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by wfo 10y ago
Just to be clear here, you're directing us towards your comment history as evidence of unjust persecution by "non-intellectual" opponents. What a shocking coincidence the people who disagree with you are non-intellectual. Did
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No, the idea the neither party cares about privacy is not entirely incorrect but it's a ridiculous oversimplification and lacks any nuance. We are in a discussion thread talking about an instance where the US government voted to essent
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Or someone who is a sysadmin and works on the power grid, or someone who is a technician at a huge datacenter, or someone with admin rights on the corporate network of Boeing, Lockheed, or, or...
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You can tell someone they are being a jerk without blaming Trump on them. Now it seems like the auto response to someone saying something distasteful and liberal is to say "you, saying stuff like this that I don't like, that'
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The fact that police can't access your data without your permission is a technical reason, not a legal reason. Warrants say the police can search your home. Everything in your home. The data on the machines in your home. If a police of
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Similarly, if the police have a reasonable suspicion that there are illegal materials in your home, they should never be allowed to enter and search it against your will. Either they have enough evidence to charge you or they don't, ri
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You are correct in that as a non-lawyer (I am a non-lawyer as well) you cannot read the law and reliably, confidently understand what it means, much in the same way a non-programmer cannot read read code and understand what it means. There
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For example, in any discussion of anything anywhere on reddit that mentions anything about feminism/social justice/women's experiences there are thousands of brigaders from alt right groups, the donald, that down vote, spew g
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Yeah, like those pesky regulations that stop your ISP from selling your entire internet history at will without telling you or your permission. Pai will finally get rid of it so ISPs can be free and the market can decide. By which I mean th
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I hadn't seen the phrase "Eurocentric Modernism" before, but reading through the article it seems to me it's just a more complicated way of saying "neoliberalism". But I wouldn't necessarily take e.g. Trum
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McCarthy's name isn't being tarnished out of spite. It's because he started a disgusting witch hunt with blacklists, demagoguery, etc to hunt down anyone who committed thoughtcrime (i.e. communist sympathy) that ruined the li
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The employer-employee relationship is almost always adversarial, we just don't notice it because the power is so imbalanced in favor of the employer and it's to their benefit to convince you it's not adversarial. The employer
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Consensus isn't a reasonable goal or even desirable when you're discussing things which are more complex than, say, cut and dried technical facts. I can achieve consensus among mathematicians by providing a proof. I can achieve co
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I don't find them unfruitful. I find them quite fruitful and enjoy and learn from political discussions with others. The problem with them is that they are not scientific or technical questions, and this forum is populated by a lot of
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Pretending you can ignore politics in any discussion other than a technical seminar about compiler optimization is in itself a political position: you are supporting the people who can afford to ignore politics at the expense of those who c
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Perhaps, if funding to research is cut in the US via Trump policies (or even remains small as is currently the case) and China jumps on this opportunity to snatch the world's best talent, the question for brilliant young students will
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Sure, so when the police come to help you we should charge you a per-visit fee. It will be small, something poor people can't afford but rich people can afford easily, like $50. If you can't afford it, they won't go after the
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Except that they absolutely did nothing of the sort, they waited to leak their information until the primary was already over...
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There are a lot of reasons people think Uber is shady beyond just their lawbreaking. Their CEO, their abusive and toxic mysoginist work culture, etc.
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The problem is neither of your analogies are appropriate. A reasonable analogy would be ads cheerleading nuclear power after a nuclear power plant explosion killed thousands and permanently ruined a region of a country. And an ad just playe
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Not quite correct. When you're discussing the death of innocent people, children, etc. some tact is appropriate. I'm generally pro-gun but yelling at the top of your lungs about how great guns are to the parents of the victims of
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Why would you post a link which proves my point for me? >The effort hasn’t been a total blackout; White House press secretary Robert Gibbs still calls on Fox News reporter Major Garrett at press briefings Obama decided not to go on some
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So the Treasury department tried to stop Fox from attending a meeting once, but didn't actually do it because it was wrong. And he didn't go on a Fox Sunday news show one time. Not really helping your case here. They don't li
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Trump's tactic is clear as it is effective. He behaves exactly as ridiculously as the press makes him out to. The press look like they are exaggerating and making him look bad because if they report true facts, those true facts are so
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Please name a news organization that was allowed to attend press conferences by Obama, then later banned because he didn't like what they had to say. edit: Since you won't be able to find one by Obama, how about any president in t
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I agree with you that Pando has lost any claim of moral superiority and has done very despicable things. I don't agree with you that "Pando did it" is a good excuse for someone else to do it too. I do think that Uber is tryin
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Why are you talking about privilege points? Who said anything about that? Why are you introducing things like privilege into this conversation? Perhaps you want to dodge the rest of the argument because you know you aren't correct and
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Actually in fact the entire election scheme was developed in a compromise with the explicit idea being to give more rural, less populous states more power than their actual population would warrant, an agreed-upon gerrymandering by design.
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For the general public, it's easy: Some cryptography (everything that uses SHA-1) has been broken and we need to move on to a better scheme. Luckily, we did this years ago because we suspected it could be broken. But unfortunately some
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You need an actual majority in order for there to be a silent majority. The correct phrase would be "vocal minority, concentrated in a few specific geographic areas engineered to have more power over the electoral process" which i

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