4y ago
By way of answer, I suggest the following two videos are worth your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9nv0Ol-R5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
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by conz 4y ago
He lost me with the following: > and series of essentially untested messenger RNA vaccines In fact, mRNA vaccines have been in various clinical trials for decades. The following paper provides an overview and it was published before CO
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by conz 4y ago
> The actual seats that are won are a better indication of the results and who has power. Results seem to be that the major 2 parties won 90% of the seats: While true, that 10% allocation of parliamentary seats to independents/small
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by conz 4y ago
> Australia has a robust ranked voting system but still has very dominant 2 major parties. Australia's top 3 parties achieved ~65% of the vote. That leaves about 1/3rd to minor parties and independents. Surely that's a g
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by conz 4y ago
None of what you've stated changes the fact that the original plan for fibre-to-the-premises was derailed by the incoming coalition government under Abbott & Turnbull.
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by conz 4y ago
According to this article, Telstra, not Labor, is responsible for sabotaging the original NBN project. https://www.afr.com/companies/telecommunications/row-intensi... According to this article, the LNP coalition w
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by conz 4y ago
> t's pretty clear that the grandparent comment means wikipedia doesn't support diverse views on things It is? Not any way that I read the grandparent comment. Regardless, I would dispute that, unless you're saying the peo
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by conz 4y ago
> With GPL the user is entitled to access the source code of the software and any modifications which allows them to hire another developer if they aren't satisfied. Absolutely, which is why I used the term of 'giving freedom t
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by conz 4y ago
> Wikipedia is no bastion of free speech either. Wikipedia shouldn't be a bastion of free speech, in the same way that a text-book shouldn't be the bastion of 'all forms of crazy and unsportable ideas'. Anything tha
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by conz 4y ago
> the quality has definitely gone downhill lately. I can't agree. This video from a few weeks ago about the W Boson mass discrepancy is about as deep as a lay audience can hope to surmount: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by conz 4y ago
> GPL is user centric license. GPL (and other share-and-share-alike licences) gives freedom to the software . BSD (and other attribution or public domain licences) gives freedom to the developer. Both give similar freedom to the users
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by conz 4y ago
> Did Usenet not require any moderation? Or was it simply the barrier for entry that made people behave like the access was a scarce resource? Or what do You think made the period so unique? Usenet didn't (in general, IIRC) have cen
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by conz 4y ago
> HN mostly reminds me of the Usenet of the late 1980s - which was in a way the social media of its time. In terms of signal-to-noise ratio and the content focus, you're right. HN is the closest thing to the 80s Usenet community tha
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by conz 4y ago
> I notice you don't comment on my info on Zelensky and the Panama papers. Isn't that newsworthy? Is that not a lie by omission? This has nothing to do with the original point of this thread, which I'll repeat is that Eva
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by conz 4y ago
Further to this and in news just at hand: > "HB 20’s critics have blasted it for infringing on the First Amendment rights of private companies. “Texas’s law violates the First Amendment because it compels social media companies to p
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by conz 4y ago
> On other hand if Twitter is publisher and control what is published. They should be held responsible both criminally and financially of everything they allow to be published on their platform. It's fair that Twitter should be held
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by conz 4y ago
> No, this is just a trite straw man repeated every single time free speech comes up. It is no strawman argument but fundamental to the argument about free speech. Forcing a publisher (Twitter) to publish content is as bad as forcing a p
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by conz 4y ago
> Well, I think our criteria for what constitutes 'journalism' are very different! You presented a Youtube video by a pro-Russian activist who has been repeatedly caught out lying . I presented an actual journalist and credibl
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by conz 4y ago
> But.. show me a trustworthy journalist! Most any journalist which works for a quality newspaper (which doesn't toe a national or governmental line) would qualify as a better source of information than this person. But, you asked f
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by conz 4y ago
It's not that she works for RT, which is known to be the Kremlin's mouthpiece. It's that she has a history of fabrication and lies, as noted in the linked Wikipedia article's citations. With such a history of non-credibi
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by conz 4y ago
I cry bogus. > Bartlett describes herself as an "independent writer and rights activist."[3] She writes commentary pieces for RT's website.Critics contend that her advocacy amounts to participation in a disinformation camp
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by conz 4y ago
> But it acts as a public square, in the sense that you need to publish there to meaningfully interact with a significant fraction of the population. I guess this must be a Your-Mileage-May-Vary situation. I've never used Twitter as
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by conz 4y ago
Parent comment states: > It is privately owned, but it acts as a public square. For the same reasons that we defend the right to Free Speech at the public level, we should push the platforms that act as public squares to guarantee Free S
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by conz 5y ago
Depending on the 10 year old, but my default recommendation for kids learning to code is to use games as the enticing pathway. So, with that in mind, I'd suggest using Godot ( https://godotengine.org ), with the reasoning bei
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by conz 5y ago
> Social media is the KING KONG of censorship. Downvotes that hide your reply. Post removal. Automated post removal. Secret forbidden word lists. Banning. Shadowbanning. Blocking. We have so much censorship now that we need to create a n
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by conz 5y ago
From a few years ago, but pertinent to the topic at hand. MBA: Mostly bloody awful Something happened to management culture decades ago and now being a Master of Business Administration, especially from Harvard, is rather on the nose
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by conz 5y ago
A couple of points, if I may. 1) I've not seen credible evidence that he retained internal documents from the Republicans, only releasing material from the Democrats. Do you have any citations for this? 2) Regardless of the above, that
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by conz 5y ago
Disturbingly for a forum which is constituted of Assange-like-minded hackers and cypherphreaks, the anger shown towards him on here is always surprising, no small thanks to the work done on Assange by his enemies. For anyone who's not

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