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When someone (or some entity such as business) enjoys a particular freedom, the way they exercise it is meaningful. Inaction is a form of complicity; allowing hate to remain on your platform is an acknowledgement of your favor towards the lofty principles outlined in the arguments above *in spite of* the problems enumerated here and the realities faced by marginalized people today. A purely moral consideration thus suggests that exercising your right to free association in your role as a decision-maker at a business is a just response to this status quo.
Should private platforms engage in censorship? January 30, 2023 on Drew DeVault's blog
drewdevault.com
The word is *lessons*
Using separate language allows for separate behavior.
When a person speaks a corporate language instead of regular-person language, they behave in corporate ways instead of regular-person ways.
Which means they’d do things and accept things as a corporate person that regular-person they would not accept.
No Learnings
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It eventually got bulldozed by multiple attempts of normalizing over Go practices, which essentially leave you on your own whenever it comes to operational aspects of the development cycle, and then containerization took over and the whole pipeline was voided of ways to do the nice stateful thing that saves everyone hours of rollouts and draining and reconnection storms with state losses.
A Pipeline Made of Airbags
ferd.ca
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