Kaveren

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by Kaveren 6y ago
> Citizen's United infamously set that in stone. The alternative is that you can't make documentaries about a candidate's bad climate change policy and monetize it as you would a non-contentious issue. > That the averag
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by Kaveren 6y ago
What data do you want? Look at the way people change their answers to whether or not they support Medicare For All based on how the question is phrased, or support for the Affordable Care Act [1]. What you are asking for is asinine. The dat
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by Kaveren 6y ago
> Secondly, I believe it confuses cause and effect. People say a lot of things. People mostly agree with universal background checks for guns. It isn't the Evil Rich People preventing this from happening, and the NRA isn't part
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by Kaveren 6y ago
that's because many people don't vote or take part in political advocacy. it doesn't make society in "oligarchy". our democracy actually works really well, even with gerrymandering and some voter disenfranchisement.
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by Kaveren 6y ago
The better alternative is just to learn thoroughly and apply knowledge as much as you can. You can explore without guesswork.
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by Kaveren 6y ago
> That attitude is actually how I program—with scripted languages I write code and see what happens, if it didn’t work I write it again. This is an incredibly harmful attitude towards learning, but it feels nice because it's a lot l
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by Kaveren 6y ago
something being popular and eliminating other options is not inherently bad. there is nothing wrong with one company acquiring a monopoly through superior service. you can attack amazon's behavior as anticompetitive, but that's no
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by Kaveren 6y ago
exact opposite, they've made a 180 on advertising. there used to be external offsite ads shown on the website, which were removed. there used to be a developer API to show video ads for revenue within games, which was removed. they&#x2
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by Kaveren 6y ago
because most companies do not recognize roblox as a platform, they recognize it as a game. nobody realizes that the development of games on it is on a similar level to web development, it's like explaining social media to congressmen.
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by Kaveren 6y ago
there isn't a tweet you can send that will start a war unless the administration sending it is willing to confirm that is indeed a move they're making. you think diplomats are idiots. that tweet threat isn't even an immediate
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by Kaveren 6y ago
sorry you just don't understand how the world works. nobody is ever starting a war over twitter, not least because people understand that accounts can be hacked. and the president's twitter account tweeting about a war would mean
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by Kaveren 6y ago
you spend too much time online if you think you can start any war over twitter
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by Kaveren 6y ago
> you may be unaware of better alternatives because of anticompetitive behaviour by Google google provides all of the best services in each of its major consumer categories unless you value privacy, except when there's a major compe
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by Kaveren 6y ago
i guess we should all follow anarchoprimitivism in that case. we need to find "eternal ever lasting bliss and happiness".
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by Kaveren 6y ago
> Microsoft is selling you into the IDE, in small portions what are they selling me
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by Kaveren 6y ago
armed robbers randomly targeting people are not criminal masterminds. they are often hastily planned, or are completely opportunistic. you could easily accidentally shoot someone, or the victim says or does something you didn't expect,
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by Kaveren 6y ago
if only there were some investigations into the source of the hack. i guess we'll never know
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by Kaveren 6y ago
> and this young guy gets murdered for no reason and not even robbed? im sure you're an expert on crime but it is not in fact ridiculous that when a robbery is botched and someone gets shot they won't steal anything because you
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by Kaveren 6y ago
no american tech ceo is getting killed because of a minor dispute like this why does everyone on HN think we're in some low budget spy movie
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by Kaveren 6y ago
> photography was an art, and photos were generally manipulated, sometimes heavily , sometimes to remove people etc. Except this was time consuming and couldn't be done automatically in an undetectable way. > human societies have
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by Kaveren 6y ago
i was assured by the cybersecurity experts of hacker news that REALLY this was all a mastermind ploy to steal and sell twitter DMs. who would they sell them to? doesn't matter! what information of actual value is sent through twitter D
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by Kaveren 6y ago
you cannot start world war 3 or become a billionaire through some tweets, this is not a movie.
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by Kaveren 6y ago
> On 4 October, 2016, Mr Stone tweeted: “Payload coming. #Lockthemup.” It was clear publicly that Stone had a very inappropriate relationship with Wikileaks. What would you do, attempt to extort Stone for more than $100k and hope he pays
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by Kaveren 6y ago
Yes, introductions get made on Twitter, "slide into the DMs" does not mean that you're trying to conduct a three year romantic relationship on it. Usually people are going to get off it, and onto a real messenger application,
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by Kaveren 6y ago
Kanye West and Elon Musk have absolutely nothing of value in their DMs. Anything you could do with access to Musk's DMs you could do better just by tweeting as Musk. There is no value in Twitter DMs.
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by Kaveren 6y ago
> Exfiltrating DMs seems like it's going to accomplish just about as much, if not more. Nobody is communicating anything valuable over Twitter. This is such a ridiculous point that people bring up all the time. Scandalous relationsh
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by Kaveren 6y ago
This is disingenuous. > If porn had no consequences then there wouldn't be a need for better sex education. This is ridiculous. We'd need comprehensive sex education whether or not anyone watches porn. Before porn was trivially
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by Kaveren 6y ago
No, there have been claims for decades about the harms of pornography. There should be enough evidence for detractors against pornography consumption to use. The burden is proof is on them.
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by Kaveren 6y ago
So your evidence for the "lasting consequences" of pornography is that there are some studies indicating a correlation to a reduction in condom usage. This indicates to me a need for better sex education. This doesn't justify
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by Kaveren 6y ago
Absolutely none, people will just use a VPN or TOR.

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