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by wfo 10y ago
I could ask how you draw the line between "mainstream media" and "lies" just as easily and just as poignantly. The answer is easy in both cases. When they lie, it's a lie. When they don't, it's not.
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What if the FBI bribed your roommate to allow access to your shared apartment? What if, further, the FBI sent out a public notice saying that anyone who allows them to search a roommate's apartment where they find drugs gets $500? How
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Also people tend to use certain substances to lower inhibitions, to generate an environment where creativity is allowed and enjoyed and stupid mistakes can be laughed off later -- if you say something dumb then tomorrow you can all laugh be
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And it's also how you end up with weekends, benefits, worker protection, full-time employment and reasonable wages.
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This happened in a big way during the election -- the Clinton campaign poured millions into paid online supporters to go on reddit, etc. through an organization called Correct the Record. Once this became known every post in support of Clin
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Philosophy is not a science at all, it's the mother of all science and it fits firmly within the humanities. The philosophy of economics is what we now call 'economics' except they've abandoned philosophy. Karl Marx is a
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My post was primarily an anti-Gladwell rant rather than a rant in defense of Snowden, but sure I'll bite. First omission of the essential context of the entire story, which is to say the many leakers who were analogous to Ellsberg -- m
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It being disgusting and horrifying does NOT mean that it is the same as the holocaust or Japanese internment. It can still be disgusting and horrifying while simultaneously being less disgusting and horrifying than, say, genocide.
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I have done nothing of the sort, of course, which you know, but it's a common dishonest rhetorical tactic to suggest that mentioning two concepts in the same post is automatically drawing an equivalence between them. I've made an
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Dijkstra is of course brilliant and I recognize much of his tone is tongue in cheek and irreverant but sometimes I find his writing so nasty, pompous and arrogant that it becomes irritating; claiming, after a series of opinions about what h
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There are a number of things presidents technically /could/ do but do not because they are horrifying. The fact that he's technically legally allowed to do something bad does not mean it's okay that he is doing it -- the
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It (or something like it) has happened to most working mathematicians.
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Why should we take Gladwell seriously on this? Why does anyone think he is qualified? He is a windbag famous for writing the most base and insulting form of literary clickbait: pop science novels that tell a series of 'just so' fa
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Not the case, of course. I've changed my mind thanks to political discussion on HN. I've seen others do the same. I don't believe you that there are people quitting HN because of politics threads -- there's no evidence f
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"In school, taking credit for someone else's work that you had nothing to do with creating is unethical, not accepted, and punished severely. In the work world, it's called Tuesday." --Anyone who's experienced it Ch
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Uhhh, the government does build and operate schools? So many schools. There are public Universities in every state. Some of them top notch and as good as the best private universities in the world. Most of them decent. Government loans shou
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You have been downvoted (at least by me) because your argument is poorly constructed and poorly written, not because you disagree. In my experience this is usually the case on HN. Conspiracy theories and suspecting the rest of the community
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So in this analogy the CEO of a cat meme shitposting website is Hitler? And he's "coming for you?" That's what you're saying? We have an anti-free speech facist in the middle of public discourse already, he's
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Nobody's content was edited. Contentless shitposts saying nothing more than "fuck the reddit CEO pedophile" were edited. To say something equally contentless instead. I'll humor you and imagine your ridiculous doomsday s
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Does it? Really? An admin played a prank on a bunch of insane, out of control conspiracy minded screaming blubbering trolls calling him a pedophile with a dumb silly find/replace rule. God forbid, next forums will start replacing words
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Without a way of proving someone isn't lying about what you said, how can what you say be used against you in a court of law? How could evidence gathered by police be used in a court of law? It could be fabricated! We are just trusting
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"Just buying a book" is not a way for anyone to learn anything serious. There is a negligible fraction of actual autodidacts in this world, and they are not even usually the best and the brightest -- just a weird curiosity. Go pic
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>That's just plain incorrect. I expect all code to be written to standards of which would allow anyone to read. So you only work on open source hardware, with open source operating systems and open source drivers and open source sof
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You don't need to read or understand (most of) your source code because it is 90% libraries. Mathematics is built based on understanding all the concepts behind a subject, and it's written to express to another human clear rigorou
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Mathematics is organically grown but reinvented every few years or so. Look at a mathematics paper from 50 years ago. Look at one now. Look at one 100 years ago. Mathematicians aren't dumb. There's some element of tradition (that&
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Your rude and dismissive tone aside, you are incorrect. The difference is not significant. Reporting the news /is/ what the news becomes. A slant like the kind I'm discussing is exactly a lie: taking a story, and instead of t
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And yet while fake news is prevalent on Facebook, I think the big lesson we all should have learned this election cycle is that mainstream media peddles fake news as well. We learned most major media outlets were in the pocket of the HRC ca
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Are you serious? Literally right now is the exact reason free speech means neo-nazis should be allowed to spread their message of hate. Someone who supports and is allied with these very neo-nazis and white supremacists is now the head of t
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Yes of course I would still argue against plea bargains if A-G were removed. That's exactly what I stated in my previous post, including reasons why, which you've avoided discussing. Of course I think removing plea bargains and ch
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I think this is overly simplistic; the media both follows the most base desires of the populace to seek advertising dollars and also shapes the narrative. There's a lot of back and forth there. We don't know what we want, the medi

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