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Important note, because it isn't immediately obvious: Norton is bundling an optional cryptocurrency miner that they are offering as a product. Nothing here indicates that Norton is surreptitiously adding cryptominer malware on their
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(captcha) Microsoft Skype challenge: Can you solve this puzzle 10 times?(bleepingcomputer.com)
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I think maybe my comment wasn't really clear. I know the pro-diversity comments had a lot of upvotes, what I was pointing out was that they were nerfed by a moderation tool or algorithm, not by downvotes, as evidenced from going from t
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To be fair, every comment that didn't agree with the conclusion of the article was nerfed. The top comment on this post for most of its existence immediately left the top and within seconds jumped to being the very last comment at the
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I guess this is why these discussions are unproductive, because folks on both sides of debates on diversity efforts have contradictory anecdotal experiences. I know many women software engineers who've felt deeply, uniquely uncomfortab
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There's a chicken or egg problem with the "coven of witches" conjecture. I also don't think Gab is all that marginal. It seems to exist largely to facilitate conversations around perceived excesses with diversity efforts
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Maybe I didn't word it well enough, but I intend to comment on a broad category of discussion that I don't think is necessarily inappropriate according to the guidelines, but tends to produce unproductive, hostile conversations. I
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>One small counterpoint: Employers enjoy a bully pulpit on these issues. Employees with legitimate concerns about their employers' stances / policies sometimes can't even discuss them without the risk of losing their livel
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The strong opposition to diversity efforts has been a pretty common trait associated with the tech community/silicon valley. It seems reasonable that a subset of the culture that produced the work environment at Blizzard [1] or has his
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I'm not sure these sorts of articles provide much value on HN. By "these sorts of articles", I mean the ones that have claimed that "diversity efforts have gone too far this time ." Regardless of your support or op
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You're probably correct here. Flu cases are tracked due to its severity. Cold cases are likely not often even paid attention to by many of those experiencing them. Anecdotally, I and my friends and relatives hunkered down for COVID in
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>I think the same conclusion would have to be made here: if you send something and stick a 200 on it, the recipients are entitled to what you sent them. Disclaimer: I don't work with web tech, but wouldn't that also permit a lo
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>This entire debacle is a direct attack on journalists. As if this attack on a free press wasn't brazen enough, local PACs have already put out attack ads against the journalist, to frame this as the governor "holding fake news
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I totally agree with you in principle. Everything the reporter accessed was publicly accessible. That said, it seems like a prosecutor could articulate an argument that the reporter accessed information he had no reasonable grounds to belie
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IANAL, but the local Missouri computer crime statute is very broad [1]. Technically, the reporter seems to have factually "Accessed a computer, a computer system, or a computer network, and intentionally examined information about an
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This definitely is not "much ado about nothing." I prefer the Verge article on this one though [1]. Relevant quote from the article: > They turned the case over to Cole County Prosecuting Attorney Locke Thompson on Monday, Dece
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Thompson is a small-town Missourian elected prosecutor, facing pressure from fellow conservatives to "hold the fake news accountable" as stated in the latest attack ad against the reporter from a conservative PAC [1]. At best it&#
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I don't think it is that big a stretch. There's more details in the Verge article[1]: > They turned the case over to Cole County Prosecuting Attorney Locke Thompson on Monday, December 27. Governor Parson then held a press conf
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They aren't dependent on the feds to bring charges. The feds' involvement would be for prosecuting the reporter for CFAA violations. Missouri has its own computer intrusion legislation that would be the basis for charges from the
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> What this proves is that we need emergency lighting systems in the event of a crash. This is the first time I've been introduced to this idea, and it now feels immediately obvious that we should've been doing this for a long
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I think the idea that we are in a unique time of civil strife is a myth. From the actual Civil War, to the militant labor movement, to the first red scare, to McCarthyism and the Civil Rights Movement, to the anti-Vietnam war movement, Amer
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Regardless of the terminology, the supposed "deep state" is often a fill-in for one's own personal misunderstanding of institutional momentum and basic functions of the government. "The Government" isn't really
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>Ahh you weren't really asking, just trying to prove a point that conservatives are allowed to speak freely on twitter, as long as they don't accidentally set off a COVID misinformation ML classifier in their criticism of a gov
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I don't think that there is anything inherently "conservative" about misinformation about a disease in the midst of a pandemic. If Biden decides tomorrow to claim COVID is a hoax, vaccines have microchips, drinking bleach cur
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What is it that conservatives are not able to say on Twitter due to restrictions?
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>The last time I checked a 65" digital signage display was roughly 5x the cost of a similarly sized television. The question then is why would any company pay 5x for a device without smart functionality? Does that mean there's
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> people on the opposite side of the privileged class are barely allowed to exist on those platforms - only if they police their speech very carefully to avoid breaking a myriad of vague and unwritten rules, and even then they're st
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One could interpret this as the software is "sponsored" by the governments that finance their operations and purchase their products. This would be countries like Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Germany, and Kazakhstan, not necessarily Is
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Black Lives Matter is a slogan used by disparate groups for a variety of causes. The slogan "Black Lives Matter" is necessarily one focused on the human rights of black people. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s in t
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Generally speaking, organizations providing statements in favor of human rights have been in fairly safe territory. Historically, businesses supporting desegregation, the Civil Rights Act, LGBTQ inclusivity, or other human rights issues hav

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