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by qubax 8y ago
> If it's somehow an incitement to an immediate illegal action then it may be. Otherwise it's not. So it's not. > In the US, hate speech isn't like being offended, it's not in the eye of the beholder. It'
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> Denying facts to keep the population under control, for instance. This is different from us how? > That is different entirely from what the typical Western country censors: advertising illegal drugs, child porn, hate speech, etc. C
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> I'm guessing epistemology or a similar field has pondered the "invented or discovered" question already, and if so, I want to read about it. Any course or book on the Philosophy Of Science would cover that. Are numbers
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So china wanted google news and google search censored. Honestly, what's the big deal? Google news and google search is also censored in the US, Europe, Middle East and everywhere. Why is it that so many vocal ex-employees are against
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Shareholders > Board of Directors > C-Suite ( CEO, CTO, CFO, etc ) Shareholders select the board members. The board members determine the overall plan and direction of the company. The C-Suite ( CEO, CTO, CFO, etc ) execute the plan o
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> I find a majority is pro-Russian Where are the pro-russian comments? > but I wonder if the issues that Reddit identified with the campaigns by Russian entities may be as far reaching as YC. You mean the nonsense they had to push to
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Adoption is so rare that it won't have broad social effects. But on an individual or family level, it can have positive and negative consequences. It all depends on the people and situation.
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> It was completely anonymous, of course, but lately I've been wondering what's going to happen if (let's be honest, when) my children decide to use a service like 23AndMe. There are youtube videos of people using DNA sit
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by qubax 8y ago
> What infuriates me about WaPo is that even though I pay for it, their site is pretty much unusable without an ad blocker. Counterintuitively, being a paid subscriber probably makes your data even more valuable to wapo and their adverti
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> This so-called flaw isn’t a big, it’s a design problem for which there’s no effective mitigation other than applying moderation on a massive scale. You are against corporations and nation states exploiting social media so you want corp
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So sick of this. Trump wins an election and now reddit and all of social media made the world a worse place? Was this guy a PR guy for reddit like the former google PR woman lambasting google? What's with the childishness of these form
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It's a trillion dollar company headed by the wealthiest man in the world with ties to the pentagon and owns the washingtonpost. Why is it that whenever wikileaks leaks anything, people whine about it?
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Like most great literature, it's an insight into the reader. How you interpret aeneid says more about you than the book. No different from the bible or hamlet.
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Not only is it clickbait, it's rehashed clickbait. The demise of the cavendish banana has been repeated for many years now.
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It's not conspiracy. It's standard M.O. and it most definitely is propaganda. The chinese do the same thing. When the chinese authorities want to send a signal to another country, their news coverage of the targeted country turns
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And? Is that any better or worse than the media and their fiascos? That's the point of free speech and free assembly. People are allowed to be wrong. I'd rather have too many people asking questions and investigating rather than t
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> So what can we do so our children don't live in some ghastly hothouse world? How about stopping with the apocalyptic hyperbole? > The scientists have told us its our final chance.... And "scientists" have been telling
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> Modern societies are supposed to be organised for the benefit of all in society That's a nice sentiment to hold, but that's simply not true. All societies are formed by the elite for the benefit of the elite. If others benefi
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> Yes, a lot of journalist do a very good job at providing crucial information that is vital to a democracy. Journalism isn't vital to democracy. It didn't exist in the democracies of ancient world ( greece or roman empire ). I
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> This is what you need a union for. We have a union. So instead of a single country being blacklisted from trade or diplomatic relations due to criticizing China (e.g on human rights) it should just do so as a union. Actually, the union
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Sometimes it's hard to tell when propaganda begins and ends. 10 years ago, the media was scaremongering over chinese investment in brazil. I remember thinking that china was buying brazil and then I found out that the largest foreign i
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Also, standard multipliers are pointless on "unicorns". You have to figure out potential for future growth and the potential of the space itself. Facebook bought instragam for $1 billion even though there was no significant revenu
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> First, money isn’t the force that’s driving immigrants out of India and into the US, Canada etc. Sorry, I don't believe you. The median income in india is between $500-$1000. The media income in the US is $35000. You seriously cla
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That's what I do as well. Also, in OO languages like Java or C#, you can throw "NotImplemented" style exceptions. So that if you mistakenly wrote "TO DO" instead of "TODO" and can't find it statically
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We do? Maybe a tiny fringe does. Most tech workers want to know the same thing nytimes employees do. The salary and benefits. That's it. That's what workers care about at the end of the day. Does the nytimes tech team ask "Wh
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> Pretty rare to see two linked Wikipedia articles contradict each other that much. It isn't contradictory. The french did colonize vietnam and force cash crops on vietnam ( like all colonial empires did ). But during the indochina
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> Is it strictly correct to say Neanderthals became extinct if we carry some of their DNA? Yes. Neanderthals as a population don't exist anymore. The house cat and tiger shares 95% of the same genes. If tigers disappeared, you woul
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> More likely they told Congress the truth, but the Congress is also under a national security gag and they put out a false statement about what Apple declared... So the secret is so important that congress is under a gag order. The two
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It's amazing how so many of these comments read like Apple PR. "I trust Apple to run this CA and gate access to it _far_ more than I trust my personal self to do so. This security improvement will make me safer, as well as my non-
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> Maybe he is praised because he is a good and thoughtful finance writer. Could be. But there are a lot of good and thoughtful finance writers. I don't see their articles spammed here on the weekly like clockwork along with the fawn

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