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by patmcc 5y ago
Because the criticism is bollocks. "I want to hear particular views on a particular website" isn't an argument.
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by patmcc 5y ago
"Kissing" is the behavior, it should either be allowed or not. It's clearly wrong to have different rules depending on the gender of those involved.
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by patmcc 5y ago
Partially I'm serious, but I'm also channeling the politics of Rand Paul - a libertarian who doesn't believe in "rights based on your behavior" - which to him I suppose means the "behavior" of being gay or
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by patmcc 5y ago
We make a distinction between characteristics/traits and actions, generally. It's generally wrong to discriminate based on traits and fine to discriminate on actions. So; if YouTube said "we don't allow Christian white m
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by patmcc 5y ago
>>I for one want to hear his expertise, even if it disagrees with the conclusions you've already made. That's fine. YouTube doesn't want to host it, because in their view it's harmful. What's the problem?
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by patmcc 5y ago
Two things - first, no typo, but in my jurisdiction legal alcohol age is 19, so +6 years is the margin of error (at that particular set of stores, anyway). Second, it's more about changing how the question is framed in the mind of the
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by patmcc 5y ago
>>>Uk is over 18, but ask for id if you have any doubt less than 21, 3yr margin, common sense People are much worse at estimating ages then they think. If the policy is "ID anyone that looks <21" many 16/17 year o
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by patmcc 5y ago
I see the 'one in one trillion' but it's a bit vague; I read it as '1 in trillion chance' per image. So when we have a billion iPhones in the wild taking 10 images a day...1 in a trillion chances happen every few mo
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by patmcc 5y ago
More likely it's some intern looking up anything tagged "Loki" or similar.
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by patmcc 5y ago
Showing ID would work, but a video call? I've worked remotely for years - why would half the people in IT know my face from some other dude?
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by patmcc 5y ago
A good MMO typically isn't just a large number of players walking around and not interacting with one another. Look at Eve Online; you have a spaceship, you travel around and shoot stuff (this is simplifying it, but that's a big p
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by patmcc 5y ago
There are already lots of adult content sites; the reason these streamers exist on twitch specifically is because they can reach an audience that isn't on adult sites.
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by patmcc 5y ago
You've lost me on three points. 1) No modern Palestinian group (not even Hamas) is pushing the "kill all Jews" idea, thankfully. The majority seem to want a two state solution with Israel continuing to exist. And again, Israe
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by patmcc 5y ago
According to nearly everyone - Amnesty International, the UN, the EU, the WHO, Oxfam, the Red Cross, the UK, etc. - Israel is occupying Gaza by virtue of all the control they have over it, even if they don't have troops literally livin
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by patmcc 5y ago
Israel is occupying Palestinian territory in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestine is firing into cities because it has no other means to defend itself. It doesn't have an air force or the ability to pinpoint target missiles. Imagine
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by patmcc 5y ago
Ah, so it's fine to destroy civilian homes if they live near military targets and you give them some warning? Interesting. Do you apply that logic both ways? If Hamas sent a warning to Tel Aviv residents to evacuate because they would
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by patmcc 5y ago
And Israel leveled multiple (3?) apartment buildings in the last few days with targeted airstrikes.
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by patmcc 5y ago
I think "winner take all" refers to certain areas, where being 20% better than a competitor can bring you 80% of the market share. (I'm not sure if this is an accurate way to view the world, but I think that's what OP wa
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by patmcc 5y ago
You can put as many technical barriers in place as you want, eventually you do have to trust your employees. Sure, you could store everything client-side (or have a local encryption key), but most people don't actually want that - they
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by patmcc 6y ago
When I buy something on Ebay I can choose which individual person/store I buy from - I can see reviews, their specific listing, etc. - even if I'm buying the exact same product. With Uber I press a button and some driver shows u
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by patmcc 6y ago
That's true of the articles directly linked in the reddit post, but not the Spectator article (that was not linked to) - https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/aimee-challenor-and-the-... - that one. (Which is the li
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by patmcc 6y ago
"Deadnaming" is explicitly using the birth/non-current name of a trans person. The article does that, and also uses "he" throughout. Both of those things are typically seen as quite offensive by trans people. I don&
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by patmcc 6y ago
Take it to the extreme - murder is illegal; if you kill someone because you're a bad bad person, we jail you. If you kill someone because you're "insane"...we still remove you from society, but you just get treatment ins
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by patmcc 6y ago
Not so different to the deceased, though.
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by patmcc 6y ago
> Not really. What? They're a huge company that makes it notably difficult/expensive/impossible to repair their products. Have you been following 'right to repair' stuff at all? > Computers are really not like
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by patmcc 6y ago
In terms of "right to repair", Apple is a big offender, and the top one people think of - that's the reason I was singling them out. And no, I don't think we should force a company to sell a product for a particular pric
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by patmcc 6y ago
Sure - then Apple should be forced to provide those parts at reasonable prices. You want me to only use an "official" battery? Then you can sell me an Apple one for the same price as a knock-off.
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by patmcc 6y ago
I left out the last line, which I probably shouldn't have: "That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more." Agile doesn't mean no documentation and no tools - it just means
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by patmcc 6y ago
https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
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by patmcc 6y ago
If "Agile" results in extra layers of bureaucracy and more meetings, that's a great sign that agile is being done terribly wrong. Which, to be fair, is very very common. Remember the manifesto: We are uncovering better ways

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