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What’s the split in the chess community like here? Do most people agree with Magnus?

> "their algorithm" The Google web search infrastructure consists of dozens of different services hitting hundreds of different databases, most of which obviously contain PII. We'r…

> disseminating information to the public for the purpose of image management. This is pretty much the definition of anyone ever making any kind of public statement. Choosing ones …

Nobody's trying to villainize any LGBT people, you're the one jumping to that conclusion. I'm bisexual, two of my sisters and half my friends are queer, the fact you're unable to h…

Apart from involving the same newspaper, how does this relate to the topic at hand?

Are you expecting a news article? This is a story a mom at the dog park told me last week. How you feel about it is entirely your own choice and makes 0 difference to me, but askin…

>When has this ever happened? >When has this ever happened? >When has this ever happened? Were you expecting a news article? I'm not the 7yo in the classroom, these are just things…

Thank you. Admitting your perspective on this topic is based in personal politics is ultimately a good thing, and makes for more better reading for other users.

4chan is as or more heavily moderated than most of reddit, I'm not sure where you get the idea it's not. 4chan culture is the way it is largely because of the demographic of its us…

> Also, almost every k12 teacher I had would prepare a slideshow about themselves to present on the first day of class along with the syllabus This is pretty different from coming …

https://www.newsweek.com/kill-mockingbird-other-books-banned... Sorry, that one's actually a school board in California, but the same idea applies here, right? The state is to blam…

> Florida is purging libraries of unpopular political opinions I think the fact that you deliberately expressed what's been a complicated, and almost exclusively school-board drive…

The periods where America was most globally dominant were not the periods where it’s immigration policy was most lax, if anything, the opposite is true.

Thanks for this. Seems like a topic better learned from a wiki article than a video.

Yeah this is a key point when you consider Valve’s strategy. Gabe still owns >50%, and is a billionaire without a tonne of outside ventures, he can afford to play around a bit. I t…

Russia has a long history of producing excellent programmers and software engineers, I'm not sure where you get the idea this is where they were outpaced by the rest of the world. …

As an aggregate, having a largely positive or largely negative feeling about something still provides good information to whomever's asking. It may not be ALL the information, but …

I think so too. It’s become a term which means so many different things to so many different people, I don’t know how much value there is in calling someone a “postmodernist” from …

"Innocent until proven guilty" is generally used in when talking about the state and punitive decision making, not a social norm. If my three best friends accused someone of trying…

Mmm, that makes sense. I think it's easy for people (myself) who've only played at a very amateur (casual IRL games and sub 1200 online) level to make assumptions about how chess m…

How so? If it’s Jan 4, what exactly would I be preparing with? The last three days of theory about the new row? If anything it sounds like a way to emphasize how to play positions …

I think the two party system is ultimately to blame for this, though I have no idea what the solution would be. Up in Canada, we have three left-leaning parties, NDP, Liberal, and …

Gotcha. BART being funded by the Bay Area Rapid Transit District is something I'd forgotten, and does make my point a lot less salient. It's been a long time since I was in SF, so …

I haven't really played a Far Cry game since #3 and knew almost nothing about #5. Just did some reading about it and sounds almost exactly like what I was describing up there, haha…

>Calling people from bay-area hacker spaces to give them a hand in creating something more modern. Tragically, from the small amount of time I've spent in SF, my understanding is t…