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by freen 6y ago
It’s advertising Facebook isn’t getting paid for. I’m surprised they don’t go after it as a violation of their terms of service.
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by freen 6y ago
1) the Meuller report is conclusive: there was collusion. 2) Trump did, in fact, say that. It’s recorded video. 3) Trump did, in fact, suggest that injecting disinfectant might be a treatment for COVID-19.
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by freen 6y ago
The failure mode of sarcasm is either asshole or idiot. Generally speaking, it’s a high risk, low reward mode.
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by freen 6y ago
You can make money right now on predictit.org betting that Joe Biden will win the election.
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by freen 6y ago
Thanks! Loosing effectiveness over time is very, very different than being actively harmful as is claimed upthread.
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by freen 6y ago
This word lied. I do not think it means quite what you think it means.
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by freen 6y ago
I haven’t seen any research that indicates this. Would you mind sharing your source? Thanks!
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by freen 6y ago
Well, when the overwhelming majority of experts in the field agree, I think it’s best to not waste brain space on crackpot contrarian positions, especially if they are incredibly well funded from obviously motivated actors. Seems pretty si
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by freen 6y ago
What is shocking is that they play both sides. It’s a well known phenomenon that if you give people a small, concrete thing that they have agency over, i.e. recycling their cans, even though that thing is next to useless in terms of systemi
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by freen 6y ago
Do you have some cycles to spare on... Time cube Chemtrails Flat earth Lizard people Heavens Gate Time wave theory Etc. Should we give them equal time? Why not?
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by freen 6y ago
So I can’t delete comment spam on my public blog as that would violate “free speech”? I also don’t need a Facebook account in order to post content and consume it? You are missing the point about Marsh v Alabama: unrestricted public accessi
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by freen 6y ago
If the mods decide to ban me, yes, it is wholly their right to do so, and in no way violates my freedom of speech. I would remain free to speak, just not on hacker news. Forcing hacker news to host content (spam, nazis, Holocaust deniers, a
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by freen 6y ago
If you replace “Holocaust denial” with “spam”, we would be having a very, very different conversation here on hacker news. Why do some folks think removing spam is ok, but not content the owner of the publishing platform finds abhorrent?
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by freen 6y ago
Those who cannot compartmentalize seem to think it would be a violation of “free speech” for me to kick nazis out of my dinner party, for hacker news to ban trolls, etc. In many ways, the unified absolute freedom of speech camp, no one shou
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by freen 6y ago
You are mistaking the ability to say whatever you want with the ability to escape the social consequences of your expression. Both are fully compatible with any understanding of “free speech” constitutionally, politically and socially. Woul
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by freen 6y ago
You are transmuting a private organization’s choice, which is equivalent to a person kicking nazis out of their dinner party, into something only a government can do: limit free speech. Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1357
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by freen 6y ago
Free speech doesn’t mean consequence free. If you were gay, would you be comfortable with an overtly homophobic boss?
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by freen 6y ago
You have, quite expectedly, completely failed to grasp my point. Our perspectives on this topic could not be more diametrically opposed. Perhaps your epistemology needs a checkup? How many other things have you read that fundamentally disag
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by freen 6y ago
Failure to appear rates are consistently under 5% in NYC. The cost of incarceration is approximately $500/night. The most common reason cited for missing court, approximately 70%, is childcare/elder care. Failure to make bail more
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by freen 6y ago
I’m a fan. In my limited experience, leftward assignment breaks the “flow” explaining a program to a novice.
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by freen 6y ago
Folks would do well to learn about smedley butler and the business plot.
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by freen 6y ago
Certainly not when one candidate commits a crime in the very act of accepting the nomination.
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by freen 6y ago
I find your lack of evidence unsurprising.
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by freen 6y ago
Ahh yes, then North proceeded to head up the NRA. It’s grifts all the way down!
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by freen 6y ago
The original claim, stereotypes are accurate is effectively tautological given broad based, systemic reinforcement of said stereotypes. I was, however, responding to claims upthread that were, in fact, claiming inherent attributes were res
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by freen 6y ago
Stereotypes about serfs were very accurate during feudalism. Oppression has real effects, the core question is the direction of causality. Which way you think it points is precisely how much of an actual, factual nazi you are.
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by freen 6y ago
More importantly, the IQ test was created specifically as a way to validate racism. Stanford psychologist Lewis Terman’s IQ test, the standard upon which our current tests are based, was meant to show “enormously significant racial differen
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by freen 6y ago
Stereotypes of serfs were largely accurate in feudal societies.
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by freen 6y ago
Ahh yes, historicity masquerading as evidence of inherent attributes strikes again.
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by freen 6y ago
The timezone database. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database

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