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by m3rc 9y ago
Well then, I guess we should be killing anyone who commits any crime. What a novel idea. i'm sure that will result in a perfectly well adjusted society.
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by m3rc 9y ago
If that was true we wouldn't have capital punishment at all. Capital punishment is all about revenge, people talk about it in terms of what the perpetrator "deserves". The fact that it's utterly innefective in stopping c
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by m3rc 9y ago
We already have a lot of very comprehensive understandings of what work is. It's labor that produces capital. The workers doing so should be owning that capital.
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by m3rc 9y ago
I don't dispute any of those points, but I think it's still silly to talk about anything in terms of "product" that isn't their community. Reddit the software could come and go, it's essentially irrelevant to t
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by m3rc 9y ago
I definitely didn't claim that value only came in the form of software... in fact I think I claimed the opposite of that in saying that reddit calling their platform their product was useless and unhelpful. They have one thing that is
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by m3rc 9y ago
I cannot imagine someone bemoaning FF 1.0 and trying to run a pure ALSA system with no Pulse is representing enough of a demo that gaining them back would increase Mozilla's marketshare.
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by m3rc 9y ago
They are not "getting rid of extensions".
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by m3rc 9y ago
It's pragmatic to leave Chrome for the exact same reasons people left IE, the parent company has stopped improving the product. Chrome sold people on the promise of a much faster, lighter-weight browser than the heavy but competent Fir
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by m3rc 9y ago
Hmm that's a pretty ephemeral "asset"... and it's an asset that is directly tied to your ability to pull funding. Even if you technically don't directly mold the community, it doesn't do you any favors to try a
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by m3rc 9y ago
What? So your advice is to knowingly ignore what actually makes your site money and just call some random other feature "the product"? How would Reddit admins/CEOs ever make decisions using that advice?
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by m3rc 9y ago
Reddit investors and advertisers are not spending money on Reddit because of its platform.
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by m3rc 9y ago
What would you say Reddit's product is then? It certainly isn't content or the platform...
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by m3rc 9y ago
>What would any of you think when 500 people from a far away country were placed near your house? You would experience it as a some kind of problem. What a pathetic attempt at a dog-whistle. If you want to start writing anti-immigrant co
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by m3rc 10y ago
Those aren't the only decisions you have. Pretending you don't have any say in what's going on and then stepping in and pulling... whatever it is that he's trying to do now, are both not helpful.
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by m3rc 10y ago
It's kind of funny looking back on the decision making process to get to that point. Like now, obviously, of course you need these sort of rules for a communal space, just the way it's important not to burn incense or do crappy fo
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by m3rc 10y ago
You are very right that they're not really following Buddhism as it's supposed to be. Zang's thing is more of a new age religious club (or even cult). But then again most people who follow some sort of religious thought are b
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by m3rc 10y ago
The assumption you've just made is exactly why the list of falsehoods needs to exist.
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by m3rc 10y ago
I agree with not using WhatsApp due to it's ties to FB and metadata issues, but Telegram is arguably even worse. They've been (rightfully) panned for implementing their own crypto and doing it poorly. You should be using Signal on
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by m3rc 10y ago
I'm not advocating for WhatsApp or PGP encrypted email, I'm pointing out that people who make the line in the sand at "decentralized vs centralized" are boiling the problem too far down.
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by m3rc 10y ago
Is talking about government organizations hosting their own email servers really a point in email's favor in 2017?
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by m3rc 10y ago
Signal making choices for ease of evangelizing it doesn't condemn the entire idea any more than poor implementations of secure email means we should totally give up on it
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by m3rc 10y ago
Harder to prevent access to, harder to wire-tap. As other people pointed out WhatsApp has been blocked in countries before. Not to mention that with WhatsApp having a central location all messages are routed through we really don't hav
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by m3rc 10y ago
By that logic shouldn't we try to encrypt SMS? Email as a protocol has huge security issues, and email as it is currently used honestly is NOT federated or decentralized.
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by m3rc 10y ago
There are federated options for messengers, the fact that the current darlings aren't is not a mark against the option itself. Riot exists. Can you find a security expert RECOMMENDING email? That would be a better example of how it&#x2
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by m3rc 10y ago
I don't know if I've ever seen "choices" and "freedom" framed as in opposition. And I don't see how having to pour money into a fossil fuel powered cage and having to keep your kids inside like this post t
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by m3rc 10y ago
What, people who live in cities don't have freedom? And the user you replied to wasn't talking about space available like in a truly rural setting, they were talking about how it's impossible to live in a suburban or rural se
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by m3rc 10y ago
That all seems pretty clear to me. It's not up to you to interpret the 2nd Amendment for them. Not to mention that orgs like the NRA have many times more funding than the ACLU and dedicate every action to that one issue. Or the fact th
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by m3rc 10y ago
Peter Thiel is as usual, a snake. He knows he's spreading lies but his support for this administration trumps any dedication to the truth.
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by m3rc 10y ago
Oh, yeah there is, and you can donate here: https://action.aclu.org/secure/donate-to-aclu
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by m3rc 10y ago
Where are you seeing ad hominem attacks? And if that's true, either the DHS is doing a spectacularly awful job, or we're not hearing the full story of what they did and did not recommend.

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