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by spritefs 4y ago
I mean, I never said what Sweeney was doing is considered doxxing, or whether his behavior could lead to reasonable fear for safety. I'd rather let the lawyers untangle this annoying mess really didn't expect my initial comment to
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by spritefs 4y ago
It isn't legal in California > Every person who, with intent to place another person in reasonable fear for his or her safety, or the safety of the other person’s immediate family, by means of an electronic communication device, and
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by spritefs 4y ago
What does this have to do with my above comment? This isn't about "right wingers" or any of these braindead arguments about "moderation being in the public interest", my point was that saying what Roth and others di
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Hopefully people realize that trusting $COMPANY will never deliver you anything good. We either regulate the things we care about, or let stuff like this happen. Either way, the world keeps spinning. Or an alternative: people can use s
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Trump was banned for inciting an insurrection which is illegal. So we should ban everyone who's suspected of doing something illegal then? They don't even have to be charged with any crimes, we just have to be convinced that
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by spritefs 4y ago
> And people can just move to a different town, that doesn't stop us from having laws in place to guarantee rights in the current town. Towns are municipalities, twitter is a private company. The more I look at this metaphor, the le
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by spritefs 4y ago
> a president not condemning and (very likely encouraging) So not condemning something (that is to say, choosing not to speak) and "very likely encouraging" (as opposed to actually encouraging) is somehow worse than calling for
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by spritefs 4y ago
> but these companies very explicitly build to scale to be a sort of "town hall" and in doing so start having very large social influence the likes of which no one in history has ever had. I think a bazaar or carnival is a bett
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Public figures were largely exempt from the rules except when their tweet was egregious. So are you saying that the two tweets I posted above aren't egregious? > Not sure why you think this is some conspiracy when it was blatan
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by spritefs 4y ago
Yeah I agree that Elon is full of shit, but there's a little lie in here that needs to be addressed: > normal company operation in good faith But it wasn't "normal company operation" because they completely disregarde
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by spritefs 4y ago
yeah I also tried them once out of curiosity. I don't think I have an attention disorder, so it might've affected me differently than others, but adderall made me like super focused on everything I'd imagine if I did it more
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Well, it's an anaesthetic I thought it was a stimulant
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by spritefs 4y ago
Imho this whole ADHD/adderall thing is just the pharma industry peddling medication and shilling super hard. I wouldn't be surprised if pharma dollars somehow influenced this BBC article getting published If some people like payin
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by spritefs 4y ago
This attitude is dismissive and reductive At the same time, a couple years ago I read a bunch of social sciences crap and realized at the end of it that none of the ideas were actually falsifiable. It was just a bunch of ideas and nothing m
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by spritefs 4y ago
I'll add (after reading some responses here), I'm not saying that someone should always be honest, I was just saying it's possible to be frank with someone without being a douche For example, instead of telling someone &quo
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by spritefs 4y ago
I wasn't making a universal claim about all communication, I was just saying it's possible to be honest without being a dick > I don’t think you’re entitled to an example after being so reductive about the topic. Am I the one w
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by spritefs 4y ago
That guy just sounds crazy and not at peace with himself. Also in my original comment, I wasn't trying to make a universal claim about communication in general. If I was dealing with the above person, I'd likely just not respond a
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by spritefs 4y ago
> We're breaking up with JavaScript front ends > Site doesn't load properly with javascript disabled They should put their money where their mouth is
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by spritefs 4y ago
Let me get this straight: google is removing support for blocking webRequest API, but keeping support for non-blocking webRequest API? How is this supposed to benefit privacy if the non-blocking API is still supported?
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by spritefs 4y ago
> One person’s “bullying and harassment” is another person’s “intimate honesty”. There are no easy answers. No. You can be honest with someone about something without being an asshole. What exactly do you mean here by "intimate hone
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by spritefs 4y ago
The car location thing is an actual issue that needs to be legislated away. Companies like bmw do this with irremovable sim cards and location data Why the fuck does my car need an internet connection when nav isn't being used? Why are
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Shady software As in Github and Micro$hit along with them
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by spritefs 4y ago
> suddenly i am unable to log in to my github and the page just says "account suspended." This happened to me the other day, out of nowhere. I have no idea why. At least OP managed to get a response out of their support, I&#x27
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by spritefs 4y ago
> Work life balance. When I was growing up in Tech in the ‘90’s - there was no such thing as work life balance. We loved what we did and wanted to succeed so we worked like crazy to achieve great things. Because remember, it's only
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by spritefs 4y ago
Just curious, what brought you to sub-Saharan Africa? Are you from there or was it missionary work? How is it less individualistic than the west? Sorry if this comment is a little nosy, just curious about the different culture
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by spritefs 4y ago
> it's just a story about his feelings. Oh I'm sure. But feelings and money aren't mutually exclusive. Why do you think he posts donation links under the heading "THIS IS WHERE YOU GET TO SAVE MY LIFE"?
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by spritefs 4y ago
> I particularly enjoyed the comments where blokes (so many blokes!) got angry at me for even HAVING emotions about this situation, when the law seemed, to them, to make such emotions invalid. You write a several thousand word screed (mo
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by spritefs 4y ago
> No, and I feel like he made it extremely clear that this story is not really about money and his feelings are not driven by a lack of royalties. If it wasn't about money, than what was it about? "Fairness"? So money?
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by spritefs 4y ago
Maybe because they sent the money before fully coming to an agreement and getting a signed contract
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by spritefs 4y ago
> There are cultures in the world where the babysitter would expect to share in your windfall and everyone would think it a perfectly reasonable thing. Which cultures do you have in mind?

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