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by gydfi 10y ago
Let me guess, was this banned account from the conservative side? How many left-wing accounts have you banned for similar reasons?
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by gydfi 10y ago
Is that a life expectancy including infant mortality, though? The life expectancy of someone who survived to 20 would be much higher.
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by gydfi 10y ago
I don't believe in 10x developers, but I've seen a lot of 0.1x developers.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Find new friends. Move to a more politically diverse area. I do believe we should go back to the old rule that neither religion nor politics should be discussed in polite company.
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by gydfi 10y ago
No, but if you listened to him and understood his world view and listened to the examples of why he thinks that, rather than his provocative headline, you might be able to come to some understanding. Arguing about "feminism" is st
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by gydfi 10y ago
Not at all. Most political disagreements come from perfectly reasonable fundamental disagreements about the way the world ought to be.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Then why is all the discussion in terms of who did win? People who don't like the result are "blaming" this phenomenon, without regard for the fact that this is something that everyone is presumably doing. When Obama won, I s
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by gydfi 10y ago
That's your opinion of a dumb idea. Can you accept that other intelligent, informed, well intentioned people might disagree with you?
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by gydfi 10y ago
>Combined with a bombardment of headlines that confirm their biases, targeted by personality, it could have a big impact. Does your use of "their" mean that you think your own side of politics isn't exactly the same?
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by gydfi 10y ago
Well you don't have to. I've never paid for cable. I have this crazy thing called an aerial which picks up television signals out of the goddamn vacuum.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Maybe if people would quit killing cops then they wouldn't have to?
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by gydfi 10y ago
Nobody ever looks at Netflix and complains "I never watch most of these shows, I shouldn't have to pay for them" because Netflix doesn't encourage people to think in those terms. Cable companies caused the demand for de-
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by gydfi 10y ago
I think the point is not that it's driving off huge corporations but that it makes life difficult for every business. It doesn't seem to make life easier for workers either. I believe in the principle that the unintended consequen
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by gydfi 10y ago
The actual professors have already got theirs, so screw everyone else. And the adjuncts don't have any power and are easily replaced. Also everybody knows that if the university administrators actually got replaced by sensible rational
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by gydfi 10y ago
Trying to change what words mean is a lousy way to achieve your goals.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Vectors aren't terribly advanced mathematics.
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by gydfi 10y ago
He is unafraid. He's rich and his livelihood is not threatened. He's got an audience already and being banned from twitter wouldn't affect his livelihood much. And he doesn't live in Berkeley so he's unlikely to get
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by gydfi 10y ago
Breitbart makes no claim to be a general platform for discussion. It is openly a place with a particular bent. Nobody is complaining about conservatives being banned from Democratic Underground, they're complaining about conservatives
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by gydfi 10y ago
Strictly true in the context of "first amendment". But what I've realised recently is that "free speech" is more than just a legal right conferred by the government, it's a social climate . The climate of free
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by gydfi 10y ago
It wasn't easy enough to use for non technically minded people, and it didn't have a cute name.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Isn't rent control a big part of this? Does the effect persist in non rent controlled cities? Though actually, thinking about my own feelings, as a renter in an expensive and non rent controlled city (Sydney) I would be opposed to any
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by gydfi 10y ago
I'm sure that an "intelligent, creative non-conformist" (a category into which you perhaps imagine you fall?) has better things to do than make enemies with librarians.
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by gydfi 10y ago
On the other hand I know a lot of Masters-qualified librarians who simply stock books all day. The need for a Masters to do this job is perhaps more of a sad commentary on the university system's vast overproduction of humanities gradu
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by gydfi 10y ago
Disagree. As someone who knows more mathematics and less programming than the average programmer I'd say the average programmer need not know all that much mathematics at all, if they're not working in a particular area that invol
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by gydfi 10y ago
Of course the real use case for this kind of thing is property investors wanting to get in ahead of the wave. I'm skeptical about the long term prospects for gentrification though, since there's only so many gentry to go around. P
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by gydfi 10y ago
Because the term "fake news" is about two months old, and no sooner was it invented than people started abusing it well beyond its original definition. The term was made up to describe completely and deliberately made-up news stor
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by gydfi 10y ago
It's a dirt hole. My guess is that you create a large amount of mud at the bottom of the hole and then the walls collapse.
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by gydfi 10y ago
gab.ai is the only one I know about, its major selling point being that it's uncensored.
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by gydfi 10y ago
Name one person who doesn't have a name.
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by gydfi 10y ago
The trouble is that in most of the recent prominent government "whistleblowing" cases (Snowden, Manning, the other one I forget) there's a great deal of disagreement on the legality of what has been exposed. The issue is that

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