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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
This is only true if someone deems you or your experiences credible, and this in turn is highly related to existing biases and relative places in social hierarchies.
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
“IP is any law that I can invoke that allows me to control the conduct of my competitors, critics, and customers.” Doctorow never uses this word, but the dynamic he describes — where tech companies, rather than try to keep customers by offe
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
IIRC the first prison in the US was established in Auburn, NY specifically because slavery had been outlawed and some sociopath was like “ok, yeah, technically, but if we just convict them of a crime first...”
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
I get it. But I also don’t have much of a tolerance any more for dealing with abuse, and it’s not possible to be open about this stuff without also making yourself vulnerable to that abuse. I wish there was a solution to that, not least bec
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
This fails spectacularly when the point of disagreement is one’s humanity, for example. I’m a lot less active here than I would be otherwise, and I know that’s the case for a lot of others who belong to groups that HN considers fair game. I
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
IANAL, but to me it seems like it would be very difficult to convict retail investors of investing in a stock they believe has value and then telling other people they invested in a stock they believe has value. Unless there are chat record
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
That’s what I get for skimming! Thanks for the correction. :)
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
I don’t think dismissing this phenomenon as a stock turning into a meme is right. WSB is...something, but there is actually a rationale behind going long GME. If you think that the new CEO, known for turning dead retail into profitable onli
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
Obligatory, but this really seems to confuse the point: their revenue doesn’t come from their users at all. It comes from selling their users to advertisers.
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
This seems overly glib. Facebook’s monopoly status means it’s necessary for many people. As per the post, if this person were a small business owner, or simply not well-connected elsewhere, this could be both financially and personally deva
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
If you read the article, you’ll see it’s not the same issue.
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
Just because you failed at crime doesn’t mean you didn’t commit a crime. Attempted murder is still a thing. And I think you should probably read more about what actually happened. The initial photos were of idiots in horns and face paint an
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
Not all autoimmune conditions show up in bloodwork, and sometimes they only show up when they’ve progressed to the point of organ damage. Typically this lack of positive tests is used to invalidate the experience of people with those condit
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
If due to environmental toxins (say, hormonally active “forever chemicals,” plastics, etc), my guess is you’d see the deleterious effects first in women. Women also make (and need) testosterone, just at much lower levels than men, so they h
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
Two zip tie guys, one of whom was a retired Lt. Col. in the Air Force, and there’s video of a large group of men with apparent training and in matching tactical gear moving through the crowd towards the Capitol. One of them has an OathTaker
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
They stopped being protestors the second they stormed the capitol looking to kill or kidnap elected officials. They’re insurrectionists, and being charged as such.
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
I said as much below, and got downvoted for it. Open carry states are in a different position entirely, though I’m not sure any state police department wants to deal with mass arrests of armed criminals. If they show up in Albany armed, for
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
Open carry states might have a rough time. ETA: maybe a better way to phrase this would be to contrast between open carry states and restricted carry states. IANAL, but in NYS, for example, my understanding is that these people would be bre
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
Thanks! I would love to find a copy of that. The Third Man is just...gutting.
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
Your link 404s
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
Oh wow. What edition is that?
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
> Furthermore, granular targeting is no longer the way to scale on Facebook. Can you elaborate on this? I’m not sure I understand what the alternative is.
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by stonecraftwolf 6y ago
“ More than 425 of the US Fortune 500 All ten of the top ten US telecommunications companies All five branches of the US Military The US Pentagon, State Department, NASA, NSA, Postal Service, NOAA, Department of Justice, and the Office of t
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by stonecraftwolf 7y ago
I don’t think this is accurate. People are often frightened of unlikely things so long as they feel they can do something about it. But when a threat seems incomprehensible and they feel powerless to do anything about it (at least partially
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
Facebook can’t be regulated into the ground and then sued into a fine dust fast enough. It is really hard to overstate the ambient anger out there at a general sense of exploitation. FB have made themselves a lightning rod for that anger. C
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
Why would RBC even expose themselves to this liability? What was the point? With every single one of these companies I am...baffled, that anyone thought this was a good idea, but in this situation especially it makes zero sense. All that li
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
Wondering if this was true for girls as well as boys. Boys tend to be diagnosed at higher rates, though the prevalence is — now — understood to be the same. For years girls and women went undiagnosed with both conditions. It was only after
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
But you also see this in cases of developmental trauma / CPTSD. There is some relation between the two conditions, but it is certainly not simple.
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
Because they aren’t the canaries at all. Instead they volunteer their kids (and the kids who interact with their kids) as the canaries.
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by stonecraftwolf 8y ago
It’s also the explanation for noob gains (getting much, much stronger in the first 6 months of lifting or so, then tapering off as your ability to recruit muscle catches up with the muscle you already have). If you’ve ever lifted, the feeli

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