theplague42

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by theplague42 6y ago
Your quote literally says "as a government official traveling around the world championing the virtues of free speech " emphasis mine
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by theplague42 6y ago
Maybe the authors think that misinformation is currently a bigger issue than censorship?
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by theplague42 6y ago
And Amazon isn't just a gravy train for Amazon executives and some employees, while people are suffering and going bankrupt?
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by theplague42 6y ago
This has been coming since 2018. Is there no end to Amazon's dominance? I seriously worry that it's becoming a real threat to democracy.
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by theplague42 6y ago
US healthcare is terrible _because_ it's for-profit. Won't this just entrench it further?
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by theplague42 6y ago
Pharmacy is such a small part of healthcare... they are only going to make it worse anyways. They're still for-profit.
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by theplague42 6y ago
It's a constant minor annoyance weighed against a fairly rare, hypothetical risk. People ride motorcycles despite vastly higher death and injury rates than cars, cause it's fun. (I did for awhile and might start doing so again one
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by theplague42 6y ago
Because the average person has a very bad understanding of risk and consequences? Also, the laws aren't solely about the wearer; not wearing seatbelts at scale has societal costs.
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by theplague42 6y ago
HackerNews loves talking about network effects and marketing virality but doesn't seem to understand actual real-world networks and viruses.
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by theplague42 6y ago
The wedding makes the jobs of the facility employees a lot harder.
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by theplague42 6y ago
It's a lot more than two or three people. And the decimation would be a lot less bad if stimulus relief was passed. How large is your town, that the hospital only has a couple ventilators?
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by theplague42 6y ago
No, it's like saying 100 people living in one house get the same say as 1 person living in another house. You literally used people in your example!
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by theplague42 6y ago
Do you think that's a bigger issue than 2000 and 2016 where more people voted for the other guy? Also, wouldn't rural areas have the same problem? And probably even worse due to less diversity?
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by theplague42 6y ago
Washington, Oregon, Colorado all have universal mail-in where every registered voter automatically gets a ballot in the mail (though you can still drop off your ballot, or vote in person). California is _largely_ mail-in but I don't th
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by theplague42 6y ago
Last time I checked, Kamala Harris is neither a state nor President right now.
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by theplague42 6y ago
Surely you understand the meaning of "follow the money."
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by theplague42 6y ago
Yeah the rich irony of HackerNews...
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by theplague42 6y ago
There was a Japanese study about this awhile back and that was the general conclusion; that the signaling is important regardless of any "real" effect. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3536629
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by theplague42 6y ago
I guess anything that is fined or outlaws is eventually "enforced by violence" but it's still a silly argument. If a store asks you to leave, and you don't, and the store calls the police to arrest you, you aren't b
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by theplague42 6y ago
Or they've been influenced by a broad array of politicians and media figures into believing that COVID is essentially over and there was nothing to worry about in the first place.
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by theplague42 6y ago
Right... >where just about nothing is higher than 3 stories The point is that cars destroy density regardless of what your building height limits are.
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by theplague42 6y ago
HackerNews is just as vulnerable to confirmation bias and reactionary behavior as any other group of people. Being an engineer does not make one magically immune to cognitive bias.
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by theplague42 6y ago
What misleading talking points? How does the media mis-represent what QAnon is?
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by theplague42 6y ago
One regularly talks about killing Jews and one doesn't.
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by theplague42 6y ago
What about it makes it "state level"? Dozens of failed predictions. Vague, open-ended insinuations that can be interpreted by anyone in totally different ways. No legitimate information that can't be found with a search engin
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by theplague42 6y ago
The 2000 Supreme Court fucked us over for decades.
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by theplague42 6y ago
They aren't even remotely the same type of show! I don't know how you could possibly try to compare them. You wouldn't try to compare the Super Bowl against Downton Abbey, would you?
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by theplague42 6y ago
Can you point to a specific instance of him valuing entertainment over accuracy?
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by theplague42 6y ago
Yes the considerable risk of producing a wildly popular television show on Comedy Central. So brave and risky.
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by theplague42 6y ago
Do you feel that the science itself says climate change is not real?

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