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901.
by thu2111 6y ago
The probabilities really aren't lower. CNN has fired a vanishingly low number of people over incorrect stories and in the rare cases that did occur, they were immediately hired by other outlets with identical viewpoints to CNN, where t
902.
by thu2111 6y ago
Jews were taking part in public life in rather big and noticeable ways throughout written history. There's a book about one of them that's quite well read... I think it's clear that you're going to keep looking for real
903.
by thu2111 6y ago
Your party wouldn't have a formal written document that claims to set out specific rules, wouldn't be inviting arbitrary members of the public on the basis of a shared interest, would make no claim to be anything other than an arb
904.
by thu2111 6y ago
White men in 21st century America are still at the top of the totem pole; their situation is nothing like that of Jews in early 20th-century Europe This seems like an odd statement. You are aware of why anti-semitism was so widespread in
905.
by thu2111 6y ago
It's the other way around. By "not allowed to exist" I don't mean literally executed in a mass genocide of half the voting population. Using such an interpretation is very bad faith, assuming that's what you're
906.
by thu2111 6y ago
Eh, look at the modern attacks on white males. Mainstream politicians give speeches where they denounce white men and say things like, "women are better than men" (Obama), "women are the primary victims of war" (Clinton)
907.
by thu2111 6y ago
Also, Hitler was big into animal rights. Germany's modern day animal protection laws are largely still derived from Nazi era laws.
908.
by thu2111 6y ago
I think you need to re-read your own post. you need to provide some very strong evidence "they [the left] do not believe non-leftists should be allowed to exist." You literally start by saying: The legitimacy of the right in th
909.
by thu2111 6y ago
It seems "Otherwise objectionable" is doing a lot of work in that paragraph. The intent seems pretty clearly "censorship of stuff that violates 1990s era morality is OK". Extrapolating to that to arbitrary censorship of
910.
by thu2111 6y ago
Fact checks on Facebook at least aren't authored by them. They come from third party "fact checkers" of dubious legitimacy.
911.
by thu2111 6y ago
Twitter disabling the NY Post doesn't make 'business sense' under any conventional definition of business, unless you consider election manipulation for the benefit of one political party to have near unlimited business upsid
912.
by thu2111 6y ago
You mean they can use the sites that are also censored by Google and Apple via their app stores? What people on these threads never seen to think about is, how long until Chrome starts blocking "misinformation"? Would you be makin
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by thu2111 6y ago
I'm pretty sure exceptions are better, for a couple of reasons. The first is that the idea all Go programmers reliably propagate or wrap error codes, without losing important context, is not true. One of my first encounters with a seri
914.
by thu2111 6y ago
I'm not sure taking C as your other example of a type safe language will make the concept look that good. Try learning Kotlin. I think you'll find it a significant upgrade in safety and productivity compared to Go, but especially
915.
by thu2111 6y ago
Almost by definition information that was stolen via hacking is true, unless for some bizarre reason the victim was privately forging documents about themselves, which nobody has ever alleged. At any rate, the OP merely observed that people
916.
by thu2111 6y ago
People are alarmed by these moves because they represent a wider trend in which the left increasingly does not recognise the right as politically legitimate, i.e. they do not believe non-leftists should be allowed to exist. Tech firm activi
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by thu2111 6y ago
Sure, so Chrome and Safari blacklist your websites. You're only back to 1995, the horror. Then Amazon refuses to sell your books. And VISA refuses to let people buy them, if they find them in an alternative outlet. What's the big
918.
by thu2111 6y ago
Do they? As far as I know the only example of any identifiably Republican person high up in Silicon Valley is Joel Kaplan, and we know from leaks that Zuckerberg spends a significant amount of his time trying to stop his workforce from lync
919.
by thu2111 6y ago
Charities don't really develop reputations except among a tiny subset of people who are unusually interested in that specific charity. That's because the people who give them money aren't getting anything in return whose qual
920.
by thu2111 6y ago
But John Doe in the Guardian is? What's the difference? Joe Rogan is a worldwide phenomenon larger than most TV channels. Around 200 million downloads a month, and he's basically a guy who interviews people on YouTube. Plenty of i
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by thu2111 6y ago
The question was very clear - do you want to leave the EU, yes/no. People voted yes, that means, leaving completely. The meaning of the word is quite plain, it isn't some vague idea, although anti-Brexit people have been coming up
922.
by thu2111 6y ago
How many private rail freight companies are there in Europe? The railfreight firms I know are all semi or fully state backed. As for the innovation thing, the report I quoted literally says they can't keep up with road innovation. It d
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by thu2111 6y ago
The Swiss tradition of having lots of referendums isn't very old. Actually up until the 1970s it was hardly done, partly because the government had a habit of ignoring them and not implementing them properly. Around 50 years ago the pr
924.
by thu2111 6y ago
The problem is that some random YouTube channel, Facebook page or a lone idiot screaming on social media is not going to be less biased and partisan. Are you sure? Joe Rogan seems to get a pretty good mix of people from across the politic
925.
by thu2111 6y ago
Most people don't have a naive trust companies, and that's good. Consumer's trust in companies is far more nuanced and complex: we may for example trust that if we buy an Apple device it will be well built, but we don't
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by thu2111 6y ago
Here's a report by the European rail freight industry: https://www.railfreightforward.eu/sites/default/files/userco... "Maintaining its current modal share of 18% will pose a challenge for the rail
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by thu2111 6y ago
Thanks. That's a very well written article, I enjoyed learning from it. The auction is performed in the browser ? No wonder the web feels pokey these days. I thought at first this must be due to the privacy requirements around cookies
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yes but you're exceptionally rare, and might discover you're wrong about your preferences if someone were to take the big gamble of building such a service. Also the whole era of passenger rail may have been killed off by lockdown
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by thu2111 6y ago
Switzerland doesn't have any high speed rail services, defined conventionally. All trains in Switzerland are pretty slow, but it's a small country so it rarely matters. Also, Swiss trains are pretty expensive. You don't notic
930.
by thu2111 6y ago
And even more specifically, this means the US moves a lot more stuff by rail freight than in Europe, where the rail freight industry is sickly and dying.

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