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by noarchy 7y ago
> If I said something like "Asian" instead of "Caucasian" it would definitely be lying because I don't actually identify as Asian. What if you did that day? Is there a need for a long term self-identification to
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by noarchy 7y ago
That was my assumption as well. I can't imagine they'd put the North Korean state broadcasters on the same level as BBC or CBC.
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by noarchy 7y ago
How about state media that is already taxpayer-funded? Do they really get an exception here?
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Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets(techcrunch.com)
161 points by noarchy 7y ago|46 comments
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>The iOS app store is a monopoly. Are you arguing otherwise? There's no way to run an alternative store there. I have to agree, it is a monopoly within the context of iOS devices. Apple works fairly hard to patch iOS in order to pre
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by noarchy 7y ago
>I don’t think it’s spiteful or childish to suggest breaking up a monopoly in these circumstances although I would say less drastic options should be tried first. You've shown your hand here, in a way, by suggesting that Google is a
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by noarchy 7y ago
Here in Canada we all get taxed for CBC, including people with no TV or radio.
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Oversight Report Shows the NSA Did Not Delete All Phone Records(techdirt.com)
1 points by noarchy 7y ago|0 comments
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This page doesn't appear to have a date on it. Is this something new that GitHub is doing? If so, is this Microsoft's influence we're seeing?
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"Imagine the extra collaboration we'll be able to have!" Indeed, and that's precisely what most probably didn't need or want.
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by noarchy 7y ago
>Resources were placed on this earth for the advancement of humankind. I hate to be that guy, but [Citation Needed]. Otherwise, I agree with you what what essentially amounts to a primitivist approach is counterproductive.
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by noarchy 7y ago
I've seen this happen in orgs where co-workers are expected to have lunch together, and to go out for drinks after work. Is there something wrong with wanting to have some alone time during lunch, and get away from work for a short tim
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by noarchy 7y ago
>If you don‘t eat carbohydrates, you don‘t need insulin, so it is no disadvantage that you cannot produce it. That doesn't sound right at all. Protein produces both a blood sugar and an insulin response.
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by noarchy 7y ago
>This looks like a good way to spark real-life violence in what is otherwise a remarkably safe way to exchange drugs. It seems the entire drug war has managed to spark almost incomprehensible levels of violence. There's some in the
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>To me it is becoming increasingly apparent that the issue here is that people aren’t voting for the issues the NYT and Chris want people to vote on. While you're getting downvoted, there is likely an element of truth to this. The &
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by noarchy 7y ago
>But I don't understand what legal argument is to be made for arbitrarily seizing property at the border. It looks an awful lot like garden variety theft, to me, which makes me question whether or not we should use their vocabulary
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by noarchy 7y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, it seems entirely correct, given the prevailing political climate.
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>I've actually found that books priced on the Indigo website will be more expensive in store Right, that's what I was getting at in my post. It looks like they know they have to compete with Amazon on this front, and in the pro
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by noarchy 7y ago
In many cases a book is cheaper to order from the Indigo website, which happens to also provide free shipping for orders over $25. Unless you fancy the bricks & mortar experience, which increasingly doesn't involve books at all, th
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by noarchy 7y ago
>Facebook must be destroyed or at least weakened by the power of governments now or never. I weakened Facebook in my life by reducing my reliance on it, to the point where I stopped using it entirely. The last thing I'd want is for
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by noarchy 7y ago
>Infants don't understand the concept of privacy I'm not sure this is limited to infants, though I realize it isn't an apples-to-apples comparison. People don't realize how they're being tracked by the devices th
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by noarchy 8y ago
Is there an article here? I couldn't navigate beyond the initial page.
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by noarchy 8y ago
>This is true in the sense that property rights always depend on law and the government making the law. This rebuttal is getting recycled so often that I nearly addressed it before anyone said it. But since you've said it, I'll
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by noarchy 8y ago
>Restricting access to slavery made society freer. You mean removing the laws that enforced slavery made society freer? Because slavery in North America, at least, was backed by law. It took government to make slavery possible. >Examp
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by noarchy 8y ago
>False. Ok, well we'll disagree on that. >You are evading the question. I don't think I did at all. It is likely that we're just not going to see eye to eye on this one.
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by noarchy 8y ago
The example you've cited, while good food for thought, is an example of replacing one horrendous law (slavery was once backed by the force of law in the US) with an admittedly much better law.
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>Arguments tend to get weaker if you omit half of them. You made two arguments, of which I responded to one as I considered them to be quite separate. >In what useful sense does an alcoholic have the freedom not to drink? If alcoholic
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>Restricting access to alcohol can actually make society freer if it reduces the number of alcoholics. That's a pretty scary way of thinking. I don't want to attack a strawman here, but it looks like you're trying to rever
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by noarchy 8y ago
>libertarian paternalism Just when you think you've seen everything; someone actually came up with this term? Is this meant to try to convince libertarians as to the merits of statism and regulation?
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>Do you believe you are immune to addiction? Because that says a lot about you, too. Well I'm not an alcoholic, and it probably does say something about me. A lot of these kinds of discussions come down to what one thinks the role o

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