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by m00g00 9y ago
If you're a drug addict, the ideal way to kick the habit is self-control, but after a certain time, rehab might be needed. There are downsides to rehab (cost, isolation etc.), just as there are downsides to regulation (compliance costs
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by m00g00 9y ago
> I would say that persuasion based on facts is perfectly fine. It’s the deceit that was particularly troublesome This is just using different terms to say the same thing. Facts can and often are used to manipulate, by framing and contex
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by m00g00 9y ago
Fine, and they should be punished for whatever election laws they broke. But when it comes to people influencing people, especially over the internet, I doubt very many knew or cared of the country of origin an opinion/idea/piece
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by m00g00 9y ago
A lot of people would see it as persuasion by their side, and manipulation by the other. Same with "information" and "propaganda". As an aside, I kind of appreciate how in the past, mostly before WW2, governments would h
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by m00g00 9y ago
What if what the foreign actors are saying is the same as domestic? What if someone from the UK or France or wherever has a good strategic idea, are you not allowed to use it? Pretty sure everyone in the entire world with internet access ch
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by m00g00 9y ago
I've seen some nasty political TV ads aired between shows, especially for local elections. The issue of critical thinking and not just buying into whatever hitpiece/campaign sign one last saw transcends facebook and social media
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by m00g00 9y ago
False and especially misleading information is sent through broadcast TV all the time, both through advertisements and aired content. Political content is egregiously bad in this regard. There's no accountability for hit piece TV adver
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by m00g00 9y ago
Sure, we could trivially make our own star. All we'd need to do is move at least 100 Jupiters worth of mass into close proximity, and voila! Insta-star. That last part is not so trivial though... The difficulty us mere mortals have wit
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by m00g00 9y ago
Took the words right out of my mouth (literally, and 5 minutes faster). Why? I'd say because Douglas Crockford.
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by m00g00 9y ago
Which is awfully similar to JavaScript's much maligned 'with' statement. Never understood the FUD and 'considered harmful' screeds against it. Yes I'm aware of the performance/optimization concerns, but ho
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by m00g00 9y ago
I mean, that style of title exists accoross the political spectrum on YouTube and it's beyond stupid. Whenever I see "X DESTROYS Y" titles I assume the video will be a waste of 3-10 minutes with no particular moment of lingui
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by m00g00 9y ago
Note that this is already kinda the case for fretless instruments, such as the violin. What you are suggesting to be done by a computer would be done by the player themselves. Obviously deciding exactly what tuning of each note to land on f
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by m00g00 9y ago
My point was our "general political disagreement" is the chaos. It's not being caused by an outside source. That's just an excuse, and a cudgel used to dismiss one sides ideas. We would not all be holding hands and singi
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by m00g00 9y ago
Come on....do you really think there are no legitimate sides to contentious political issues like gun control? How about abortion? That "other side" you speak of, presumably actual US citizens, is not interested in "basic dem
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by m00g00 9y ago
I think the analogy is more like trying to pin an execution on one particular member of the firing squad. Everyone is throwing matches, at the same time, into an already burning dumpster fire.
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by m00g00 9y ago
Do you figure pro/anti-gun twitter posts from actual users are less likely to result in us being at each others throats? Really seems like pissing in the ocean.
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by m00g00 9y ago
And yet I still instinctively skip over links I see to video/audio content as it generally takes much more time, concentration, and attention to get value/information out of them.
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by m00g00 9y ago
Agreed, reddit's ban hammer is often arbitrary and self-serving and r/the_donald drives too much traffic to reddit for them to seriously consider it for them (even more so with Twitter and @realDonaldTrump) Admins should contempla
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by m00g00 9y ago
Perhaps so but the post of examples linked by GP has the vast majority of offending posts upvoted <= 5. Only 9 were >= 10 and just 3 >= 20. Really? This is a sub where popular posts and comments get hundreds and thousands of upvote
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by m00g00 9y ago
I think his point is that the mods of the sub have done their best to enforce the rules, despite missing a handful of very lowly upvoted comments here and there. Thus "they" (the people who run the sub) have not broken any rules,
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by m00g00 9y ago
Clearly the CEO of reddit feels the mods of r/the_donald have done a reasonable job at policing their sub overall, despite having missed a handful of extremely lowly upvoted comments. Do you suggest the AutoModerator filter for words l
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by m00g00 9y ago
Programming is automation though. Scripting is a (loosely defined) form of programming. I'm really not sure what the distinction is. You could just as easily say bash "is really about automation", because it would also be t
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by m00g00 9y ago
Not only is it not just a problem in tech, it's not just problem for women and minorities. Focusing on tech is fine, but claiming there's a unique problem of demoralization, underappreciation, shit management etc. to only "ma
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by m00g00 9y ago
No idea, but there was a bunch of articles and probably related tweets accusing this game developer of racism because of the era their animation style is an homage to. I'm very much tired of articles whose sole basis for existing is r
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by m00g00 9y ago
Libertarians support open borders as a means to free movement of labor. As you alluded to, they also do not believe in taxpayer funded social services, much less granting rights of citizenship to not-naturalized immigrants. This combination
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by m00g00 9y ago
"Everyone is jumping off cliffs therefore so should you" This is nothing but grade-school peer pressure coming from adults and supposedly legitimate news organizations.
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by m00g00 9y ago
You meant "moral panic" right? "They're burning all the witches even if you aren't one..."
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by m00g00 9y ago
It's the selective nature of their disabling of comments. Notice on this very article, at the top, is a link to a review by The Guardian of Swift's new album, and comments are enabled for it. Both articles are obviously opinions,
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by m00g00 9y ago
No idea what their arbitrary rules are, but I noticed a review by The Guardian of Swift's new album linked at the top of this article did have comments enabled. Both of these are obviously opinions, so I'm not sure what the differ
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by m00g00 9y ago
Please link me to any other article from The Guardian complaining about one of the scores of other popular music artists who have also said nothing about Trump.

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