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by wooter 9y ago
seems like a bad law. i won’t ask anyone to risk their lives over a bad law
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by wooter 9y ago
> But I've also had multiple encounters with bicyclists who feel they are entitled to switch back and forth between a wheeled vehicle moving significantly above normal walking speeds and a pedestrian who just happens to be on a bicy
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by wooter 9y ago
again showing that socialism causes division and tribalism. i dont want to give more money (currently near half my earnings) to the top 1% of the world (any american on minimum wage) over the current global charities I give to
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by wooter 9y ago
thanks for trying but HN doesn't want to hear anything but socialist apologia these days.
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by wooter 9y ago
How is that not clear to you?
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by wooter 9y ago
Oops, sorry. Hoouse arrest for life and all texts burned. Here are a few executions & persecutions for speech: https://www.wired.com/2012/06/famous-persecuted-scientists/
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by wooter 9y ago
Really nonrigorous study and no mention of the current body of literature saying the opposite. 92 publicly traded companies is a joke of a sample
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by wooter 9y ago
399BC - Socrates speaks to jury at his trial: 'If you offered to let me off this time on condition I am not any longer to speak my mind... I should say to you, "Men of Athens, I shall obey the Gods rather than you."' Soc
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by wooter 9y ago
Ancient Athenians adored freedom of speech. Naming a warship after the very concept. 399BC - Socrates speaks to jury at his trial: 'If you offered to let me off this time on condition I am not any longer to speak my mind... I should sa
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by wooter 9y ago
> If free speech is being abused to do what we're afraid censorship will do, doesn't that create a contradiction in your logic? Irrelevant. Limiting speech doesn't solve that contradiction, it only guarantees the worse out
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by wooter 9y ago
yup, bias is unavoidable. human rights organizations are obviously biased and not only am okay with that, but I support it.
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by wooter 9y ago
my point is that anyone who explicitly refused to reprint Benjamin Franklin's writings on the realities of the US because they were declared fake and treasonous deserved to be called censorious and biased against freedom of speech. Min
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by wooter 9y ago
no
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by wooter 9y ago
so how did Hitler rise? How did freedom of speech treat the West at the time? How did the opposite help Europe?
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by wooter 9y ago
Benjamin Franklin, a runaway, started his own newspaper - as did his brother - which were called far worse than "fake news" in an "objective" way by the british.
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by wooter 9y ago
of course they're entitled not to. however, they allow BS they agree with so they must accept that obvious bias will be called obvious bias.
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by wooter 9y ago
sad to me that people are so quick to dismiss the principles of free speech on the basis that "the game has changed" after thousands of years of human history proving it hasn't. (inb4 1st amendment is only for the gov - that
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by wooter 9y ago
dude. this is not logical. if a system kills less people, we should use it. otherwise, you're just choosing to kill more people for a false sense of authority/security. not only foolish, but i resent that you believe you can make
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by wooter 9y ago
tons of technology is used for lesser marginal gains. no clue where you got this idea from.
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by wooter 9y ago
could say the same about people "feeling safer" when driving themselves. which is what all the opposing side clings to. (sure isn't statistics)
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by wooter 9y ago
id imagine the company has web apps (internal and external). why support multiple stacks for what is not even remotely close to their core competency? isomorphism, for example, is a big advantage for both maintainability, community support,
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by wooter 9y ago
i never drew an equivalence between muslims and nazi's but go ahead and get offended if you want
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by wooter 9y ago
i am venezuelan. i hope the non-socialist opposition rises up and takes back their country from a violent, oppressive dictatorship with violence if need be. then i hope they use violence to institute justice for those who have committed cri
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by wooter 9y ago
absolutely not. all of those ACTUAL horrible situations involved gross disdain for 1st Amendment principles
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by wooter 9y ago
so? do you want to forgo the civil rights of muslims on a similar basis? of course not.
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by wooter 9y ago
because you acknowledge that we should attempt respectful dialogue with the other side (being better than them), he just insinuated you are being an apologist for the 1 psycopath that murdered someone. he just did exactly what you critici
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by wooter 9y ago
red shirts vs brown shirts =( and the rest of us get shafted
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by wooter 9y ago
quite absurd. ill be forgoing my next few donations. (sad that i have to qualify this but i hate nazi's and am not even white)
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by wooter 9y ago
great answer to this oft repeated nonsense deflection
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by wooter 9y ago
like?

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