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by rusk 5y ago
I've no doubt he was very much a hardliner in his day. What I'm speculating about is what he would have thought today, after the last 10 years and the maturation of reddit, facebook and co. Provided he hadn't spent that entir
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by rusk 5y ago
I think that if you feed and water them they proliferate. You're going to have people with strongly held views, and theirs nothing you can do about that, but you can limit their ability to sway the weak minded however.
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by rusk 5y ago
> This hasn't changed through the ages Hasn't it? A few hundred years ago you were talking about the right to speak unsavorily without being put in jail or worse. In the last hundred years we have developed pervasive media and
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by rusk 5y ago
The joke here, is that it was is activism against corporate secrecy that got him into serious trouble and led probably to his eventual suicide. What I mean is that everyday "free speech" in the legal sense is already curtailed (an
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by rusk 5y ago
> A situation in which the government ruled out some ideas and yet we have libel laws, anti hate speech provisions, corporate secrecy laws and so on and so forth all of which prohibit me from saying things just because I feel like it. Bu
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by rusk 5y ago
> we are not in fact experiencing unprecedented times that call for new restrictions I'm sorry, I think we might be talking cross purposes here ... I was talking about Aaron Swartz specific advocacy around digital free speech, which
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by rusk 5y ago
> whether this has actually happened like you say it has This is a fairly contrarian line to take. How would you say that it hasn't? > you have to consider that nobody expected it to be used like this To me this seems a little bi
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by rusk 5y ago
I'm referring to the proliferation of hate groups, that flourished under the defense that they represented "free speech". I don't think it's quite what Swartz had in mind, though even if he felt it defensible at the
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by rusk 5y ago
He “was” against any kind of censorship. His principles forever frozen in time. I wonder had he lived would his position have softened in the interval. I think many of us have been on this journey.
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He’d probably also have been equally disgusted at what “free speech” manifested as.
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by rusk 5y ago
John’s subordinate asks John if he should delete production. John says go ahead.
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by rusk 5y ago
> Whenever you know in advance Knowing things in advance is not a cheap trick. I’m not talking about a well structured boot. I’m talking about the far more common approach of just showing a moving mouse pointer and a few icons and “prete
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by rusk 5y ago
I … think I agree with you …
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by rusk 5y ago
Can they be loaded as modules on demand? Sounds like it should be possible …
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by rusk 5y ago
> satisfies the user Does it though? Has this ever really satisfied you … that you get to login and then circle your mouse for a few minutes while you wait for things to kick off. Na, all or nothing please I don’t want to be teased by an
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by rusk 5y ago
> Liechtenstein and Monaco are not members of the EU come off it. They're very much jacked into the EU economy.
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by rusk 5y ago
Yup, and there was this little thing of pan european financial regulation coming down the tracks! So yeah
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by rusk 5y ago
Well that’s what Brexit was all really about init
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by rusk 5y ago
Don’t forget Luxembourg, Monaco … EDIT the Netherlands is another one that flies under the radar quite well - Lichtenstein I believe has an up and coming financial services industry too
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by rusk 5y ago
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/irish-ban...
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by rusk 5y ago
Ah good old bastardised Voltaire
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by rusk 5y ago
Get it into the trunk of linux git
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by rusk 5y ago
my guess is hygiene
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by rusk 5y ago
The price you pay in striving for social integration!
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by rusk 5y ago
could you use magit without knowing emacs? I guess you could ... but I can imagine people getting frustrated when the windows keybindings they're used to don't bring forth the expected behaviour. CUA mode exists. Would that be eno
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by rusk 5y ago
> I came from VIM ... is learnable within a few days. That was my point when I said > if I was coming to emacs from VIM ... if you want to do emacs from scratch it’s probably easier There is no quick start with any of these environmen
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by rusk 5y ago
> You can switch Spacemacs and Doom into Emacs-mode keybindings. Aware of this, and tried it. However much of these distributions is streamlined towards EVIL keybindindings so you don't really get the full experience. Furthermore, a
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by rusk 5y ago
I recently tried out spacemacs and doom on too different new computers but I just couldn’t make them work for me. Maybe if I was coming to emacs from VIM they’d make more sense. I’d recommend that if you want to do emacs from scratch it’s p
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by rusk 5y ago
Yeah I saw that I was just highlighting the bit about animal studies. GP had the entire quote in context.
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by rusk 5y ago
> to our knowledge these results have not yet been replicated in human studies

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