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by sacks2k 6y ago
We never had free speech online. Only the illusion of it. I've noticed, especially recently, that most websites that allow commenting will shadow ban comments they disagree with, even if it's not trolling or abusive. The scary pa
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" https://www.vox.com/2017/3/29/15112314/amazon-shutting-down-... If a 550 million dollar acquisition is my fate after trying to compete with Amazon, I would look forward to it.
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"AirBnB" You can make good money renting out your place and listing it on Airbnb. Don't like it? You can always use Craigslist or advertise yourself. It's not like airBnb provides nothing. They provide a built-in str
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"owners into billionaires on the basis of the cheap labor of their workers, the free labor of their users, and the tax breaks bestowed on them by cities desperate to attract jobs. Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet (the p
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"84,000 Americans have died of COVID-19" This article acts as if only the US has death due to Covid. Nearly the entire world is affected by this virus and the US actually has a pretty low death rate compared to the rest of the wo
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There is a lack of male teachers and vets. I'm not sure why this matters.
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"You seem to be pulling this out of your ar*e, since it is inconsistent with all U.S. reporting" China had no new Coronavirus cases for an entire month and even before this, it was very few. With its population density, number of
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"A company laying people off is not confirmation that the things you don't like about them are hurting their business" As already mentioned, they were going out of business long before the pandemic. The Pandemic is just an e
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"projects involving psychedelics and cutting edge mental health treatment among a few, are not nearly as prevalent now. Further many of the arguably top journalists to join in Vice’s history have gone (many, but not all)" These pr
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They mention nursing homes in this article. If this is the case, they should be adding these deaths to the numbers. In New York City, for instance, people in nursing homes were forced to go back to the nursing home instead of to a hospital
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Companies like Google spend all their money on tech and try to automate customer service away. The automated software running customer service somehow sees your account as in violation of one of their rules, and you get banned. In the mean
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It's not 'tamed'. China stopped testing ages ago and has censored anyone questioning the current government's narrative (and has arrested doctors, medical professionals, and random people on WeChat). This is one of the p
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I'm not surprised. Vice media used to be about cutting-edge reporting and has devolved to fluff pieces centered around a progressive agenda.
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"The Way In Which A Company Downsizes Its Staff Says A Lot About The Organization" It tells me that they are following the stay-at-home orders and not putting their staff in danger due to Covid-19. With this many people being let
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They are vicious. In the Summer, I get at least one or two praying mantises in my garden and I regularly see them eating bees and other bugs while they are still alive and trying to escape.
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How easy it to transfer it out? What about the renewal rate? I'm leery about signing up for a 'free domain' and then base a business on it with this much uncertainty.
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It wouldn't be that hard to find. "firing the leaker is going to rile them up more." It seems our society has devolved into satisfying the mob rather than doing the right thing these days. I've seen some of the comments
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He never released anything to the public. Someone who didn't like his political views leaked it to Twitter and the press. If I were him, I would have personally sued the person that leaked the content and continued the fight until the
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It's pretty well known that if you go on Fox news, the other news organizations like CNN, MSNBC, etc will ban you from their station. Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew have talked about this on their podcast and so have many other people inte
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"According to Twitter, they have instead found that numerous accounts belong to government entities, nongovernmental organizations, and journalists. The review was ongoing, the company said, noting that it planned to follow up with the
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The irony is that the same people that wanted to show us the dangers of monopolies, have no problem with a government with the exact same powers which result in the exact same problems.
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Why wasn't this enforced 3+ months ago?
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I oversee the hiring of dev shops for a mid-sized company in the US and the rates for e-commerce/web development are all in the $120-$150/hour range. The funny thing is that some of these companies outsourced to the Ukraine and In
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It's not just WeChat. They own stakes in many american media companies and movie production houses. They use this influence to also change our Media and push pro-Chinese propaganda to the American public.
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"fixed by public policy" Public policy right now is to stay home or die of Covid 19. Many people are scared to even go outside or go to a hospital if they don't have the virus. Starting to open businesses again and requiring
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People are staying home and dying. This is one of the major trade offs no government official is talking about regarding re-opening the economy.
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"This is especially important if you have to edit a file on a remote server" This may have been true a decade ago, but editors like Visual studio code now have remote editing abilities over SSH. I regularly have 50+ files open at
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Side projects. You can try any new modern framework you want with a side project. Also, read the code of good projects on Github.
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This is great. What many people don't realize is that without a vaccine, the plan has always been to slowly re-open and socially distance. This was the plan all along after flattening the curve, which was already accomplished.
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"This is the opposite of what is true. When you have no rights and no constitution, the people who have control will use that control to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else." This was my point. The only reason the U

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