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EFF Backs Redditor in Fight to Stay Anonymous(eff.org)
38 points by rosser 8y ago|4 comments
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by rosser 8y ago
How many of that 5% live in places where public transit is even a meaningful option for them to get to work? How much of the country is that, again? What's that ratio in the places where it isn't?
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I think it's a bit more nuanced than that.
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by rosser 8y ago
When (enough of) the people who benefit most from a system that's already biased in their favor unironically tell the folks on the far end of that benefit curve that they just need to work harder, they had the same opportunities as any
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by rosser 8y ago
Years ago, and in a town that isn't Portland, I met a street dude with a similar story, including a broken finger supposedly incurred during the assault. His story seemed a little too "just-so", so I didn't stick around,
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by rosser 8y ago
Whatever point you were trying to make could perfectly well have been made without "some graduate student bourgeoisie cunt". Seriously, what does that add here? It was already perfectly unambiguous you find her and her perspective
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by rosser 8y ago
> I can't shake the feeling that such 100% adherence to verbal (and even intended) yes/no is somehow like keeping people at arms length distance, emotionally. Absolutely it is, in almost any context. In most of those where it
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by rosser 8y ago
This is so incredibly important a thing to teach children. Between this, and not forcing them to hug or kiss people they don't want to, they learn that their body belongs to them . I can't think of much that matters more for peop
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by rosser 8y ago
It's not a matter of "not respecting" personal boundaries, but rather of probing them, by which we become closer. To use a coarse, but common example, if you're chatting someone up, you might probe the boundary by touc
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by rosser 8y ago
Unfortunately, that's probably the "last best chance" for a not-awful watching experience. At some point after the show wrapped, they lost all of their 3d models, so they will never be able to re-render a single ship. EDIT: I
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by rosser 8y ago
That's fine. I even agree with that definition. The thing is, literally none of the words you used in your pseudocode are "wrongthink" here . This was straight-up, "person says awful thing, catches flak, and cries opp
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by rosser 8y ago
It's supposed to be clever, I imagine. It just comes across as churlish, though. EDIT: Even the fact that the comment was edited from some stupid pseudocode, into something that cries "wrongthink" plays thusly...
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by rosser 8y ago
> by inducing intense, unfamiliar states of mind, we can gain perspective on the inner operation of our cognition Yes, this. I've found, though, that the intensity can often be dialed back significantly, while still achieving comp
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by rosser 8y ago
I wasn't singling you or your comment out as having said the thing. I apologize unreservedly if that's how it read. I replied to you because your mention of Syd Barrett was the best place to hang my "don't extrapolate fr
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by rosser 8y ago
There is a point in the come-down from LSD where pot is actively contraindicated. The ... for lack of a better word "slope" of the fading LSD experience coupled with the short-term memory inhibition of pot can cause people to get
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by rosser 8y ago
The term you're looking for is "therapeutic index".
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by rosser 8y ago
For every Syd Barrett, how many hundreds if not thousands of people play with these compounds, and don't end up there? This kind of thinking scans to me like pointing at the severity of plane crashes as a reason not to fly, while poo
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by rosser 8y ago
I think we woefully underestimate the amount and kinds of absurdity our governments get up to for counterintelligence purposes.
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by rosser 8y ago
And that's just ones who would admit it on a survey.
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by rosser 8y ago
When the next local Gamma Ray Burst comes along, the planet will be sterilized. Am I also fearmongering?
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> I disagree that it is not logical to point out the religious aspects of some of people that subscribe to intersectional ideology. I hope you can hear me out since you had such a vocal objection, and that you can point out flaws in my
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by rosser 8y ago
There is a lot of nuance to unpack in these discussions. You'll pardon me if I express skepticism at it being worth the effort to have that conversation with someone whose own contributions to that conversation so far include calling a
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by rosser 8y ago
It's a heavily culturally reinforced example, but yeah. Hence the "factory issue monkey cognitive defect" quip.
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by rosser 8y ago
I actually already have a copy of the first printing of The Sokal Hoax on my non-fiction bookshelf, thanks. EDIT: I too fail to see its relevance.
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by rosser 8y ago
> The management scholar Emilio Castilla at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the sociologist Stephen Benard at Indiana University studied attempts to implement meritocratic practices, such as performance-based compensation
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by rosser 8y ago
It's the Uncanny Valley of text synthesis.
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No, but it's corrosive to constructive discourse, per my other comment. I'm legit a little slack-jawed in "did you really go there?" to see this comment adjacent to that, considering. EDIT: I didn't flag that comm
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by rosser 8y ago
I am absolutely not valuing efficiency above all — or even much — else. My highest "good", and the thing I want to optimize for, is human potential. So maybe Bob wouldn't have been another Einstein, but he could have invent
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I don't know. I wish I had the resources or otherwise were meaningfully able to hang out with that question, because it fascinates me endlessly. I do, however, find it a curiously "happy" (for someone, anyway) outcome of the
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by rosser 8y ago
"iPhones and wage stagnation" versus "Communism and handouts" is a false dilemma. EDIT: I'm also quite entertained (though not in a good way) that we're having this conversation on the internet , in which it&#

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