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by newacct583 5y ago
Why? Most of the junk gab is famous for would get you banned here on HN too. Content moderation is... just content moderation. Gab has an absolute right under the first amendment to be able to speak. No one has an obligation to repeat w
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by newacct583 5y ago
That's what the "discovery" phase of a law suit is, yes.
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by newacct583 5y ago
For the record, that was my quote. And it was sarcasm, intended (clearly, I thought) to head off the kind of ridiculous digression about terminology that you dove right into anyway. So you'll have to forgive my profanity. But I sta
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by newacct583 5y ago
> Communism did not resolve the Great Depression Not be belabor an outrageously belabored point, but no one is talking about anything that anyone ever called "communism". We're talking about things like progressive income
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by newacct583 5y ago
> So, the solution? Uh, hmmmm...lemme get back to you on that. Tax the excess from the wealthy industries and redistribute via whatever reasonably fair set of programs you happen to like. I know, I know, communism, yada yada. But that&
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by newacct583 5y ago
> complaining about driver shortages but not increasing wages This is the core truth in virtually every "<worker> shortage" story. It's true for every profession, every occupation, every market. Pay a market wage a
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by newacct583 5y ago
That's true, but (especially when spread by politicians) terribly spun. Almost half of americans have no federal "income tax" liability. They still pay a ton of federal tax on every paycheck they receive. Their income is ab
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by newacct583 5y ago
The top 10% demographic is made up mostly by people who consider themselves middle class. The 10th percentile income is like $180k/year, or a little more than an entry level FAANG job. The 1% borderline is a little over half a millio
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by newacct583 5y ago
> Stocks are not a limited scarce resource so it’s not like the top are hoarding them. Securities are by definition limited. Splits and IPOs are the only places stocks are born, and those are carefully regulated. And... while the langua
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by newacct583 5y ago
That's because of the covid downturn, though. A ton of people saw a rapid shortfall in income, but it's was (as the article calls out) transitory. It doesn't reflect what we saw in 2019 or will see this year. Questions abo
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by newacct583 5y ago
There's nuance to be sure, but Chappelle's quotes aren't really very far out of context. He's been banging the anti-anti-anti-cancel-culture gong for years now, dancing constantly just shy of outright hate, deliberately
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by newacct583 5y ago
> Calling it a left/right issue just diverts from the real problem Alternatively, arguments like that divert from the "real" problem that half of the political discourse of this country is predicated on an "anti-pre
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by newacct583 5y ago
That's just a conspiracy theory. I mean, yes, Protection of Entrenched Interests is a real thing, Regulatory Capture is a real thing. There are real issues to discuss there. But to argue that the purpose behind the SEC et. al. is t
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by newacct583 5y ago
> One side effect of our toxic national discourse is that I don’t know who to believe That, largely, is the intent. "Some people" know that the more they poison this well the more people like you will then throw up their hands
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by newacct583 5y ago
Alternatively: it enourages brigading and group think. Controversial opinions, even wildly incorrect ones (think: conspiracy theories and ideological nutjobbery) are also heavily upvoted , and it's the discussion that gets buried,
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by newacct583 5y ago
This wasn't making sense to me, then I got to the meat: > The real risk is that blockchain Twitter will begin to censor dubiously defined “hate speech”, or that blockchain Mastercard will add support for chargebacks. This is just
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by newacct583 5y ago
> is already under 24/7 surveillance with limited mobility and strictly controlled Internet access You're deflecting by invoking another juicy, tempting-to-believe conspiracy that, by this same principle, would seem to be tri
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by newacct583 5y ago
I don't buy that. The kid who leaked those tank manuals is likely going to jail. Anyone with evidence of a cultured covid ancestor gets a free ticket to any academic position in the west they want. Remember that all those folks at W
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by newacct583 5y ago
Exactly. Note that the same analysis can work in reverse, too. The lack of leaky corroboration for a juicy, tempting-to-believe theory is a really high quality prior that it just isn't true. (With, maybe, an exception for very tight
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by newacct583 5y ago
Alternatively: estate taxes are a huge boon to the accumulators of wealth because they allow people to shift much of their tax burden until after they're dead and don't need it anymore. Cut the estate tax and you'll need to
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by newacct583 5y ago
> homeless people [...] are just more visible in the bay area due to lax rules for them I'm not normally someone who picks on phrasing, but this one is a little orwellian. The implication is that, while homelessness is endemic basi
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by newacct583 5y ago
> with a Ponzi scheme, you get sent money Still pedantry. You're arguing that it's not a Ponzi scheme NOT because it funds promises to existing players with money coming in from new players (which is pretty much the standard
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by newacct583 5y ago
> Profits aren't paid out from Bitcoin. There are no profits being paid out. That's sort of the key difference. Bitcoin doesn't send you a check if you own it. That's a pedantic evasion. You're conflating profit
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by newacct583 5y ago
Heat pumps have largely solved the battery capacity problems with cold batteries (though not the fast charging rate). I don't have numbers for Rivian, but heater-equipped EVs from other manufacturers now routinely post numbers in frig
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by newacct583 5y ago
You want to build them where you can staff them, and these fabs are going up next door to Intel's existing fabs in Chandler.
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by newacct583 5y ago
I'd submit an answer involving jargon like "mempool" doesn't qualify for "ELI5". ELI4?
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by newacct583 5y ago
So weird that some attempts to silence speech are outrageous overreaches of toxic cancel culture, but others are "brilliantly executed multiyear plans".
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by newacct583 5y ago
That's... not what 230 is about at all. This myth just recycles itself again and again. Why do people insist on repeating it? Section 230 immunizes a web content company from liability for statements made ON ITS SERVICE BY THIRD PAR
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by newacct583 5y ago
> Wow... I had no idea. This feels like some third world country shit. There is coverage over this area of law being abused at least once a month. You had no idea because you aren't reading the journalism that is reporting it. I me
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by newacct583 5y ago
I don't know where "here" is but while health care workers are hard to staff there's no particular vaccine effect I'm aware of. Cite?

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