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ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
That's a lot of words to type to say, "I support Nazis being able to openly operate and recruit on Facebook."
ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
There is no slippery slope argument when you're talking about literal Nazis.

We went to war on the subject.

ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
There's nothing 'speculative and messy' about the harm Nazis did and do.

We went to war over it.

ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
Whataboutism is unbecoming and facebook is taking actions against ISIS and related accounts.

Weak meme, 2/10.

ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
If they overreach then we circle back, basic iterative process. I see nothing in their statement to indicate that they're going to overreach.
ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
What does that even mean? Like last I checked a whole big chunk of the world may have gone to war for a few years over the subject of, "Nazis are bad."

Kicking them off Facebook isn't anywhere close to that large of a response.

ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
1940-1945
ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
> What? There's no room to support the right of certain people to speak without "supporting" them?

When their speech is to advocate violence against every other group that isn't like them? No there isn't.

ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
...because nazis can't use Facebook to plan the next Christchurch?

I feel like maaaaaybe there's a few steps in between the two.

ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
> It ends, as it always does (and must) with massive hypocrisy on the part of the arbitrary censor, since "harm" is so poorly defined that it ends up being replaced with "whatever seems fashionable today".

You are defending literal nazis. Their idea of speech is Christchurch. Deplatforming that is absolutely the correct move.

ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
> Raising taxes would certainly harm me. In fact, in much more direct way than impotent babble of bunch of idiots obsessed with the color of their epidermis. So I guess we should start with banning any speech advocating raising taxes?

So impotent that they never walked into a synagogue or mosque and shot up a bunch of people. Oh wait...

ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
If they go underground it makes it a lot harder for them to radicalize idiots on facebook. Sounds like a win to me.

The average person isn't exactly curious about different ideologies but when facebook and youtubes algorithms throw it in their face constantly? Probably something we want to fix.

ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
> "Speech that harms people" and "speech that hurt people's feelings" are so closely related and sometimes people (intentionally or unintentionally) mix them up.

Maybe make this argument when we aren't talking about literal Nazis. Advocating harm is their entire schtick.

ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
You don't solve nazi ideology with reasoned debate. You don't solve it with deplatforming either but I doubt facebook is going to start throwing bricks so I'll take it.
ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
If you want to make this argument maybe pick someone besides literal nazis to make it with.

Last I checked we kinda had a bit of a scuffle from 1940-1945 that stated, "This ideology is not okay and responding to it with violence is acceptable."

They're getting booted off the platform most people use to talk to grandma, not getting literally booted in the face. Unlike what they advocate for.

ratling··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
If that side has a large percentage of people who actively advocate for violence against my people or regularly try to make it so me and mine can't work to live I'm fine with kicking them to the curb.

No one ever starved because they couldn't call me a f-----. Not too long ago the fact that I am a f----- would have prevented me from working in my chosen or almost any field and gotten me harassed or assaulted on a regular basis.

ratling··on ‘AWS vs. K8s’ Is the New ‘Windows vs. Linux’
Borg may be rocket science but k8s is not. Especially now that they've put a couple years into the documentation and tooling.
ratling··on Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?
I was going to say this. TikTok makes it trivially easy to download content by default. I've probably got a couple hundred videos in my photo library now.
ratling··on Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?
"Users logging in for the first time after the order were prompted to give their birthdate, but TikTok’s own interface defaulted to putting in the current date while also not making crystal clear to users why it needed that information and what could result."

If you can't work a birthdate field in 2019 you should not be on the internet.

ratling··on Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
I expect they'll reverse this. Twitter is literally just bots arguing with bots. That and every political operative has like 20 sock puppets to drum up 'grassroots support' for whatever they're shilling.

They should put Cheeto on the payroll, he's the only reason they're still relevant.

ratling··on Apple announces Apple Card credit card
This card specifically I... uh wouldn't be too worried about. It's a generic 1% card with a couple of apple specific gimmicks. My citi doublecash is 2% on everything as long as I pay the bill off each month (which you should). Chase sapphire reserve is also a better card if you travel and are willing to pay a fee.

It does look sharp as hell though.

ratling··on WTF Is Big O Notation?
This is legitimately a good post.
ratling··on Australian telcos block access to 4chan, other sites
Debating a bad actor isn’t debating.

People on the right (the proles, not the rich people making money off the whole affair) don’t want to have honest intellectual discourse. They want to ‘own libruls’ and be smug (despite their choices actively hurting their livelihood and their lives leaving little to be smug about).

There’s nothing to debate, they’re just idiots. Easy to fleece idiots considering how easy it is to make money by throwing out a bunch of controversial statements and then retracting when their audience has moved on.

ratling··on How Kirkland Signature Powers Costco's Success
I would slightly adjust my statement to say “amazon basics and amazon recommends” which are typically presented right next to each other but aren’t quite the same thing.
ratling··on Plastic buckets, broken printers shine light on Hanoi's poor (2016)
Necessity is the mother of invention (and cell phones are so ubiquitous they probably have at least one or two with internet).

You will see more of this as the worlds trash piles up. There's value to be had in there for the poor and destitute (not saying this is good or bad, it just is).

ratling··on How Kirkland Signature Powers Costco's Success
You could text replace Kirkland Signature with Amazon Basics in this article and it's the same story.

Housewares are commodities. In most cases brands mean a whole lot of nothing until you get up into the bespoke option price point (and lots of things just don't have that at all).

ratling··on Australian telcos block access to 4chan, other sites
You can’t run in a movie theatre and yell fire. There are limits, the internet does not remove the need for basic human decency.
ratling··on Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes
We nixed ECS for the same reason, no secrets through ConfigSet.
ratling··on Australian telcos block access to 4chan, other sites
They and others should permanently block 8chan. TBH if NZ/AUS started DDOSing it I'd be fine with that too but I doubt we're there yet.

The others I don't agree with long term (4chan is 4chan, Zerohedge is moronic but mostly benign, liveleak is concerning but I get why they did it) but 8chan is just cancer.

I get freedom of speech, but there has to be a limit somewhere. Those animals would drop nukes for funsies if they had the opportunity.

ratling··on School is all about signaling, not skill-building
Generally it doesn't matter as the hiring manager isn't going to see the application if the HR peon doesn't see the boxes they want checked.
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