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by mundo 6y ago
This might be a good time to look up the definition of axiom: "a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference".
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by mundo 6y ago
The problem with whataboutism in this context is not that it presents a false equivalence, although it does, or that your examples are exaggerated, though they are. It's that it presupposes that Reddit rules are an attempt to enforce
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by mundo 6y ago
> "Hate speech" now includes your political affiliation? That's news to me. "Hate speech" is a legal concept that has to do with protecting human rights; Reddit's "hateful content" is just the rule
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by mundo 6y ago
Relatedly, I've noticed that video game youtubers almost always refer to themselves plurally (as in, "We're going to take our main army over here" or "We won!"). I assumed this was to cultivate a sense of belon
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by mundo 6y ago
The more nuanced version of the same comment would've been to point out that it's no co-oindence that rappers commonly choose an alter ego (not just a pseudonym, but a character with different mannerisms and traits) under which to
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by mundo 6y ago
> "Even a .5% wealth tax would start to keep founders away from a state or country that imposed it." This sounds absolutely absurd. The last twenty years of entrepreneurs not fleeing the "tax" of Bay Area salaries
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by mundo 6y ago
That was even less persuasive than I expected when I clicked. I'm not surprised he lost his lawsuit.
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by mundo 6y ago
This is incredibly vague. Is this a proposal for some kind of standard or protocol? It says that "many of the world’s biggest telecommunications companies are Clean Telcos", so whatever it is it can't be that difficult to a
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by mundo 6y ago
> Maybe this is where TikTok has succeeded: short, snappy, quickly accessed videos I think this is precisely backwards. Teens like video apps because they have time to sit around watching videos. Adults gravitate towards text and image
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by mundo 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeches_by_Michael_Crichton#G...
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by mundo 6y ago
Through selective omission, by presenting the non-central as central. Did the events in that article happen? Yes, probably. Would someone who gets their information from Breitbart have a roughly accurate idea of what happened at the Por
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by mundo 6y ago
Yes. They're a big organization with a lot of internal controls and transparency and a long history of owning up to mistakes. The idea that they would do something underhanded and manage to keep it secret is an extraordinary claim an
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by mundo 6y ago
I empathize, but you've been misled about the nature and extent of size of the protests. It so happens that I live two blocks away from where the feds were arresting people two nights ago. If the police were overwhelmed or were overl
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by mundo 6y ago
Super cool! This is a great idea and very useful for those of us who use CSS widgets as standins for graphical assets. I will say that I also have trouble resizing the elements using Firefox, thought it all looks good in Chrome.
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by mundo 6y ago
If anyone involved with this stops by, could you clarify how Interledger, Coil, and Ripple are related, if at all? It seems like this (Web Monetization) is an attempt to make a w3c standard around browsers initiating transactions out of fi
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by mundo 6y ago
I interview a lot of people and found much to complain about in this essay. This is the main thing: > The key is to decide in advance on a list of questions, specifically designed to test job-specific skills, then ask them to all the ca
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by mundo 6y ago
I'm a huge fan of Scott's writing, but the forum discussions at SSC did not seem particularly good (for any value of good - niceness, erudition, signal-to-noise, etc) to me. Certainly they were much worse than HN on average.
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by mundo 6y ago
You could submit a PR. And if you're commenting here instead because you know the change would not be accepted, well, there's your answer. edit: Downvote away, but the fact that you can't simply correct the record might be a
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by mundo 6y ago
Ironic, considering that his new Netflix special is mostly material he's been doing for years, but this does sound kind of cool: > He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wa
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by mundo 6y ago
> I think the "flamewar" penalty only kicks in when there are more comments than upvotes I guess that might explain why someone who really dislikes SSC might add a lot of short, repetitive comments in this thread :|
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by mundo 6y ago
I did, obviously. You're either including his middle name (not common when googling your doctor), or counting a Robin Hanson essay that links to Scott's old deleted blog as "his writings", which is not reasonable since
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by mundo 6y ago
The point is, if one of his patients casually googles him, they find stuff about his job and not his blog. That you can find his blog is neither here nor there (and the first ten comments to that effect probably covered it).
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by mundo 6y ago
The firewall wasn't burner phones and foreign VPNs, it was Scott emailing people who use his real name to respond to his blogging, and asking them not to do that. And it has worked pretty well up til now - when I search his real name
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by mundo 6y ago
You're looking at the wrong side of the veil. Yes, it's trivial to find his real name if you know of his blog, but it's not easy to find his blog by searching his real name.
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by mundo 6y ago
I've also been reading SSC for a long time. I'm sad, but honestly, who's surprised? I mean, he defended Steven Hsu the other day for being on the wrong side of the whole "race/IQ differences" thing, despite h
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by mundo 6y ago
> What's the root cause of this pathological behaviour Our monkey brains are hardwired to think that it's vitally important to keep track of what the high status monkeys are doing?
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by mundo 6y ago
I read through a few recent posts (trying to understand how this absolutely bizarre story could've come about) and it seems like the current point of contention is "Managed Payments", which appears to be a euphemism for ebay
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by mundo 6y ago
Only tangentially relevant, but a keyworded bookmark in Firefox is very useful way to get to wikipedia. If you create a bookmark like this: name: wp location: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s tags: keyword: wp then ty
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by mundo 6y ago
> teaching police officers to learn how to be calm and composed Try yelling at a Walmart cashier. They won't punch you. Try it with your Applebee's waitress. Try it with the towel boy at the car wash. None of them will hit
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by mundo 6y ago
Thank you; I find it concerning that so much of the response to this has been focused on Twitter's behavior, and so little on the President's. I would hope that even people who think Twitter's fact-check links amount to cens

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