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by manicdee 6y ago
Donald Knuth, “The Art of Computer Programming” would grow more volumes by guest writers, perhaps.
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That is how you get Breitbart and Infowars becoming the main source of “information” for many people.
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All the search engine has to do is direct traffic to the site where the article is, not host on AMP and thus collect all the royalties and ad revenue itself. In the meantime, Google is “experimenting” with leaving out Australian media entir
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They would “waste their time” because they are here to claim that Twitter is distributing porn. They are not here to win the case. By the time the case is won or lost the public will have long forgotten about it. Moral crusaders are only in
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Twitter and Parler are not comparable offerings. The only similarity is being in the vague space of “social media” or “microblogging”. After that there is a major divergence between the type of content they host, moderation processes, and d
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Up until it died, the MacBook was super nice to work on, super fast in waking from sleep, and pleasant to use in all lighting conditions except direct sunlight obliquely incident to the screen (in which case the sunlight made all the dust a
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You didn't support your argument with any explanation, so there's no room for "wow" non-statements when people interpret your argument in a way that you don't understand. Your argument appeared to be that someone wh
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So on the one hand you recognise that the reaction emojis require little effort, but on the other hand you feel that the reaction emojis provide emotional friction to you adding your own nuanced explanation? It's a common situation and
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… where "create a bad work environment" involves warning people there's a Nazi coup attempt in progress.
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"whataboutism" is exactly an accusatory gotcha.
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Just because it's in quotation marks doesn't mean it's a direct quote. The comment is clearly a statement by the commenter of an imagined subtext of the GitHub public statement.
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> But I do think there are quite a few conservative, non-fascist, anti-Nazi people who will read a "employees can call out fascism!" comment and feel at least a bit like it's meant toward them That's a problem for the
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That's really an irrelevant piece of nitpicking, especially given the context being that someone was fired for calling neo-Nazis, Nazis.
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The Liberal Party of Australia runs/is run by a think tank called "Institute of Public Affairs" which is in turn run by a bunch of rich people who take marching orders from Murdoch. It doesn't become much more transparen
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Are you claiming there are no laws banning holocaust denial in Europe? If you're not, then there's nothing incorrect about the statement you were countering.
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The clearly visible and eye-searingly bright line here is that the people on Parler were not just wishing ill against others but making plans and executing them. There was no moderation to keep those publicly visible conversations from gath
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1. People like who? What are the defining characteristics, other than, "advocate deplatforming fascists"? 2. What is your definition of fascism? 3. Who is labelling all the speech coming out of Parler as "fascist"? 4.
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You mean the one the pocket protector goes in with your drafting pencil and calculator (well, phone in this day and age)?
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There is also the issue that people with higher disposable incomes can afford to not work, while people with low or zero disposable income need every hour of work they can scrounge up, so they don’t have the choice to not work.
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For me the canonical example is this story in Forbes about a man who complained to Target about baby-product advertising directed at his teenage daughter. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/
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Parler was set up specifically to provide a place where Trump supporters could discuss sedition, terrorism, and make plans to prevent a handover of power in the case that Trump lost the election. It is common for people to get banned from P
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How do you feel about “it’s a joke” being used as an excuse for rape jokes?
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Left wing lies don’t come from people looking to hang the Vice President or kill my friends for not being the right shade of white.
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I would prefer left-wing biased factual reporting over right-wing biased lies. The equation is pretty simple from my perspective. Most of my Facebook time is pointing out to family members that the “news” they are sharing is lies and misinf
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What is your beef with Mozilla’s statement?
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That’s not a thought exercise, that is just you publishing your opinion and revealing your personal biases. Which “side” is exercising the power of censorship and deplatforming when Twitter suspends Donald Trump? Remembering that Twitter is
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There are only so many times you can “debate” someone who isn’t willing to learn before you start slamming doors in their faces. Along the way you spend a significant amount of effort trying to see things from their perspective, but their p
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One side is insisting on so-called transparency and accountability measures which make fraud much easier. Hmmm... In the meantime it’s not the vote counting system that is the problem so much as the single candidate seats, winner takes all
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So don’t highlight free speech as a feature since you clearly do not understand the market for whom that feature is important (ie: free speech absolutists and conspiracy theorists). What the people who actually value free speech want is sen
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The third most common death from firearms in the USA is accidental discharge. This is where people have firearms, are trained in using them, but some circumstance led to the firearm being discharged without intent and injuring or killing so

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