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If you're a drug addict, the ideal way to kick the habit is self-control, but after a certain time, rehab might be needed. There are downsides to rehab (cost, isolation etc.), just…

> I would say that persuasion based on facts is perfectly fine. It’s the deceit that was particularly troublesome This is just using different terms to say the same thing. Facts ca…

Fine, and they should be punished for whatever election laws they broke. But when it comes to people influencing people, especially over the internet, I doubt very many knew or car…

A lot of people would see it as persuasion by their side, and manipulation by the other. Same with "information" and "propaganda". As an aside, I kind of appreciate how in the past…

What if what the foreign actors are saying is the same as domestic? What if someone from the UK or France or wherever has a good strategic idea, are you not allowed to use it? Pret…

I've seen some nasty political TV ads aired between shows, especially for local elections. The issue of critical thinking and not just buying into whatever hitpiece/campaign sign o…

False and especially misleading information is sent through broadcast TV all the time, both through advertisements and aired content. Political content is egregiously bad in this r…

Sure, we could trivially make our own star. All we'd need to do is move at least 100 Jupiters worth of mass into close proximity, and voila! Insta-star. That last part is not so tr…

Took the words right out of my mouth (literally, and 5 minutes faster). Why? I'd say because Douglas Crockford.

Which is awfully similar to JavaScript's much maligned 'with' statement. Never understood the FUD and 'considered harmful' screeds against it. Yes I'm aware of the performance/opti…

I mean, that style of title exists accoross the political spectrum on YouTube and it's beyond stupid. Whenever I see "X DESTROYS Y" titles I assume the video will be a waste of 3-1…

Note that this is already kinda the case for fretless instruments, such as the violin. What you are suggesting to be done by a computer would be done by the player themselves. Obvi…

My point was our "general political disagreement" is the chaos. It's not being caused by an outside source. That's just an excuse, and a cudgel used to dismiss one sides ideas. We …

Come on....do you really think there are no legitimate sides to contentious political issues like gun control? How about abortion? That "other side" you speak of, presumably actual…

I think the analogy is more like trying to pin an execution on one particular member of the firing squad. Everyone is throwing matches, at the same time, into an already burning du…

Do you figure pro/anti-gun twitter posts from actual users are less likely to result in us being at each others throats? Really seems like pissing in the ocean.

And yet I still instinctively skip over links I see to video/audio content as it generally takes much more time, concentration, and attention to get value/information out of them.

Agreed, reddit's ban hammer is often arbitrary and self-serving and r/the_donald drives too much traffic to reddit for them to seriously consider it for them (even more so with Twi…

Perhaps so but the post of examples linked by GP has the vast majority of offending posts upvoted = 10 and just 3 >= 20. Really? This is a sub where popular posts and comments get …

I think his point is that the mods of the sub have done their best to enforce the rules, despite missing a handful of very lowly upvoted comments here and there. Thus "they" (the p…

Clearly the CEO of reddit feels the mods of r/the_donald have done a reasonable job at policing their sub overall, despite having missed a handful of extremely lowly upvoted commen…

Programming is automation though. Scripting is a (loosely defined) form of programming. I'm really not sure what the distinction is. You could just as easily say bash "is really ab…

Not only is it not just a problem in tech, it's not just problem for women and minorities. Focusing on tech is fine, but claiming there's a unique problem of demoralization, undera…

No idea, but there was a bunch of articles and probably related tweets accusing this game developer of racism because of the era their animation style is an homage to. I'm very muc…