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by ctrlp 6y ago
There's a difference between software quality and software value. Maybe your quality is low but you can still add value in the right places on the right problems by understanding the context and use cases. Focus on that and you can sti
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by ctrlp 6y ago
This is the point of the Leninist party politics. It is the activist embodiment of Marxism. The Frankfurt School was trying to understand why the revolution had only occurred in Russia despite the predictions of Marx's theory. Their r
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by ctrlp 6y ago
Right, if you haven't seen it it must not exist. Are you from Missouri? If that level of radical skepticism works for you, good on ya. Personally, I don't conflate things that I don't know with things that can't be known
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by ctrlp 6y ago
Elementary schools are shaping up to be little Woke madrassas. We're really failing our kids.
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by ctrlp 6y ago
It's arguable whether public schools in the US are "working out" right now. As indoctrination day camps, maybe.
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by ctrlp 6y ago
I see I'm getting downvoted. Will any downvoters have the balls to say why? Here's the relevant quote: "Just ask BLM leaders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. In a revealing 2015 interview, Cullors said, “Myself
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by ctrlp 6y ago
This suggests you didn't get a degree in the humanities in the past 20 years and don't understand the Leninist part of Marxist-Leninist.
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by ctrlp 6y ago
BLM was founded by Marxist-Leninist activists. The original statements about the nuclear family were consistent with viewing the family as a site of patriachical oppression. None of that antagonism is innovative or surprising if you know a
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by ctrlp 6y ago
The consequences of being wrong in the comments section is significantly less, imho. Plus, doctors are paid a lot for their expertise. It's really not about craving certainty. It's a question of a system that disincentivizes think
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by ctrlp 6y ago
There was a book, Bitter Pills, by a journalist who's wife had years long neurological side effects from a flouroquinolone, iirc. It's an investigation into the world of drug testing, prescribing, and side effects. https:/&#
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by ctrlp 6y ago
Sorry to hear your story. I can sympathize as you see from my post above.
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by ctrlp 6y ago
I can attest. This happened to my wife 15+ years ago. The reaction began after two doses of Levaquin and was 3 months of non-stop living hell. Seriously painful neuropathy, burning all over her body. Profuse sweating all night. Brutal night
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by ctrlp 6y ago
Reminds me of Isabelle de Borchgrave's incredible paper dresses. https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/for-artist-isabelle-de-borch...
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by ctrlp 6y ago
The Plaza Athenee hotel in the city center of Paris has had lovely bright red geraniums in every window and balcony for as long as I can remember.
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by ctrlp 6y ago
Brings to mind De Gaulle saying "the graveyards are filled with indispensable men."
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by ctrlp 6y ago
Frankly, I'm surprised the opposite isn't the case, given the technical novelty of the mRNA vaccines. Anyone who says mRNA vaccines are proven technology is being dishonest. They're very promising and I truly hope they succee
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by ctrlp 6y ago
Most of the times reads like opinion now, if you haven't noticed.
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by ctrlp 6y ago
My aversion to this as fiction is there is so much attention to the fictional science and so little to the fictional people. I could just go read futurist prognostications to get the tech part without having to wade through what reads like
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by ctrlp 6y ago
The surreal part is surely the book-sized holes the censors cut out.
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by ctrlp 6y ago
Good lord the prose is gawd awful. Almost parody levels of tediousness.
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by ctrlp 6y ago
Not sure Wolfe would qualify as one of the "good" editors fired at the times. Maybe OP is referring to Bennet? I'm any case the power dynamics at the NYT have been shifting to the detriment of solid reporting for a while now.
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by ctrlp 6y ago
If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. Iirc, there were a few major platforms that are well known to harbor and promote incitements of violence when it aligns with the political and cultural hegemon. You actually can and must have
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by ctrlp 6y ago
Frankly, this is a good thing. Maybe when those who were so sanguine about the recent censoring by Big Tech see it without the blinders of their political bias on, and also witness to the coordinates attacks by the media to justify it, the
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by ctrlp 6y ago
I you want to learn vim movements quickly, start using a browser plugin with vim keybindings like VimFX it Vimium. Stop using the mouse to browse the internet. You'll get hours of practice doing something you'd do anyway. The musc
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by ctrlp 6y ago
Your commitment to free speech was likely never very deep or thoughtful if these events are enough for you to do a 180. Could it be you have fallen into a filter bubble so well insulated you don't realize it? Such a realization might a
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by ctrlp 6y ago
You said it yourself, Apple, Google, AWS are "the law" now.
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by ctrlp 6y ago
I like and read bellingcat, but, if we're being honest, it is not a neutral source of information.
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by ctrlp 6y ago
I apologize if English isn't your native language but it is a simple fact satisfied with the simplest google search that Parler does moderate its content. Therefore it is false to say they do not. Please don't spread "known f
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by ctrlp 6y ago
Parler claimed they were intentionally not going to get into the game of defining "hate speech". We see how hard that is in the context of Twitter and Facebook. There are laws on the books in some countries criminalizing as "
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by ctrlp 6y ago
Parler has allegedly had hundreds of paid moderators for months. They also allegedly cleared their backlog over the weekend in a foolish belief they could be on the right side of AWS politics.

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