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by 4bpp 6y ago
Can it, though? I think a key argument being made is that Paypal is essentially without alternative. People may have convulsions on social media and write angry messages to support hotlines, but hardly anybody is in a position to actually r
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by 4bpp 6y ago
How does this analogy work? As I understand it, the reason a physical business would ban someone engaging in the behaviour you described is that it would create costly first-order work for the business (cleaning up) and result in a second-o
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Counterpoints: - Attention is a zero-sum game. In the past, we'd get more of our news from local papers, radio stations or lunch break gossip, resulting in a natural diversity of viewpoints. Nowadays, it's all the same social medi
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by 4bpp 6y ago
> You tell them “you are not who you think you are, you’re wrong about your own life” > Those are perfect examples—have you ever had a problem getting someone to refer to you by your preferred pronoun? Have you ever been denied access
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Two out of three of these points seem to be primarily polemic. I am not aware of anyone (okay, maybe outside an insane fringe) who, in any meaningful way, is seeking to "forbid trans people to exist" - how do you not allow someone
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Well, and yet here we are in a thread that is essentially about how Mozilla collectively failed to do their job under Eich's replacement. It may be obvious that a CEO with a political stance that is anathema to some subset of employees
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by 4bpp 6y ago
I imagine that if you compiled an idiomatic program in a language like this down to machine code, the result would actually look quite different from assembly generated for an idiomatic imperative program for the same task. For instance, ev
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by 4bpp 6y ago
> The mathematical terminology harkens back to the 1950 Does it? The earliest instances I can find are in Mac Lane's 1971 book or thereabouts; the older term was "triple". Wikipedia dates APL to 1966. "Monad" has
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Anecdotes abound, when this is really not the sort of debate that should be conducted using anecdotes (cf. https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/16/cardiologists-and-chin... ). Sure, some societies have uncensore
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by 4bpp 6y ago
The post I originally responded to talked about the existence of a demographic that reacts with offense to open-source licenses being violated but is indifferent towards or even advocates for music piracy, and contended that their ethics is
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by 4bpp 6y ago
But are the well-off tech folks the same ones who would defend open source licenses?
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by 4bpp 6y ago
I don't think GPL software developers usually work for US software megacorps, and I haven't see people get up in arms about violations of non-copyleft licenses (how would you even violate those? Not crediting the original develope
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by 4bpp 6y ago
I don't think "weird" is the right term for an ethical system that is more concerned with the rights of those who are perceived as underdogs or disadvantaged than with the rights of those who are perceived as excessively succ
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Your point? If those lynchings had been orchestrated by people meeting up in person instead, nobody could know what people are talking about or help police track the source of the messages either. In either case, to actually lynch someone,
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by 4bpp 6y ago
You can't do physical harm with encryption (unless you want to count superficial burns acquired from touching a Bitcoin-mining GPU), though. The presence of guns is a necessary and pretty much sufficient condition for certain classes o
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Consider: prior to the telephone, to monitor a conversation government had to actually send people to where the conversation happened, and that meant that they could barely monitor any conversations - and yet society continued to function.
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by 4bpp 6y ago
I don't think that any of the surveillance powers that the state is demanding with respect to electronics actually map that neatly to what was possible before electronics emerged. We're talking about conversations rather than phys
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Yeah, well, easier said than done. How do you make an organisation become less partisan when every issue it touches is of core interest to the party politics of the day? They say politics is interested in you even when you are not intereste
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by 4bpp 6y ago
I decided to go back and look at what came out of the handful of headlines that filtered through to me in the past years that made me think this to be the case, and it seems like the situation is probably not (yet) quite as bad as I made it
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Which side are you even insinuating is "my team"...? I can assure you I care about civil rights legislation in the US (which affects the whole Western world, since the US controls every major piece of ASCII-based WWW) more than I
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Might wind up being a net loss, because now Democrat-associated civil rights organisations such as the ACLU will be reluctant to be seen opposing FISA courts lest they be accused of providing fire support to Trump. Nominally one would expec
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Isn't there still a key difference there? Inserting the latter snippet in your Golang function does not require you to change anything about the function's definition or calling conventions. From the outside, it continues looking
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by 4bpp 6y ago
> It's all to fight spam and to better track user activity (and, if we're being charitable to them, perhaps to stymie deliberate propaganda/fake news). Who is that being charitable to? The Chinese government also censors t
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by 4bpp 6y ago
Who would be both interested in and able to champion such a change, though? Spaced Japanese text would look at least as jarring to someone who is used to its present state as English text following the German capitalization pattern (all Nou
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by 4bpp 7y ago
How big a security risk is it, really? Firefox Mobile apparently has a 0.66% usage share, which is lower than desktop Linux, and desktop Linux anecdotally is pretty much a non-target for malware authors. I, for my part, blocked my FF Mobile
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by 4bpp 7y ago
The difference is that all the unhabitable land on Earth is still nominally owned by someone, and human society has committed itself to treating these claims of ownership with a lot of respect. Modulo a few famous and very small exceptions,
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by 4bpp 7y ago
The third-gen Intel processors were the last ones that came in M (mobile) rather than U (ultra low power?) versions, resulting in performance that is still competitive [1] with the sort of 8th-gen U processors that are found in similar lapt
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by 4bpp 7y ago
I made this point in a more lengthy fashion in a parallel comment [0], but it seems really odd to me you would ignore the circumstance that the lion's share of the work towards endangering those civilians was done by the US, by recruit
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by 4bpp 7y ago
Invading Afghanistan endangered Afghan civilians, and recruiting Afghan civilians to work for the US while Afghanistan was not and was not going to be wrestled from the control of the Taliban endangered them. Why do you not consider this
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by 4bpp 7y ago
> The ability to put bases, air support of all kinds, intelligence, drones, etc. pretty much anywhere is basically beyond most of Europe. When a war broke out on their border (Libya), for better or worse there was an intervention. Obama

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