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by throwaways885 6y ago
Eh... the old neocons aren't the same breed of conservative that is the Trump supporters. They seem very much in favour of pardoning Snowden.
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by throwaways885 6y ago
"I ate a chocolate bar and regretted it, so I won't pay the shop". Buyer's remorse doesn't make this more ethical.
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by throwaways885 6y ago
Sorry guys, I made a serious mistake and linked the wrong Benjamin (I was wanting to link to Sargon's lawsuits that threatened to sink the company). Even so, I'm a free speech absolutist and even though people say terrible things
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by throwaways885 6y ago
This is literally the reason people are saying woke liberals are racist.
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by throwaways885 6y ago
Maybe share https://www.nohello.com/ with them?
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by throwaways885 6y ago
Many products show this warning e.g. Google Photos, Facebook.
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by throwaways885 6y ago
Friendly reminder: You're paid for how easy it is to replace you, not your output.
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by throwaways885 6y ago
Schools do suck, but those 15+60 minutes free time and all class time (which is inherently social) are SO incredibly valuable. > This article decries remote learning and offers nothing to move the conversation forward on what WOULD work
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by throwaways885 6y ago
I like your take on life - thanks for reminding me of this little fact.
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by throwaways885 6y ago
Maybe have have some empathy for the parents who are working from home, before you start insulting their parenting? Of course the 7 year old is acting out, but it's probably more to do with being stuck in a box/house all day with
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by throwaways885 6y ago
Maybe news isn't sustainable in the long run anyway. Independent journalists (who CAN survive on 50k-150k in ad revenue) are the future.
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by throwaways885 6y ago
As if Amazon gets anything useful from your request log with AWS...
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by throwaways885 6y ago
Not really. Mozilla desperately needs a market to make money, and consumers desperately need privacy preserving ad technology so creators don't sink under a lack of funding. The advertisers won't really care since fraud/bad c
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by throwaways885 6y ago
Sibling comment: > When people say they're "neither for or against, just annoyed" about something, they usually mean that they genuinely don't care about the underlying issue, and the annoyance comes from the idea tha
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by throwaways885 6y ago
Man... Mozilla could've been it's own Google if they wanted to be. Maybe they even would've had the clout to produce a privacy friendly ad network. What a wasted opportunity.
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by throwaways885 6y ago
Most people don't care about D&I. Neither for or against, just an annoyance.
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by throwaways885 6y ago
OP having these skills now means more free time in University or easier time finding first dev jobs which will pay off in the future. Compound interest and all that.
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by throwaways885 6y ago
LTE isn't practical for more than one person. You're getting 10-100x less speed for your money, not to mention terrible latency.
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by throwaways885 6y ago
For each of those examples, there are also positive social justice arguments if you look at them in different directions: - Microsoft/GitHub's work with ICE [prevents illegal migration, saving those workers from a life of wage sla
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by throwaways885 6y ago
Why not? It's incredibly popular.
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by throwaways885 6y ago
You can't see that Twitter slants far left?
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by throwaways885 6y ago
> In some aspects, absolutely. In things like "did they invade, subjugate, enslave, and pillage?", you absolutely can. Just because they didn't have porcelain toilets and lightbulbs doesn't mean what the British Empir
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by throwaways885 6y ago
> And yet where do the life and death decisions get made? In political arenas, not cultural ones. Look at the UK government demographics. The cabinet especially is more diverse than the actual general population. > For a long time, th
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by throwaways885 6y ago
Shouldn't people be allowed to be aware of violence going on in their home country?
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by throwaways885 6y ago
(speculation) Because right now, one side loves Trump/Shapiro/Crowder/etc... and the other side just hates Trump (majority don't care either way, of course). Notice how nobody is focused on the Dem side anymore? So of co
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by throwaways885 6y ago
Ha. And here I actually respect Zuck for not banning all the conservatives like Jack did. They just tried to cancel Facebook, so, why the hell would Zuck give into demands now?
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by throwaways885 6y ago
GP is talking about cultural power, not political power. Look around you and you'll see so much: - affirmative action which sees white males as "above" other races, so "compensates" for others - being told they&#x27