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by courtf 6y ago
His argument is that there are worse people on Twitter, which doesn't necessarily imply they were wrong to ban Trump.
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by courtf 6y ago
"an insurrection is the language of the unheard" Hmm doesn't have quite the same ring. Try this one: "We shall fight them on the beaches... we shall never surrender" Or would you prefer appeasement?
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by courtf 6y ago
It's not that I'm happy, it's that I just don't give a fuck. Your doom and gloom falls completely flat because being banned from Twitter is the mildest possible consequence these people will ever face.
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by courtf 6y ago
That's funny, it seems they were perfectly happy to try starting their own country a couple days ago.
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by courtf 6y ago
An unprecedented week for the tech industry! Is that what we're calling it lol? A week in which more Americans died from covid than any week prior. The day after the insurrection over 4k people died from covid, a disease that half the
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by courtf 6y ago
These comments are hilarious, because people on the right vastly overestimate the size of their presence on the web. The traffic parler generates for AWS is a rounding error. It's like complaining about shutting down the old chuck e ch
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by courtf 6y ago
Some of the people I agree with are dead, murdered by people you agree with. Cry my a river a tears about your fascist leader being kicked off Twitter. I'd fill a snow globe and keep it in my desk.
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by courtf 6y ago
I love the image of Twitter admins chasing Trump around the platform like trying to get rid of some ornery teenage troll. Next he'll be logging into Ivanka's account.
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by courtf 6y ago
Hmm, deplatforming... Is that what the right calls opening the trapdoor on the gallows?
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by courtf 6y ago
> nobody was directly threatened next sentence: > one women who came a little too close to breaking into where some VIPs were was shot in the neck and died the shot heard round the trailer park!
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by courtf 6y ago
Real patriots give their SSI and a photo of their driver's license to parler anyway.
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by courtf 6y ago
Just because someone votes for Trump doesn't mean they aren't sick of his incompetence/dishonesty/corruption. It just means they prefer him to the alternative.
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by courtf 6y ago
It's going to be amazing when thedonald.win turns on their eponymous leader. Will they have to ban themselves? Stay tuned to find out!
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by courtf 6y ago
A lot of people are saying that Trump gallantly led the march in a few unnecessary loops before they arrived at the capitol. Yeah he had the presidential limo pacing ahead of crowd while he dangled one luscious, bizarrely hairless orange le
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by courtf 6y ago
Trump was actually hoping the entire gravy seal battalion would suffer coronaries on the walk to the capitol building, it's the only way he gets out of this without the mob turning on him. Think about it, Trump invites these gas bags t
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by courtf 6y ago
Hmm, surely there are cheaper forced labor options available in China? Hyundai seems like they might be paying their employees, which seems a little off-brand for a company like Apple.
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by courtf 6y ago
word to el muerto cucaracha exoskeleton
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by courtf 6y ago
Depends what you're doing with it, but I have to think it mostly is a bubble. Maybe if you have a really simple question that already fits what can be measured, or you're trying to surveil someone in particular, but for stuff like
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by courtf 6y ago
It's one of the biggest lies in tech right now, that all this user data is some untapped gold mine, as if text on the internet is the most important measure of human behavior. It's all going to end up rotting on backups while the
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by courtf 6y ago
I've done those things, and so has my husband. Not sure either of us would go back, but software has some uniquely frustrating aspects and tends to attract a certain type of oblivious, entitled asshole. You get real tired of fiddling w
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by courtf 6y ago
Congrats on achieving useless corporate parasite status, it's everyone's dream, but I was responding to your comment, not your life.
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by courtf 6y ago
The work matters, no question, just not enough to be compensated proportionally to its value. No, the money and prestige don't belong to the people who actually make the things we use and enjoy, it all goes to the top where it belongs.
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by courtf 6y ago
They're all just buzzword shortcuts for rapidly dismissing people and arguments we don't like. If we're going to hold arguments up to the standards of pure logic during any mildly subjective debate, one can only conclude that
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by courtf 6y ago
Ok, I guess Sam is one of the good ones? I'm not convinced, but my comments haven't all been specific to him anyway. I'm sure there are ways to lean on the scales and enhance your "luck," but if you don't attri
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by courtf 6y ago
I mean, it's just a phrase you can put away the analysis. It means any other warm body inhabiting that space at that time would have similar results. There are infinite right places and right times.
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by courtf 6y ago
It's easy to make money when you have money and thousands of desperate poors begging for the opportunity to bhe your investment vehicle. Sam got lucky and got rich. From there it's all downhill.
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by courtf 6y ago
You're just making my point for me because what you wrote is the definition of survivorship bias.
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by courtf 6y ago
Fair point, I just want to point out that this "lecture" series could be greatly reduced to one simple rule: do what the money-men tell if you want to get funded. These guys don't know how to build your business, they know ho
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by courtf 6y ago
These SV made-men, taken as a group, are Exhibit A for survivorship bias. Their primary talent is having been in the right place at the right time and they've spun an entire self-help industry out of it. If they hadn't gotten luck
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by courtf 6y ago
There is incredible pressure to give out vaccine to those with the tallest soapbox from which they can harass decision makers. And of course, said decision makers aren't exactly known for their backbone when handling conflict, so we ge

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