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by drak0n1c 6y ago
The truly steel-man assessment of the President's statement of "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" is that he meant it empirically, not normatively -- describing what inevitably occurs in an environment of sustaine
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Next time you are flabbergasted upon reading a headline, or seeing an 8 second excerpt - take a moment and view the entire source material. Be it the press briefing, speech, or document. What is often revealed is that the bulk of the conten
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The account was vandalized in the past by a rogue employee, they probably added more controls since then.
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What if there was personal address doxxing of all software engineers claiming we're creepy hackers? Would such be justified because a number of us have had some small degree of indirect or direct contribution toward mass privacy violat
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The compromise you're suggesting is what Dataminr is doing. Monitoring publicly available media like Twitter to look for evidence of criminal intent (albeit in an automated fashion).
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HN typically expects more from comments than just a castigatory sentence and a quote.
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Apple regularly punishes privacy-invasive apps, and also apps that they and other tech giants deem misinformation (all apps are banned from presenting COVID-19 data, Infowars was deplatformed, etc). While they do stand up to OS-level encryp
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
The cases motivated by ignorance of etymology and the conflation of homonyms are most frustrating. Such as the already gender-neutral version of the word “man”, which existed back when the sexes were referred to as weremen and women.
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Goodbye to the Wild Wild Web(nytimes.com)
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The fearmongering list has also been expanded to Russia and the far-right. As the list of perceived threats grows more varied, so does bipartisan support for undermining encryption.
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Why is it that advertisers did not care previously and for so long? The status quo for a decade was that all parties - consumers, YouTubers, advertisers, and YouTube itself did not care much about the minority of ad placements that happened
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Likewise, citizens are free to criticize the actions of private corporations - whether they are criticizing Verizon or Facebook. Say an environmentalist criticizes the practices of an oil company, and the overwhelming majority of rebuttals
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Even mainstream Vox [1], NBC [2], and NYT [3] reporters have recently contacted corporations and individuals threatening to name and shame them if they do not issue an apology, assist with a story, or add their weight to a deplatforming&#x2
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
There’s an unfortunate trend of journalists at large outlets gleefully throwing their weight around and being unnecessarily vicious in their treatment of smaller media entities and blogs they perceive as ideological opponents. NBC was the m
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Facebook whistleblower documents evidence of moderation algorithm and team bias(youtube.com)
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Unreal Engine 5 won't arrive until late 2021. They're going to keep releasing major features to UE4 until at least then. I'm sure there will be a migration process for existing projects, as long as you're on a recent UE4
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Unreal Engine 4.25 Released(docs.unrealengine.com)
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NASA announces Artemis Moon base will establish a cost per ton delivered(twitter.com)
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In Couer D'Alene conservative open-carry volunteers protected the protests and prevented any violence and confrontation from breaking out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIS4C7ym5YM If there is to be an alternative to
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Not many people are aware - in Coeur d'Alene open-carry conservatives joined and protected protesters and successfully deterred rioters from subverting the protest. Local news interviews with protest leaders and armed volunteers: http
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In a civil-war scenario, that level of destruction would be suicide for a government's economic and international survival and cause mass military desertion/defection. That counts as deterrence.
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I believe the parent comment is referencing the 2017 Berkeley incident where a professor ambushed multiple conservative and libertarian protesters from behind, hitting them in the back of the head with a bike lock. https://www.be
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If they do not control public discourse, why were there allegations that misinformation on those platforms can affect elections? Isn't this new policy of Twitter an admission that they do affect discourse, and thus need to be more resp
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A judge in Philly was just convicted of fraudulent ballot stuffing in multiple elections. He actually added enough votes to swing multiple results. If we can question the security vulnerabilities of electronic voting machines, why can’t we
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
This 1919 footage of Japan taken by the YWCA includes an Ainu village and their festival. Video footage of traditional Ainu culture is extremely rare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ3RteagLoY
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It's a gamble - either 2 will lead to 3, or 2 will lead to input and output prices of goods being raised. Probably some of both. Hopefully more of 3 than the alternative, because the alternative scenario of prices rising has negative c
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Not quite "never". You may not be aware because the Joe Rogan podcast was the only outlet that covered his apologies and regret for his behavior. For years since the incident he's been telling his followers in his own show th
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
Elon dabbling in civil liberties activism and countering far-left "rose twitter" with the rose emoji and red pill phrase is not "going full alt-right" -- the political spectrum is more nuanced than that.
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YouTube was much more profitable before the current era of partisan activists engaging in targeted campaigns of harassment against specific brands when their ads appear next to controversial content. Before, industry players, YouTubers, and
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The "whistle-blower" was a federal employee making allegations of hearsay and intent identifying other federal employees (not just the President). What is the line that decides that one is immune to scrutiny while others receive t

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