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by coolgeek 6y ago
This new "feature" is very much appreciated. It would have been great during the deplatforming storm, as well. Hopefully it will be infrequently necessary. But I suspect that we're living in "interesting times".
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by coolgeek 6y ago
Nobody has an absolute legal right to use a platform. And no platform has an absolute legal right to be hosted by an infra provider. Both the platform and the provider are private sector actors with almost unlimited control/freedom o
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by coolgeek 6y ago
I'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing with you. But I'm asking you to elaborate on specifically who some of those normal people are, and which specific freedoms of theirs are being restricted.
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by coolgeek 6y ago
"The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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by coolgeek 6y ago
I don't have time for this right now, but this article evoked memories of Phrack magazine and 2600 payphone meetups. A rabbit hole I could spend hours in
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by coolgeek 6y ago
I hope that this is as amazing (complete, consistent and coherent) as it initially looks. But I don't see your quote in the link. Did it come from another source, or did the linked sequence change in the interim, or something else?
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by coolgeek 6y ago
> but that brain damage never or rarely happens in people who are not hospitalized Would you make the same argument about someone who incurred a TIA (or a series of them), but did not even visit the hospital, let alone get admitted? More
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by coolgeek 6y ago
Given that almost all of the intelligence agencies concluded that Iraq did not have WMDs, it was not at all "exactly like" the attribution to Russia. But welcome to HN
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by coolgeek 6y ago
> But keto is a lot more than meat, it is nuts and berries, dairy[1], and lots of green leafy vegetables. This is the crux of it. You can have a very varied, and very flavorful experience on keto (or its variations). > I got tired of
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by coolgeek 6y ago
> 25+ people were killed in the riots this summer. Over $2B was done in property damage No excuse for violence or property damage. Prosecute them all. But keep in mind that "this summer's events" comprise over 7500 protes
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by coolgeek 6y ago
Or anonymous interwebz commenters? (That's a general comment, not directed at you or any other specific person)
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by coolgeek 6y ago
I'm normally a fan of DFW. But in this case I know nothing about the book. So I'll highlight this note from the Wikipedia page: > Reviewers, including Rudy Rucker,[1] A.W. Moore[2] and Michael Harris,[3] have criticized its s
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by coolgeek 6y ago
From a WSJ reporter: > Officials and others w/ knowledge have said the evidence of Russian culpability is overwhelming and that the view in the admin is "pretty unanimous." https://twitter.com/dnvolz/s
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by coolgeek 6y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by coolgeek 6y ago
> “DOJ” in this case is the defense attorney I don't understand how you came to that conclusion. Here is the first paragraph of the OP (ABA Journal) article: > A U.S. Department of Justice lawyer argued Monday that the United St
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by coolgeek 6y ago
Your logical error here is that the "you" in proposition 2 is part of the "we" in proposition 1 Don't get me wrong. There's plenty of problems with the system. But you have the opportunity to participate in c
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by coolgeek 6y ago
This is true. A competent administration would have bought up enough of (or all of) the PPE inventory as soon as they understood what was coming. At that point, there would have been no need to lie, because there would have been nothing le
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by coolgeek 6y ago
Except that the meme escaped the lulz laboratory and got picked up earnestly by actual white supremacists. You can argue the intent of any particular politician, in any particular situation. You can't argue that it's just trolling
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by coolgeek 6y ago
For better or worse, mainstream media is the closest thing we have to a consensus view that resembles reality as it exists (affirmatively, not normatively). Retreating into safe spaces (either on the right, or on the left) isn't the an
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by coolgeek 6y ago
> Judgements about status are embedded in almost everything aspect of the news. To read the news is to be insulted — which is why people are fleeing the mainstream media in droves. Except that the people that are "fleeing the mainst
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by coolgeek 6y ago
> I agree, I will collect these into an article some day To be clear, I was not encouraging you to do this. (I'm not discouraging it either. I'm ambivalent.) I just enjoy seeing people use media in new/unanticipated ways
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by coolgeek 6y ago
Here in the colonies, most of the left regards libertarians as right-wing (and a good chunk of the right considers them to be left-wing). It's illustrative of why simplistic right/left labeling is at best useless. You have to eva
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by coolgeek 6y ago
"lefties" is a much broader category than anti-government militias. Other than that, no argument from me
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by coolgeek 6y ago
The Venn diagram on anti-government militias and 5G conspiracy theorists is pretty close to a circle
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by coolgeek 6y ago
I don't know if Pinker attributes this (or if he independently came up with the observation), but the quote relates to Moravec's Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
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by coolgeek 6y ago
I am filled with a sense of wonderment that I have never, until now, encountered an article written as a sequence of forum posts! (Yes, I have seen countless long comments split over a reply thread because the content was too long for a sin
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by coolgeek 6y ago
Nice hack. Two tangential complaints. First, it sounds to me like the ninth note is off - it's lower than it should be. Second, that page ate a huge chunk of my monthly mobile data allocation. Twice. Because I made the mistake of clic
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by coolgeek 6y ago
I know you're playing along with the pun train here. But nutpicking is actually a very lovely word and concept https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nutpicking
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by coolgeek 6y ago
> I have a very different view: programming language design is applied psychology, not mathematics. It's both, and probably more. As you note, programming languages are the ultimate human-computer interface. They have to serve two
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by coolgeek 6y ago
The issue is that being a communist isn't - and shouldn't be - a crime. Collaborating with a hostile foreign power is - and should be - a crime. McCarthy made no distinction between these two ends of the spectrum. Collaboration r

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