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by uniqueid 5y ago
Then I suppose I've inadvertently bolstered my argument: you shouldn't look to the internet for 'intelligent discussion'
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That sounds like a load of received ideas from Alex Jones and other internet dingbats. The problem is misinformation. Each passing year since the dawn of social media has made it clearer and clearer that 'the public' has the intel
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I wholeheartedly agree. If you want to depress yourself further, think about how much potential for good we squander on the web in terms of medical information. If we had designed the internet differently (eg: with considerations for privac
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taking short clips of people he doesn't like out of context and disparaging them I'm sure Greenwald makes fair accusations at times. The problem I have is with the false accusations. That said, I'll concede the point
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but he's better than a lot of the other crappy grifters A journalist should neither accuse, without evidence, someone else of being a 'DNC operative', nor claim, without verifying, that that person opposes a particul
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My impression of Glenn Greenwald is that he is either paranoid, or willing to stoke his readers' paranoia in order to attract attention. This seems like standard behavior for Greenwald: https://twitter.com/themattdimitr
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I posted this because I always find Jeffrey Sachs interesting and reasonable. That said, I have some misgivings because it verges on being a 'person A destroys person B!!!' title.
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Heated BBC interview with Jeffrey Sachs over human rights abuses(youtube.com)
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I've been rolling your comment over in my mind today. Clearly you're right that FB has too much power, but I hope we find a better solution than to allow a succession of startups to approach FB's size, and then sanction them
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if facebooks non objective policies are enforced fairly and consistently. But that is the sort of thing I doubt is actually possible. My interpretation of content that 'incites violence' will differ from someone else'
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I support strong moderation, but it was a farce from the start to create an 'Oversight Board' because there is no such thing as objectively fair moderation. The group's recommendation that Facebook add even more rules than
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Then the authorities would be alerted. [...] A flight of fancy? Perhaps. But it is not as ridiculous as it sounds. Is the author correct in thinking that sounds 'ridiculous' to many readers? If someone seriously harasses
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The other thing that isn't fantastic is the use of crypto to facilitate all manner of crime from illegally selling weapons to trafficking humans.
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That's expecting far too much. It was a couple decades before E=mc². Einstein published 'Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper' in 1905. People weren't sure if such a thing as an atom even existed in the 19th century.
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It's only facts after the action is made. My understanding of Many Worlds is probably wrong then. I assumed that every outcome exists (every possible world in the — relative to you right now — past, present, and future), and th
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From what I understand of the Many-Worlds Theory, if it's correct, we can have both 'free will' and 'determinism': a man orders pizza, in 90% of possible futures he chooses a Margherita which is his favorite, but in
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I didn't pick up that that was the thrust of the original comment. I don't have strong feelings about government control, of itself. If the government that controls my life is Denmark's, no problem. If it's North Korea&#
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Why should the people at Moderna be punished with high taxes when they're the ones that have come up with a life-saving vaccine that's bringing a global pandemic to an end? Why not go all the way? There are people with ph
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I'm biased anyways: when Apple introduced the 'Night Shift' feature it seemed like a gimmick for gullible flakes. If Apple complicated their OS by adding a feature with no value, Apple should remove the feature. I doubt they
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For enums that don't have 'associated values', nothing.
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I gather there is still no improvement for Enum syntax. That's a pity. The bulk of proposals the community discusses on Evolution now seem esoteric to me. We're off discussing concurrency and function builders, and the syntax for
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Two bass notes a semitone apart won't necessarily sound bad; it depends on the timbre. Another factor is that the ear wants to makes repetition, in and of itself, work. That likely allows drums to sound good despite their fu
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A tom has a surprisingly long decay, so I think it's more a matter of the pitch not being entirely constant (neither between hits nor over the span of a single hit). That being so, it would make sense to avoid hitting a tom with a low
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by uniqueid 5y ago
That's my impression, too. I once did some research on toms for some audio code. Toms are pretty tonal, as far as drums go, yet, as far as I could tell from my research there's no standard tuning for them. That would make sense if
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by uniqueid 5y ago
The Guardian is a propaganda outlet for a cult of victimhood and racism. It's not just a great article; it also represents a less antagonistic form of left-wing thought than much of what is out there today. The crux of the arti
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That goes against Occam's Razor. I wish I knew if that were true. Our world is complex and it's unclear how to calculate the odds of someone in his position killing himself, accidentally falling off a cliff, or being murde
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My comment is about the lack of hard evidence, not the existence of assassins. While half the internet works themselves into an orgasmic frenzy of conspiracy theories, it's still possible the person in question killed himself, got lost
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One wonders who the assassins for hire are. But not if there are any assassins. Of course that's not an option. Not on the internet. With the exception of the utility the story might provide to finding this guy or his body
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It's been a while since I read the The God Delusion but I'm pretty sure he criticized Islam in it. Since then he veered into social media territory, delivering cringe-worthy 'burns' and 'hot-takes' on all sorts
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Can we at least add 'Tucker Carlson' to the title? I feel like I've been race-rolled into giving Fox's Youtube channel a page-view it didn't earn.

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