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by davesque 6y ago
Couldn't have said it better. Thank you for this.
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by davesque 6y ago
Very well said. The critical point is that society is constantly balancing different factors. Sometimes, the balance has been good enough for long enough that we don't even see it. We were in that situation until Trump arrived. During
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by davesque 6y ago
Well, based on the tone of this reply I really doubt there's much more to be gained by continuing this thread. But I'll leave you with a few parting thoughts anyway... > You have got to be kidding me - some people shoving riot
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by davesque 6y ago
Part of what makes this situation interesting/concerning is that it's not hard to imagine that censoring unwanted or problematic speech might become technically infeasible at some point in the not so distant future. I'm not a
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by davesque 6y ago
> But I've not seen any violence toward other people. Goodness, then you haven't been looking very hard. Perhaps you haven't seen this? https://youtu.be/cJOgGsC0G9U?t=1224 The NYTimes also ran this story
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by davesque 6y ago
The most extreme elements of the Trump movement basically proved themselves to be not much different than Al Qaeda on Wednesday. Given that, it seems perfectly appropriate to not allow them onto airplanes.
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by davesque 6y ago
It seems more likely to me that they're realizing that they don't need to fear the Trump administration any more.
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by davesque 6y ago
When is he ever going to face any consequences for his actions? Our society needs to make a statement about this man and his behavior. Impeaching Trump would also have the effect of barring him from holding office again which seems pretty
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In light of everything that's happened this week, I think the first tweet could easily be interpreted as having been intended to further stoke his followers' outrage. The 2nd tweet, while somewhat factual, I think also came off a
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I swear the advent of Trump has precipitated an absolute crisis in critical thinking skills. Whenever I see people salivate at stories like this, waiting for the juicy details to get leaked, my heart dies a little. It's as if no on
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I suppose then that you'd be happy to make any and all conversations you've had in private during recent years public for all to see.
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by davesque 6y ago
Wait, aren't we all privacy advocates here? Who here doesn't say certain things in private that they wouldn't say in public? Any time I see anything like a leaked e-mail story, I remind myself of this simple law of human na
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Your analogy doesn't hold up. "Encryption" is not a place or a thing. It's a fact of nature. It's a mathematical truth. Anyone can take advantage of it once it's been discovered and disseminated. That cat c
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Would you have said the same thing on the Capitol steps on Wednesday?
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> How is this relevant? We don't have a Trump-led dictatorship in the US. Precisely what would we have gotten if those insurrectionists had succeeded in neutralizing the legislative branch? > And since when is "Well it'
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The way people blindly defend this simplified notion of Free Speech makes it seem as though they believe it is some kind of universally guaranteed right that is like a law of physics. No, we enjoy this luxury of debating the ethics of free
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> Somehow, we seem to be forgetting how free speech benefits us all In normal times, I would agree. Philosophies and ideals like this effectively discourage people from taking action. That makes a lot of sense during times of peace whe
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by davesque 6y ago
Unfortunately, it seems we've literally run out of options at this point. Social media companies can either act to silence violent insurrectionists (and hopefully prevent them from organizing) or they can turn the other cheek and risk
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by davesque 6y ago
Have you watched the videos of the occupation of the Capitol on Wednesday? The rioters who broke in were chanting things like "Fight for Trump!" and "Find Mike Pence!" presumably to kill him. This of course shortly aft
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by davesque 6y ago
Is that necessarily a cynical take on things? Seems actually pretty rational on their part to do that to avoid a potential backlash by the Trump-led government. It was probably a good play that led to a better long-term outcome.
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by davesque 6y ago
Does the article advocate for these practices or merely report on them? I didn't really pick up on an approving tone myself.
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by davesque 6y ago
Ridiculous. The brazen depravity of this man must be met with consequences. Life is tolerable because we agree on a system of laws to abide by. What you're saying is like claiming it's fine to cheat on an exam if it's the
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by davesque 6y ago
Considering how ubiquitous slack use seems to be in a lot of major tech companies, I wonder if it's reasonable to ask whether or not the stock market's performance this morning is somehow correlated?
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by davesque 6y ago
It's funny that this isn't considered an "Outage" by their status page's standards.
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Sounds like George Costanza.
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I think anger is in fashion. And, judging from this article, even hatred (anger without end) may be in fashion too. I'll offer a simple explanation. The author talks about the connection of anger with memories of past wrongdoings. I
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by davesque 6y ago
This article really gets off on the wrong foot by stating at the outset that GitHub's new feature "actually sucks." I would have been much more incentivized to read carefully all the way through if the author hadn't come
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by davesque 6y ago
I haven't generally seen that the trend in introducing dark mode has involved forcing it on users.
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In all fairness, is there ever really a water tight abstraction for undoing things at the file system level like you're talking about? If I'm ever trying to do some magic in a Unix-like environment, I usually always make sure that
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by davesque 6y ago
Meh. I like it. Particularly when working at night. Simply turning down the brightness often doesn't cut it.

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