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The US government absolutely has its own government run media outlets such as Voice of America and foreign governments do ban them. For example, the Taliban has attempted to ban VOA in Afghanistan: https://www.insidevoa.com/
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Fox News and MSNBC are propaganda for American political parties not foreign governments. They have a much stronger constitutional argument for 1st Amendment protection than Russia Today or China Central TV would.
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It is concerning that this bill seemingly includes a very specific carve out for Yelp[0] which is not owned by China, Russia, Iran or North Korea as far as I'm aware. Sure seems like the bill probably does more than just crackdown on T
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Related: The gaming division of Warner Bros. is also planning to double down on "live service" games following the failure of the Suicide Squad game rather than single player games like their highly successful Harry Potter game.[0
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The so-called "Confederate flag" that people recognize was never the actual flag of the Confederacy. It was actually just the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. The original flag of the Confederacy actually looks very s
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Apple's app store monopoly deprives users of the freedom to install apps that Apple disapproves of on their own devices. The benefit to users is that you can install apps that violate app store policies such as games about the US Civil
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> THE GOAL OF THIS ENGINE IS NOT PERFORMANCE. My crude experiments show that this engine is 50x-100x slower than V8 This should be obvious given that it's written in Java. A C++ implementation like V8 is always going to be much more
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I suspect a major reason for this is the coming end of life of Windows 10. This older hardware is still perfectly good and usable but often doesn't support Windows 11 because of some weird decision by Microsoft. Seems like many of thes
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If ProtonMail was solely for users who want to maximize privacy, it'd be as difficult to use a ProtonMail address as your primary email as it is to do your normal web browsing through Tor. Services that are primarily used to hide shady
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I'd agree with that as well. Contributing to open source on your own time should be a choice not an expectation. It shouldn't be something that people do solely for the sake of advancing their career.
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I'd say it depends upon how you define "capitalism" because most advocates of "capitalism" define it as an economy of free and voluntary exchanges while most of its detractors define it as an economy of giant corpor
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One reason why employers looking at open source contributions would be pernicious is that it biases them towards hiring people who have no life outside of writing code. That perpetuates a prevalent culture in the industry where people can&#
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I don't think any game has really done full justice to the political process yet. The Democracy series is very limited in terms of its model and obviously the games about elections (like President Infinity) only cover the elections. Th
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Gemini seems to be very far from ready for a public release. Google would have been better off delaying it until it didn't have tons of embarrassing bugs, many of which have been turned into "evidence" for conspiracy theories
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That's ultimately why the loser of a civil case should be on the hook for all attorneys fees and court costs. I'd actually go further and argue that a plaintiff who initiates a frivolous lawsuit should have to pay damages to the v
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At most, the White House's opinion on C/C++ will impact government contractors and people who care about the White House's opinion on matters it isn't qualified to speak about. I'd only be worried if I were in the b
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If Target and Walmart want these subscriptions to be useful, they need to drop the minimum amounts for deliveries. I can order a $5 item on Amazon and get it without paying an extra fee and without being expected to pay a tip because the co
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The elephant in the room that is driving inflation is energy prices. Every good has to be transported and that requires energy. Every production facility also requires electricity to run machines. Energy prices happen to be going up because
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The main downside with GPL licenses, from the perspective of corporations, is the requirement to share your changes if you distribute the code. GPL v3 and AGPL were both designed to close loopholes that were useful for certain corporations
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Over the past 40 years, we've had a series of presidents and state/local leaders who are allergic to spending the money necessary to solve social problems. You aren't going to solve mental health and drug addiction without sp
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You could potentially do the same thing with a class but it'd be really verbose: Class Age { private int value = null; public boolean SetValue(int value) { if (value >= 0 && value <= 150) { this.value = v
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Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Remote: Yes (fully since March 2020), strongly preferred. Flexible on time zones. Willing to relocate: No (occasional travel fine) Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript/Node/
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The main reason why developers do rewrites is because it is easier to read your own code than it is to read somebody else's code. Doing a rewrite means you only have to work with code that was written by your current coworkers or by yo
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What if somebody posts a dangerous lie on a centralized platform and blocks everybody who criticizes it? Even if it doesn't allow deleting comments, you can effectively the same result with just block. A mute-only social media platform
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If you're at the absolute bottom of the market in terms of price and quality then your sales are probably somewhat inelastic. Especially if people have to buy your product or a similar product. It's the same reason why prices keep
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If you shop in a chain store, they generally ask for your email and phone number usually in exchange for discounts. Giving them this information opts you into their email and sometimes text spam lists meaning several messages a day, some of
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Case in point would be when Apple implemented a change to iOS requiring apps to ask if you want to be tracked. I believe almost everybody says no which cost the industry a great deal of ad money.
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This is not going to be well-received by their customers and is likely to send business to McDonald's and Burger King instead. They also really shouldn't be doing "suggestive selling" whether with humans or machines. Jus
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Capitalism is perfectly fine with FOSS software especially if it can use the idealism behind it to save on labor costs. Especially since the definitions of both "free software" and "open source" explicitly reject non-com
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Is it possible that they pass USB-C charging and data privacy laws in Europe because the companies affected are primarily American companies not European companies? Likewise, I imagine they pass anti-fossil fuel laws because there aren&#x

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