hax0ron3

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   by hax0ron3 3y ago

   I hope that Reddit just purges the mods who are behind the protest and replaces them with new ones. It might cause those mods to engage in an activity that many of them seem to not have done in years: having conversations in spaces where th
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   by hax0ron3 3y ago

   I usually prefer to be polite but I just had a moment of remembering all of the times that I got censored on Reddit even when I was polite, but had an unpopular opinion.
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   by hax0ron3 3y ago

   Ah censorship, something that much of the left and the right can agree on although they quibble about the details of exactly what and when to censor.
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   by hax0ron3 3y ago

   >80% decrease in foreign orders, 20% official youth unemployment rate, 50% reduction in home prices, 80% decrease in government land sales I do not find these figures to be credible. They would an indicate a cataclysmic, wartime level so
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   by hax0ron3 3y ago

   You probably should not care about it. The only real threat that China poses to people who live in the West is nuclear war, but that is already deterred by mutually assured destruction and in any case the Chinese government having your soci
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   by hax0ron3 3y ago

   This kind of fear about large-scale communist subversion was common back in the 1950s too, yet that generation of American kids turned out mostly fine.
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   by hax0ron3 3y ago

   There was plenty of darkness on the Internet back in the 90s when I was a kid using it, and I grew up just fine despite having access to hardcore pornography, gore, and all kinds of disturbed people's writings. I do not think that targ
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   by hax0ron3 3y ago

   >are simply a linguistic sleight of hand masking a plain old dualistic standpoint Are you assuming that dualism is invalid? If so, why? There is something to the distinction between physical reality and subjective experience that so far
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   by hax0ron3 4y ago

   The Butlerian Jihad is an unlikely fantasy. Technological advance follows a Darwinian logic: if one group of beings decides to stop developing an advantageous technology, then almost always eventually a different group of beings will develo
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    Yep, it is a motte-and-bailey argument[1]. The motte is that the popular notion of race does not map completely accurately onto the spectrum of actual human genetic diversity, which of course is true. The bailey is that the idea of race is
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    As far as I know, nothing about Iran's foreign policy decisions in the last 43 years shows that Iran's government makes foreign policy decisions in a less pragmatic way than the average country. If Iran got nukes, they would almos
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    >Everybody will see that you can invade a weaker country, for whatever made up reason, and nothing happens. I think that most people who make foreign policy decisions in countries around the world already knew that if you are strong enou
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I would guess that maybe the peer group is the core of the problem. Probably even most, though of course far from all, teenagers realize that issues they might have with people on social media whom they do n
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    Social media absolutely is information. For example, I can tell you from experience that it is very hard to really learn about another country if you are not living there unless you go read what the people of that country are saying on soci
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    Why "unfortunately"? I am quite happy that teenagers' access to information is not being banned.
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    As far as I know there is no way in JavaScript to copy a function with its closure, so fundamentally writing a perfect cloning algorithm in JavaScript is not possible.
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    I do not condone Russia's invasion but this is a simplistic take. One could also make a case like this: In 2014 a revolution overthrew Ukraine's legally elected government. The victorious revolutionaries then attempted to force th
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    It has been obvious to me ever since, a few years ago, Musk promised that fully self-driving robotaxis were going to be on the roads a year in the future that he is a con artist and/or ridiculously over-optimistic about self-driving te
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    I mean, do the woke not control academia? What do other writings have to do with evaluating the truth or falsity of this one? To me it seems pretty obvious that modern Western academia is an environment where certain ideas get censored base
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    I see references to other people's beliefs in Germanic/Anglo-Saxon/English/etcetera supremacy. I do not see clear evidence that the author supports such supremacy.
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    I read that article earlier and I did not see anything in there that supports the idea that Germanic people should rule the world. My own Slavic ethnicity makes me quite dislike the idea of Germanic people ruling the world so I am pretty su
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    I do not know the author's opinions well enough to know whether he is right-wing or not. I do know that he has a Substack: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/ . I do know, however, that "all historical immigrat
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    Also, Wilson got the United States into World War One, which helped to put the US on its trajectory to eventually being involved in World War Two and subsequently becoming the world's top geopolitical power. So I suppose that people wh
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    >if a law is unjust, it should be removed Yeah but by the time a person is actually on trial, trying to change the law that they are facing is probably too late, isn't it? And the system is slow and is dominated by the rich and powe
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    >In the 1800s, it was common for people in manufacturing to work nearly 100 hours per week: between 10- and 16-hour shifts over six-day workweeks. >By the early 1900s, many industries had adopted the eight-hour workday, but most peopl
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    I dunno, both big tech's collusion with the government and censorious activists working to purge the Internet worry me. It's not one or the other.
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    I've never used Mastodon but I know that on some parts of the web, vicious verbal attacks are very common. It's part of the price that one sometimes pays for the benefits of a low-censorship environment. Sometimes, like on 4chan f
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    Well, Russia is returning the favor: https://fair.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/TimeYanks.jpg In 1996 the US interfered in Russia's elections to help Yeltsin, the man who soon afterward played a ma
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    Good point! I had not thought of that possible explanation for the choice but it actually makes a lot of sense.
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    by hax0ron3 4y ago

    I find it kind of funny that the article says that Europe is "Not really a physical continent, but rather a cultural geographic construct" and then immediately goes on to demonstrate this by showing a map of Europe that includes U