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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Seriously, the argument is ludicrous. I'm open to the idea that stability is important, but Britain isn't even the best candidate for that. Brits who make this argument don't seem to be very aware of their own history, as the
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
The coronation has not happened, but the proclamation has: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-62873235 Symon Hill was arrested for protesting at the regional proclamation in Oxford: https://www.oxfordmail.c
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> Yes to American ears it might sound weird - that there is a topic that cannot even be joked about or you risk getting arrested. I don't really have a reply for that, other than the fact that it feels right to me Sure, this is a di
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
She also had a "fuck imperialism" sign, and was outside of the cathedral in which QEII's body was lying. Cultures that are more fragile wrt speech norms may object to that. A better example is the man calling out "who el
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
In what legal sense is the YouTuber with the pug less protected by the "art form" argument than the movie production? Did the latter get a permit for Nazi jokes? (Sincere question, maybe they did: UK speech norms and laws are inc
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I think you're just seeing an example of the raging inferiority complex that many members of the rest of the West exhibit towards the US. There's a noticeable cultural difference along certain axes, with both significant downsides
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
The article describes an activist who specifically took pains to avoid any disparagement of the outgoing Queen, limiting his protest to the incoming coronation. If that falls under the rule you're describing, doesn't that render i
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
True of the first two examples, but: > in London, a woman was led away by four uniformed officers on Monday after holding up a sign reading "Not my king" — which has become a trending hashtag — near Westminster Hall. If you cou
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Yea, I too get a mix of the inane 20-year-old girl crap and the hypermacho MMA/hustler entrepreneur stuff. I figure this is just the prior distribution, the stuff that hits the broadest audience. That's why I'm surprised that
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I put a couple of cumulative hours into it, purely to seed/discover the supposedly-fantastic recommendation algorithm. I was drowning in videos of cute couples doing inane things until I started doing the couple extra clicks to indicat
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Could you elaborate on what makes it so addictive? Neither Tiktok nor YT Shorts seem to "work" on me, but I've heard from a lot of people, including intelligent & thoughtful people that I respect, that Tiktok's recom
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Ah, sorry for incorrectly assuming. I fully agree with you. It's a very common tendency for people to smuggle their moral intuitions into calls for the precautionary principle, and this runs directly counter to _actually_ approaching
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Horrified gave me a NSFW error
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> At the very least, this seems like something to approach with extreme caution. Like you, I'm not overly informed on the factual question here, but I don't understand why you think banning the content is somehow the cautious c
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
They're responding to a hysterical, Luddite portion of the public that would make them pay a PR cost if they didn't at least make a sloppy attempt at "safety". It's idiotic and futile, but blessedly short-lived. Tha
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> if you're going 'all in' on their branded phone This inference doesn't make any sense. The Pixel isn't some weird niche project. The Pixel and the Galaxy SXX are perennials on the lists you find from a cursory
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
It's the top of the thread, the comment that I replied to and was referring to. > If it were a true meritocracy, I guess we would expect ~4-5% of US academics to be US born, given that it's our percentage of the world populatio
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I agree with you more than you'd think. I'm aware that my open-borders belief is a radical one, and I accept the dramatic implications and knock-on effects. But the vast majority of people accept the legitimacy of restricted immig
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Yes, my comment doesn't assume a uniform sample. In fact, it's predicated on there being a substantial filter applied to legal immigrants, such that they are highly successful in their destination country. The performance gap bet
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
HN on FAANG-related threads may as well be a default sub on Reddit. Practically guaranteed to get a heaping dose of childish, manic hysteria instead of a basic understanding of the article's content. Ive got no love for FB or "fac
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I don't think even the most Pollyanna-ish perspective claims that there's a global meritocracy. The smashing success of merit-based immigrants in high-income countries is a pretty undeniable signal that we're nowhere near the
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
This doesn't make any sense. "Software" isn't produced by a single company with a single set of engineering practices and trade-offs. Safety-critical software has been around for decades and decades, and it's not d
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> if a housekeeper shouted your name from across the room, tapped you on the shoulder repeatedly, and then unplugged the TV you were watching to get your attention, you would expect them to say something like, "my apologies sir, the
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
The novel element is combining the passive medium with infinite content. In my circles, sitting slack-jawed in front of the TV for hours was something that only those with little mental energy or drive did[1]. By contrast, probably 75% have
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> makes them ineligible for protection from those violating securities and contract law GP said he doesn't feel sorry for them. He said nothing about legal protections being inapplicable to Twitter. You just brazenly made this up o
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> but I read it as half-assed. Why is formality any more natural for a user interface than casualness? This seems like an extremely arbitrary personal preference masquerading as reasonable criticism, no different from getting riled up a
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> This right here is the first and most important reason to be skeptical of any study on weight loss. None of these things ever turn out to do anything useful on a time horizon that matters. It's (always) worth skimming the article,
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> Income is related to consumption, and consumption is related to emissions and pollution. This doesn't make any sense. The suggestion is to make more money and donate ~all of it instead of consuming it. You can't look at a pla
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
The enormous silliness of this argument doesn't seem to stop it from popping up all over the place. People's expectations are relative to their environment. The large majority of things you might think to complain about in your li
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
They explain this at the top of the article: > This periodic adjustment mainly benefits scientists and astronomers as it allows them to observe celestial bodies using UTC for most purposes. If there were no UTC correction, then adjustmen

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