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by allthenews 9y ago
>And honestly, the fact you think this "ultimately caters to a tiny fraction of gamers while worsening the experience for the majority" tells me you're part of the problem; you're probably often toxic to other players
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I was going to agree that forcing was a less than ideal word choice, hence my edit, but it occurs to me that we've invested time and money into these games, only to have rules potentially changed on the whim of developers. They're
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I'd really rather not have video game designers and video game journalists dictating their versions morality to me. I'll bet this will turn into the usual identity politics nightmare that ultimately caters to a tiny fraction of ga
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GP claimed civilization would be unable to rise again, implying thousands of years of knowledge would disappear. Wikipedia is available for download and requires less than 15GB of space[1]. This is an unprecedented density of self documenti
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That doesn't justify the fact that data was harvested for what amounts to targeted propaganda. And this isn't some kind of whataboutism. Attention needs to be drawn to these abuses of private data, regardless of where they occur o
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by allthenews 9y ago
>Here is some food for thought though, about the potential for our civilization to fall; it will not rise again. We’ve accessed far too much petrochemical wealth and burned it, and the same is true of coal, and metal resources...exploit
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by allthenews 9y ago
>I'd qualify myself as fitting in the norm of young CS students I say this in total seriousness, and with no ill intent: based on a number of CS twenty-something males that I've met in the Valley and Seattle over the last coupl
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by allthenews 9y ago
>There is of course, some effect but it's relatively minor for the middle class This was my only point, because low and middle class markets and income are continuous spectra, and displacement at the base puts pressure on the rest o
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by allthenews 9y ago
Any influx of residents puts pressure on local and regional housing markets. Extra pressure on even low income rentals has an appreciating effect on the rest of the housing chain, because on the short term housing supply is inelastic, and s
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by allthenews 9y ago
Sure, if by matured, you mean that zuck has refined his ability to harvest and use personal data without any sort of qualms. What Facebook has become is technically brilliant, but the "dumb fuck" attitude shows no signs of having
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by allthenews 9y ago
>So with that said, why do you believe that it's unethical to call out Trump and by extension CA's actions Nothing in that wall of text justifies your twisting of my words. >I don't think that we're exaggerating he
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>The implication of "black people commit more crimes" is that there is something about being black that involves a degree of criminality It sounds like you are the racist here.
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From my post, again: >But it is unethical to exaggerate and hold only part of the political system accountable Please consider what I wrote in sum. Partisanship and exaggeration are antithetical to trust.
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So, in your opinion, this justifies the false headline of the article, and is reason to turn a blind eye to the same potential data abuse when committed by the other party? >They are all the same” isn’t just cynical and useless. It’s als
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by allthenews 9y ago
Sure. But it is unethical to exaggerate and hold only part of the political system accountable for shady or illegal practices. This is part of a consistent pattern. Our media has become as hopelessly partisan as our unfortunate two party sy
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by allthenews 9y ago
So, are we witnessing a modern form of selection pressure? Are genes related to ADHD favorable for not only coping with, but taking advantage of increasing availability of information in our modern age?
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by allthenews 9y ago
Let's be realistic here. This headline is nothing but partisanship. The only reason this is exaggerated as a "data breech" is because of the connection to the Trump campaign. The real scandal is that such data is so easily ha
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You equate driving cars and living on superfund sites with consuming illicit substances and wilfully committing violent acts, and then have the audacity to call someone else's contribution juvenile? Does personal responsibility exist i
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>It has been shown time and time again that black Americans are disproportionately arrested and sentenced. And you also conveniently ignore that blacks disproportionately commit crimes, especially violent crimes. Such discussions cannot
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>from who gets more police attention, arrests, charges, plea deals and how heavy the sentences are None of this detracts from the fact that these laws are ultimately relatively clear in their restrictions, compared to China's social
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by allthenews 9y ago
This parallels much of mathematics. Many formulations, even in physics, admit so called trivial solutions which amount conceptually to zero.
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by allthenews 9y ago
What? This isn't about privilege, this is about fashion, and white guilt is increasingly in.
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Why isn't it SOP to isolate safety critical components from the web? Is this just incompetence/cost savings, or is there some other legitimate reason for building this vulnerability into so much of our global infrastructure?
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What you are seeing is simply a reflection of what is socially acceptable.
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Is this inevitable? In the age of Big Data, can we realistically do anything to stop the progressive intrusion of surveillance onto our privacy? Particularly when a single secret datacenter is enough to circumvent any law or amendment, what
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by allthenews 9y ago
I am not a security researcher, and I do not speak for the person you are replying to, but I do believe that Intel's documented history of unethical, anticompetitive practices against AMD, for example, deliberate compiler handicapping
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I wonder if this is could be Intel up to its old tricks again.
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CTS-Labs Announces Findings of 13 Security Vulnerabilities in Ryzen and EPYC(google.com)
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The problem is not that the topics themselves are toxic, but that only one point of view is identified as such. I only mention these "flamebait" topics as examples, not to discuss them or choose a side. Gamergate Gender Equality&#
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by allthenews 9y ago
You don't seem to understand that terms like "toxic" are as arbitrary and subject to abuse as the word "obscene". In fact, I'm not even sure as to what you're getting at. Are you seriously suggesting that

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