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by ebola1717 9y ago
Or said another way, their analysis is assuming each person's answer is statistically independent, which it's not!
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by ebola1717 9y ago
I've been debating on the internet since I was 13 - I know when someone is worth arguing with, and when they refuse to see the structural issues in play.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
> The CoC must be respected because the CoC says so. That's... how laws and rules work...
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Also, this article comes from another TSC member, meaning one of his peers. If 4 of your 12 peers resign because you weren't removed, there is almost certainly some merit to these complaints.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
What do you think you're missing? He undermined the processes he's meant to support, which sends a mixed message about the org's commitment to its Code of Conduct, and in fact his behavior undermined its authority. In additi
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Yeah, the original list of grievances seemed pretty straightforward and damning. It's not unlike the current US administration, with a climate denier heading the Energy dept, a school privatization advocate heading the Education depar
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Interesting argument. Usually when people make this sort of "virtue signaling," they don't provide much analysis of the history and ramifications, as this article does. Democratically accountable decision makers, uniformly e
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by ebola1717 9y ago
I tend to agree. The times where I've felt "in the zone" have exclusively been in hackathons and school projects. Even when I worked at an early stage startup, I spent most of my time discussing architecture and design patt
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Nope. Nazi speech is banned in Germany cause they learned their lesson.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Do you know what a false equivalency is? They banned a site that no one, even the site runners, would argue isn't explicitly about white nationalism. If anyone bans the likes of Breitbart or InfoWars, then maybe we can start this slipp
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by ebola1717 9y ago
I'm pretty sure to fight for people's rights, you have to fight against nazis. At least that's what all my history books told me we did in world war 2.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
What code of ethics doesn't have an exception for Nazis?
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Wow this is probably the most willfully ignorant post I've seen in a while. "We have to deal with nazis again, except this time the Nazis are actually the people standing up to Nazis"
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by ebola1717 9y ago
I mean yes, with 140 characters, you get some hyperboles. Before 2017, when we said someone was basically a Nazi, we didn't mean it literally. It'll take some time for our lexicon to catch up, but that doesn't mean this Tweet
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Right, like literally this weekend, there was a violent mob of people that found this persuasive.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
But free speech as an ideal is made to protect people from the unique threat posed by state censorship. This may have applications to platforms with influence as widespread as Google or Facebook, but it certainly doesn't apply to most
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by ebola1717 9y ago
This is a pretty thin slippery slope argument. No one is arguing the Republican Party are literally terrorists. The idea that they often flirt with white nationalists far more than they should is not tantamount to a call for banning their w
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Ah yes, nazis and the people fighting the nazis are the same. https://mobile.twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312?la...
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by ebola1717 9y ago
But people aren't gonna pay $10 or even $5 every month for a disney-only streaming subscription, if disney doesn't put out new content for it. It's way cheaper to just buy your favorite disney shows & movies. Disney is
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Dude went on an alt right YouTube show, but Google is the cult?
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by ebola1717 9y ago
The issue is scalability though. That's why it's preferable to consolidate your base of people who understand the issues, push for logical policy changes that protect people's rights, and hope that over a generation or two,
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Nah, they should have. It's not like the economist is out here caping for Colin Kapernick this way. Can we stop it with these articles now.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
I disagree. Debating this memo is like debating about crime statistics every time a black person gets shot by the cops. There are people that understand the role social forces play in inequality, and there are those that don't know and
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Historically though, and even today, the biggest impediments to progressive social programs have been racism. DuBois has good analysis on this with regards to white planters during slavery and reconstruction. Welfare queen stereotypes and
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by ebola1717 9y ago
I think people have done a very good job of saying that. They just get drowned out by outrage from the right, and overly clipped soundbites from both sides. My twitter feed has tons of very thoughtful pieces responding to the memo. They ju
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by ebola1717 9y ago
This is a ridiculously cherry-picked statistic. Pediatricians are the worst paid doctors. In fact, most of the specialties in which women are more common are lower paid: https://wire.ama-assn.org/education/how-medical
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by ebola1717 9y ago
So... you don't like equal protection laws? I'm like really struggling to figure out the alternative interpretation here.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
There are no safe spaces in the real world
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Yeah, like, there's a climate change denier in the NYT op-ed section. NYT isn't DemocracyNow - it's editorial team has range.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
The fact that those fields are undervalued (and often underpaid) is a huge part of this discussion that anyone who fights for diversity in tech is well aware of and has been saying long before this memo was released.

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