mike741

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by mike741 5y ago
Not everything is a backdoor, but Windows absolutely is and that's part of why people dislike Windows and voluntarily use the older versions. MacOS, and some cell phone OS's, at least let the user choose if/when to update in
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by mike741 5y ago
automatic updates without the user's consent are the very definition of a 'backdoor.' just because a new name for it "update" has been commercially normalized doesn't mean the original name has lost its meaning
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by mike741 5y ago
there are multiple comments in this thread attesting to the fact that these detection systems often don't work.
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by mike741 5y ago
when you examine the video being reacted to, the reaction doesn't seem odd at all.
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by mike741 5y ago
It seems OK to me, care enough to give a specific example of a comment you'd prefer disallowed?
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by mike741 5y ago
Some have already cancelled their Premium subscriptions, others have discovered alternatives to Youtube such as Odysee. So complaining does lead to change, even if it isn't a change in Youtube's agenda.
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by mike741 5y ago
Here is an easy example to understand the utility of the dislike count: Imagine you are looking for a How-To video on something very common but specific, such as changing a car part or Windows setting, and that when you search for this you
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by mike741 5y ago
your comment amounts to name-calling and adds little to no value to the conversation in comparison to the comments you want censored.
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by mike741 5y ago
"trolling dynamic" is not really meaningful
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by mike741 5y ago
Since it's about to be hidden and unverifiable: Susan Wojcicki's "Freedom of Expression Award" (sponsored by Youtube) video currently has 227 upvotes, 56000 downvotes, and 185000 views. That's a 99.6% downvote ratio
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by mike741 5y ago
i waited a full minute before right-click -> open image in new tab, and it still opens the thumbnail-sized image instead of the original. i tried the side-column as well and got the same result. EDIT: strange, i tried the same process ag
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by mike741 5y ago
taking drugs is not the same as wearing clothes
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by mike741 5y ago
what standard? the differences between finding content distasteful and completely deleting said content are self-evident.
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by mike741 6y ago
Why would you compare a search engine to a social network? And to the single worst social network at that? If you set your standards as low as possible, just about everything "gets the job done."
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by mike741 6y ago
OK, but is 2 seconds of googling before saying "deliberate disinformation" the standard we want to set for ourselves?
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by mike741 6y ago
Proof doesn't really matter. Most theories you have in your life are unproven. Scientific hypotheses should be falsifiable which means unproven. There are dozens of comments in this section making unproven claims that you don't se
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by mike741 6y ago
I think that definition has too much overlap with the already popularized coinage "Phishing" where a user is baited into giving up something.
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by mike741 6y ago
The article equates "trolling" with phishing and harassment. It states "Trolling is a hard concept to define" and uses this as a convenient excuse to make false equivalences. The term "troll" is actually easy t
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by mike741 6y ago
"The law says that you must always follow police instructions." out of curiosity, which law is this or where does it say that?
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by mike741 6y ago
how often?
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by mike741 7y ago
Why does this sign-in not show up the "Apps & Websites" section on Facebook? How do I make it stop recognizing me without disabling sign-ins on other sites? It sure would be nice if these questions and their answers were inclu
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by mike741 7y ago
As a counter-counterpoint, every TV station runs with some form of bias.
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by mike741 7y ago
i think you just answered your own question there at the end
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by mike741 8y ago
how does the current system, or any voting system, prevent coercion? If there's a gun to your head, or some other ultimatum, it seems far too late to be worrying about your vote being shared. Even if votes aren't all logged, you c
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by mike741 8y ago
why would negative mass fill in the space rather than just "zero mass?"
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by mike741 8y ago
"how do we know that Banksy's art is all by the same person?" We don't. "What prevents others to publish art under Banksy's name (with or without approval)?" Whoever owns or manages Banksy's brand and
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by mike741 8y ago
"You seem to be saying some mental events don’t have physical causes, or maybe that some mental properties are not encoded physically." I think he is only saying that an empirical language alone will not be enough to relate mental
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by mike741 8y ago
Right. So is 1+1=2 not a tautology then? Mrlieter seemed to be implying it could not be proven.
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by mike741 8y ago
That makes sense, thank you. However, at what point is the symbol "2" introduced in such a scheme? Is it before addition, or after? At some point it is given a definition, like S(S(0)) where S(0)=1 and S(X)=X+1, at which point isn
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by mike741 8y ago
isnt 1+1=2 true in the same way that 0=0 is true, namely by definition? its proven analytically, 2 is defined as 1 greater than 1, 1 less than 3, 1/2 of 4, etc, all of which derive from 0=0, which is a tautology. I really don't un

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