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by shaki-dora 7y ago
It reads like kitchen psychology. "Wants to leave a pretty corpse" also seems like the worst possible motive, among many. Access to firearms would be a far easier explanation. Just with in the "pretty corpse" theme, I wo
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Imagine a vim v. emacs trial. Do you think a jury pool recruited from the tech community would be able to set aside any pre-existing opinions on the topic, and use just their general knowledge to fairly adjudicate the case that is actually
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
If, as you suggest, opinions expressed online don't have the power to change anyone's mind, what does it matter when their free expression is curbed by new laws?
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
WTF is a "UN banker". Stop mixing up your stereotypes!
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
The concept of "fallacies" is somewhat overdone, to the point where I'm tempted to coin the "fallacy fallacy". They are used far too often to shut down some debate: Oh, you want to do this yourself? Not-Invented-Her
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
This stereotyping is as old as industrialisation. "Made in Germany" was originally a label forced upon the country by the UK, who wanted customers to chose their superior products over the newcomer's low-quality knockoffs. We
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
I wish I had your optimism. I'm almost certain that even a revenue-neutral bill would be presented as a tax increase in the right-wing media. And, of course, even something that is revenue-neutral overall will have some winners and los
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
The New Yorker is the one US magazine I subscribe to. It's only about 1 Euro per week even outside the US, so I don't feel bad about not reading it. I'm also planning to use the collected covers to paper a kitchen wall soon,
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
It's obviously statistical malpractice to draw conclusions from one or two datapoints. But anyway: the UK and France have arguably more restrictive free speech laws than Germany, yet they have far longer democratic histories than the U
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Oh c’mon... This is just empty, nihilistic cynicism. It actually contributes to the problem, because people just stop trying when, completely independent of their actions, they are continually derided as stupid/corrupt/egotistic&#
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
I was hinting at the answer: it’s not a known concept, so your (potential) partners will tend not to trust it. Plus I would prefer both to be on it.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
The fact that you have to link to an archive copy, because even the loony bin that is “counterpunch” has chosen to disassociate with the raving anti-Semite author, speaks volumes.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
When discussing the media, it’s singularly important to speak of “citizen”, not “consumers”. The importance of media is far larger than entertainment. You could never read a single newspaper or magazine, neither in print nor online, nor wat
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
To be fair, it’s also below the article, and neither a pop up nor interstitial. At that place in the page, it’s rather unimportant how big it is. It is far less annoying than, say, Wikipedia or even NPR. Everyone should be happy about these
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Typography 2020(practicaltypography.com)
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
In a Bayesian framework, a person telling you they are HIV+ would seem to serve to establish some trust. Why admit to to that, but then lie about viral load? On a more practical level, I would probably go on PreP if I regularly had hookups
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Your number is definitely wrong, even by your own calculation. Why don’t you update your posts above, which just peddle some ridiculous stereotype of Africa? Your reasoning also leaves out that a lot of health care never goes through govern
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No, Section 230 Does Not Require Platforms to Be “Neutral”(eff.org)
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
So someone asks for a nexus between Milo and white supremacists, and someone linking a source with a video of him serenading neo-nazis with their arms stretched out gets voted down? The it’s-about-free-speech-not-alt-right-sympathy shtick r
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
But they won’t be leaving the market, right? Therefore, they expect to make some profit at the expected higher price, and would stand to gain the most if all others cut production, except for them. This is a classic prisoners’ dilemma, wher
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Ruby 3 Brings Types, JIT, and More [slides](docs.google.com)
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
That depends on the meaning of “these treaties”. The texts have probably been in the PD forever, assuming they were drafted by government lawyers (somewhat likely judging by the content), because everything created by the federal government
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
This is the sort of totally obvious prisoner’s dilemma that just a tiny bit of international cooperation could easily avoid, if only Russia (and now the US) had not gone down the road of pseudo-macho brutalism in politics. With the beluga c
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
That’s sort of like a parody I would write to prove my point. You’re clearly emotional about the topic, to a degree that cannot be explained purely by doing a few interpretations in school. I don’t see, for example, this sort of venom direc
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
It’s possible to leave traces of whatever inner conflict tortures you in your writing without even knowing. For example, the disdain of the humanities in this thread (and generally on HN and the tech community) is just begging for an explan
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
The uncarnine valley.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Quote: „...as better-sounding FM signals become cheaper to broadcast and would-be listeners turn to the internet for entertainment.“ So the premise of the article, in my understanding, is „let’s ignore the bigger media and look at his somew
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Yes, I think that would be fine. But maybe you just don’t need to talk about people with some term encompassing a multitude of different issues. It’s long been said that the left/right dichotomy isn’t entirely meaningful, leading to an
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Funny how everyone is in this threat is objecting to „this useless crap on the frontpage“, on an article describing parents upset about useless crap coming with their book.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
By that logic, no propaganda could ever have any negative impact. We should therefore put fliers with all sorts of maybe just random text, or even a sampling of the most vile hate speech we can find into every book sold. Then, we sit back a

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