marstomorrow

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by marstomorrow 7y ago
> they did the exact same thing at the exact same time. They did not do the "exact same thing" at all. You are spreading lies using logical fallacies and that causes harm to the community here; please stop. Your false equivalen
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by marstomorrow 7y ago
That is a false equivalence. You are spreading lies by equating two very different things. > Cambridge Analytica was not the 1st time this was done. is not supported by the link you supplied. If you want to equate the two, then go ahea
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by marstomorrow 7y ago
> This assumes that targeted ads are truly effective for changing politics No it doesn't. "Targeted ads" had very little to do with the CA/Facebook scandal and I see them as largely irrelevant in what happened. So I d
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by marstomorrow 7y ago
> Crying about this or that opinion being published, I have absolutely never once in my life seen someone cry over an opinion being published. I have, however, seen hundreds of people complain about others 'crying', or '
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by marstomorrow 7y ago
> I do know however that people that had those things happen to them in real-time history and in their full horror, were much more resilient, courageous, and could even shrug them off. This is wildly untrue and outrageously offensive. Do
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by marstomorrow 7y ago
> A decade ago, when I was a senior in high school, “Jimmy,” a jilted ex-patient of my dad’s, began stalking our family. Over a period of months, verbal harassment escalated to threats of violence and we soon found ourselves accompanied
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by marstomorrow 7y ago
> It's like going out in life expecting padded roads, walls, and everything, lest you ever get hurt... What? How offensive. Let me be clear, then. The United States is committing a genocide against minorities as we speak and it is
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by marstomorrow 7y ago
I have come across this in some friends. It's super interesting but also dangerous. It has taken me sometimes years or a decade to fully come to terms with some past debates. My friends would seemingly hold opinions and cling to them d
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by marstomorrow 7y ago
What possible reason would you have for personally believing that SpaceX is not cash-flow positive, when the exec teams says that it is, if you are not reading conspiracy theories? Where are these ideas coming from then? We have real lega
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by marstomorrow 7y ago
I searched for this for the last 5 minutes but couldn't find any info about it online. Do you have any links or citations? I think it is false info. Edit: Based on the info I was able to find, it looks like this is indeed false inform
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by marstomorrow 7y ago
> So it is again a long term gamble to maybe make one day a load of money. No, that's not what this is. The comment above you said nothing about this anyway, it seems to be off-topic? The entire point of this launch is to reduce t
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by marstomorrow 7y ago
> With more fiber being laid every day, increasing wireless deployments, and technologies like AirGig in the horizon, is Starlink launching into a shrinking market? What you are describing sounds like a rapidly expanding market, not a sh
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by marstomorrow 7y ago
This is very neat, and the last paragraph is indeed very heavy-hitting. It's always hard to read that some of our societies greatest present-day problems are so many thousands of years old. However, I think this definition is narrow an
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by marstomorrow 7y ago
Oh my I'm sure glad you can't pass such a dictatorial law [1]. By directly charging people for using a safety mechanism that they bought with their car, you are incentivizing people to reduce the physical safety of others around
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by marstomorrow 7y ago
Elon's stated goal re: astronauts and training is that the technology should be sufficiently simplified to let anyone go up with minimal training. The idea of a heavily-trained astronaut is old, and the new thinking is that the people