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fearingreprisal

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    Comment #23964281

    > From the perspective of someone who is not living in a large city I think you are primarily talking about the properties of large cities, not about assimilation in general... No,…

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    Comment #23963644

    > What city do you live in, exactly? I don't want to reveal any information about my personal life. However my post does give away some clues about this. I understand that I might …

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    Comment #23963353

    [flagged]

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    Comment #23963101

    I absolutely disagree. The robots pose none of the challenges that immigrants from different parts of the world bring with them, while fulfilling the same labour force requirement.…

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    Comment #23935080

    One really great way to ensure that you're never invited to any parties by anyone, anywhere is demonstrating to everyone that you have a giant chip on your shoulder. If you riff on…

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    Comment #23916754

    Why was this comment killed? It was just about the only sane comment in this thread.

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    Comment #23912782

    > ...to jump from banning hate campaigns on private platforms, to total censorship, is an impressively intellectually dishonest juggling act. I don't know how unintelligent you hav…

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    Comment #23903875

    There is a very clear difference between "Arrested for disagreeing with Donald Trump" and "Arrested for participation in an illegal act". You know what the difference is. Everyone …

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    Comment #23903563

    It's very disingenuous to imply that these people are being arrested ( or whatever other term you'd use ) for purely political reasons. These people are involved in a riot. These p…

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    Comment #23893047

    Here's technology that certainly couldn't possibly be misused to infringe upon civil liberties...

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    Comment #23893041

    Seek professional psychological help.

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    Comment #23885115

    That's exactly who I'm seeding.

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    Comment #23878635

    I'm using WebTorrent Desktop to seed PeerTube videos. I'm really glad I can do this to help support my favorite content creators.

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    Comment #23866886

    I don't even have the rep to downvote comments.

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    Comment #23864177

    Yes. Surely it's about Chapo. I'd certainly not call them as 'greedy' or 'unprincipled' as the people they criticise. However I'll not waste this opportunity to call them bland, ef…

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    Comment #23864152

    This is the real answer right here.

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    Comment #23864144

    I'm absolutely convinced that the world would be a better, smarter, more civil place if Twitter simply didn't exist at all. The tragedy for me is that whoever hacked Twitter wasted…

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    Comment #23811068

    It's worth noting that Linus Torvalds does not write life-critical software. Take his opinions with a pinch of salt. He's made some of the most incredibly valuable contributions to…

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    Comment #23811042

    Not a single one of the claims in your post is factually correct.

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    Comment #23808211

    I don't think so. Despite its ubiquity, the Linux kernel is not actually the golden standard for safety or performance. Not even for code quality. Ada remains the language of choic…

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    Comment #23797685

    > It's impossible to disable with software. > iSeeYou ( 2008 ) Which is it?

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    Comment #23747645

    Why would any of these suggestions be better than the following? dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

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    Comment #23710010

    "So far, I haven't received any swirl pictures from the outside world. I find this hard to believe that we are the only ones enjoying this activity." Hard to believe, isn't it...

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    Comment #23698562

    I feel my interpretation differs at: > "...I don't see any ethical obligation to use "unbiased" datasets for pure research or tinkering with models..." I don't think his comment wa…