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by raarts 7y ago
I've been following the free speech issue on universities for almost a year now, and I think the 2008 may be on the mark, though the first well known incident I can name is the Lawrence Summers controversy in 2005 [1]. The free speech
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by raarts 8y ago
I agree. In addition to this I think that - since getting clicks is the business model - they will move towards publishing content that gets more people to click, enraging being the most profitable form of engaging. This has resulted in art
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by raarts 8y ago
I heard they all had unlimited vacation. In which case you don't accrue PTO.
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by raarts 8y ago
You are not wrong, but I think the 'test results' in the example refer to medical testing for a serious disease, and not a school test.
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by raarts 8y ago
Tangential but reading this thread I feel many words have apparently changed meaning. Parent mentions that receiving the notifications are 'agonizing'. Another post in this thread calls it 'horrible' According to the Cam
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by raarts 8y ago
How is fake news defined? So many things people disagree with are called fake news these days.
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by raarts 8y ago
If the pre-installed Facebook app is just a stub, why is it needed in the first place? To keep the data around for a reinstall?
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by raarts 8y ago
US population: African-Americans 40M, Whites 200M. People in poverty: African-Americans (27%) 10,8 million, White: (9,9%) 19,8 million. So there are twice as many poor white people as black people. How can poverty explain that black people
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by raarts 8y ago
GP was deleted so I don't know what it said, but authoritarianism happens both on the right and on the left. [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
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by raarts 8y ago
Confused about the link with poverty and stress. A linked article states: "Several teams presented evidence that poverty, disadvantage and stressful life events are strongly associated with cognitive problems in middle age and dementia
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by raarts 8y ago
Bold hypothesis: fascism has never won in a free-speech environment. Only in an environment where everybody was a-ok with opposing opinions being suppressed, which allowed fascists to suppress different opinions. Following this reasoning, G
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by raarts 8y ago
That's all fine and dandy, but the problem is that in this case there is no alternative, and if they are created, they are shut down, because payment processors like Paypal and Stripe refuse to do business with them. Payment processors
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by raarts 8y ago
> I have the same policy of not allowing hate speech and the like For whoever is interested: this is the (Google translated) text in the Terms of 10er: "The service must not be used for any illegal activity. Nor should the service b
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by raarts 8y ago
With the decreasing number of personal computers isn't the substrate for IPFS just shrinking?
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by raarts 8y ago
I urge everyone to look at this video. If this is the best the left can do, they are in big trouble. JP is much more convincing than this video is. Also - I see this a lot - he is attacked on ideological grounds, while his entire argument
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by raarts 8y ago
The people doing this are not white supremacists. Whoever claims this is either misinformed or slanderous.
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by raarts 8y ago
Quoting the article: " In other words, pronoun misuse may become actionable, though the Human Rights Tribunals and courts. And the remedies? Monetary damages, non-financial remedies (for example, ceasing the discriminatory practice o
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by raarts 8y ago
OP here. More information here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWz1RDVoqw4
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by raarts 8y ago
Mostly agreed. I'm following a lot of them, and I have seen common themes, other than the ones you mention. They all seem to share an interest in science and truth. They also seem to share a willingness to enter debate, and an aversion
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by raarts 8y ago
This makes me wonder. Would it be useful if HN added the age of an account which each comment?
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by raarts 8y ago
Fixed. Thanks.
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by raarts 8y ago
> Who says this site intends to NOT get extremist? Considering the people who are behind it, that is very unlikely [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWz1RDVoqw4
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by raarts 8y ago
If you look at the intellectualdark.website, GP description was pretty much on the spot IMHO. The people there, like Jordan Peterson, Sarah Vaughan, Sam Harris, Dave Rubin, Lindsay Shepherd and Claire Lehmann are definitely not alt-right, n
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Top Patreon creators launching an alternate crowdfunding platform(businessinsider.com)
88 points by raarts 8y ago|182 comments
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by raarts 8y ago
People are increasingly withdrawing from Patreon. Earlier Sexy Cyborg was forced off by Vice [1] (they're now trying to push her off SubscribeStar[2]), but very recently people like Jordan Peterson, Quillette, and others are moving awa
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by raarts 8y ago
Wordperfect. The speed of working with it was unparalleled, even compared to current Word. The 'reveal codes' or 'underwater' key was the superfast option to fix layout problems (who hasn't wrestled with tabs and in
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by raarts 8y ago
The business case is quite obvious here: with net neutrality in place, the carriers could not make a lot of money on their circuits, because they could not differentiate, and charge publishers. But now they can, so it suddenly makes a lot o
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by raarts 8y ago
Also it was the only browser where every tab ran in its own process so a crash would only take down that tab.
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by raarts 8y ago
I read in a book somewhere (I think it was about Facebook) that when the recession hit in 2008 a lot of people moved from wall street to silicon valley, because that's where money was still made. Could it be they took a bad culture wit
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by raarts 8y ago
If that's your goal, start your own company.

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