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by khawkins 6y ago
I don't think this is true, and even if it were it would be something everyone except literal fascists would oppose.
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by khawkins 6y ago
You're suggesting that the message you just typed out has the same weight as printing a few thousand copies of a manifesto for someone and shipping that book across the country to be put in bookstores and eat the cost if it doesn'
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by khawkins 6y ago
It's interesting to see how quickly Silicon Valley culture has changed over the past 10 years from one of free speech absolutism to "benevolent censorship". The people so vociferously clamoring about the nightmare-hellscape
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by khawkins 6y ago
The mere act of making a message accessible from an internet connection is only 1% of what "publishing" is, and it's the only reason Google, Facebook, and Twitter make billions. Otherwise, the whole Geocities-type model where
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by khawkins 6y ago
Not only is the "climate change" analogy strained, it perfectly contradicts their argument, showing both its weakness and their total lack of self-awareness. The positions on climate change range from "existential threat to a
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by khawkins 6y ago
Only people who spend most of their life in densely crowded cities could think that the planet has so little space that you'd need to grow crops underneath solar panels for efficiency's sake.
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by khawkins 6y ago
On a very related note, California Prop 16 will be on the ballot in November, seeking to remove the following text from the CA constitution: >The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or
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by khawkins 6y ago
And it's right to publicly shame him for that?
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by khawkins 6y ago
I'd like to see people approach the debate with enough nuance to recognize that the science on recent topics is extremely flawed, and the trustworthiness of results is decreased significantly when it becomes politicized. And honestly,
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by khawkins 6y ago
It does speak to why he's treated with so much distrust, as is discussed by other threads. Unlike the average person, Gates is someone who can actually make things happen with his incredible wealth. It suggests a form of paternalistic
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by khawkins 6y ago
And her male rival had a crush on a high school boy and eventually her. It steered far clear of sexual tones, but showed romantic attraction. It was so obvious that many of those scenes were censored in the US.
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by khawkins 6y ago
A picture of these vertical farms would have gone a long way towards helping me understand what all would be required to deploy these things. Yet they decide to use white-space to tell me what the population of the world is and estimates of
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by khawkins 6y ago
>When we see Border Patrol agents wearing camouflage and helmets, carrying M4s with optics, rigged up like they’re about to go on patrol in Ramadi or the Korengal Valley (or deal with a migrant caravan in the southwest), that’s empire co
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by khawkins 6y ago
Given that police officers (a) are first-responders whose central job is public safety, (b) are regularly sent into situations where their life and safety is on the line (6 have been shot to death in the past two months), and (c) regularly
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by khawkins 6y ago
How does it compare to Matlab's symbolic toolbox, aside from not being affordable outside of academia?
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by khawkins 6y ago
Clearly, the goal of this article is to shift power into the hands of the author and her ideologically aligned community.
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by khawkins 6y ago
OP: "a fusion center in Missouri listed Ron Paul supporters as potential domestic terrorists" Report, top of page 7: "Militia members most commonly associate with 3rd party political groups. It is not uncommon for militia mem
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by khawkins 6y ago
This is under the assumption that you see college is a program of self-betterment and not busy work for receiving a degree that says you can have a middle-class job. It feels like even the universities themselves see it as the latter these
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by khawkins 6y ago
Given the region's susceptibility to Islamic State uprisings, I'm not convinced Iraq and Syria are going to be good stewards of antiquities in the long-run. [1][2] These areas haven't been stable for decades. [1] https:&#x2
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by khawkins 6y ago
The fundamental problem is that there is collective action on both sides of the issue. There are plenty of people organizing for the removal of "hate speech", and there are plenty of people organizing for free speech. It's
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by khawkins 6y ago
Dragging the company into a slew of political activism creates a toxic work environment. When people take up the mantle of speaking for all of the employees when they, in fact, don't, they end up silencing and intimidating people who
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by khawkins 6y ago
For this reason, I think instead of trying to force a new system, work within the reality that the federal government has a near-monopoly on student loans. Tie the amount of students that can get student loans at a particular college direc
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by khawkins 6y ago
I wish more of society would apply this wisdom to climate change modelling.
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by khawkins 7y ago
I had to stop reading after the insinuation that Hacker News comment sections are filled with trash. To the contrary, I find that half of the time the comments sections are more thoughtful and enlightening than the article posted. Very regu
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by khawkins 7y ago
I agree it was reasonable, but it was written such that it was very recognizable as a non-human automated system response. I'd make the case that the message should go even further to seem like a robot, because few empathise with mind
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by khawkins 7y ago
> Also, the average paid sick leave varies between 6-10 (working) days. Suggested quarantine is 14 days. All the more reason to treat coronavirus as an exception that needs to be considered, as-needed, business by business. Or state-by-
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by khawkins 7y ago
You're missing the point, the problem that is if you're trying to offer credible expert opinion on how to deal with a crisis, you undermine those opinions by introducing a highly charged political wedge issue that offers no soluti
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by khawkins 7y ago
It's not "oddly", it's deliberately deceptive and trying to exaggerate the problem to advance a political narrative.
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by khawkins 7y ago
We're behind them on the timeline because the president restricted travel from the epicenter back at the end of January [1], and the US is the best prepared country in the world for an epidemic [2]. Italy got its 3rd coronavirus case o
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by khawkins 7y ago
> Zero universal guaranteed paid sick leave This is a false statement. There are 12 states which require paid sick leave, amounting to 30% of the population [1]. Federal employees are guaranteed paid sick leave days [2]. According to the

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