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by moduspol 6y ago
It has not previously been the case that using common political rhetoric like "fight like hell" was equivocated with "inciting violence," and we carved it out for law enforcment and courts to adjudicate--not private
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by moduspol 6y ago
I could point you to examples, but then you'll claim those are just members of BLM and don't represent the movement itself, which is decentralized. We've all seen the rhetoric and videos of the riots. Let's not waste eac
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by moduspol 6y ago
I feel like there are too many straw-man arguments here for me to meaningfully respond to. I'm sorry--perhaps someone else will defend them.
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by moduspol 6y ago
People who understand what the company needs to do and can be trusted / expected to execute on that, regardless of how things were done in the past.
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by moduspol 6y ago
I think we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater by framing the argument that way. Possession and transmission of child pornography has always been illegal and technically an infringement on freedom of speech, but we carved an ex
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by moduspol 6y ago
Agreed. If I'm going to be the CEO and you (as a board member) are going to expect me to meet these goals over the next few quarters, I need to be able to hire the people I know can do it. It's not in your, my, or the company&#x27
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by moduspol 6y ago
> All these actions from platforms is to prevent, limit, curb violence. That's it. There's no grand conspiracy. You're either for non-violence and a civil, reasoning-reasonable society - or you are living in ignorance is b
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by moduspol 6y ago
> As if all these people were discussing things in good faith and would listen to reality about their conspiracy theories. Was the "Russian collusion" narrative peddled 24/7 by the mainstream media for over two years a co
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by moduspol 6y ago
Only if the barkeep walks past a hundred other patrons at least as unruly as that one patron is, and the barkeep's history suggest he's spending most of his time focusing on the unruly patrons that he disagrees with politically. A
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by moduspol 6y ago
Alternatively, they check their web server logs for the IP address(es) from which 99% of requests came, and then undo the opt-outs of those numbers. Then they add a better CAPTCHA.
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by moduspol 6y ago
Those jobs are only seen as obsolete in hindsight, because we can all acknowledge that society would not be made better by bringing them back. This wasn't the case at the time when they were being forced out of business. Certainly not
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by moduspol 6y ago
How do you measure the value lost by the jobs of stablehands, cobblers, milkmen, and movie projectionists?
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by moduspol 6y ago
> Anything in the same physical location could be affected by earthquakes, fires [1], power cuts, Internet connections going offline, etc. It's worth noting different AZs within the same region are supposedly architected to have the
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by moduspol 6y ago
I think we've been repeatedly shown that people don't care. From Cambridge Analytica, to what Snowden shared, to voice-based assistants (like Amazon Alexa), every instance is met with feigned surprise and then a collective shoulde
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by moduspol 6y ago
It's also easy to imagine what the blog posts would look like if they did the same thing except over TLS--in a way that the harmlessness / purpose of the request was not immediately apparent. I agree with you, though--it seems lik
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by moduspol 6y ago
Very few. I'm not sure how you'd measure it, but there seems to be a huge disconnect between techie privacy advocates and the rest of the world. The former keeps claiming the latter just doesn't understand, or needs to be inf
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by moduspol 6y ago
A tweet from ten years ago that was perfectly reasonable at the time?
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by moduspol 6y ago
Maybe. Maybe Californians just aren't actually buying the "oppressed rideshare driver" narrative as much as we've been led to believe.
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by moduspol 6y ago
Putting aside that clearly my point was that no special treatment was given to him as a result of his disability: Just because the business as a whole is not turning a profit does not mean the business loses money with each and every action
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by moduspol 6y ago
For real. My exposure to California news is basically just what I see on HN and anything that hits national headlines. I had no idea Californians would vote for something like this. Kind of makes you wonder how large the disconnect is betwe
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by moduspol 6y ago
I imagine it was also good for your mental state of well-being. You didn't have to sign up for a handout or even get a "goodwill" job like a greeter or something at a big box store. Uber and Airbnb didn't have to take a
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by moduspol 6y ago
We are also quite tribal, and there are numerous instances throughout that history of an "us vs. them" mentality causing people to do terrible things. I don't expect roving gangs. I do expect people to be coerced into handing
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by moduspol 6y ago
If you're only concerned about the disasters that happen all the time, then you're not in the same mindset as your typical prepper.
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by moduspol 6y ago
Maybe, or maybe not. If they have guns and you don't, it'll be up to them to decide.
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by moduspol 6y ago
You don't need a raid if you have guns and they don't. You probably don't even have to do any shooting. You might just be hungry, or in a group with others who are hungry, and heard there was a farm in a general area.
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by moduspol 6y ago
Not necessarily. The guns and ammunition are more valuable. You could trade them (or your time in protecting them) for the other things without stealing. Besides, I think it's a moot point because I know a lot of preppers and they&#x27
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by moduspol 6y ago
Only in the most simplistic case. In less simplistic cases, people will gather and organize and decisions will get made over how resources will be allocated and distributed. The people who stockpile other resources are unlikely to be in a b
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by moduspol 6y ago
If it helps, the machines described in OP sound similar to what we used here four years ago. I haven't voted in between though so I'm not sure when the switchover actually took place here.
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by moduspol 6y ago
I voted in Allegheny County. We filled in bubbles on paper, and then at the end, put our ballots in what looked like a scantron machine. It had a screen with a simple confirmation message (something like "thank you for voting") th
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by moduspol 6y ago
True, although I think what they're doing make sense. If they pay out and then Trump's legal challenges succeed, it only gets uglier for them.

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