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by ggggtez 5y ago
Honestly boring. Likely just it got flagged as violence, and an underpaid 3rd world worker clicked a button. Sorry about the inconvenience to this guy, but at the same time, it got 14 million views and I'm sure he made some cash. He ca
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by ggggtez 5y ago
How can you support free speech but prevent a company from exerting that speech? YouTube banning antivax content is speech . You want the government to start mandating that a company can't take a stance on important issues of healthca
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by ggggtez 5y ago
You can just look up their terms of service which I'm fairly sure leave a carve out for news items ... But you are making an assumption that the average worker (probably from India) making $1 an hour, can tell the difference between ne
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by ggggtez 5y ago
Obviously not enough people are shutting up, given the way that antivax content is the #1 propagator on Facebook. There is money to be made from lying to people. That's why it's being banned. It should have been done last year h
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by ggggtez 5y ago
> I think we have to ask No we don't. The question we have to ask is whether allowing this content is worse for society than any stifling of moderate voices. And the answer is obviously yes. Covid-hoaxers represent millions of peo
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by ggggtez 5y ago
It's a lot of facts and figures, but it kind of misses the mark. Wars today are also from resource scarcity. Leibingsraum was explicitly part of the reasoning for invading France. I know it's a natural instinct to defend modern li
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by ggggtez 5y ago
The articles premise that Americans acted kinder for a little while after doing some Buddhist meditation.... Completely ignoring the fact that Buddhism has extremists just like other religions... The people didn't act kinder because of
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by ggggtez 5y ago
> how violent are cultures of hunter-gatherer WW2 killed 75 million people. Tell me again, who has the more violent culture?
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by ggggtez 5y ago
> After only eight weeks of study with a Buddhist lama, 50 percent of those who we randomly assigned to meditate daily spontaneously helped a stranger in pain. I'm waiting for the follow up study after 520 weeks, where a certain per
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by ggggtez 5y ago
> Secular philosophy has failed to produce enough value for ordinary people living ordinary lives Consider the situation: you want to get an abortion. Or you know someone who does. I don't think I need to spell out the debate. But t
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by ggggtez 5y ago
"These stupid mother fuckers trust me" - Mark Zuckerberg, about Facebook users Don't forget for a moment that Mark Zuckerberg is a monster. From the start he only cared about one thing: getting your data.
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by ggggtez 5y ago
The point is that Facebook publicly claims it's not a media company. They do that to avoid government oversight. Once they are revealed to be acting like a media company, it's a house of cards. Regulation presumably would follow.
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by ggggtez 5y ago
If you've ever received something that looked "hand written" it's either a convincing fake, or made by an intern/slave. I think we should probably question why this person thinks that revealing how the sausage is ma
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by ggggtez 5y ago
Honestly, if you are trying to so a "back in my day" to 10 years ago... I think you should take a moment and reexamine some of the fundamental facts that you are basing your worldview on. You're likely relying on flawed anecd
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by ggggtez 5y ago
I think it requires superhuman levels of mental gymnastics to defend accusations against billionaires being parasites, while putting down the working class for not putting up with having people yell in their faces... Honestly it's such
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by ggggtez 5y ago
Important to note, most broadband providers realized they were getting hammered by speed test in the ratings, and so launched their own (fake) speed tests that show them over performing what they actually can do. So customers suffering from
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by ggggtez 5y ago
I can attest you can find bad internet in small cities just the same as in rural places. Sure, size is a factor, but it's not the only factor, nor is it the main factor. The main problem is monopolies.
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by ggggtez 5y ago
There certainly is academic research that touches on these topics. Honestly, I'm sure the academics are moving faster than FB given that this has been a known problem for over a decade, and has only gotten worse over time.
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by ggggtez 5y ago
Only about a decade too late.
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by ggggtez 5y ago
I've noticed this pattern start to pop up elsewhere. I've started to train my skimming skills, skipping a paragraph or two at a time to get past the fluff. Like an article about some current event will undoubtedly begin with &quot
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by ggggtez 5y ago
Your drinking is regulated. When you step into a car drunk, you are putting others at risk and it stops being your problem and starts being society's problem. The same is true here. You are stepping into society on a state of health th
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by ggggtez 5y ago
Implying that Facebook/Instagram isn't our culture. It's one and the same.
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by ggggtez 5y ago
The author wanted an adventure story and a happy ending. The grandparent makes a comparison to reading Moby Dick as an adventure story about killing the whale... I think it's an apt comparison. If you want a happy ending, you probably
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by ggggtez 5y ago
Presumably, government contracting. Your satellite crashes? Pay us to clean it up.
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by ggggtez 5y ago
It's not a surprise that race effects how someone looks. It doesn't take a genius to see things like different colored skin, different nose, or height differences... The question is what about the looks of a chest X-ray are conn
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by ggggtez 5y ago
The constitution of the US (a liberal system) contains this phrase you might be familiar with. "All men are created equal". Equality is a central tenet of liberalism. The argument that your parents make you not equal is exactly wh
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by ggggtez 5y ago
This is a clear misunderstanding of practically everything about progressivism. Progressivism is an evolution of liberalism which acknowledges that liberalism had failed to bring the equality it promised. Having scientific proof of differen
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by ggggtez 5y ago
Sperm banks select highly educated donors because clients are willing to pay for it. That's all. You are describing capitalism. It's not like these clients are running double blind studies in their wombs.
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by ggggtez 5y ago
I disagree with the premise of the article. It's attacking a straw man. Progressives believe that genetics matter. It's just that they believe other things matter more (such as fairness, equality, etc). The problem is that these r
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by ggggtez 5y ago
The easiest solution: Sort from largest to smallest. Then just do a DFS. Or, if you're so inclined, pay attention to the 1s digit. You know the digit has to add to exactly 4, because there is an exact fit. The search space is not 20^20

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