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by pbourke 6y ago
Are you seriously calling for China, of all countries, to create a network free of censorship?
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by pbourke 6y ago
Saying that someone is being dense is not the same as using a disability as a pejorative.
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by pbourke 6y ago
There’s enough irony in that to power a small city for a month.
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Visual J# was Java as a CLR language. Visual J++ was closer to what you mean - it was the Java language and VM with some things deleted from Sun’s distribution (RMI) and some things added like WFC. They also made some breaking language exte
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by pbourke 6y ago
> assertions that speech must be policed You have never been guaranteed a venue on the internet. You have always punched your ticket on any platform - including the one that we're typing on now - by colouring within the lines of the
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by pbourke 6y ago
> 70 million people cast a vote based on political affiliations. And their side lost, and they accepted that. Did they, now? "A CNN poll, released on Sunday and conducted by SSRS between January 9 and 14, shows that 75 percent of Re
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by pbourke 6y ago
The status quo has brought us to today. The platforms only act when they see that the political winds have shifted. There were precisely zero “profiles in courage” among the platforms until after the election. We can expect nothing more - t
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by pbourke 6y ago
Chalking anything up to geography or density seems like a reach. Ireland and the UK are islands and are doing rather poorly. South Korea has high density. Canada has low density, but a highly urbanized population. It’s done better than the
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Outside of the island nations and China, deaths have a weak correlation with public policy. South Korea, Vietnam, Finland, Norway and Thailand are not island nations and yet have a rate of death an order of magnitude lower than the US.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Great Big Sea’s version is my favourite: https://youtu.be/uTIzotr2If0
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Now “obviously” the answer is that we should have pegged the version of gradle required to use the script My first step with either gradle or maven is to install the wrapper generator, which has this effect. After adding the wrapper yo
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by pbourke 6y ago
Probably this will be discontinued now that the US will require a negative COVID test prior to entry via air.
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by pbourke 6y ago
What do you suppose that example proves? If the account continues to post shit like that it should be banned too.
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by pbourke 6y ago
No, it’s not censorship. Donald Trump has ample opportunities to communicate his message. What he no longer has is his preferred communication method. He is not entitled to use his preferred communication method because he’s abused it to to
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by pbourke 6y ago
Jesus, enough with the Gulag Archipelago references. Donald Trump was banned from Twitter. “Conservatives” were not. You are still free to engage in all manner of conservative speech on Twitter that does not call for violence against your i
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by pbourke 6y ago
>> There is no similar human rights mandate for a Parler account >Canada considers internet access a basic human right, and it's pretty clear the rest of the world will move in that direction shortly. Having a Parler account a
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by pbourke 6y ago
So that’s a no?
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by pbourke 6y ago
Please point out where AOC promotes violence in those tweets.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> If you want to familiarize yourself with their thinking, I would recommend reading The Gulag Archipeligo. Give me a break. These people probably think Solzhenitsyn was a power forward for the Red Wings in the 90’s. > 1) The presiden
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Now, lots of people feel they have taxation without representation. Uh, what? Trump lost according to the rules of the Electoral College and lost the popular vote by millions. This is just a regular old election loss. Why should it be
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It may have just popped onto the front page
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by pbourke 6y ago
> How many guns, bombs and zip ties? Good question. We don’t know the answer because federal authorities have not held a press briefing on this incident. > those that I've seen look like very poorly behaved tourists with souvenir
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by pbourke 6y ago
A defining feature of this era is that language doesn’t matter, starting with "fake news" in the summer of 2016. Riot/protest, fascist, coup - these terms and more have been co-opted and reflected back at the other side. Same
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by pbourke 6y ago
I am in complete agreement that there must be consequences for the Capitol riot. > You think it stops here? Are they encouraged, or discouraged? If nothing happens to them, what do you think they'll do next? This isn't over. I
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by pbourke 6y ago
I’ve been reflecting on this lately as well. 75M people voted for Trump just two months ago, and now he’s been deplatformed from the major social media networks, and the alternate network that some of his supporters were moving to is effect
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by pbourke 6y ago
> The market has judged that “pro violence” speech is to be de-monetized. “The market” seems to reach this conclusion en masse immediately after it’s clear that the political and regulatory winds have changed. I don’t know much about Par
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by pbourke 6y ago
If you’re a working programmer using a mainstream language, then I feel that spending some time with an ML-derived language such as Haskell and a Lisp will pay dividends in your day to day practice. There are some keen insights about comput
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by pbourke 6y ago
> There is no way Trump would ever be convicted in a court of law for what he did. It doesn’t matter. The standards of the courtroom are not being applied here. The facts are plain: there were a hundred off ramps for Trump over the 2 mon
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by pbourke 6y ago
If you rarely write software then you are not moving towards mastery in engineering it. There is no such thing as a master painter who is primarily a manager of painters. You can be a masterful manager, can deliver much more value than a si
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by pbourke 6y ago
I feel like this sentence holds the key to the author’s misunderstanding of things: > This is as good as it gets: a 50 year old OS, 30 year old text editors, and 25 year old languages. Bullshit. No technology has ever been permanent. Man

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