trowawee

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by trowawee 10y ago
I think it means that r/the_donald is a fountain of racism and bigotry.
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TL:DR; because it's the leading computer platform in schools across the country and Google is making some moves into making Chromebooks/GoogleOS more functional without an internet connection. Counterpoint: this is almost certainl
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Is the living supposed to be minimalist, or is the expense sheet supposed to be minimalist? Because one seems true, whereas the other appears to rely on a fairly maximalist read of minimalism.
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There we go, there's the person actually defending them. Nope, I'm not too quick; Uber's a scummy company and this is a blatant invasion of privacy.
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Who can it injure? The state can actually legally prevent you from saying something ("That is slander/libel") at the threat of punishment. I can just prevent you from saying that on my website. I can delete your comment on tr
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by trowawee 10y ago
Except the government's power to censor you goes way farther than somebody on a private site deleting your comment. You're saying popguns and artillery exist in a continuous spectrum, and I'm saying they're completely di
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by trowawee 10y ago
It's still private property, tho. I get that the internet has twisted up our perceptions so it seems like, say, HN is a public space. But it isn't. Somebody is paying to host this, and ultimately they get the final say about what
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by trowawee 10y ago
Mostly because, in an era where you can stand up a website on a worldwide communication network for less than $50, I kinda think that the definitions of censorship have narrowed.
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by trowawee 10y ago
Awww, sad lil' hater.
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The majority of censors are working to prevent state censure; they are primarily concerned with the state. The primary work they do is removing profanities and indecent images at the behest of the state.
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by trowawee 10y ago
Suppressing speech requires the power to make you stop. Deleting a comment on my site isn't suppressing your speech, because you can still speak where you want to except for on my site.
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by trowawee 10y ago
1. When a television employee is censoring according to the rules of the state, they are operating as an agent of the state. 2. No, I'm not. I'm preceding from a definition of censorship as "the practice of officially examini
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by trowawee 10y ago
I can prove something is false. I can't prove someone else's motivation.
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So...it's defined, but it's impossible to know whether it's happening unless the person specifically tells you they're trolling? That sorta seems like a flawed definition.
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Also censorship has a specific denotation, i.e. that is is performed by an agent of the state, and specific connotations, i.e. that the censored is unable to express themselves in other ways (among other connotations). A private citizen del
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by trowawee 10y ago
No, I'm not. If you're commenting on my site, I can delete your comment for literally any reason, and it isn't censorship. It's my space, and I can make whatever I want of it. You always have the freedom to go spin up a
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by trowawee 10y ago
Because it's a fundamentally subjective evaluation. There is no way to objectively define "trolling".
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Basically never, at least on the internet? No one owes anyone else a soapbox. My space, my rules. There's nothing stopping anyone from rolling up a site and saying whatever they want to say, but there's absolutely no reason I have
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> Of course, we also must remember the ugly history of poll taxes and other prejudicial methods that Americans used to deny black citizens their equal right to vote. Weird how remembering this only ate up a single sentence here. You&#x27
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Ah, my apologies. I'm so used to seeing people actually making these arguments.
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HN is a place where people who are on or fancy themselves on the bleeding edge of tech congregate. It shouldn't be surprising that the opinion of that group, with the selection pressure it experiences, is dismissive of anything that&#x
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by trowawee 10y ago
That is not a good argument. That is an asshole invasion of user privacy.
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> Perhaps some day we will have to migrate elsewhere, but I find that possibility extremely unlikely because the clear amount of effort it took to create the Google-y version means this is a long-term play. Hahahahahaha. Aight. Whatever
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by trowawee 10y ago
Step 1: quit testing for weed, because there's no job in the world that occasionally smoking weed when you're off the clock disqualifies you for. Step 2: You're done, no more hiring problem.
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by trowawee 10y ago
Meditate, see a therapist, exercise more, talk to a doctor...the mindset that says "I have a problem, I will search for an app to fix it" is vanishingly small, except within one thin demographic slice, where it is overwhelming.
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by trowawee 10y ago
Oh sure. Lots of teachers stick with it, live with roommates until they're in their mid-thirties, eat lots of beans and ramen, drive 20 year old cars, the works. My heart goes out to them; I wasn't able to make those kind of sacri
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The fundamental issue I see with the conclusions/recommendations is that the primary blocker preventing raising teacher salaries isn't the union. From my own time as a grade school teacher and the friends I still have in the profe
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> Things turned out exactly how I expected they would here, but it's still disappointing. Yeah, this is disappointing, but also completely predictable.
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Tiny difference in the count, really.
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by trowawee 10y ago
Seconding this. I voted for Pinboard because A) I use and genuinely love the service, and I was excited to see what Maciej could do with the money and B) because Maciej's statement of semi-purpose: > I am hoping to attract a certain

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