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by sandoooo 7y ago
Is the chance of this higher or lower in a world where scientists with opposing views are allowed to deplatform one another instead of applying the scientific method?
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Cancelled, I suppose.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
The wsj article is actually fairly accurate, since it has basically listed all the same arguments. The question is the last point: assuming everything else here is true, is this sufficient grounds for deplatforming? Do you want to live in
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Since twitter is horrible on mobile, here's a summary: # Nasorg sounds like NAS and could be mistaken for it. # Nasorg is conservative and have published material with conservative slant. # 7 out of 21 speakers are climate denialists.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
What happened to non-bankruptable debt before? My guess is that the vast majority of them just sat in limbo with no repayment and are effectively just as worthless as defaulted debt. Really this just cleans up the books and force people t
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by sandoooo 7y ago
There was a period some time ago when image searches are always SFW even with safe search off. I guess this is no longer the case (checked just now).
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Maybe they have an AI that ingests thinkpieces and twitter feeds lambasting them for insufficient censorship, and based on the strength of sentiment and number of retweets apply additional censorship to the specific examples listed, with th
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Notice that there are entirely no NSFW images on DDG. This is a big hole right where content should be, and basically voids all claims to anti-censorship street cred.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
They need to fix that low-quality duck icon at some point. It's up there with Irfanview's 'roadkill' icon for ugliness when zoomed in, and it is unrecognizable at very small sizes (e.g. as a tab icon). This gets harder
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by sandoooo 7y ago
https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/jeff-bezos-amazon-bushfire-do...
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Remember itunes? UI was horrible from day one and got worse over the years until they killed it. I don't think it was ever a dealbreaker. UI is not the whole story here.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
I may not be successful or prestigious but at least I'm not Obsessed With Success and Prestige. Yay for me.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Two billionaires walk down the street. They spot a charity drive. Billionaire A hands over a $50 note, then asks for change. He is planning to donate $20. A reporter captures this moment, and the next day the news is about how much of a
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by sandoooo 7y ago
The government is full of people whose KPI doesn't budge even if they piss away all the tax dollars. And if you leave it to the private sector you get Medicare-style problems. It's a legit hard problem, deciding which group in a p
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by sandoooo 7y ago
You have a signal for a go/no go decision. You know that the signal is noisy and also biased. You argue that this means you should ignore the signal completely and simply choose 'go' in all cases. Hey, isn't that just
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by sandoooo 7y ago
I am going to defeat your system by swiping on the top 20% looks and bottom 20% bios. And everybody else will follow suit once they realize it's an effective strategy. And you'll have a race to bottom.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Let's avert our eyes from the tire fires for a second: how would you actually fix this idea so that it actually works? Let's define two win conditions, and you have to hit just one: 1. How to make this actually profitable without
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by sandoooo 7y ago
When you can't rely on looks, what's the next best indicator? Money and social proof, obviously! Job history / relationship history is a reasonable proxy there, in the sense of other alternatives are worse.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
I challenge you to find a more succinct term that gets the same point across. Politically correct speech pays a heavy price in expressiveness, especially of the banned ideas. It is kind of the point. What did I save up the points for, if
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by sandoooo 7y ago
This has open signups, so yeah.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Here's a common sentiment amongst those with too much time on their hands: "When I am on my deathbed, I don't want to look back on my life with regret." The deathbed part of your life isn't even that long. Probably
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by sandoooo 7y ago
>As a psychologist, I specialize in mental health challenges associated with high-pressure careers. People like Dan show up in my office every day — so often, in fact, I had to build a company, Azimuth Psychological, to focus on serving
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Let me just remind everybody that Bioshock is a computer game, its plot is fiction, and it constitutes no evidence whatsoever tht a real-life scenario that start the same way would end the same way. Sure, it is obvious when spelt out, but i
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by sandoooo 7y ago
If I were running the whole show, I'd introduce new laws that classify any private for-profit corporation with valuation above a certain percentage of the GDP as special entities that are not allowed to express any political opinion wh
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by sandoooo 7y ago
>Social Justice isn’t mainstream left, it’s a very loud and quite powerful subculture. Seems to me that it's becoming the mainstream left, considering the demographics are younger and more migrant-y than the old-mainstream of the Cl
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by sandoooo 7y ago
well, ideally they'd take the extra money and pay the people responsible for fixing bugs just a little bit more.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Google runs... Google. As in the search engine that pretty much the entire internet uses. It controls the algorithms that decides what everybody will actually clicks on. Plus a bunch of other internet-plumbing stuff that everybody uses.
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by sandoooo 7y ago
Oh, it will be very bad. Nobody voted for google. And nobody can vote out google, once it's in. How the hell do you even organize a campaign without the internet?
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by sandoooo 7y ago
I doubt it. I notice you are only agitating against specific donations toward Republicans, rather than all contributions in general. What's the least-effort way for Google to avoid the bad publicity you are seeking to inflict? Stop
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by sandoooo 7y ago
What's better for your average Google employee with unpopular opinions: 'Google donates to cause I don't like! Let's name and shame! Boooo!' 'Famous senior engineer at Google donates to cause I don't like!

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