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by greenduck 6y ago
I feel like I should leave these here: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association: 1-800-662-HELP National Suicide Prevention Helpline: 1-800-273-TALK Free Crisis Text Helpline: 741-741 Trevor project Helpline (crisis interventi
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by greenduck 6y ago
> Hundreds of thousands of doctoral students investing huge amounts of time and money to chase a relatively tiny pool of prestigious teaching and research positions. That's a pretty cynical take on academia. There are plenty of go
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by greenduck 6y ago
Hard disagree. Whatever magic they had back when I spent time on there is gone and it isn't coming back anytime soon. They've been overrun by neo-nazi circle jerking as nazi's have been excised from other platforms.
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by greenduck 6y ago
I am not getting my hopes up until all of the ballots are counted. Even then, there will be a few legal fights (hopefully easy wins, but still).
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Nevada Becomes First State to Protect Same-Sex Marriage in Constitution(advocate.com)
1 points by greenduck 6y ago|0 comments
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by greenduck 6y ago
That's not an argument against e-voting, but rather the election media circus and craziness of the electoral college. With e-voting you get the complexity of both.
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by greenduck 6y ago
> relies on the words of "spooky experts telling [them] what to believe". Widespread distrust of subject matter experts already exists in the US. You can't just tell people to shut up and listen to the experts. The effica
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by greenduck 6y ago
Science and engineering don't care if people believe in them or not. If people don't believe the results of an election, then it is de facto illegitimate.
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by greenduck 6y ago
Tom Scott still has the best argument against e-voting IMO [1]. Briefly: an election only counts if everybody can believe the results. Making an expert level understanding of CS a requirement to verify your voting system means that Joe Q.
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by greenduck 6y ago
Expanding on what katbyte said, the Hays code was adopted by every major studio in the US to replace state run censors. They did this because of the same battle going on right now in social media: "if we self regulate, then we won&#x2
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by greenduck 6y ago
Not only is our view of free speech different today, but the US has a long history of censoring minority groups. Take the Hays code for instance which made it de facto against the law for movies to portray gay men in a positive way or &quo
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by greenduck 6y ago
Maybe it's field specific. In my subfield of physics, I've collaborated with three other groups across the US without any fear of people running off with our work.
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Gell-Mann Amnesia (2018)(epsilontheory.com)
2 points by greenduck 6y ago|0 comments
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by greenduck 6y ago
It seems like the unfortunate reality of having a flag button and just giving everyone the ability to use it is that only the content that least offends people's political sensibilities makes it to the front page. If it makes people u
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by greenduck 6y ago
In only the past few months: Rochester PD showed up in hoards outside of the courthouse where their fellow officers were being charged for shoving a frail old man to the ground on video. The reason they showed up was to support the officers
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by greenduck 6y ago
I have to guess not much and that's part of the reason people are angry about how policing is conducted in the USA right now. A personal anecdote: a friend of mine is a former cop and reported one of his colleagues for lying about an a
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by greenduck 6y ago
Oh wow. Thanks for pointing this out. Even the first three links of the article are "What Greta Thunberg Forgets About Climate Change", "What Economists Can Teach Epidemiologists", and "An Avalanche of Failure&quo
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by greenduck 6y ago
I'm worried that we are starting to see the realization of everybody's concerns over the rise of surveillance technology from the past decade. Federal mass surveillance, reports of stingray use at other protests, unmarked federal
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by greenduck 6y ago
I mentioned this elsewhere, but people on HN eat up the argument of "do your own research, make up your own mind" as an excuse for not challenging even obvious the most obvious BS. I don't know about you, but I don't hav
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by greenduck 6y ago
Didn't downvote, but outside of the internet this just doesn't correspond to my reality. Combine that with the perception of pushing a "both sides are bad" narrative makes it seem like a partisan statement used to justi
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by greenduck 6y ago
> I don’t see why it should have to take longer than a few days to count ballots. To snap back with an equally uniformed answer, I don't see why anyone could think something as complicated as certifying the vote of a country the siz
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by greenduck 6y ago
Maybe you're in a bubble? I work at one of the "liberal elite universities" if you believe the media rhetoric and nobody around me is just straight up ready to deny the election if their favorite team doesn't win. Every
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by greenduck 6y ago
Interesting. I wonder if it says more about who feels like they are able to safely show up to the polls? I am in the 18-25 demographic and many people I talk with are concerned about the integrity of the USPS handling their vote after the
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by greenduck 6y ago
Regardless of what party you support, you've got to be impressed by the level of turnout this year. If we are judging by early voting alone, this is going to be a historic election. I hope that media outlets are careful on election da
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by greenduck 6y ago
Certainly. To be clear, I'm not describing "how horrible" people are who originally joined it. I'm saying that today, with what we know and the problems we see growing around the world, especially the rise of authorita
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by greenduck 6y ago
People regularly protest the growth of a surveillance state and have as long as I can remember. You can do both.
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by greenduck 6y ago
I was talking with my friends about Palantir the other day. We all basically agreed that we could never work there unless we were truly desperate. The role they have played in surveillance capitalism is just too slimy for us.
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In ‘Power Grab,’ Health Secretary Azar Asserts Authority over FDA(nytimes.com)
3 points by greenduck 6y ago|0 comments
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by greenduck 6y ago
He did spend time talking about "interdimensional pedophiles" with Alex Jones [1]. > How does one distinguish a pseudo-intellectual from a real intellectual? Well, that's certainly not something I'm qualified to answe
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by greenduck 6y ago
Exactly. There's some good stuff, but the show has also become a podium for pseudo-intellectuals to pawn off bad ideas and completely misrepresent fact without being challenged. People also eat up the "you can make up your own mi

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