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811.
by toofy 6y ago
Lacking an immediate solution to a complex problem does not mean these problems don’t exist. I’ve noticed often lately that people, when talking past each other, one person is saying, “We really need to consider the implications of problem
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by toofy 6y ago
But as the post above said: > People saying “defund the police” are not advocating the complete elimination of police forces And Minneapolis is absolutely not completely eliminating their police force. Minneapolis council member Philli
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by toofy 6y ago
Just because something is subjective doesn’t mean it doesn’t have merit. Most things in the world outside of pure mathematics are subjective. If you’re looking to do nothing if it involves subjective decision making, nothing would ever get
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by toofy 6y ago
> Which is crazy, because in actual society we all have the right to vote, but online we are beholden to nameless moderators and provided no representation whatsoever. I think the decision of users to continue to spend their valuable fre
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by toofy 6y ago
Could you be more specific, preferably with a link?
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by toofy 6y ago
Do you see how any of your ideas (ignoring the prevalence of strawmen) materially manifests in a trans person losing their Liberty? Is this something you are able to see?
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by toofy 6y ago
Did you respond to the wrong comment? I don’t believe I implied anything close to what you just said.
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by toofy 6y ago
> Technically the software isn't killing anyone, irresponsible users of it are. Sure, but at this point, we know how irresponsible users often are, we know this to be a an absolute fact. If the fact of user’s irresponsibility isn
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by toofy 6y ago
This is what most people are referring to when they say “cosmopolitan.” Where you have the perfect stew composed of a high mixture of all walks of life, from economic background, educational background, ethnic background, cultural backgrou
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by toofy 6y ago
> What matters is how the true number compares to the total number of interactions and if that ratio is acceptable to society. I think it’s pretty clear at this point that the communities directly impacted by this behavior find the abuse
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by toofy 6y ago
It really isn’t like this everywhere, not at all. I lived for a number of years on a caribbean island–modern, mix of people, pretty crowded, but a police force that was just cool af. They just didn’t get aggressive unless it was absolutely,
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by toofy 6y ago
Did the WHO and CDC say “Masks will not help.” or did they say “We don't yet know whether or not masks will help.”?
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by toofy 6y ago
There do seem to be some strong indicators there might be a push in that direction. The rising levels of fear mongering directed at others has me a tad concerned. At the very least, I think people should be aware this may be happening.
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by toofy 6y ago
I’d say calling them ‘spies’ may be unwarranted, particularly when it appears—from the context of the article–this was more about trying to cement the importance of paying close attention when disclosing your funding sources. Those who the
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by toofy 6y ago
> Dumbing things down for people does not make technology easier, it makes people dumber. It’s important to understand, while we, the users of Hacker News may find it odd that everyone doesn’t know these things, perspective will tell us
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by toofy 6y ago
Photoshopping an armed man into a photograph from days ago and implying it was an on-the-ground example of the area is more than a little egregious. If this resembled the current situation even remotely, they would have simply used one of t
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by toofy 6y ago
It was. The Seattle Times [1]: This is a rather long mega thread kind of post, but if you do a ‘Find’ for the headline, it’ll take you there: Headline to search: Police walk back report that Capitol Hill protesters extorted businesses For t
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by toofy 6y ago
> Has the level of police violence over the years gotten worse, gotten better, or stayed roughly the same? I understand why some people’s initial instinct is to believe this is a new problem, but groups have been desperately trying to ge
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by toofy 6y ago
That’s a good idea as well. I just read a couple of articles (They’re back at my computer so I don’t have links handy, sorry) and apparently the Minneapolis mayor has put together a task force on different ways to completely dismantle thei
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by toofy 6y ago
I think these are absolutely all things which need to be included in the (likely long) list of things to be done, but my suspicions are that the most difficult thing to address is going to be that a tremendous fraction of the police view am
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by toofy 6y ago
Yeah. After the onslaught of videos over the past few days and seeing, over and over again, how the police have so terribly dehumanized people (i mean, they’ve absolutely taken the mask off and are straight abusing people with no shame, eve
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by toofy 6y ago
Rogan’s claim to be doing this as message to Youtube is silly. He’s signing a contract to do a “podcast” with spotify where his “podcast” will not be a podcast at all. Podcasts are not platform specific. They’re open and distributed to an
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by toofy 6y ago
As a regular user of multiple browsers, I haven’t noticed this. Could you show a few examples? I’m not doubting your experience at all, I’m just curious to see if there may be a common thread.
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by toofy 6y ago
We shouldn’t have to jump through these kinds of hoops. Their recommendation engine is smart enough to discern between a one off video watch and a genuine interest, but youtube gets stuck on recommending conspiracyland videos. It’s at the
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by toofy 6y ago
It’s important to stress: They should happily answer with accurate and honest data when asked. We have hit a wall where our leaders react with vitriol when asked what they’re doing; mcconnell’s pushing for an exemption for those in power,
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by toofy 6y ago
This is just backwards. People in power should always have to justify their actions to us. Always. They should always be questioned. This (in theory) is how we ensure their power isn’t abused. We should have privacy while they do not. A la
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by toofy 6y ago
I would imagine it will contain language which will require a high burden of proof that you’re of high enough stature and not a lowly regular citizen. edit: I apologize for the inflammatory tone, but I think this is concerning enough of a s
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by toofy 6y ago
> McConnell is drafting language to prevent this from being used on “federal election candidates” which of course is expected to pass. So privacy for those in positions of power but not for us plebes.
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by toofy 6y ago
One could argue anything they like, it doesn’t mean their argument (or sophistry in general) leads to a better acquiring of knowledge through discussion. In my opinion, the gp’s discussion is one worth having.
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by toofy 6y ago
I suspect it has to do with the vast amount of worlds which exist inside the 1000s and 1000s of books. Take that fascination and mix it with our (many who read hn) fascination on how to store, quickly receive, and organize knowledge in bet

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