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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> Substack decided not to remove articles openly advocating Nazi beliefs They actually did. Look at my other post on this thread that examines the Atlantic's cited examples. The only one that is actually clearly Nazi is suspended
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Don't feel bad. UN resolutions don't actually reflect world opinion or even political opinion in those countries. Nobody cares what the UN thinks so even when countries vote in a particular way, the local politicians and voters ba
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Rails have much more limited capacity. Train costs in the UK are mostly dominated by demand exceeding supply, and supply being hard to add. Also you don't have to maintain tracks in the air, and airlines have less militant unions. The
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
In cultural terms, these six decades were marked by the rise and rapid development of the censorship policy of the Catholic Church, directed mainly against printed books, as part of its struggle with the Reformation and with those aspects
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Slander and libel are considered controversial amongst die hard libertarians. It's much harder to use those laws to suppress speech in the USA than, say, the UK. Which is one reason why the USA produced South Park and nowhere else can.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Not so. Look at my post that goes through their examples, which HN being the bastion of well moderated tolerance that it is, is now at -1 and flagged. Only one meets your description and it's suspended for ToS violations. The ones that
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I think our understanding of the world is so far apart that it'll be hard to make progress here. It's like asking me "why is it reasonable to assume that the purpose of the printing press is for the dissemination of views&quo
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
You would get kicked out for the same reasons as if you were a group of fanatical libertarian anarchists talking about politics sufficiently loudly to be overhead by staff and patrons. You seem to be badly missing the point here. A forum fo
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
If you go into a restaurant or bar and start yelling at strangers about pretty much anything you're going to be kicked out, regardless of topic. Exception: during a football match.
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In practice you will be able to talk about whatever you want in most restaurants or bars, because the owners aren't in the business of listening in on their customer's conversations and picking fights with them.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> Ah that's why Europe is such a shithole and the US is an enlightened kingdom. The USA is both richer and more democratic than Europe. You will need to accept this fact before mocking the Americans. Europe is a place where most c
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> The assumption that Common Land was unmanaged and owned by all is false How? The source wiki now cites for that claim contradicts it. It says lords owned/managed it but not really - they weren't able to control access or pu
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Capabilities are strictly less secure than hard-coded permissions, because capabilities can be given away by confused deputies whereas fixed permissions cannot. Capabilities also don't magically stop your app containing buffer overfl
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That's not to do with the voting system. It's because political disagreement is almost always ideological disagreement, which is one dimensional. See Sowell's analysis in his book "Conflict of visions" for an explan
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
That seems to be ahistorical revisionism. The common land in mediaeval England was literally called "waste" as in a "wasteland". It seems that some ideological academics are now trying to rewrite this history. Wikipedia
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
The US two party system isn't that obviously broken. Americans like to say it's broken, but they often aren't that familiar with the alternatives. You could have FPTP but with more than two parties, like the UK does. The down
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Fixed resolution and size? Manual layout calculations? What was the last native GUI toolkit you used, Win32?
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Is the quilting community overlapping with the knitting/sewing community at all? Last time that came across my radar it was in the context of some kind of crazy purity spiral that was killing online knitting communities. What's go
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> The matter was seemingly systematically ignored for almost 30 years until she pissed off the wrong people This seems to be standard in academia. The president of Stanford was found to be a fraud through work he'd done years or d
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Stealing full ideas and written sections to take credit for them is the accusation against Gay. This article has examples with visualizations. https://freebeacon.com/campus/this-is-definitely-plagiarism-... In her 199
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Google has billions of user accounts ....
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> has it really? How could you tell? Yes it has and for a certain class of queries it's not even open for debate, because Google themselves have stated they deliberately made it worse. And they really did, it's very noticeabl
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Gaza and Israel are at war, because Gaza attacked Israel. In wars, countries don't normally allow aid in to the state you are fighting. The fact that Israel allow anything in at all shows the extent to which they are fighting with kid
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
It's not really fine and no organization should do that. The assumption that one email address = one person is too deeply embedded into the infrastructure. Tech firms mostly get this right. Consumer Google accounts are never reused for
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
It does but the solution is mundane: use an auto generated primary key.
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I wonder if it's really wise for the CIA to be publicly saying they rebuilt their spy network. That seems very likely to trigger redoubled efforts in spy hunting, whereas if they had just said nothing, perhaps Beijing would still belie
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I mean sure I thought it was well understood too, but the article opens with: "Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous politic
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Oracle is certainly a software company. If they aren't a tech company, then Microsoft isn't either. Doesn't seem like a useful classification scheme.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
If the people inspired by sci-fi have a "dangerous political outlook" then what does that say about the people who write it, like the author Charles Stross? Stross greatly over-estimates how much influence sci-fi has. I've be
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I could explain, but South Park did it so well already.

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