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by rbecker 6y ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority - a sneaky way for a private entity to act as de-facto arbiter and censor.
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Facial recognition will be a far bigger problem when it works perfectly.
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> I'm sure they are, but are they more useful than what was before? [..] TV, radio, newspapers False dichotomy. Lets not skip over irc, xmpp, and all sorts of free, variously encrypted communication platforms that Facebook muscled o
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I too enjoy being an uninformed consumer, and can see no bad consequences of giant corporations coercing smaller ones into silence.
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> provide marketing campaigns that help publishers get their games in front of users. It would be more accurate to say those campaigns help get their games in front of other games in front of users. Advertising is an arm race, a consum
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Except when discussing free trade.
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> It feels existentially lonely though Do you think it will get more or less lonely as you age?
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Change the guidelines? Defending a company with "they are following the rules they themselves have written" is so bizarrely common.
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> slippery slope fallacy You can't claim slippery slope if it already happened. Payment processors, domain name registrars, hosting providers, and anti-DDoS services already ban people they dislike. If we slide any further down th
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And they're welcome to build their own anti-DDOS infrastructure. And their own app stores. And their own apps. And their own domain name registrars. And their own payment processors.
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Sanctuary cities are also a case of states rights. They're not called such, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a local authority telling the federal authority to get lost.
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That's arguing semantics - whether you call it rights or powers makes little difference. When people elect a government, that government passes a law, and some above-government institution overrules that law, you don't think that
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d) Limit immigration, thus reducing the population (and, according to some, economic growth) of the globally wealthy, that are almost without exception at sub-replacement fertility. No eugenics required.
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High-impact wealthy people have also already been limiting their consumption via sub-replacement fertility for at least the last half-century. The only population growth in those countries is from immigration. It's puzzling how the art
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Is "verified" code for user hostile? (I would say owner, but clearly purchasing a phone does not grant full ownership.)
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> Why is it controversial for someone to like Pollock’s paintings which give the same type of space? Because the abstract style has actively pushed out other styles. The great majority of people in art museums will see nothing beautiful
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> has never been demonstrated to harm anyone More than that, it later was demonstrated to not harm anyone: https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-... (Technically, the study merely failed to find
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by rbecker 6y ago
I'll look through those sources, thanks. But I have to take issue with "Sparta's win/loss ratio is fairly average" (especially since another comment points out "Sparta was independent for over 500 years")
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How does that square with "The agōgē was prestigious throughout the Greek world, and many aristocratic families from other cities vied to send their sons to Sparta to participate in the agōgē for varying periods of time."? As far
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> black people constitute ~13% of the population versus white people's 73% https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/nationaltrends looks at whites and Hispanics separately. Non-hispanic whites are only 60% of US population
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> I was, however, responding to claims upthread that were, in fact, claiming inherent attributes were responsible for accurate stereotypes. No, you responded to the article. If you wanted to respond to some specific comment you should ha
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Before listing those two anecdotes, did you check that there's not also a large amount of similar incidents victimizing whites? And then compared the amounts? Or did you simply see it on the news, and assumed it was representative of a
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Nowhere does the article claim stereotypes are inherent. A common tactic - when confronted with evidence you don't like, switch to arguing that it doesn't support a stronger claim you made up, without acknowledging that it does
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Related article by the same author: http://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/stereotype-accuracy-res...
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But that's a different argument. You haven't shown any fault in my reasoning other than calling it meaningless. There may be arguments for why government shouldn't be able to give you everything (for example, the ones in your
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Any useful government must be powerful enough to take everything away from you. How else could it, for example, punish murderers? Like it or not, this is true for literally every government in the world. So that's not a sensible coun
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"Sign in to confirm your age. This video may be inappropriate for some users."
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The DOA [Department of Anti-racism] would be responsible for preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity, monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies when racial inequ
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Did the study correct for birth difficulty? I.e. were white doctors more likely to get harder cases? The study abstract doesn't say, and I can't access the full text.
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> Since this is clearly obviously false, being a straw man, there is no reason we’d not also engineer many varieties of food. And yet tomatoes are getting more and more tasteless. > You also keep repeating that somehow seed control is

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