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by free_rms 6y ago
Because then they get stuck defending scoundrels, and it's untenable. The ACLU has (had?) the guts to defend a nazi's right to free speech, a profit seeking corp is less likely. So they get pushed into this position where they&#x
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I'm talking, like, Nashua compared to just over the border in MA. Similar cost of living areas. Yes, Arlington or Nantucket will be higher than both.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_income_tax -- Mass is in the middle of the pack for total tax burden, way below places like Mississippi for example. "Taxachussetts" is catchy, and MA is culturally liberal
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by free_rms 6y ago
5% isn't really that high unless you're comparing to zero. And, right at the border, NH property taxes are correspondingly higher. Gotta pay for stuff somehow, it's not the federal government.
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Ah, I had it right the first time, you're stuck in partisan war rather than a property rights absolutist. Don't trade principles for that, it's not worth it, the news cycle will be different tomorrow anyways. Certainly don&#
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by free_rms 6y ago
Again, he's not American. Also, "sought out information".. you're gonna take that as an exception for rights of the press? No publishing about watergate if the editor and journalist "sought out" the informatio
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If a US citizen blew a whistle on some abuse in Russia or China, would you be in favor of handing them over to be tried by local authorities? How much of this argument relies on "we are the good guys of history, so we get carte blanche
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by free_rms 6y ago
I said up front that he's a pompous ass, I'm not defending his character. > Also you don't have to be a US citizen to be charged for a crime by the US government. You sure about that? I mean, if a non-US citizen commits m
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by free_rms 6y ago
He's a publisher, not the original source, so he can't be a whistleblower (or leaker or whatever). And he seems to be a pompous ass, but let's be honest, people are mad at him because of the particular true things he publish
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Don't impute principles to the market. Those companies wouldn't touch gay rights with a 10 foot pole until one day all of a sudden they're beating their way to the front of the line at the pride parade. They'll follow
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by free_rms 6y ago
Maybe there's a higher principle here than partisan warfare? If they were banning Russiagate conspiracies, while letting conservative stuff run rampant, would you be giving me the pitch about how private property is more important than
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The audience is the monopoly. The entire media and political class are addicted to Twitter, and they haven't even heard of Mastodon or ActivityPub or whatever.
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China is a US population-worth of developed nation and twice that of developing nation, roughly speaking.
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Now do per capita and income inequality. Shanghai is modern. Huge parts of the country are developing.
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I think the issue here is where you put the ceremony. If you're iterating on your approach to a model, it really is a drag to do a bunch of bullshit in order to run an experiment that's likely to fail and just be thrown out anyway
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by free_rms 6y ago
The pentagon papers were unverified and leaked. More recently and less impressively, the entire world of Russia-gate stuff was unverified and leaked Would you say the same if that stuff was censored?
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I'd love to see open standards proliferate for that reason. In our current world, they haven't, and you're responding here on a corporate social platform. Because that's where the people are. What if it were your ox bei
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You should have done that instead of posting this comment on hacker news, then. Entry 1, "a reply to lapcatsoftware". Why use social media?
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by free_rms 6y ago
The combination of twitter and Facebook are a huge percentage of public conversation. "Just go start your own twitter" is missing the point. How would you feel if they had banned all talk of russian conspiracies the last few year
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by free_rms 6y ago
In the first segment of the video, the Chinese for "Ramen" is two characters pronounced "Ra" "Mian". They're being used for sound, rather than meaning (although mian is often used as shorthand for "m
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by free_rms 6y ago
I don't know if you remember the 90s, but a lot of people wanted to ban Marilyn Manson because school shooters. Food for thought.
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by free_rms 6y ago
So you're making a narrow case that holocaust denial is specifically bad and not endorsing more policing by facebook in general? There's certainly precedent for holocaust denial being considered specifically and uniquely harmful,
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by free_rms 6y ago
The premise of the paradox of tolerance is that if you tolerate the wrong people, they'll take over and end all tolerance. You have to make that case every time you invoke it to call for censoring things you don't like. Are they
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by free_rms 6y ago
What % of a religion would need to be, say, anti-gay, before we deem the whole thing problematic and ban it from facebook? The more I investigate "where to draw the line", the more I'm convinced we aren't capable of doin
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You've identified the only claims that hold up. Compare to the crazy rhetoric and insinuation we saw for years, and it's clear people were way ahead of themselves.
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So, what, we're gonna decide what's "suitable" for normal people to see? Half of mainstream society, respectable people with respectable jobs, just spent 4 years engaged in a conspiracy theory about Russians and Cambridg
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by free_rms 6y ago
There's two items at issue: science as a set of methodologies for understanding nature, and "Science" as a cultural totem. As a set of methodologies, science is inherently skepticism, test, verify, etc. Nothing wrong with b
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The thing is, your perception of them on these issues is very much colored by the fact that they're not western. It permeates all coverage of them from western sources.
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Fun fact, lingua franca actually refers to a frankish-arab trading pidgin. Back on point, that will take time, and it will follow china becoming dominant rather than leading to it. Also, Europeans learning French is a fairly easy lift co
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Compared to English, say.

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