curtainsforus

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by curtainsforus 6y ago
But the point is that it the default shouldn't be being NYT exposing you, unless you can make a appeal that puts in you one of the Socially Correct Categories (according to the NYT!). I want the default to be revulsion for doxing, and
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
So people on your end of things love to say; others perceive a growing puritanical effort from people like yourself.
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
Stopping people from putting out Fake News is less important than protecting people from having their lives ruined by a mob for daring to voice heterodox opinions. Anonymity and Pseudonymity protect the weak, not the strong- in that they p
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
It's all evopsych game theory
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
>save for exploratory divergent forays in case the situation has changed Sometimes, crime does pay. So there's a risk-reward strategy to being the kind of person prone to commiting crimes. Two years ago, doing X might have been a n
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
Still, if crime never paid off for anyone, people would wise up eventually- save for exploratory divergent forays in case the situation has changed.
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
I wasn't aware the FCC was going to use that money to buy malaria nets. Each life is worth a star, but the price of a life is far lower. I wasn't aware the purpose of government fines was bronze-age eye-for-an-eye-ism. But if it
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
At what point would the fine be too much for you? A million? Ten million? Should we just kill him and get it over with? Or does it just matter that an authority said that's the fine that's warranted? If the FCC says it's
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
180000 dollars doesn't seem lenient to me. But really, I don't care if it's extremely lenient by some standard. I care what policy will best dissuade antisocial behaviour with the minimal necessary fines imposed. Clearly,
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
Going from a warning to a sum most people would never be able to pay off seems pretty steep. Go in powers of 10, or something. 1k, 10k, 100k.
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
All this complicated, fiddly tech, vs. two spinning bits of metal. I know which one I'd be more confident in...
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
Look, it's government power behind it. I don't fundamentally care how it's gotten rid of as long as it is. Weaken businesses, weaken the government, weaken the links between the two, whichever way is fastest/most effec
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
There are myriad historical scenarios where large-scale protracted guerilla civil wars would have been economically preferable for the would-be guerillas compared to the alternative (or rather, default). There's plenty of scenarios whe
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
It's a matter of economics. The US government wants (has) to rule, not just nuke the country and call it a day. If the whole country's armed, it becomes more costly to have boots on the ground everywhere enforcing the occupation
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
The free flow of information via streaming on a massive level would cut into Disney's profits. So it's much worse.
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
DMCA
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
How does email do this? If someone's email address is jim@website.com, isn't their identity tied to that domain name?
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
I mean, whatever number they pick would have problems. The more planets there are, the easier (more economically viable) it is for spammers/fraudsters/trolls to buy new planets when the old ones get flagged/banned from every
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
It'll live at least as long as there's money in complaining about Yarvin...
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
I read some urbit.com post that said ~"We want people to be able have control of their data without having to be linux sysadmins". There's a societal cost to everyone having all their data sit one facebook's servers, and
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
>how to persuade people to see news etc outside their usual fare I'm not sure, but you actually need a place where people COULD see viewpoints outside the usual before those interested can go there. An example of this working was th
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
Aren't prison nazis "degenerate" white trash, to the extent that real nazis would despise them?
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
Most people don't know what Javascript is, and don't care.
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
mobility scooters
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
People who want to empower women
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by curtainsforus 6y ago
As technical civilization gains power, it becomes able to make things inbetween social categories. Is a simulation of a human brain a person? And one compressed to half-size? And compressed again? And again? It's a grains-to-heap p