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by rhino369 6y ago
Congress has been investigating big tech for "allowing" violence, hate speech, election interference, etc. Its might not be a coincidence that they all started heightened moderation only after it was clear Trump was cruising to a
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by rhino369 6y ago
>Was the editor fired because of a "dissenting opinion" or because Cotton was effectively calling for martial law against protestors? Cotton was just 7 months too early.
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by rhino369 6y ago
We don't know what the line is going to be going forward. If it is refusal to take down calls for violence or other illegal content--well that seems pretty fair to me. But we should be skeptical of what exactly big tech will do this po
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Its unseemly to directly get involved in US politics by targeting specific congressional districts to send a message. That's the sort of stuff many Americans were outraged about after the 2016 election.
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Other experts should look at their results and their work. Lay people should be concerned with their opinion, but only after other experts have looked at the results/work.
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Expert opinion isn't really worth anything until it's been stress tested by other experts. I worked with experts in the context of patent and trade secret litigation. I pick people at the top of their field from prestigious univ
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by rhino369 6y ago
To be fair, rioters and protestors (left and right) have stormed several state legislatures, federal builds, and razed many buildings this past year, with a lot of the country saying it was justified. People are more shocked about the * rea
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It does unless you expect them to work for free and pay for their own operations somehow.
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Trump is honestly the least war mongering president since Carter. But he's also now clearly lost control with reality and is taking unprecedented steps.
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by rhino369 6y ago
The reason the US won't sign no-first use agreement is the situation where Russia troops start an invasion of Europe (or the Chinese and North Koreans invade South Korea, etc.). So there are scenarios where the President is not the one
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I strongly dispute that censor evokes gulags. A person of ordinary education would understand the Hollywood Blacklists of the 50's as censorship. It's a quintessential example of censorship. To extent you want to redefine censorsh
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Also, the media was running election security fearmongering stories since the day Trump won in 2016. Liberals didn't denounce "Hamilton Electors" very strongly in 2016--though, admittedly, Clinton and most democratic leadersh
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by rhino369 6y ago
The problem isn't what happens when tech companies censor a very power man. It's that if they can censor a very power man, then there is no bounds on what they can and will do for less powerful people. For social networks, the ro
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by rhino369 6y ago
I don’t know anyone calling that peaceful. Which is contrast of the “mostly peaceful” protests that involved arson and beatings. This is just as bad but everyone acknowledges it.
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The riots[1] this past year were actual rebellion too. They certainly challenged government authority and burned down police stations. Some of the Lafayette Square protestors would have breached the white house if they could have too. 60 s
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Who knows what Trump was attempting. He should definitely be investigated. But the riot was a riot. There was no organization and no attempt to take the government and rule it. It was vandalism.
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Typically they don't try to. But people have gotten into the capitol to interrupt things before. Five Congressmen were shot by Puerto Rican nationalists on the floor of the house in the 50s. Protestors interrupt things fairly often.
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I'm not aware of police using live bullets against unarmed people to prevent them from entering a government facility. Though I could be ignorant of clear examples. At least in Minnesota and Portland they let looters burn/occupy t
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And the real damage was to our rule of law. That was already accomplished when the supposed President directed a mob against congress. The actual level of violence done by the mob is relatively tame. Shooting a bunch of people in the halls
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by rhino369 6y ago
Because the security shown on all the videos don't appear to have those ready. That sort of gear isn't typically equipped. So its sort of irrelevant to what police who were suddenly asked to hold a door from a violent mob. With h
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by rhino369 6y ago
Firing on a mob is risky as hell and not morally clear. I can't blame Capitol Police--at least for the actions after it already got out of hand. If federal security at Court House shoots BLM protestors who are entering a federal court
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by rhino369 6y ago
>Rights holders have been trying to get rid of sites like the pirate bay for more than a decade, and if anything PB is easier to find and more reliable to use than ever before. Maybe I'm just older and have less free time, but publi
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by rhino369 6y ago
You shouldn’t preemptively set broad regulations based on some hypothetical boogeyman scenario because regulations have unintended consequences. It’s entirely possible that there is a non-neutral ISP service that would benefit customers. Al
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It’s certainly censorship. But its reasonable censorship. Censorship doesn’t only occur by violation of the first amendment.
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I felt mostly the same on nights where I got a decent night sleep. But I'd fall asleep at like 9-10pm on coach. And on nights I got less than 8 hours, wow, I couldn't do it without caffeine.
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Given the diminishing returns of hours worked in a day, I'm guessing business outcomes would be somewhat worse for 4/10 schedules, at least in fields where productivity varies. I also bet, business outcomes would be improved on a
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What are the benefits of buying with an LLC?
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You also have to consider any premium for buying compared to renting, the ability to cheaply "rightsize" your living space, and transaction costs. I remember the NYTimes (I think) had a calculator designed to account for these typ
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It also doesn't a good job of modeling ideal weight for short or tall people. BMI models a human in only two dimensions.
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The subsidy for HFCS is mostly just an import tariff on cane sugar. The subsidies increase the cost of sugar (HFCS, cane, beet, etc.). We are subsidizing farmers by increasing the cost to consumers. If we let the market decide the pr

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