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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Nov 2016
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      SSC post is massive miss-forest-for-trees strawman, but I'm too tired to argue, so I'll just postrationally 🙄🙄🙄http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wolf/ …

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Nov 2016
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      Nobody is denying there are nice misunderstood people in tent. It's that they're idiots and the camel's nose is in the tent too. Evil camel.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Nov 2016
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      While we're bandying animal fables around, how about wolf in sheep's clothing? Or the scorpion and frog?

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Nov 2016
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      It's not crying wolf. It's belling the cat. If shitshow causes no harm it'll because people fought to contain it, not because false alarm

      9:16 PM - 16 Nov 2016
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        2. David Manheim‏ @davidmanheim 16 Nov 2016
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          I don't agree, but I also think your audience and cintext differs greatly from Scott's, which explains why he sees it differently.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Nov 2016
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          it has nothing to do with context or audience. He is making basic thinking mistakes that I don't have the energy to fight.

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        2. Peter Borah‏ @PeterBorah 16 Nov 2016
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          I don't think Scott's point is that Trump/his voters are "nice", it's that racism is a lazy analysis. They're many other bad things.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Nov 2016
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          I'll just let my brief critique stand as is without further elaboration, which would not help anything.

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        2. Navin Kabra‏ @NGKabra 16 Nov 2016
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          "Y2K Bug was not a real problem; just over-reaction by software industry."

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Nov 2016
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          precisely the syndrome

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        1. 28.4‏ @28point4 17 Nov 2016
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          maybe not false this time, but bad warnings so many times in past. Cannot change past, Romney was not a wolf.

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        2. Matt Idell‏ @mattidell 17 Nov 2016
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          Many will claim their fight contained it, but how will we know? Would there have been internment camps if we didn't intervene?

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Nov 2016
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          I personally don't care who gets or claims the credit so long as the containment efforts work

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