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by toofy 3y ago
i tend to agree with you, there isn’t a free-speech absolutist who wouldn’t fire someone if that person went on a rant cussing them out at work. free-speech absolutism is absurd. if a free-speech “consequence free” absolutist were to berat
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by toofy 3y ago
my impression is that he’s mostly just a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian and has no real principles. or the sibling comment to this could be likely as well, he’s just a grifter.
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by toofy 3y ago
this seems more like questioning whether or not some people have been mislabeled as X rather than whether or not violence against violence is understandable/forgivable.
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by toofy 3y ago
jersey city took care of this years ago, like 70% of voters passed a bill regulating airbnbs. [0] any rentals less than 30 days are not allowed unless it’s a room in your house, that you live in, and you have to be there, present, while the
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by toofy 3y ago
> Airbnb could have gone to fix that. Why leave it to regulation? when? they’ve had years. companies can’t logically fail to address a well known problem and then complain when regulations happen. there’s a sure way to slow regulations—
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by toofy 3y ago
i think i’ve probably missed out on so many amazing products, but i just immediately lose interest the minute a company demands my personal information before they’ll even tell me a price lol. while demanding my information definitely doesn
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by toofy 3y ago
if a thing can be done better and make our lives easier, yes, i absolutely think the government should. if we’re going to pay either way, through taxes or pay a corporation, i want whichever will make our lives better, i don’t particularly
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by toofy 3y ago
> The complex tax code created by the government is the only reason they exist in the first place. it seems like you’re arguing complicated is what we deserve, while simultaneously arguing against people who want to make it easier where
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by toofy 3y ago
do you also see, as the parent brought up with “… huge percentage of Walmart workers on gov food assistance.” and i’ll stick with walmart here for the sake of continuity, the other well know instance where walmart has a significant drain on
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by toofy 3y ago
While dopamine hits almost certainly plays a role, We need to be more mindful of our uses of “ The problem is… ” when we’re discussing complex nuanced fractal-tier depth subjects. There will almost never be one (or The) problem. I know it’s
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by toofy 3y ago
> And I suspect you're going to see a LOT more of the left-leaning, tech-bro type of this prepper emerging due to climate change concerns… while i’m sure we’ll see an uptick, i don’t think we’ll see anything like we did with the pre
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by toofy 3y ago
> I think the idea is that if you can't make a substantive comment, you refrain from commenting at all. me too. how many of our grandmothers repeatedly said, “if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” it’s wild t
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by toofy 3y ago
> How about instead we get a system that doesn't just flag livelihoods of other people with ML and if so, at least provides some meaningful way to appeal? I think this is what they were suggesting. It isn’t clear to me how this lev
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by toofy 3y ago
> Dont expect this to be financed by the food industry though... which, honestly is the exact industry that should foot a decent amount of the bill. along with many of the pressing issues a number of commentators have already brought up,
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by toofy 3y ago
> …some arbitrary authority deciding… something tells me the team here is anything but arbitrary. i can assure you, keeping a community this healthy at this scale is pretty incredible. what you’re suggesting is to raise the noise and fo
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by toofy 3y ago
the post i was responding to was specifically talking about facebook and social media sites “censoring” people, in other words, deleting posts and removing users. my post had nothing to do with payment processing. if someone comes to my
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by toofy 3y ago
my guess is the companies involved likely threatened to sue / wouldn’t give consent unless they (the companies) chose the parameters. from my perspective it looks like the companies wanted to stress test the areas they were going to ma
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by toofy 3y ago
what you’re calling “censored”, on my forum (and even here on hackernews) and on countless other forums, we simply say “deleted.” and move on with our day. from irc to bbs’, from forums to discord rooms, here on hackernews, from our own liv
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by toofy 3y ago
depending on jurisdiction and contexts i think it would likely make it both.
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by toofy 3y ago
or taxis, i mean, they’ve been around since the horse and buggy days and probably even way before that, i don’t know enough about the history, but i’m guessing taxi style travel services were even around during the silk road era. uber didn’
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by toofy 3y ago
> The false equivalence you're trying to establish between censoring child porn (illegal for very good reasons we hopefully all agree on) im not drawing a false equivalence to anything. the article in which this entire comment secti
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by toofy 3y ago
if a restaurant removes people if they stand on their tables and scream weird shit at the other diners, is this "censoring"? if hackernews removes child porn or spam, is this "censoring"? if a music venue, who has spent
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by toofy 3y ago
> Middle eastern and south Asian countries that shame people for pre-marital sex largely managed to avoid the AIDS epidemic this is absurd, there are plenty of countries who have high levels of shame where aids is still running rampant.
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by toofy 3y ago
im likely being too pedantic here so apologies up front if this is the case. if by “work” you mean, sacrificing your own dreams to make a boss’ dreams come true, then we’re probably on the same page. but if by “work” you mean, doing yard w
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by toofy 3y ago
> You already have those things. i don’t even know where to begin with this… so many people absolutely do not have an in home office, do not understand networking, don’t cool their homes/turn their heat down when at the office, don’
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by toofy 3y ago
i understand the messiness of this, i really do, but i’ll forever believe no one should be able to dictate whether or not we can share food with each other. there are few things more fundamentally human than “sure, i’ll share my food with y
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by toofy 3y ago
rip? its not dead, it just moved. the community just shifted to a platform that is _much_ more suited to the community’s needs. - it’s open, in more ways than just the obvious. while twitter is narrowing in just about every direction you c
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by toofy 3y ago
i may be being to literal with the definition of “objective” that i’m using and if i am, apologies up front. i’m not sure there will ever be such a thing as an “objective” based news source. so often there is incredibly important informat
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by toofy 3y ago
yes, this is one of the trade offs of any system built where one must decide between human moderation/curation vs automating moderation/curation. if automation is chosen there will absolutely be situations where perfection is impo
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by toofy 3y ago
well, it was. now we’re seeing these companies—who used as one of their primary selling points to lure in talent, “come help us make the world a better place”—in real time, one by one, we’re beginning to see their true motives and true col

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