falcrist

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by falcrist 6y ago
And again, you run into the problem where nobody wants their website to work like that. In fact, limiting the person's audience really only works with facebook's system where people post content specifically to their friends. Othe
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by falcrist 6y ago
> My concern is not primarily with the outsourcing of moderation, but with the type of moderation that is required. But the problem doesn't go away when you shrink the size of the social media site. The same people will still try to
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by falcrist 6y ago
Why is size the determining factor, though? Is it just that you're worried about the outsourcing of content moderation? Because other than than the problems are the same. Someone will always need to moderate the content.
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by falcrist 6y ago
Does this logic also apply to commenting on hacker news? Or is it specifically the platforms you mentioned? What specifically is the reason you consider those particular platforms to be unethical, and what is the solution. It's not e
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by falcrist 6y ago
SCOTUS can't close the door on congress changing the law, though. That's the purpose of congress.
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by falcrist 6y ago
With voting, you don't actually have to convince a plurality. You only have to convince a small percentage of the population (often <5%) to sway an election.
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by falcrist 6y ago
"As intended" versus "as written" really depends on the law being discussed and the justice interpreting the law. For example, constitutional scholarship seems to lean heavily on interpreting the law by its intent rather
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by falcrist 6y ago
In the case of politicians, you can simply vote them out next election. Board positions can be lifetime appointments.
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by falcrist 6y ago
Well I need to know what your definition of "democracy" encompasses. Examples of things other than direct voting include campaign contributions, talking to the media, going door to door. In the case of teachers, you could talk dir
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by falcrist 6y ago
That's generally only possible in a public company ("public" meaning "publicly traded"). Even then, I don't think the stockholders are under any obligation to sell to you, so you still may not be able to pu
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by falcrist 6y ago
Can you give me some examples, other than voting, of what constitutes democracy? > You're not considering wedge issues? Maybe our systems of government shouldn't have this weakness. This is what I was talking about when I menti
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by falcrist 6y ago
It's not just direct voting. There are plenty of other ways to influence culture to sway other voters. And given the limited number of candidates and the frequency with which our elections come down to a few percent, they certainly wou
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by falcrist 6y ago
> Collective bargaining evens out the power imbalances between workers and their employers. The reason it's strange is because if the government is a democracy (representative or direct), there should already be a mechanism for coll
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by falcrist 6y ago
Public sector unions seem a little odd to me. The whole point of unions is to have collective bargaining power to deal with the bargaining power of corporations. That makes perfect sense... but isn't collective bargaining the point of
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by falcrist 6y ago
Sometimes I wish the SCOTUS would reinterpret things that were obviously wrong... but I'd much rather have the SCOTUS interpret the law as it was intended, and have Congress fix the actual problems with the law.
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by falcrist 6y ago
I just want to note that the thing being read is a "Miranda warning". The rights enumerated in the warning already existed. I was corrected about this a long time ago by a police officer who knew his stuff. https://en.w
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by falcrist 6y ago
In the conclusion, Justice Gorsuch writes "If Congress wishes to withdraw its promises, it must say so." Extremely well put!
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by falcrist 6y ago
I think that's the intent of the ruling, actually. Part of the conclusion says "If Congress wishes to withdraw its promises, it must say so."
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by falcrist 6y ago
From the July 2 Mint blog post: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3766 > When Flatpak came out it immediately allowed anyone to create stores. The Flatpak client can talk to multiple stores. Spotify is on Flathub and they ca
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by falcrist 6y ago
You're technically correct in that the video search returns results from different websites, however the results are almost exclusively youtube or some website embedding a youtube video. "Almost exclusively" isn't an e
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by falcrist 6y ago
Now that's just an elegant solution.
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by falcrist 6y ago
That side-note is really interesting, actually. They found a way to bypass all the hassle of trying to deal with compatibility issues with different computers (at least with the PC clones... Apple used a different port) and applications by
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by falcrist 6y ago
FYI - The article specifically mentions FreeWrite in the second to last paragraph.
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by falcrist 6y ago
I don't see how it would help the DOJ do anything against 47 U.S.C. 230. There's nothing there that stops Facebook from enforcing a code of conduct. A public website is allowed to be biased without losing any protections under tha
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by falcrist 6y ago
I know this sounds like a hot-take, but any analysis of "dark mode vs. light mode" that doesn't account for ambient light is HIGHLY suspect. This is particularly true if the analysis looks at eye-strain. I work for a business
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by falcrist 6y ago
You are correct.
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by falcrist 6y ago
One of the most poignant comments on police militarization I've heard seems to have come from a television show. "There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state. The other serves an
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by falcrist 6y ago
Every time I try to use Linux, I come to the conclusion that the user experience makes it not worth the effort it would take to be a daily driver. I always feel like I just don't have the knowledge to get things done in a reasonably ef
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by falcrist 6y ago
Let's not start nested wars.
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by falcrist 7y ago
Panoramas are one of the things I wish I hadn't left out of that comment. It blows my mind that a phone can do this so much better than a camera unless you invest in special mounts and such.

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