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by notmarkus 5y ago
It's bad when bad things happen, no one will protect against bad things happening unless bad things happen, so it's good when bad things happen.
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by notmarkus 6y ago
Will it be a good case study because it might expose "cancel culture" as non-existent, or because it might expose "cancel culture" as a tool used only to target those who don't toe the progressive line? In other wor
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by notmarkus 6y ago
I think the closing was effective in what it was going for: implying that this has all been a "grift." The abruptness is intended to leave the reader with a reverberating final note in their mind. "$250,000... $250,000...&quo
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by notmarkus 6y ago
Consider that you know a lot about this topic and are disgusted by their handing of it. Consider that this might not be an outlier, and you may not be outraged by their handling of other topics simply because you know a bit less about them.
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by notmarkus 6y ago
Thanks for including this link. I read the response before I read the NYT article. And while it was a pretty uninteresting article, the tactics used to obfuscate who holds what beliefs are laid bare. It's illuminating to see.
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by notmarkus 6y ago
Personally, all over. You have to know the biases of the particular source you're consuming, and take that into account with every article. It's possible to read NYT and get some good info from it, but you need to know when to loo
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by notmarkus 6y ago
Just a recent example, from yesterday: One of their columnists made a big stink about not being allowed in a particular Clubhouse chat, and how it was incredibly dangerous for people to be talking without allowing the media in. She then sig
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by notmarkus 6y ago
I came to a similar conclusion after hearing their "The Daily" report on phishing attacks pre-election. They described the phishing attempt as "looking exactly like a Facebook login form" and then said that this level
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by notmarkus 6y ago
Are you saying this isn't an example of "government is the problem?"
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by notmarkus 6y ago
Oh true, I thought the parent comment was talking about this DOH event specifically.
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by notmarkus 6y ago
Who on the "right" is cool with this? Genuinely asking.
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by notmarkus 6y ago
Yelling fire in a theater has never been a problem, it was only a metaphor used to defend the ridiculous supreme court decision that handing out flyers opposing the draft during World War I was an immediate threat to life and should therefo
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by notmarkus 6y ago
Sounds like you're pigeonholing Damore (of Google Memo fame) the same way that you don't want to be. You should read the original memo, and not an opinionated summary of it, it's not long. You may find that you were sold a li
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by notmarkus 6y ago
What was disgusting about it?
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by notmarkus 6y ago
Amend it so that the state could ignore that part of it too, just like they do with the rest of the 4th amendment?
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by notmarkus 6y ago
Corporations work by providing a product or service that customers believe to be worth more than the dollars and cents they're paying for it. It's inherently consensual. The only way a corporation begins to generate revenue is lit
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by notmarkus 6y ago
No, they just push for infinitely increasing military spending, which leads to needless wars resulting in millions of deaths. Both are horrible, let's be real.
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by notmarkus 6y ago
What meaningful changes have people affected in democratic republics in the recent past? Companies that don't keep up with customers' desires go out of business all the time.
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by notmarkus 6y ago
Corporate power comes, largely, through government power. Corporations coopt the government and use its power to protect or enrich themselves. Why would corporations want to weaken that?
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by notmarkus 6y ago
What does that have to do with anything?
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by notmarkus 6y ago
"Conspiracy" makes it sound like the US government hasn't been building the largest spying apparatus in history over the past 2 decades. Reality says otherwise.
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by notmarkus 7y ago
I'm enjoying the amount of pushback this is getting here on HN, given that we all probably think we're not victim to this, and are actively exposing ourselves to be.
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by notmarkus 7y ago
Reminds me of a little Sam Saccone project from 2014... https://github.com/samccone/light-paint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lrWmQsVXog
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by notmarkus 7y ago
This was me for most of my life. But it was cucumbers and pasta with butter (no sauce, no cheese). I took the radical step of my first cheese pizza at 23 while working a long shift at Domino's. At 25, I took a long hike with a good fri
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by notmarkus 8y ago
> You, similarly, are just providing cover for these terrorists. That's a pretty intense claim, in what way is OP "providing cover"?
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by notmarkus 8y ago
I'm pretty sure I didn't take my shoes off when exiting Vietnam. And definitely didn't when traveling from Saigon to Hanoi.
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by notmarkus 8y ago
It's ...odd... but I've always liked the simple elegance of (Meditech's) MAGIC languages. Strict left-to-right, even in assignment and in math. Instead of "A gets 1" (A = 1), it's "1 goes to A" (1^A).
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by notmarkus 8y ago
> The implementation uses Symbol and Proxy behind the hood so you might need to use appropriate polyfills... Does anyone know of a working Proxy polyfill? I've never been able to find one.
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by notmarkus 9y ago
It's doubtful that anyone would fire an employee looking at fine art. The more realistic issue is that some coworker might be walking by and catch a 0.5 second glimpse, think they saw something that they didn't, maybe turn it into
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by notmarkus 9y ago
This might be one of the most poorly written articles I've ever seen on HN.

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