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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Hate speech as a legal definition cannot coexist with freedom of speech. I hold freedom of speech as one of my highest principles. We already have just laws against inciting panic and violence. The category of hate speech is irrelevant in
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Depends on who you ask. Americans increasingly believe otherwise. Here's an anecdote https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-blacks-is-not-a-sexual-pref...
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Emulating successful startups is folly. It's the myriad failures that you will never learn about that you should be concerned with. I'll just leave this here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I'm a #freemarket guy and all, but freemium is a long standing monetization model that many companies have used to accelerate net profits in the long run. Not really anything anti free market about freemium. The problem with freemium h
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Well we kinda picked all the low hanging fruit over the last 150 years. Each technological advancement seems exponentially more expensive.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I for one look forward to our federal overlords thinking they have any clue what kinds of transmissions deserve security /s. Seriously though, the legal tradition just hasn't caught up to the idea that somebody can possess informa
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Usually the rule with a title that ends in a question mark is that the answer is no. In this case "not close" seems to be the answer. Rest assured, it's way more complicated and there are a lot more problems to tackle than ju
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Let's see, a challenge! Just kidding, I don't view the world that way. But I will highlight that, historically, it's been common to have various degrees of autonomy across nation states. Even today, Californians are consisten
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
"Functional" slavery as your implication describes is so catastrophically different from actual owning of persons that it's incomprehensibly dishonest and devalues the very real reality of slavery in past and present in the d
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Be careful: this is the exact same line of reasoning the alt-right uses to conclude ethnostates. Or if you want to take the intersectionalist view to its conclusion: Maybe we should have a White President to govern white people, and a Black
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Okay okay okay, check this out. (Yes global mean ocean temperatures are rising, but at least in the USA, climate change appears to be making the country have milder weather) > New York City has not had a daily high temperature above 100
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
My God really? Slavery was the uniform norm for almost all of human history [0]. If nothing good can come of a society that enslaved others, then the logical corollary is an incredibly short sighted and unnecessarily nihilistic view of the
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
The science question is fun because I'm not sure who you're arguing against. Scientists are doing good work fighting an intractable problem. And their results are contradictory and disappointing so far. But more interestingly, whe
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I may have voted for Trump, and I probably will again, and I may bear my share of responsibility for his blunders, but I don't agree with many things he does. He was probably wrong that time. Other presidents do horrible things, like w
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
So... You can't outwalk climate change? Tell me more about how the sea levels are rising that fast.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
[0] did you.. did you even the bipartisan followup? https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/nasa-climate-science... [1] is exactly my contention [2] not really relevant. That order was highly specific and tar
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Yup. People from another country who aren't citizens get different treatment. Welcome to all countries on Earth.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Let me annotate this as somebody accused of climate denial. We who are not trolling do not deny the data. The data are clear, there is a general warming trend so far. And it's most likely primarily caused by human action. But there&#x2
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I don't have any Republican friends that believe this, and almost all my friends are Republicans. I hate this toxic myth.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
They're an everything group. The single most influential vote in the world.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Hang on. I think you're missing the point. It's not about how "if you've read one, you've read them all". The fact that MacBeth is another way to tell the Futile Struggle Against Fate story doesn't in any
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I can't speak to the intent. Upton Sinclair's Jungle was a socialist manifesto that accidentally missed America's heart and hit her gut instead. What I can say is approximately 100% of material that gets popular is simply the
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
It's interesting how, when communicating with hypothetical future people in written form, we have to choose language we have the best hope of them understanding. A center of emanating energy that is dangerous to the body and kills. Rea
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Because inclusion is trivial. Everyone is welcome. The process of exclusion is what causes you to define the borders of acceptability, and allows participants to have a clear understanding of when they're at risk of being excluded. The
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
See that's the trick. To make the high tax economies function, you have to tax even the lowest income earners at the high rate. Instead, in the US, we have greedy low earners who don't want to pay their share and just want the fed
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
It's almost like exclusion, not inclusion, is the process by which you create quality communities. Of course, redemption should always be on the table. It's worth the risk.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
> Remember, the goal is fear, not specificity. I think that's where your proposal breaks down. Light is powerhungry and arrogant, but he's also very moralistic. A character that proritizes fear over accuracy would be a differen
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
I would love to hear the argument that serverless impacts cost of security concerns at all. I'm not warm to the idea that it also impacts development time, but I'd love to hear that argument too.
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
> human right of mental comfort Hahahahahah hahhaha ahhah hah. Lol. I'm sorry, I just can't help myself. This cultural tendency toward naming everything you prefer as a right is just... It's hilarious to the extent it&#x27
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by squirrelicus 7y ago
Even better than "observable state from a to b" is "a transform of value from a to b", no inspection and whitebox needed :D

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