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0 pointskortilla5y ago0 comments

That just means your views are not very controversial (most people’s aren’t).

The argument you’re making is just a different face of the “I have nothing to hide” in the privacy debates.

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labster5y ago· 5 in thread

I have controversial views (the EM Drive works! Sport is the opiate of the masses!) but I seem to get along just fine on social media. It’s really only the people who have boring, discredited political views who have problems.

bmarquez5y ago

"EM Drive works" is not a controversial view because most people have no idea what you're talking about (I had to Google it myself).

alacombe5y ago

> I have controversial views

This is nowhere controversial.

Try to be a constitutional originalist in the Sillicon Valley / tech sites, and we'll continue this conversation...

dahdum5y ago

> Try to be a constitutional originalist in the Sillicon Valley / tech sites, and we'll continue this conversation...

I don't think it's as rare or controversial as you think, many people just haven't formed a full opinion on judicial interpretation. Textualism in particular appeals to STEM folks. We've needlessly politicized them as Red Team vs Blue Team, when they don't see themselves as anything close to that. They're all first and foremost legal nerds.

Now if you're making pro-life arguments wrapped with original intent, I can see you getting some aggressive pushback.

aerovistae5y ago

I'm already upset.

rriepe5y ago

So if I tell my EM drive to leave and come back in six months, that's a relativistic bomb, right?

PicassoCTs5y ago

“I have nothing to hide” why even say that on a hacker-site? Of course everyone has, the rules and behaviours that make one oneself. If those behaviours and the bugs within them can be replicated, one becomes a easily manipulated puppet, a zombie going were ones master wants one to go, without any reason and lots of emotions, maybe occasionally wondering why ones actions result consistently in outcomes against ones own interest.

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