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by trs8080 4y ago
> decides to write a negative review before even seeing the movie Nobody claimed this was happening. Just because the NYT says "we're only doing investigative pieces on tech," doesn't mean that they start fabricating
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by trs8080 4y ago
Therefore they're not allowed to report on malfeasance in the technology sector?
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by trs8080 4y ago
ob·tuse /əbˈt(y)o͞os,äbˈt(y)o͞os/ annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand
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by trs8080 4y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/technology/the-2021-good-... https://www.nytimes.com/by/john-markoff
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by trs8080 4y ago
> the bias in high-profile papers was already predominantly anti-tech As opposed to what? Publishing tech companies' press releases verbatim? Advertisements for apps? Journalism exists to speak truth to power - you say "anti-te
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by trs8080 4y ago
> it’s that they’re being selectively critical to propagate their own interests Nobody ever claimed they were doing it "to propagate their own interests." The original tweets say this: "Instead of covering the industry wit
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by trs8080 4y ago
I don't need a reporter to tell me that Elon Musk is a villain.
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by trs8080 4y ago
I mean, when was the last time a company the size of a grocery store chain passed down savings to consumers? If anything, the pandemic has shown that companies will gladly continue to fleece customers despite lowering expenses. At the end o
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by trs8080 4y ago
> Also why is "groomer" apparently "incitement of violence" but directly saying "pedophile" isn't? How can one word put people in imminent danger but the other not if they are almost interchangeably use
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by trs8080 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#E... For Paris, specifically: The Press Law of 1881, as amended, guarantees freedom of the press, subject to several exceptions. The Pleven Act of 1972 (after
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by trs8080 4y ago
So you would have no issue with a concerted, national effort backed by politicians and the owner of the largest public square on the Internet to label you a pedophile and an enemy of the people? And you would react kindly to the wave of dea
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by trs8080 4y ago
It really isn't unbelievable. A mentally ill man was radicalized by right wing propaganda and went to a lawmaker's home to harm her. Her security wasn't there because she wasn't there. End of story. You're looking f
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by trs8080 4y ago
Yeah, I tend to trust doctors more than corporate executives when it comes to my health. FYI - the article you're commenting on is literally about a family who couldn't afford healthcare and had to rely on charity. So this communi
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by trs8080 4y ago
No, but if that drunk driver was driving drunk and targeting the loved one of a politician because someone else incited them by outright lying, then maybe you'd have something to discuss here.
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by trs8080 4y ago
Nice little dystopia you're advocating for there.
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by trs8080 4y ago
Better it be private corporations who jack up prices and whose sole motive is profit.
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by trs8080 4y ago
Are you saying that leftists are behind "attacks against the Asian community"?
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by trs8080 4y ago
"Century plus old things" - which continue to persist today. > Further. You're veering very far from the question posed I'm here because you decided to argue semantics. Try some self reflection.
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by trs8080 4y ago
It's none of your business to tell someone that the way they perceive their racial identity is incorrect, especially when you're not even the same race as that person and do not understand what they've faced. > Ironically,
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by trs8080 4y ago
If PayPal isn't the morality police what makes you think you're the language police? Especially when it seems like you decided to police a person of color during a routine business transaction?
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by trs8080 4y ago
The point is that if you haven't experienced discrimination (in terms of your ancestors being forced into slavery for the color of their skin or the constant barrage of laws attempted to keep you below others in society because of the
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by trs8080 4y ago
Ah yes, this is the minorities' fault. > You have to assume that affirmative action has thinned the talent at the university to the point the student body can no longer get through the rigor that separated the smart kids from the el
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by trs8080 4y ago
What is "the media" here?
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by trs8080 4y ago
Hate to be the one to break this to you, but that ship has long sailed. PATRIOT Act, NSA wiretaps, PRISM, Snowden, etc etc etc. For better or worse, if the US government wants to know where you are at any time, they'll just request cel
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by trs8080 4y ago
So it's okay that teachers are allowed to discuss their heterosexual partners but not homosexual? And you consider this not to be a violation of free speech?
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by trs8080 4y ago
It's troubling that you're unable to see the difference between restricting hate speech and protecting marginalized people so they can participate equitably in society.
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by trs8080 4y ago
People are really out here thinking that arts and critical theory haven't advanced human civilization... and that science and technology exist in a cultural vacuum.
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by trs8080 4y ago
So your solution is to write a browser so you don't have to write JS? Supposing I just want to create an internal tool that allows me to collaborate in realtime with my colleagues on a document (multiple cursors, everyone editing at
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by trs8080 4y ago
> It's a rapid prototyping platform Citation needed. If my competitors want to waste time and resources hiring people to create 3-4 versions of the same app for different devices/OSes, I gladly welcome it. I'll be a well e
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by trs8080 4y ago
Yes, the US had its hand in Argentina as well - they supported the violent military junta that saw Peron overthrown and leftist journalists and activists murdered by the thousands during the Dirty War. When I was studying there, the family

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