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by fjabre 6y ago
I don't understand Google's App store play. Just another walled garden where things like this can happen. They were the champions of the open web for a long time. What happened?
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by fjabre 6y ago
You bring up Orwell. Both sides can get to extremism pretty easily. Both conservatives and liberals easily become dictators. Power corrupts everyone. This has nothing to do with Orwell. Im not sure why you bring him up. The forefathers desi
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by fjabre 6y ago
Appreciate your honesty even if I disagree. I like the way it is setup. It stops the big states from pushing around the little ones too much.
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by fjabre 6y ago
Yes it was designed for this purpose. That's what I'm saying. So big states couldn't bully around small ones.
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by fjabre 6y ago
So what? That's the point.
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by fjabre 6y ago
We are a representative democracy for a reason. It was designed that way. You can't change the rules of the game because you're losing. The United States was designed as a representative democracy on purpose by the forefathers. Th
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by fjabre 6y ago
California has more electors than Vermont.
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by fjabre 6y ago
Was just pointing out it's quite clear that the nation itself is left leaning. That's honest by the numbers. To say the Republicans have any kind of advantage right now except for maybe the courts is incorrect.
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by fjabre 6y ago
Reality is that the Dems own the entire congress and the presidency right now. Reality is we are representative democracy. The forefathers deliberately designed it that way. Reality must line up with your arguments. It does not. If what you
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by fjabre 6y ago
Amazon also has monopolistic power and has destroyed many industries.
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by fjabre 6y ago
If that's true then pretty much every social media platform today should be banned from AWS.
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by fjabre 6y ago
I agree with this completely. You just send them further underground. There is no 'but' as people would have you believe here. But they are Nazis. But I don't agree with them. But they cause riots and violence. There's a
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by fjabre 6y ago
This is false. The left now has the Senate and the Presidency. The electoral college does not matter. They go the way their states go as was made quite clear in the last election. EDIT: Of course it matters how the voting system was designe
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by fjabre 6y ago
Paying your mods. There's a novel idea! Absolutely agree these systems can work when designed the right way. Reddit has designed its system as punitive.
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by fjabre 6y ago
Perhaps the underlying system is flawed in some fundamental 'unfixable' way. Maybe there's a better way. I agree. This is volunteer work. And despite the bad apples there's quite a few good mods out there! I just wonder
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by fjabre 6y ago
This is what happens when we divide people. People congregate form tribes and fight each other. We keep calling each other Nazi's and Socialists - every social network online today.
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by fjabre 6y ago
I appreciate that you've framed a logical argument. There is definitely some sound logic in what you are saying. I think of it a bit differently. Reddit could have its 10 commandments and adhere to that. That would be clear and transpa
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by fjabre 6y ago
And the robo mod? The auto-ban? They have zero access to IPs too right? Mods human or otherwise is what I'm referring to.
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by fjabre 6y ago
Ruqqus.com but unfortunately still small. And also infected. I've been on Shroomery lately and I really like that forum. I think the concept of Karma points is bullshit and punitive. It makes people negative. PG should know that by now
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by fjabre 6y ago
It's pretty terrible they would go these lengths to ban an individual for disagreeing with them politically. The punishment does not fit the crime. I think it's disgusting that they are sniffing out IPs for such low level offenses
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by fjabre 6y ago
I'm obviously not arguing for zero moderation. You would trade one Nazi for another. I believe you are incorrect. That's what the downvote button is for. What good is karma is it's not adhered to? If you can just remove thing
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by fjabre 6y ago
I created another account. Logged in. Forgot I was logged in on another account. Forgot I got banned in that sub ages ago. But not Reddit. Reddit mods don't forget. Reddit gives them the tools they need to sniff you out. Kinda creepy r
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by fjabre 6y ago
Yes there maybe some common sense approaches to curating things but Reddit has gone too far IMHO. I think HN is a separate use case than is reddit. Which is why HN will never become Reddit nor does it want to. It's always been a niche
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by fjabre 6y ago
But America is special. We are a melting pot of thousands of different cultures coming in and out all the time. There are not many other countries like America. Certainly not on our scale if they are similar. Of course we were going to get
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by fjabre 6y ago
I disagree. Giving them too much power puts them into power trip mode. And defeats the purpose of reddit: curated content from the userbase. If I wanted to be told what articles to read by a bunch of mods I'd go to CNN or Fox news. Red
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by fjabre 6y ago
I couldn't agree with this more. As someone who has gotten to the top of Reddit front page twice with my free (no ads) web app I now cannot. It's all but impossible. Mods are so over protective they will ban you for practically no
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by fjabre 6y ago
Who is 'us'? I'm speaking directly to you. Seems like you're just interested in name calling. When people resort to name calling it usually means they've lost the argument. But I'm sorry you're having a b
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by fjabre 6y ago
When OP said that we are not 'real' engineers because we have not built a bridge is when I stopped reading. For how could anyone take him seriously after that? 'Real' engineers are not judged by whether or not they can b
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by fjabre 6y ago
This is just silly. Lots of hubris here. It's also silly to spend much time thinking about this. Of course we are engineers. OP uses "building a bridge" as an example of 'real' engineers. This is patently ridiculous
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by fjabre 6y ago
Yes they are. You didn't lock people up for giving your Grandma the flu even though it may have killed her. That you think you can enforce or shame people into giving up freedom of movement (what's more fundamental then being able

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