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by free_rms 6y ago
The thing about the moral side is that we already have a bunch of jurisprudence around the 1st amendment. Yes, companies aren't bound by it legally, but it'd be a great moral guide to follow if that's what they're after.
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The thing is, you're not exactly ending segregation here. What I see is an ever-shifting goalpost of harmless aphorisms that are newly considered 'offensive' by a bunch of upper-class people. What does that do for George Flo
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If this were a signpost along the lines of "employees must wash hands", then there would be no problem. Of course employees should wash their hands. The problem is the weaponization against random people for obscure reasons. The
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Who's in charge of "unpleasant things"? Are these things that a vast majority of the anglosphere, including POC, women, etc, wouldn't take offense to? Maybe people are objecting to a tiny % of critical theorists trying
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by free_rms 6y ago
They were actually incredibly fractured and fought each other a lot, actual fights with weapons and casualties. But still, you're right, they only got off the ground initially due to a national infrastructure encouraging them. Social
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The underlying witch-hunt mentality has obviously existed since before the term witch-hunt. The new part is that social media arguably accelerates it. One wacko trying to burn the witches in a village full of level heads couldn't acco
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by free_rms 6y ago
I think the principle behind Carmack's letter is that factoring into multiple functions that all touch the same state is an illusion of reducing the burden on your memory. They still interact with each other via that state. Pure fun
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The whole function is operating on a giant shared buffer representing a texture, though. So you can't break it into pure functions without introducing unacceptable copies of the buffer, right?
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It's election season, and Russian hijinks are in vogue. Remember, bog-standard corruption in Ukraine is a crazy conspiracy theory which should be banned from social media. But mystical microwave illnesses? Very credible. You have perm
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Yes, we and they are up to lots of dirty stuff way worse than this. This is resonant because it's educated-class people. Not latin-american nuns being killed by death squads, harder to relate to that.
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by free_rms 6y ago
I'll just say, if you're gonna put your thumb on the scale, you need to not fuck it up. They streisand-effected the whole story, and made themselves look bad and unfair in the process -- how many unsourced claims about Russian int
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by free_rms 6y ago
Any thoughts of your own on the matter? We're way in the sidebar, don't worry about downvotes. Tell me why.
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And, we're back to the magical shifting definition. If there's such a world of difference, why conflate the two using the same word?
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Do you believe racists should be shamed and fired?
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It's a magical, shifting definition that means whatever the high priests need it to mean at the moment. Making people confess to being 'racist', at institutions where being Racist gets you fired, is a power-move. Those of us
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by free_rms 6y ago
It gets into the realm of speculation with partial facts, but you can make a pretty good case that Biden was involved with replacing one corrupt stooge with another one, who then just happened to drop all investigations into Hunter Biden&#x
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by free_rms 6y ago
Is it 'trash' to be upset that Hunter Biden made 600k/yr from a no-show job that looks super crooked? I understand that it's politically not helpful at this particular moment, and that the Trump kids are worse, but none
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That was then, this is now. They are acting differently for Biden. Twitter's setting themselves up as the arbiter of what constitutes "properly sourced" information. What happens if there's another Snowden-type leak
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by free_rms 6y ago
More like mandated. But, I repeat, what happens when it's "our side" in power? Would leaks about malfeasance under his administration be "improperly sourced information"?
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So what happens when Biden probably wins? Will any criticism of our sitting President be punishable by banning from social media?
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The "school of thought" behind the cultural revolution was twofold: 1) Mao had been frozen out after the disaster of the Great Leap Forward, and this was his way of discrediting his enemies and getting back on top. 2) Young peop
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by free_rms 6y ago
Necessarily weaker, though. You can't break out an electron microscope and numerically confirm observations about emergent outcomes from a billion individuals with their own psychologies. Either we allow for "softer" obse
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So, 2 very small chunks of xinjiang broke away for a few years during WW2 while big parts of china were occupied by the japanese? Not really tracking with the tone of TFA's claims imo.
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The entire western hemisphere? Particularly latin america. They left spanish control but they were spanish and catholic when they did so.
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China is uniquely fixated on here on HN, there's a thread every few days painting them as a unique threat.
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The Pentagon's incentivized to exaggerate any threat though, because it justifies more funding to themselves. I'd say that the real threat, as far as navies go, is what if our carrier-heavy paradigm is obsolete and cheaper missile
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by free_rms 6y ago
If it were in DC, I'd be with you that it's merely a standard level of corruption. Ukraine??
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It sounds a little more ambiguous than that if you read the full section. Regardless, why was Hunter cokehead Biden making 600k from a foreign oil company? It's a bad look.
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There's viral and then there's viral. We're still talking about this story a week later right now, in a media environment where way bigger scandals are forgotten in a day because the President said covid gives you super-speed
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The story can be both fabricated and true. It's true and documented that Hunter Biden had a laughable no-work job, and that the Obama administration made Ukraine fire a prosecutor who was going after his employer. This particular NY Po

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