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g-b-r
2y ago
User-Agent: bender Disallow: /my_shiny_metal_ass xD
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g-b-r
2y ago
Well not my experience, but yeah let's hope that something much better replaces it soon
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g-b-r
2y ago
Most "fact checkers" actually rarely get it wrong. As with any law anyhow, of course there have to be enough judicial safeguards.
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g-b-r
2y ago
Well I see your opinions similarly...
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g-b-r
2y ago
I think your idea of totalitarianism is messed up, or maybe you think it would be the government to enforce the law (democratic countries typically have separation between the judicial and the executive branch - yes, the US much less so). I
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g-b-r
2y ago
> Also who is responsible if you transmit lie somebody told you as a fact. Lying means knowingly telling the false
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g-b-r
2y ago
There's ongoing disagreement because people lie when they say "I believe x" (when it's actually "I've been paid to support y") On most subjects people would come to an agreement after a while, if they we
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2y ago
There's every problem in fake truths, and the recent phenomenon is people so entrenched in troll farm lies to come to believe that truth is impossible. Politics is the process of lying so well that you can get things your way.
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g-b-r
2y ago
The opposition can be targeted with any whatsoever law, in any country that doesn't have immunity for politicians (none does for any politician, by the way). Try to think of some of what you hate of your country's politics, or som
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g-b-r
2y ago
This is the single thing that would fix most democracy problems, I can't believe that someone is trying it!!! (and have a even harder time believing that someone is against the idea)
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g-b-r
2y ago
It's not a matter of habit but of widespread usage If you're a developer, for almost every job or open source job you'll be required to use git, but I think most people long of moving away from it
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2y ago
For the rare company seriously interested in security, a way to reward it might be occasional audits on the work of some randomly picked employee The audits would grade the work in comparison to the company's accepted level of security
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g-b-r
3y ago
I don't know for soldiers, but for those on the other side there are clearly different levels of hell
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3y ago
As to the reliability of some more reputable news sources, anyhow... https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/04/cnn-staff-pro-...
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3y ago
What matters most from the journalists is their video reports, especially the live ones In the current situation I don't think Hamas can exert very much control on the population, anyhow. The handful of times that other journalists man
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g-b-r
3y ago
It can have a very wide range of nastiness
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g-b-r
3y ago
> We are inundated with stories from this conflict; what is CNN going to add to the conversation For example it could add informing a much wider span of the population and so influencing the governments? I guarantee you that not everyone
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g-b-r
3y ago
And, it must be so hard to tell if a Palestinian with a rifle is of Hamas (or another fighting group), or a civilian...
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g-b-r
3y ago
Or stop living in normal apartments and move to dedicated bomb-here Hamas barracks?
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g-b-r
3y ago
https://cpj.org/2024/03/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-... is a good independent source to get started (see also https://cpj.org/2024/03/attacks-arrests-threats-censorship-t... )
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g-b-r
3y ago
That healthcare workers comparison does indeed not make much sense, it should be healthcare workers involved in retrieving the injured, which are indeed at very high risk (even though theoretically they shouldn't be targeted)
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g-b-r
3y ago
Yes unfortunately those are the identified and confirmed deaths, there are for sure many still buried under the rubble which are not accounted for. Unfortunately it seems to be in Palestine's (and even Hamas) best interest to be truthf
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g-b-r
3y ago
Besides the statistics I advise anyone to also look at the reports of how the individual deaths happened, I've seen them very little discussed in western media. There's often enough evidence to show an extremely likely deliberate
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g-b-r
3y ago
SURE it really seems in Hamas best interest to shoot the few journalists present... And it's Hamas that's preventing international journalists to enter... They're terrorists but not stupid
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g-b-r
3y ago
It's probably that then yes
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g-b-r
3y ago
Yeah you're not wrong, I'd stop half way around 2005, or maybe in the alternate world where the whatwg, Chrome etc never happened ;)
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g-b-r
3y ago
Yes thanks, I had noticed it then, I guess I stopped following ACM for more than I remembered. Amazing anyhow.
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g-b-r
3y ago
Davvero? Super weird, I absolutely never. Maybe it's a regional thing?
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g-b-r
3y ago
and accessibility, and standards compliance, and maintainable code...
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g-b-r
3y ago
Ow I guarantee you that it's NOT used in more formal registers, now that you showed me that Wikipedia article maybe I already read the term on some history book, but no, it's never used now. Looking it up a little it appeared to
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