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by nabnob 7y ago
Police investigated a man for sharing an offensive limerick on Twitter - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/24/man-investigated...
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by nabnob 7y ago
It's already happened. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube already remove and delete comments that are outside the overton window. Sure, they're not part of the government, but when it comes to freedom of expression does it really matter
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I'd say that lashing out violently is a pretty good sign that a person doesn't have empathy for other people. And what's more entitled than thinking you have the right to end other people's lives? >Personally I would
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I don't think it's mental illness alone, since these shootings are almost entirely perpretrated by men. Plenty of women are mentally ill, isolated or lonely, feel powerless, and yet they're not committing mass shootings. Alm
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by nabnob 7y ago
I remember seeing a post on reddit from a school teacher describing the active shooter training they received from a local police department. Apparently it just turned into an opportunity for the police to berate and shout at the teachers
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by nabnob 7y ago
You definitely can. Creeps have a hard time hiding the fact that they're creeps. If I'm talking to a guy on a dating app and he immediately tries to steer the conversation towards sex, my body, how horrible women are, and shows z
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by nabnob 7y ago
One of the few sane comments in this post. Commenting to save, thanks.
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This is definitely not true. I got hit by a car while crossing at an intersection (I had a green light, but no walk signal). The police report said I was at fault.
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by nabnob 7y ago
I thought all medicine used differential diagnosis, where you start with symptoms and gradually eliminate potential causes, until you're left with the most likely cause.
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by nabnob 7y ago
A man in the UK was investigated by the police for retweeting a limerick about transwomen - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/24/man-investigated... >After Mr Miller questioned why the complain
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by nabnob 7y ago
This sounds interesting. I'm guessing you mean that much of the power of the human brain comes from its ability to interact with its environment? I've been noticing more and more of a trend in recent years to treat the brain as se
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It does: >Halassa is particularly intrigued by what the connection between attention and the basal ganglia might reveal about conditions like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism, which often manifest as hypersensitivity t
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by nabnob 7y ago
Foucault and other post modernists defended pedophilia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_of... I'll stick with Marx and dialectical materialism, which offer actual tools to fight systemic
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by nabnob 7y ago
It's not just conservatives. I'm an old school, anti-identity politics leftist and feminist, and the modern "left" is more concerned with using the right language than having the correct analysis or actually defending b
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by nabnob 7y ago
Google has mostly focused on hiring more diverse candidates, and investing in bootcamp type projects. These initiatives help Google by increasing the pool of workers from which they hire, so they can look progressive while saving money. No
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by nabnob 7y ago
Antidepressants are no more effective than placebo and the "chemical imbalance" theory has very little research to actually support it - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/
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by nabnob 7y ago
Amazon is doing exactly this - https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado... >This Note argues that the current framework in antitrust—specifically its pegging competition to “consumer welfare,” de
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by nabnob 7y ago
The NYT tried very hard to prevent one of their journalists from publishing a story critical of the CIA and the Bush administration - https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-life-as-a-new-york-ti... It's
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by nabnob 7y ago
Thermodynamics doesn’t work like that. There’s no undo button.
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Yup agreed. I wanted to see someone spell out why they opposed this law, because it would make it obvious that they have no problems with the horribly unethical things some of these tech companies are doing.
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Those aren't the only two options. Duckduckgo shows you ads based on your search terms.
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When I first wrote that comment, it was at -2 after three minutes. Which is interesting because usually HN users claim they care about privacy.
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There's definitely a difference in outcomes between 1) allowing customers to opt-in to data collection by giving a them reward. In this case, the default behavior does not involve data collection 2) allowing customers to opt out of da
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IANAL, but I'm guessing it's the difference between opting in and opting out? For example, I think it would be legal for Verizon to get around this law by increasing their prices by $5 across the board, and offering a $5 rebate fo
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I see a lot of comments deriding this law, can someone explain to me why these are bad things? Quoting from this article - https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/28/landmark-california-privac... - Businesses must di
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I'm not sure that was the best example to use of an abstraction that leads to more complicated code, with database code I feel like it's way simpler to have it separate from your business logic. That way, there's fewer place
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Sure, this would also have been true under feudalism. The important thing to recognize is that the ruling class - whoever owns property and is able to use that to exploit workers - will control the government and make laws that benefit them
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>By that logic, how do you even know they're immigrants to begin with, then? All it takes it flashing your visa or any documentation that you are required to carry at all times, just like I am. You were not expecting bartenders to g
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by nabnob 7y ago
>A bipartisan coalition of 48 states along with Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia said Monday it is investigating whether Google’s search and advertising business is engaged in monopolistic behavior. >California and Alabama are
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^ commenter is a security researcher who works for Google. This whole area of research seems like it exists as a way to rationalize wide-scale data collection. Rather than focusing on the collective rights of all people being tracked, it f

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