partialrecall

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by partialrecall 7y ago
Has his late friend actually received increased publicity from this? Most of the stories and social media commentary I've seen don't mention Minksy at all, instead claiming that Stallman defended Epstein.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> "When the US took over Puerto Rico, kids there damn well learned English, the American history, the national anthem, and the star spangled banner in school. Do you call that assimilation?" If that's not assimilation, t
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Then use a stronger copyleft license like the AGPLv3 that companies like Amazon are totally allergic to. Alternatively, use a license that offends the HR department of the corporation, like WTFPL.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Hire PR professionals to stave off these other PR professionals. This industry operates like a protection racket.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Copyleft licenses were created for a reason. If you want companies to either contribute back or fuck off, use copyleft licenses.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
If Amazon doesn't pay you, then why are you scared of breaking Amazon? I understand why somebody would be scared of that. They're big and important to the tune of many many billions of dollars, while you or I are not. But you s
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> "entirely willing" As I understand it, he opined that she may have been coerced into acting as though she were willing. Which is substantially different from your version of it.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Pragmatically: So as to stave off comments such as the one you responded to.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Do you have somebody in mind?
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Many contemporaries of Walter Duranty knew he was full of shit, but for the NYTs his lies were politically convenient. That time it took them half a century to come clean. In your example with Kavanaugh, it took them no more than a year o
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by partialrecall 7y ago
I didn't say it would absolve Minsky. Somebody who has sex with a prostitute is lower than dirt in my book.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
In the 20th century the NYTimes acted as Stalin's mouthpiece for 50 years, denying the Soviet-perpetrated genocide in Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_the_Holodomor#Walter... Which, again, is worse
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by partialrecall 7y ago
I know a lot of people who's actions, quirks, opinions and beliefs are unique. Stallman is the only person I've ever known to eat toe-cheese, let alone do it in public. The fact that other neuroatypical people I know don't
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> "Epstein's island wasn't some stereotypical villain lair where anyone who steps foot on it must be up to no good." This isn't applicable to the specific case of Minsky, but I think that ambiguity evaporates a
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> What morality is there in saying that you cannot pass a vehicle in a tight lane?" Any system of morality in which it's morally wrong to endanger the lives of other motorists is a system of morality in which a justification
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by partialrecall 7y ago
You're viewing the history of journalism through rose-tinted glasses. In the late 19th century, American newspapers conspired to start a war for no good reason. That dwarfs anything they've done recently (although the NYTime&#x
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> "she may have been coerced by Epstein into appearing to be “willing” to Minsky." Is that not a possibility?
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by partialrecall 7y ago
If you'd ever met the man, you would know that Stallman being social oblivious with no tact or decorum is not merely some idle claim.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Failure to delete old blog entries that he has nevertheless disavowed negates that disavowal? I don't agree.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> "He was completely delightful when I met him in person" Really? That's far from my experience with meeting him. I found him to be physically and socially repulsive, but intellectually fascinating.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
I think it should go without saying that atypicality is not a binary matter.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
I think Stallman is tactless, and I've thought that for years. That email didn't change anything I thought about him. I also think that being tactless is not a moral crime. It's aesthetically offensive and counterproducti
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> "Free Software ushering in lynch flash mobs" How did Free Software do that? I don't see how the Free Software movement in practice or in theory has any share of the blame for this social phenomenon.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
You're right, I apologize.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Are you referring to a particular debate, or debates in general? If the later, I strongly disagree. There are many debates in which both sides argue rationally in good faith.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
So you believe Stallman's statements indicate he's a pedophile, not merely somebody with a long and established history of being tactless? Because I'd say there is a hell of a lot more evidence that he's tactless due
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by partialrecall 7y ago
I'd say recent statements more accurately reflect somebody's current beliefs than old statements. Considering how badly he's been recently slandered by media outlets leaving out context and mischaracterizing his remarks, I
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by partialrecall 7y ago
You know he's also recanted that shit, right? > and more like he's got a horse in the race. Has the mob now progressed to insinuating that he's a pedophile himself? Is that what the 'horse in the race' idiom m
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by partialrecall 7y ago
It really seems like his real 'sin' is not being neurotypical. Should he try to have more tact? Sure, of course. But failing that, the correct response is compassion and gentle correction, not a witchhunt. Not driving him out o
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by partialrecall 7y ago
I get the "thieves don't pick locks" thing, but I really think it's sleazy as hell if a lock marketed as "high security" can be raked open in one second. That's a low-skill attack. In this case he didn&#

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