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by iron0013 6y ago
Yes, exactly. The authors are aware that some people’s receptiveness to new information is a very fragile thing, a door that will slam shut forever at the slightest hint of ego threat. It’s a shame that we need to coddle people in order to
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by iron0013 6y ago
It’s generally larger and a lot more stable. Check out the realclearpolitics polling averages for 2016 and 2020. Clinton and trump constantly went back and forth from Clinton leading to being essentially tied. Biden has never led Trump by l
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by iron0013 6y ago
Python.
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A Deeply Provincial View of Free Speech(theatlantic.com)
1 points by iron0013 6y ago|1 comments
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by iron0013 6y ago
Rstudio. It was clearly made by people who come from a data analysis and statistical programming background, rather than traditional programming. Having started with R in college, I just took it for granted that every IDE would be as straig
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by iron0013 6y ago
I agree! High-profile transphobes and “scientific” racists should absolutely exercise self-restraint and avoid using their social media presence as a stick with which to beat minorities.
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by iron0013 6y ago
Well so is a lot of stuff being said by the folks being “cancelled”! I don’t really understand the anti-cancellers perspective, to be honest. They want people to listen silently to their “free speech” and not be able to speak in return? It’
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by iron0013 6y ago
Yeah, but the “climate of fear” arises only because powerful people with prominent platforms are afraid of being criticized. And criticism is protected speech.
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by iron0013 6y ago
Down voting is speech.
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by iron0013 6y ago
Nope, calling on a company to fire someone is just as protected as any other speech.
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by iron0013 6y ago
Public outcry is speech. It’s as simple as that.
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by iron0013 6y ago
Your account is less than 2 months old.
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by iron0013 6y ago
This is a bit rich considering Harper’s has fired multiple editors over the last couple of decades because John MacArthur didn’t like their liberal views. How is that not “being cancelled”?
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by iron0013 6y ago
The WHO declared coronavirus a global health emergency in January. Meanwhile Trump said “We have it totally under control” in January. Which of those perspectives proved true?
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by iron0013 6y ago
Meanwhile, protestors are now routinely being run over by actual physical automobiles driven by right-wing terrorists ( https://www.npr.org/2020/06/21/880963592/vehicle-attacks-ris... ). But sure, the hypo
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What the Police Really Believe(vox.com)
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Where School Meets Prison(urbanomnibus.net)
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by iron0013 6y ago
Spending on the overall “war machine” is split up into a number of buckets, specifically so that people like you can misleadingly point at one of them and say “that’s it, that’s the whole thing”, when in fact the military industrial complex
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by iron0013 6y ago
You can be as cynical as you want about whether they “really mean it”, but it’s right there in the Democratic party platform: https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/ensure-t...
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by iron0013 6y ago
Honestly surprised HN wasn’t mentioned by name in this article.
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The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism(newrepublic.com)
1 points by iron0013 6y ago|3 comments
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by iron0013 6y ago
Hey dang, have y’all ever analyzed the voting patterns of newly-registered accounts? Sometimes when rage-bait like this pops immediately to the top of the front page it frankly reeks of coordinated inauthentic activity.
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by iron0013 6y ago
It is so crazy to me that anyone could read this and think “those people should be receiving less unemployment pay!“ instead of “those workers should be receiving higher wages!”
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by iron0013 6y ago
I remember seeing a crackerjack toy collection at the Smithsonian when I went there 30 years ago. Ephemera and everyday objects are a big part of what the Smithsonian archives, preserves, and educates about. Did you really not know that, or
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by iron0013 6y ago
The “tribes” are easily identifiable on HN, it seems to me. For all of the most prolific HN posters, it is quite easy to predict which side of nearly any issue they’ll support.
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by iron0013 6y ago
To the surprise of no one who isn’t a hopeless naif, Parler has turned out to ban and censor far more than Twitter ever did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23684512
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by iron0013 6y ago
What a waste of a perfectly good Situationist quote on a bunch of pointless rambling. I feel like the kids in the streets in May ‘68 would never stop vomiting seeing their words applied to this small-time business soap opera
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by iron0013 6y ago
Let’s see, how does the line go? “Parler needs to decide if they’re going to be a platform or a publisher, and if they’re going to start censoring speech that they don’t like, they need to be held responsible for—“ haha sorry, it’s too ridi
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by iron0013 6y ago
If by “it” you mean privately-owned websites, then no, it cannot be forced to do so. That would be a violation of the websites’ owners own freedom of speech. Not to mention their property rights! I thought the right to absolutely control on
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by iron0013 6y ago
No white supremacists on them.

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