throwaway29812

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by throwaway29812 3y ago
"Too big to fail..by law"
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by throwaway29812 3y ago
Have we learned...nothing?
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by throwaway29812 3y ago
People that did or did not go to war, went without then obtained health care coverage I think would disagree with you. Perhaps you were never in danger of any of those things, thus to you, there was/is no difference.
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by throwaway29812 3y ago
It was at least a reliable signal that the person is who they say they are. They are shifting away from actual verification towards attempting to sell status, which rarely works.
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by throwaway29812 3y ago
Are you implying there was no fundamental difference between the Obama and Trump governments? Clinton and Bush?
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by throwaway29812 3y ago
You can exploit anything, what's your point? There is still a fundamental difference at play.
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by throwaway29812 3y ago
Your industry exists only by taking in more in premiums than you give out in care, correct?
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by throwaway29812 3y ago
> Youtube took down every channel that didn't agree with the US government/Uncle Joe on Russia/Nato/Ukraine, at least. No they didn't, they stopped actively promoting them. Not the same thing. Are you online dema
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by throwaway29812 3y ago
It's called a physics textbook and you can buy one anywhere.
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by throwaway29812 3y ago
It's always so simple when you take the time to break it down..
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by throwaway29812 3y ago
Trump admin was caught scrubbing embarrassing statements from official transcripts, but it's not common
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by throwaway29812 3y ago
> It's an embarrassingly shallow model of how how humans behave. It's a trade off. Viewing rates give back feedback 100% of the time. Asking users for a thumbs up or down gives feedback almost none of the time, and still might
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
It is the safest time in human history. Not for your laptop sitting in a car perhaps, but the greater context is important.
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
> They could push educational content to children but that doesn't mean children would take it. Isn't that a different point to the one being made? I thought you were arguing that pushing positive content to kids was an overblo
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
Then, according to the algorithm, you do want to see them.
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
If you are going to say something like this: > Main thing I notice is the fear I sense in people whenever cops are nearby, and definitely the sense of this security state hovering over everyone You should know what that feels like, when
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
> (i.e. That the ruling entity needs to have the support of the majority of demos) There is nothing undemocratic about federalist republics. Or parliamentary democracies that require coalitions to rule. They are simply different kinds of
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
I still don't follow. You accept that content on Douyin is controlled, but not to the degree that's being reported? And that censorship is absolute, but the engineering of all content flows based on age doesn't exist ?
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
Douyin is still heavily censored like all other Chinese platforms, right? If so, why are the above content restrictions so unbelievable?
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
China can get data from TikTok whenever it wants, that's not quite the same as success campaigns for selective censorship.
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
> emphasises that not restricting certain generated content would hurt users. Being nice to person B threatening person A is not being nice to person A.
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
> In these places there are much more distinct mono-cultures relating to race than there are in the US. So, ghettos. I'm not saying there's not a "little Italy" in most American cities, but a Turkish person living in
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
It's called perspective. If you don't have it, fine. But I wouldn't loudly brag about how small your world is.
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
> I don't think America accepts immigrants; in most places there's a pleasant apathy toward them. You're not really considered "American" by most born here Not been my experience in NYC and other places. Quite th
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
If you are going to shorthand entire countries as "shitholes" you should do so up front, so I don't waste my time responding to you.
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
Oh no, it gets worse: https://hongkongfp.com/2022/09/26/father-of-chinese-ink-girl...
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
People work hard to justify their decisions after they made them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
The "I dont like this tweet" function is completely broken. I don't like blocking or muting, but I have to tell Twitter over and over I don't want to see certain people (including King Joffrey) but it never works.
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
Does your anecdote include the immigrant experience? You are perhaps describing the experience of a Lebanese in Lebanon, or a German in Germany. What about everyone else? > A big part of American fear is knowing that nearly every single
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by throwaway29812 4y ago
The spilt between "we want to go back to the office" and "we want to stay remote" on my team was perfectly decided based on if the individual had kids or not.

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