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by resters 8y ago
My earlier comment was unclear. Assange revealed serious crimes by US officials.
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by resters 8y ago
Lying about a war for corrupt reasons surely qualifies.
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by resters 8y ago
I’m referring to the officials not Julian.
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by resters 8y ago
Should law enforcement focus on prosecuting a shoplifter who reported Jerry Sandusky’s crimes while ignoring Jerry?
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by resters 8y ago
Lying about the war crimes was treason in my view
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by resters 8y ago
I’d have no problem with Assange being punished if the other journalists were, or if the government officials were.
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by resters 8y ago
Keep in mind all the crimes by US officials that Assange revealed. In my view many of those crimes committed by officials are treason, yet all have been swept under the rug.
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by resters 8y ago
In the realm of physical products, it's already pretty annoying not being able to purchase Nest products on Amazon. One of the main things Amazon has going for it is that one can usually expect to see the whole gamut of competitive pro
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by resters 8y ago
I think the word bullshitting is a harmfully imprecise way to describe what is actually several problems: Naive over-confidence : People who lack the experience necessary to update their beliefs to more reasonable ones. I'd argue
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by resters 8y ago
For what goal?
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by resters 8y ago
I was certainly not trolling, I was responding to your comment about no fly lists. Sadly you have no response and are resorting to name calling and righteous indignation. I agree with you that FICO scores are not what Facebook is up to, tho
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by resters 8y ago
Firewalls don’t only block traffic, they throttle it, log it, and shape it. The US/Facebook firewall is further up the stack than China’s and is more stealthy so rarely blocks any content.
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by resters 8y ago
It’s not a privacy issue, it’s a censorship issue.
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by resters 8y ago
Maybe the average social credit score in the US is higher than the average in China. Being added to the no fly list could be the result of an equivalently low score under both regimes.
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by resters 8y ago
It’s not fair to call my comment uncivil.
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by resters 8y ago
It's actually just synthesis.
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by resters 8y ago
This is the key point.
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by resters 8y ago
> Many people already have stopped using Facebook Yet it is important enough to public opinion that congress undertakes days of hearings with Zuck to try to control the news feed algo?
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by resters 8y ago
Anyone is free to draw a line in the sand to claim that my statements are hyperbole. I don't consider them so. When we read about China, the narrative of American Exceptionalism tells us that it is reasonable to think that China wou
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by resters 8y ago
I think that my comment is pretty much the relevant thing to discuss based on the article. If you disagree please explain why.
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by resters 8y ago
See the tit for tat between Facebook and lawmakers: https://www.wsj.com/articles/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-made-m... Zuck is losing on purpose here by admitting they screwed up, so that he can pivot into a negotiating
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by resters 8y ago
Facebook's social graph and engagement data combined with data already obtained by governments makes an elaborate social credit score easy to generate. As for the great firewall, Facebook has been in talks with lawmakers who want Faceb
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by resters 8y ago
Facebook is the defense contractor that is building America's Great Firewall and social credit system, so it makes sense that there is a revolving door with the authoritarian regime.
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by resters 8y ago
Thanks for posting that. I hadn't realized those existed!
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by resters 8y ago
Excellent point. I find it notable that in spite of the trend you cite those who are empowered by the faltering institutions seem to feel no urgency to regain (or re-earn) trust. Maybe this is the result of years of such institutions attrac
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by resters 8y ago
In any discussion of taxes I think it's important to consider the significant asymmetry between state and federal taxes. The incentives created by the policy change in the article are difficult to anticipate, with reasonable arguments
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by resters 8y ago
I’m not unwilling to buy an external drive, but I’d rather have a better internal drive.
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by resters 8y ago
I think the SSD would have been $500 more, which I would have happily paid if I had realized how poorly the fusion drive would perform.
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by resters 8y ago
I maxed out the CPU and got a lot of RAM, I assumed the drive would have enough cache that I wouldn't notice the spindle aspect.
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by resters 8y ago
That explains it. I hadn't actually used one before purchasing it but had used the previous generation model a few times.

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