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by toofy 7y ago
GrandParent comment. The comment directly above is the parent, and the comment above the parent is the grandparent—in this case the GP they’re referring to was 1e-9’s comment.
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by toofy 7y ago
> ...but what’s the alternative here? It’s really just a lack of imagination. Simply use any of a wide variety of containers which most people already have. Just quickly thinking of containers I have within my house: a bunch of different
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by toofy 7y ago
I used to feel what you likely feel about paying for news—why would i pay for this when some other site will have it up for free or with ads, capitalism at work, competition driving the price down to reasonable levels, etc... Then I realize
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by toofy 7y ago
As far as I can tell, defcon hasn’t gone anywhere and the one security researcher who’s videos were taken down by mistake were promptly put back up once the researcher pointed out the mistake to youtube.
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by toofy 7y ago
> ...buying into the idea that speech can be “harmful”.. Speech can’t be both so powerful we must protect it at all costs and simultaneously harmless. I understand that it is incredibly important to protect free-speech but to imply it ha
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by toofy 7y ago
Well the original—at least from my perspective—esports game was quake, which spawned quake con. At some point when quakecon startee really gaining traction, most games from that point forward stopped implementing a lot of the capability whi
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by toofy 7y ago
Interesting, can you host your own servers with cs:go on your own lan and allow other random players to connect and spectate the match? If so I’m impressed and I need to check it out. The ability to swap players from spectators would be an
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by toofy 7y ago
I think esports will take off once a modern popular game allows local communities and neighborhoods to host what we used to do with lanparties. Part of what helped propel traditional sports into ubiquity was the ability to have a ball and p
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by toofy 7y ago
> ...this was already a problem solved in the 90s. Sure you won’t get brownie points by those indoctrinated by the GNU propaganda... The “indoctrinated” industry has created a massive community and even more massive ecosystem of interope
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by toofy 7y ago
While I don't want to imply disinformation will always sway an election, I think you may be drastically underestimating the number of people a disinformation campaign needs to reach. In the US 2018 congressional races many of them were
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by toofy 8y ago
> ...to public pressure, doesn’t that demonstrate that these “market leaders” don’t actually get to decide what content they host? This is a strange way to frame what businesses do every single day. If a business believes a certain prod
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by toofy 8y ago
> The difference is that there are many city squares to stand in, whereas there are only a handful of social media companies I’m just not sure this holds up to any kind of scrutiny. There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of forums o
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by toofy 8y ago
> USENET was the equivalent of a public square on the Internet. It was overwhelmed by spam. Our situation is even better than this, the entire internet is our town square, anyone can spin our own metaphorical soap box online and say what
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by toofy 8y ago
There are many many video content hosting sites, there are countless twitter clones, and there are a crazy amount of sites doing things like Facebook with profiles and such. Because people are choosing to use mainly those doesn’t stop anyon
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by toofy 8y ago
I would definitely drop one of the four services I currently have and trade up for BBC if they had a substantial catalog. Without a doubt I would do that, in fact, I now really want to see a service with that type of content. I didn’t even
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by toofy 8y ago
And yet they’re not tumbling into nothingness, in fact, many reasonable people place Sweden as an amazing place in many metrics, stable in the top 10% for most lists I’ve seen—everything from happiness levels to GDP(PPP). Makes me question
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by toofy 8y ago
> It’s very alarming they’re picking a side. It’s one thing to censor violent/hateful speech above some arbitrary threshold... Heres a quote from, jack renshew, one of the people they’ve banned: > Hitler was right in many senses
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by toofy 8y ago
> We don’t allow...privately owned platforms to be the arbitrator of truth. Sure we do, we allow every other privately ran website on the planet to pick and choose what or who it allows, why should this be different for YouTube or Facebo
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by toofy 8y ago
What people seem to be missing here is, the ideals the community held when we lined up behind and helped propel Wikileaks forward went far beyond freedom of speech—it was deeply anti-propaganda, it was deeply anti-power, the releasing of a
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by toofy 8y ago
> And doing so would be a net loss of value. Making people less educated doesn't help anyone. There are a tremendous amount of public schools which give incredible educations. Much of the value of private schools is in social capit
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by toofy 8y ago
The phrase you’re quoting is incredibly misleading, you’ve intentionally left out a number of other options they listed: — technical roles — small-businesses — liberal arts — or whatever it is they want Misrepresenting what they said is
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by toofy 8y ago
> Facebook and Twitter have become a digital public commons for discourse today Absolutely correct, however, they aren’t the only places for public discourse. People have never been able to demand a newspaper print their article or tha
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by toofy 8y ago
Is this fake recycling happening on any kind of scale? This seems like something which could be pretty easily mitigated against by citizens following up with their local cities to verify that things are actually ending up at recycling plant
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by toofy 8y ago
> but it’s all useless if a random idiot proceeds to dump my weekly household recycling output into a river and call it a day. Even if that random idiot dumps their recycling, it is anything but useless. If you didn't recycle, that
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by toofy 8y ago
> And no one gives a shit. I understand it can feel frustrating, as if people have forgotten, but it's important to remember that there are plenty of people who do give a shit. Paying attention to one issue doesn't erase peopl
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by toofy 8y ago
> Is there an actual organised white supremacist movement behind incidents like this? I'd have to double check, but I'm not sure that all isis terrorist attacks were done by people who had physically met another isis member--I
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by toofy 8y ago
> You're arguing for limiting speech. I absolutely am not.
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by toofy 8y ago
Did you respond to the wrong post? I'm certain I didn't mention silencing anyone. In fact, when you take my post as a whole, not partially as you did, over and over again I gush about the importance and the incredible power of sp
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by toofy 8y ago
Seeing the top shared and engaged content in this article is pretty much the exact reason I and pretty much everyone I know abandoned Facebook long ago. It has been reduced to mostly just a place for people who are highly addicted to outra
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by toofy 8y ago
I'd be interested to hear more about this, do you have any articles handy which go into detail of the specific language of this agreement? I'm sure this may be a possibility, but I'm skeptical, I'd be more inclined to be

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