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by yew 6y ago
> Assuming that I understood that what I was taking was yours, and that I was not acting under some kind of duress [...] my theft indicates that I see the world in value-terms opposed to yours. Your "bad" is my "good.&quot
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by yew 6y ago
> As I wrote earlier this year, I long viewed the Japanese fondness for sanitary masks as evidence of some deep-seated cultural defect. [...]
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by yew 6y ago
Speaking as an American who didn't vote for Trump, either time, you've certainly alienated me. You'd (collectively) best hope you're making more friends than enemies. Hope's all any of us have at this point.
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by yew 6y ago
You certainly don't.
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by yew 6y ago
> Choose. If I must. Not yet - not quite yet. "Whoever thinks I'm with them or against them, I'm against them."
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by yew 6y ago
That seems less usable for the average email recipient. Most people who need to prove authenticity to a third party (eg of politically sensitive or offensive messages) aren't techies. Too, it's easy to imagine not knowing you nee
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by yew 6y ago
Sending death threats or racial invectives by private message is as much speech as sending them by Twitter post. All private conversations shouldn't be published. That isn't necessary to hold people accountable for dangerous or vi
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by yew 6y ago
Now you're just spouting non sequiturs. Publication and retention are two separate questions. And not being a politician, and certainly not the one currently trying to hold the White House hostage, I don't see the public interest
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by yew 6y ago
Speech has consequences. Given the good done in holding rogue "politicians" accountable, not seeing that as axiomatically desirable is at least a little bit suspicious...
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Stanley Fish and the Argument Against Free Speech(tabletmag.com)
5 points by yew 6y ago|3 comments
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by yew 6y ago
Presumably the optimal solution would be to prepare fake but easily executed plans (tuned to appeal to whoever's on the committee) to go with your fake numbers. But probably no amount of regulating police will help if your regulators a
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by yew 6y ago
Increasing the size of the economy is in the interests of many people if wealth is widely distributed and in the interests of few if narrowly distributed?
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by yew 6y ago
> [A] sorting mechanism that elevates people who pay lip service to permissiveness, but don't fully participate - a preparatory performance of the fake counterculture. Not where I expected to see that sentiment. I do wonder where
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by yew 6y ago
What seems to be happening with CTH looks like a positive sign. They're not really less toxic than the others getting the boot, and the admins kicking abusive buddies while they're cleaning up everyone else says they have a (somew
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by yew 6y ago
> Maybe we should embrace the concept of an Internet License, after all :( Likewise. Regulation of communication is beginning to look like the only way out of this trap.
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by yew 7y ago
I always find this topic interesting, because it shows such a diversity of... aesthetic instinct? If you ask a dozen people why they don't like something that's known for being divisive, you can easily get a dozen different, incom
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by yew 7y ago
Meh. Tell that to the "cis gays" getting hate on Twitter. I had enough "it's for your own good" before I was old enough to stop going to church.
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by yew 7y ago
Given that I've not heard a proposal that wouldn't have also helped my parents hide the existence of gay people until I went off to university (and they tried!) - I wouldn't. I'm quite sure ulterior motives explain more
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by yew 7y ago
I would expect it depends on personal experience. All ideologies have schisms, as you say. The first thing that came to my mind was the local liberal and "materialist" (that is, Marxist) contingents fighting over definitions. (And
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Conservatives as Moral Mutants(thingofthings.wordpress.com)
1 points by yew 7y ago|0 comments
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by yew 7y ago
Speech has consequences. It must have limits. (As for "free-speech activists" and so-called pacifists who complain about actions against you-know-who more than violence by them - I don't see the value of their words.) But
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by yew 9y ago
Why do you think Microsoft implemented Bing suggestions by setting the window.location property? It seems an odd choice...
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by yew 9y ago
The only thing you'll achieve with that attitude is convincing people that there's no point in slowing down or talking things over.
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by yew 9y ago
It's for the best. Now if they just learn to stay away from right-wing causes too, maybe they'll actually make the world a better place.
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by yew 11y ago
It certainly spectacularly fails to provide any advice on the practical problem of engineering AI [1]. The same is true of many non-constructive mathematical proofs, though - and I can't say I find such proofs any less insightful for t
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by yew 11y ago
. . . our ability to perform computation is not a valid argument to that computation, or the inner workings of our mind, being the same as digital computers performing computation. No one [1] thinks that the human brain is likely to be a
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by yew 12y ago
This strikes me as being interesting primarily for the potential impact it has on interface design. There are applications of (this sort of) virtual memory manipulation beyond circular buffers. Performance is one consideration, but not the
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Tales of a stressed kernel (2013)(tomerfiliba.com)
9 points by yew 12y ago|2 comments
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Corrupted initramfs during boot (2012)(blog.krill.se)
26 points by yew 12y ago|6 comments
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by yew 12y ago
Where did the idea of a "year of the Linux desktop" originally come from, anyway? I often see people joking about it or advocating it (Linus, even!), but I've never seen any sort of foundational essay or manifesto - does some

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