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by oji0hub 6y ago
From the wiki: "Chesterton's fence is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood." Ok great. "The quotation is from Chesterton's 1929 book, T
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by oji0hub 6y ago
Installing software outside of play store is technically possible, but if something contains enough hurdles, most people won't do it, which results in no users and a meaningless platform.
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by oji0hub 6y ago
> usable if you're willing to hack on it Most people need things just work.
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by oji0hub 6y ago
This is a work in progress and all the article contains is a couple of cherry picked quotes. No surprise there since the Guardian has been lobbying heavily against brexit.
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by oji0hub 6y ago
> So, why aren't these high paying trucking jobs reappearing now that Brexit happened? In the last couple of weeks? While the entire world is closed due to Corona?
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by oji0hub 6y ago
My example is purposely simplified. It's only intended to illustrate how the same situation can be described in different ways. In reality, it makes a lot of sense to add all sorts of layers. A gives B money, C offers A a parson, B doe
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by oji0hub 6y ago
Person gives person B money. Person B gives person A a pardon. We can say that A paid for access, made a voluntary contribution, lightened their walled, lent out money that didn't have to be repaid, etc. In practice, these are just way
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by oji0hub 6y ago
I don't know but he pardoned something like a few hundred people I think? That said, Obama was a class act so I'd absolutely believe he was (is) honest.
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by oji0hub 6y ago
> My understanding is that there was a criminal investigation of Clinton's Marc Rich pardon that concluded without finding any evidence of criminality. I don't know anything about the investigation, but no finding does not mean
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by oji0hub 6y ago
Buying your freedom is as old as prisons. E.g. I just saw someone post this book although the post disappeared (?): Pardongate: How Bill & Hillary Clinton and Their Brothers Profited from Pardons
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by oji0hub 6y ago
They have the option of not wielding the hammer. I for one never appointed them the guardian of the walled internet.
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Of course they care. They've taken over everything they've been able to take over and they're still going strong. This is not by mistake. They just care about different things than you do. This is why Google needs to be broke
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by oji0hub 6y ago
Of course they care. They've taken over everything they've been able to take over and they're still going strong. This is not by mistake. This is why Google needs to be broken up.
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That's how it should be. But plenty of people have been convicted in this way, unfortunately. Plus they have probable cause to search your house which isn't much fun either.
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You can. And the court can ignore that, which they routinely do, and convict you anyway.
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by oji0hub 6y ago
Even the police stopping me every time at the border probably wake up with a cup of coffee, get a beer on Friday and maybe smoke a cigarette. We won't stop drugs because people don't want to.
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by oji0hub 6y ago
Someone the "right to free speech" becomes the right to censor.
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by oji0hub 6y ago
> No one is being censored. Umm, TalkRatio were censored. > The government is not stopping these TalkRadio folks... Right, Google is. That's what OP said when he wrote "find it a little worrying that a US tech company has th