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by csnover 6y ago
Black-or-white thinking like this is false and damaging. The world has nuance, and the idea that “[people are] independent enough to make their own decisions. Period” rejects that nuance and substitutes a simplified and idealistic model of
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by csnover 6y ago
> It completely ignored the fact (explicitly mentioned in my comment) that in this case - the case this entire thread is talking about - government officials pressured the company into suppressing free speech. Yes, I didn’t reply to that
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Normally I would ask you for you to please show me where in the law it says what you claim, but I am instead going to speak directly because I think it is important to be super clear on this: Wherever you are getting your information, it is
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by csnover 6y ago
If you want to be pedantic about it, YouTube is a distributor, like a book store or a news stand, not a publisher like a newspaper. Distributors are in the business of distributing third party content. You can’t force a distributor to c
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What is too outlandish to you is not too outlandish to others. Some believe the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by the CIA. Some believe the earth is flat. Some believe a Nigerian prince got their email address from their dead friend’s
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by csnover 6y ago
> How would we know [media literacy isn’t enough]? It's not really taught. As you pointed out later, it's not just "media literacy," it's "thinking for yourself," "critical thinking," "sk
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> What if instead, it's the company which is telling the truth, but the government which is malicious, and wants to censor them? This is not hypothetical, you can see this in many countries today like North Korea, Iran, India, etc.
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by csnover 6y ago
No. Under Section 230, they are treated mostly as a distributor , like a book store or a news stand.
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It’s bad, but it’s mostly bad because Teams is bad. It’s still better than Amwell, which somehow manages to have multi-second latencies and requires me to manually mute my video preview to stop it looping back my own audio. The old P2P Skyp
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by csnover 6y ago
You’re technically right about the “lots and lots” part, though I suspect you don’t understand how much “lots and lots” actually is: > To reduce VOCs enough to impact air quality would require around 10 plants per square foot. In a small
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by csnover 6y ago
Sorry if I am just obtuse but I don’t see a timeline in the linked report on GitHub. All I can see is that you tested against a version of Teams from 2020-08-31. Being able to see the complete timeline of communication with MS from discover
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by csnover 6y ago
One of my health care providers use Microsoft Teams as their telehealth solution. My city government uses Microsoft Teams for some public meetings. The idea that folks are only using Teams to connect with other trusted parties is comforting
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Sorry, I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I feel like it is important to engage on a human level for a minute. I’m genuinely sorry to hear that you feel uncomfortable voicing your opinions. I know from personal experience how hard it is
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by csnover 6y ago
You’re going to be downvoted, not because of your questions, but because you decided to put “please bring the downvotes” at the end of your comment. Why would you undermine yourself by sticking such an antagonistic comment at the end of you
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by csnover 6y ago
> I’m not sure where that trend comes from, but it’s obnoxious. (1) The options for controlling the style of SVG elements (e.g. on hover) are not great.[0] In contrast, font icons can be styled as easily as any other text. (2) Font files
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The CDC updated their pandemic planning scenarios [0] based on earlier studies in Europe plus some educated guesswork using data collected from the US through August 8. The numbers which you represent as the CDC’s sole official estimate of
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Trump said he would only accept the result of an election if he wins it, way back in 2016[0]; he has a pattern of firing anyone who doesn’t do or say exactly what he wants, especially when it comes to persecuting his perceived enemies[1]; h
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by csnover 6y ago
The downvoting could also be because I asked a very basic question and they responded to it with a non sequitur that did not even attempt to answer the question.
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What would have to be true in order for you to feel that the media response to Trump’s presidency has been appropriate?
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I don’t have a good answer, but I do have an idea. The next time you face this situation, instead of jumping to give information that you would need to know in order for you to believe what you are saying, ask the other person instead:
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by csnover 6y ago
I mean, at least on the surface, things seemed pretty optimistic in the late 1980s through the 1990s, from what I remember. It wasn’t a utopia, but it’s easy to see how there would be less pressure for young people to be involved in politic
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by csnover 6y ago
Yes. Probably the worst thing about this election for me is that it seems to demonstrate conclusively that 2016 was no aberration, no temporary mass hysteria, no failed experiment in electing a political outsider to “drain the swamp”. This
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> His term also (further) exposed big flaws in the way we put people on the Supreme Court. We should go back to the old system of a 2/3 majority required. No more 50/50 simple majority, as the Democrats instituted a while back.
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I did something similar to this but was turned away from using random bulbs off of Amazon since most of them lied about their product performance (advertising peak wattage of all the LEDs and then not driving them at max power), safety cert
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I’ve found that consistent CVSS scoring is practically impossible, both because many criteria are defined in ambiguous or confusing ways, and because rating any obvious knock-on effects is proscribed by the official scoring rules[0][1]. For
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The “Intent to Ship” bot on Twitter[0] tweets the notices from browser makers about their feature changes. [0] https://twitter.com/intenttoship
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How close does the analogy need to be in order for you to feel comfortable that what Internet Archive are doing is not at all dangerous or unprecedented? While you may not have encountered it, some libraries do label books for content[0]:
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No, the bad faith part was using an infamous pseudo-religion as a thought-terminating cliché instead of just saying what you said much more clearly and eloquently in this reply. :-) Propaganda isn’t “telling people the truth and warning the
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Why do you feel like the appropriate way to respond to a comment pointing out a bad faith argument is to reply with another bad faith argument?
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Your first sentence could be a literal description of the concept of education: telling people the truth and warning them about false truths so they don’t make wrong decisions. Your second sentence is a bad faith slippery slope fallacy desi

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