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by phs318u 6y ago
I'm not sure that's really true. They did not have unfettered access to the media "platforms" of the day. And they did create their own platforms. Lookup the long history of black newspapers and radio stations. In your l
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by phs318u 6y ago
So, public square, but bring your own soapbox/megaphone.
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by phs318u 6y ago
So, the police in these instances are breaching copyright, specifically "performance rights", which prohibit the public playing of music outside of a circle of family and friends, unless they have received permission from the copy
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by phs318u 6y ago
Did you mean this? https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/exhibitions/bad-and-ugly-web...
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by phs318u 6y ago
We're straying way off-topic here but I'd suggest that things are pretty terrible for significant numbers of people. As evidence (I'm not US-ian), I present this article [0], which actually tries to make the point that living
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by phs318u 6y ago
Six years ago Slate [0] were trying to convince people not fall for the reality TV shows pushing beach-front property on what some people would call "rubes". I find it hard to think that these shows aren't helping those alrea
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by phs318u 6y ago
New Zealand and Australia seem to have done well enough. Though I accept the physical isolation of those countries makes it politically easier to make harder decisions.
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by phs318u 6y ago
> mostly non-existent Russian interference This is not true. The Republican-led, bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee found, over the course of their 3.5 year investigation, that there was in fact Russian interference. You can find t
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by phs318u 6y ago
Hahaha. Having worked at DSTO (many years ago) this is SO believable.
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by phs318u 6y ago
Not being sarcastic. A single, hi-res, (possibly oled?) screen that needs to be replaced in its entirety vs a bunch of individual components which can be individual replaced. The up-front cost may not be too different (possibly the screen i
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by phs318u 6y ago
But he does the same build on his 2019 Mac laptop, which presumably also uses Clang. The M1 blows it away.
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by phs318u 6y ago
Oh no. That ridiculously huge dash-shaped Merc screen is going to be one damn expensive part to replace!
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by phs318u 6y ago
> people have been set-censoring in real life forever Agreed. But what they haven’t done is “over shared” as much as they have in the last decade. So perhaps part of the self-censoring being described is a return to mean? EDIT: it seems
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by phs318u 6y ago
> but I do not see any of the advocates of limiting free speech having the courage to tell what they really think in the face of those whom they want to protect. It's not them I want to protect (though I don't have any explicit
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by phs318u 6y ago
> the violence that's produced through their algorithms I'm sorry, but please justify or rephrase this. People chose to do violent things. Social media may indeed be an accelerant, but someone kept providing fuel and someone wa
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by phs318u 6y ago
"Next up was the six-foot-rule, in which Angelerio instructed that – as translated by Benedictow's team – "People allowed to go out must bear with them a cane measuring six feet long. It is mandatory that people keep this dis
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by phs318u 6y ago
I have an over-active imagination that turns on a dime. It will often automatically (without conscious direction) conjure up instant scenarios based on whatever I'm reading or hearing. Reading your comment I instantly visualised Presid
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by phs318u 6y ago
Exactly this. Reality eventually imposes itself, stomping all over your precious beliefs. Usually with the most unfortunate timing.
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by phs318u 6y ago
Thank you for your comment. It's thoughtful and insightful. And while we could argue some of the points (e.g. health-care - my view is Obamacare was hobbled). If I may however, I'd like to point out how unlikely it is that anyone
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by phs318u 6y ago
The implication is that one major political party has eaten of the forbidden fruit of no-bottom populism. Power at any cost, and who cares if it means we rile up rubes by telling them whatever they want to hear - sympathising with whatever
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by phs318u 6y ago
You also can't rule out that if they had a platform, they'd use it to incite others to resort to violence on their behalf. For example, the Unabomber's manifesto expresses his belief that violence was necessary to provoke rev
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by phs318u 6y ago
> it is over with no real effects I admit to being a little shocked at the glibness of this statement. As a non-USian, I see a profound shock among other thoughtful non-USians that it has come to this. Regardless of political affiliation
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by phs318u 6y ago
> They believe what they want to believe, hear what they want to hear, see what they want to see. > nobody is tied down in a chair and forced to watch certain TV shows or listen to certain radio shows for hours, days, weeks, months at
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by phs318u 6y ago
> Confidence is not correlated with accuracy. Indeed. Quite possibly the opposite is true i.e. that inaccuracy is correlated with confidence (for second hand reports).
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by phs318u 6y ago
You just reminded me of this site, which I found incredibly useful back in the day when I was working closely with Solaris, Linux and OSX (as it was then known). http://bhami.com/rosetta.html
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by phs318u 6y ago
I'm sure the author had a ton of fun achieving this. I must admit to loving this kind of thing despite the lack of utility. With respect to functional utility though, it's possibly worth pointing out to others that Linux had (has?
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by phs318u 6y ago
I think of HN as Slashdot of old, filtering out any comments less than +4, and minus the “humour” tag. So, no, /s won’t cut it I’m afraid.
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by phs318u 6y ago
Well, this guy may dispute your statement. https://www.facebook.com/william.donadio.7 "William Daniel Donadïo, a Panamanian tailor who was born in the City of Colon, Republic of Panama, explains how he became one of th
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by phs318u 6y ago
Another very useful add-on is Unpaywall which searches for free reprints of paywalled scholarly papers. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unpaywall
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by phs318u 6y ago
Thanks. I've got an MBA6,2 lying around so may give it a go over the holidays.

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