rainonmoon

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by rainonmoon 8y ago
That seems like a problem with the culture that women shouldn't have to bear the consequences of.
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
Have you played an online game recently? Not exactly the most eager to take advice from strangers, those folk.
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
This is the same spurious argument that we're getting dumber because we can Google anything we forget. Hey, we developed software to make our lives easier and make us orders of magnitude more efficient! What a bunch of idiots!
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
Except that the overwhelming majority of press surrounding Musk over the past couple years has been sewn with hyperbolic praise.
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
Maybe so, but this transparency doesn't go both ways. Instead the government takes a paternalistic view and makes it as hard as possible to have themselves held to account (directly contradictory to the spirit of democracy.) For exampl
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
The difference in my experience is that hangups while I'm using Firefox usually happen within the viewport while moving tabs and accessing menus remains snappy, so it's easier to attribute that slog to the website. When I was usin
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
This is a bizarre comment, although certainly familiar. A British publication writing about a crime in England, and you're faulting it for not offering context comparing it to the American situation. As an Australian, should I expect t
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
The level of wealth we have is disproportionately assigned to the minority of people best able to exploit the majority of people. Obviously we can go back and forth on the specifics of how the world's current state of prosperity has be
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
I'm a journalist (although currently transitioning out of that.) Predominantly freelance right now but even as a full-time editor my salary topped out at $40k (before tax etc.)
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
It's absolutely wild to read a comment like this as someone on about $800 a month (or about $600USD/mo.) I guess it's all relative.
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
What I’m saying is: their speech hasn’t been blocked. Microsoft is making a decision not to align with a particular demographic, not shutting them out of public discourse.
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
Thank you for contributing your perspective. I hear you. I don't have an easy answer; I can see the pendulum swinging the other way too, and I do worry about the precedent we might be setting. And I am thankful to live in a country tha
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
It absolutely should, but then, I'm fundamentally in favour of more services becoming government-owned public utilities. The way this would (ideally) shake out here in Australia, though, is that given hate speech is not protected speec
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
It's disappointing this even needs to be pointed out, that simply existing while gay is not the same thing as proliferating hate speech.
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
If I own a nightclub and it becomes a hotspot for the alt-right, who don't align with my values, and I close down that nightclub for that reason, am I censoring them? No, I'm excluding them from my privately-owned space and refusi
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
I've edited my comment to reflect that that is not actually what I'm trying to do here.
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
By "one side of the political divide" I'm not referring to Trump specifically, but the online subcultures that dovetailed into the alt-right, which most certainly existed before Jeong's tweets. EDIT: To further clarify,
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
Arguably, the kind of environment in which one elects a President who generalises an entire nationality as criminals and rapists except for "a few, [who] I assume, are good people." If you want to find how low the bar has fallen,
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
Their stance is Jeong used to imitate the language of her harassers, has since learned that was wrong, and has apologised. We should all be seeking rehabilitation, not retribution, and although I personally don't think her tweets were
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
Hey, this is pretty nice! The grey in the nav bar is a little severe for my taste but I really appreciate that it loads fast even on my mediocre connection. Seems like a neat tool.
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
It absolutely isn't sufficient to look at the number of page requests. How do you discern like-reads vs hate-reads? How do you determine whether someone clicked on an article, read the first line, and then bailed vs read the whole thin
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
This is a corollary to the /r/HailCorporate mentality, where every discussion about/mention of a brand is astroturfing. Healthy skepticism is encouraged, but there's a point where it becomes FUD, and perhaps in some case
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
Possible to an extent. I'm also picky about my subs and I find Reddit a lot better than its public perception would suggest, but some of my interests are still apparently impossible to indulge on Reddit without trading off between a fr
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
If it makes you feel any better, female friends have reported multiple Facebook posts from white nationalists sending them death and rape threats only to receive the same message. At least their policy is consistently bad?
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
"Nothing but respect for MY President" is a popular meme. A joke. They retracted the tweet after explaining as much. Further, news sites covered ICE plenty during Obama's administration (a cursory Google reveals [0] and [1])
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
I'm excited to see your first point articulated by someone else! I prototyped an app just like that for a group assignment when ARKit first came out. Being a Swift dunce I never got it anywhere near market-ready but the idea seems obvi
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
Well, the other issue is that if the public lose trust in first-party updates, they're also potentially skipping security patches, making everyone more vulnerable on the whole. Obviously this might work in favour of one government&#x27
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but I want to add that music taste has an important social component that often seems overlooked in favour of nebulous ideas like "artistic merit" (not from you, but elsewhere on this page.) If y
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by rainonmoon 8y ago
You say "most of this music does not last" but you're referring to music that was only produced a handful of years ago. It's too early to tell if it will or won't in a historical sense. In the minds of a lot of peop