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by rdancer 10y ago
There is only one society, and its members ought to have freedom of speech and assembly amongst themselves. Facebook, just like the Internet, is a platform, and it should allow free speech, even if products that are built on top of that pla
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by rdancer 10y ago
That would apply if there were honest, inevitable biases, and the journalists and editors were striving for integrity. However, in a situation where they are at best not very good, and at worst they are trying to manipulate the public opini
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by rdancer 10y ago
The whole media ecosystem in the USA is out of whack. The lefties crap on Fox, righties crap on MSDNC, but both could better be thought of as news organs of the same establishment, with emphasis on opinion shaping, and de-emphasis on truth.
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by rdancer 10y ago
It's the other way 'round. Someone has a pragmatic stance on something, and the SJWs label it as political, and ban it. They also ban or not ban people because of their politics. It's one thing to ban all politics, another ba
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by rdancer 10y ago
My bad; I've edited my comment above accordingly. > Trump's claim was analyzed. Independent experts were consulted. It's obvious why the ruling went against him. > I don't think distinguishing between hyperbole and
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by rdancer 10y ago
If that were so, would liberal arguments need to turn to unsourced verisimilitudes?
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by rdancer 10y ago
I never imagined there would be any regulation for cable networks content, but apparently the FCC has come up with a host[1]. The equal opportunities rule [47 CFR 76.205] and what is left of the fairness doctrine seem to would have been
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by rdancer 10y ago
Politifact's parent organization, Tampa Bay Times , is part of the MSM, and not a third-party watchdog. It is incredible that they have brought fact-checking into the mainstream, but their ability to have done that is at least in part
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by rdancer 10y ago
Facebook is, as an institution, proud to have ignited national revolutions and shaped policy debates. I doubt Mr Zuckerberg doesn't do that.
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by rdancer 10y ago
Mr Chomsky didn't have any editorial or executive control[0]. What does this documentary add in substance or form that is not a rehash of his previous interviews and writing? [0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3270538
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by rdancer 10y ago
It's a shit documentary, and that YouTube user doesn't have the copyright license to distribute it on their channel.
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by rdancer 10y ago
Have you considered that if you self-hosted on a repurposed desktop machine running off solar panels, with unpaid interns doing maintenance, you could cap it at $0, and save on the heating bill during winter?
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by rdancer 10y ago
There are dedicated discrete HSMs that can be installed. That's what I would do. Or, rather, wouldn't. I agree with you that it would be very impractical, unless the platform has a first-class API: Chrome OS uses TPM heavily[1], a
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by rdancer 10y ago
TPM. It's just one role, but multiple users.
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by rdancer 10y ago
Or... else?
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by rdancer 10y ago
> Saying you shouldn't store it in git seems rather like saying you shouldn't store it in btrfs. Best practice is to avoid storing secrets in plaintext, or sharing secrets between users/roles. Yours isn't an argumen
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by rdancer 10y ago
At those price points you don't have a sales rep and individual pricing?
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by rdancer 10y ago
This is an awful pricing model. ⇒ One-size-fits-all never fits all. Getting rid of tiers is naïve and misguided. Even if just for anchoring and the illusion of choice in face of terrible choices, tiers are a necessity. Sales will suffer, cu
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by rdancer 10y ago
People's political views are not cookie-cutter copies. Maybe you think public policy should be guided primarily by what is just, and consequently your hope is that the censors' idea of justice is the same as yours. Or maybe you su
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by rdancer 10y ago
The criteria for allowing a source are not objective — and how could they be, when all sources are more or less bad? I understand that on the same story you will allow sheer propaganda from the BBC, but don't allow a factual report fro
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by rdancer 10y ago
You don't? The Founders did, vehemently[0]. [0] http://www.theunion.com/opinion/7699648-113/democracy-majori...
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by rdancer 10y ago
(1) is just straight-up speech. I find Mozilla's firing of Eich a disgusting example of political discrimination and stifling of free speech, and encourage everybody to boycott their products. — See, it's just speech.
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by rdancer 10y ago
A republic is a government of laws, and not of men . The US, most decidedly, isn't. John Adams argues the semantics much better than I ever could: They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men. If this definition
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by rdancer 10y ago
What GP means is that US is no longer a republic. Unifying aspect of the Obama, Sanders, and Trump campaigns is tapping the desire of the American public to make it one again.
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by rdancer 10y ago
But that's not what the rhetoric is. It is important to understand how the world economy works, but this uncouth hatred for confidentiality, anonymity, and ownership is very old and very predictable. There are still places people can k
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by rdancer 10y ago
Is it possible that these people and orgs want to keep some of their money as savings — and who cares where they are, since they're just supposed to sit in a vault anyway? Of course, the more enterprising governments cannot have that
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by rdancer 10y ago
codepoint -> encoding in UTF-8 U+022F -> C8 AF U+042F -> D0 AF U+062F -> D8 AF Remember, UTF-8 is self-synchronising: when you pick up at a random point within a stream, there is no ambiguity
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by rdancer 10y ago
> “If they can’t, turn into nonpaper [with] no identifying heading and send nonsecure.” This is not the smoking gun; there are innocuous readings of that instruction. They were likely using secure channel to transmit nonclasified informa
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by rdancer 10y ago
I have just enough experience with marketing to be able to avoid images that are shit. All their loser images are shit. The author of the article is on the right path, faces full of emotions and cultural relatability is important. The best
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by rdancer 10y ago
Judging by your being downvoted, apparently they don't.

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