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by posting2fast 8y ago
> more often than not their position is more nuanced than “kill all the Jews.” Isn’t that a good thing? Which by definition makes it a view they allow a reply to. refer to my original, now flagged comment. If they actually respond to you
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by posting2fast 8y ago
> then you can show that person is an idiot when they have to defend that position. And then what? Then they change their mind? If someone in the street calls you a frog murderer, and you ask why they think you are one, and they say the
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by posting2fast 8y ago
He's talking about views. Hate speech is chanting "Kill all Jews". A view I would despise would be a well thought out argument why all Jews should be killed, expressed in a way that allows response.
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by posting2fast 8y ago
> If it can save 40k lives per year it’s in any case a no-brainer. Just saying that doesn't absolve you from making an actual argument. > Ask all the millions of people that have a relative killed by a car if they would care at a
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by posting2fast 8y ago
The point would be the same even if nobody used the client except to start it up for measuring bloat.
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by posting2fast 8y ago
> It is quite possible -- overwhelmingly probable, one might guess -- that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology. -- Noam Chomsky
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by posting2fast 8y ago
"waiting" isn't an actual action. You either read something, or think, or look around while thinking, and so on, but nobody just "waits". Being aware is an action. Thinking is an action. If people around you gossip,
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by posting2fast 8y ago
I'm not talking to nations. I'm talking to persons.
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by posting2fast 8y ago
Not if you the data loss is caused by an error or virus in the software, and you use that same software to access your "backup".
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by posting2fast 8y ago
https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/ma... > American diplomats in Germany were well aware of the Nazi persecution of Jews and political opponents. Yet the US government respected Germany’s righ
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by posting2fast 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17644657 > The Uighurs see themselves as a minority facing cultural, religious and economic discrimination. When Xinjiang was incorporated into the People's Republic of China in
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by posting2fast 8y ago
Attempted reframing? What are you trying to insinuate on my behalf? That slang is putting someone's name inside ((( and ))), not saying "the ((())) issue". It doesn't really work without anything in the brackets. I can&#
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by posting2fast 8y ago
> Do you typically use neo-Nazi slang in your everyday conversation to refer to people with a Jewish origin? No, but one might refer to such slang, you just did it yourself, and nothing more can be seen in those particular tweets.
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by posting2fast 8y ago
The full sentence is "But he’s jewish and engaged with the ((()))) issue." -- without further context, this says nothing, and those brackets weren't "used" anymore than you or I just did. That is, unless you're
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by posting2fast 8y ago
> Congress investigated these practices and in 1983 Bob Crandall, president of American, was the most vocal supporter of the systems. "The preferential display of our flights, and the corresponding increase in our market share, is t
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by posting2fast 8y ago
For quality of education and quality of reputation.
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by posting2fast 8y ago
Probably, but you can't put a modern PC into an Amiga. I mean, if you already have one, being able to still upgrade it is just.... so cool <3
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by posting2fast 8y ago
Agreed. I don't know exactly between what poles this valley is, but I know this is the uncanny area of it.
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by posting2fast 8y ago
Imagine someone asks what graphics editors are available on the C64, and people suggest using Photoshop at low resolution because that's what they are interested in, and because hey, it could be that that person hasn't heard about
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by posting2fast 8y ago
I feel like I'm being obvious, but, totalitarianism? That is, if "world" is to refer to more than the physical planet, or the mere existence of ecosystems in it, but also things like human thought and creativity. As human age
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by posting2fast 8y ago
> the solution to people's fears about commercialism interfering with the real world That's just a completely arbitrary rephrasing to fit your supposed punch line, but describes nobody and nothing real. > rather than use som
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by posting2fast 8y ago
> Ultimate driver? How does that work? By a 1000$ being 1000$ to many people regardless of how the person offering it came by it, money destroys information that way. Because many decisions are excused as making "business sense&quot
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by posting2fast 8y ago
> Almost nobody sees or reads corrections. Unless they're "big enough". > At least on social media if the correction is big enough it'll be brought to people's attention. And if it's not, it wasn't b
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by posting2fast 8y ago
It's extremely reckless to leave out what the general practice to make things likely to break because of some super cheapo part and not be easily repairable does to us and our environment in the long run. You're not even trying to
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by posting2fast 8y ago
Very much looks like it's true, but I don't know when that trick first was discovered: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=amiga+14-bit+sound
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by posting2fast 8y ago
DJ Scotch Egg is a Japanese fella who doesn't mind crowdsurfing even when there is hardly anyone there. Even if the music isn't your cup of tea (it isn't really mine), just the person himself is worth checking out. https:&#x
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by posting2fast 8y ago
Was it DJ Scotch Egg by any chance?
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by posting2fast 8y ago
They may be dumb or an asshole or wrong about X, but they're still your brother/sister. I don't mean Trump, I mean Americans, being a subset of humanity. At the very least, they're people you're better off working w
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by posting2fast 8y ago
Negative? I'd rather say it's part of the stuff that's normalizing totalitarianism by being too polite about it. > Truly, I live in dark times! / An artless word is foolish. A smooth forehead / Points to insensi
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by posting2fast 8y ago
> If you're not valuing your priorities with a phone, you won't value them without it. It might make a difference for a few weeks, but then you'll work out how to waste your time without your phone and you'll be back

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