mirimir

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811.
by mirimir 7y ago
Sure, I think. You just default client apps to all mainstream filters. So new users see nothing alarming. At least, until they start tweaking.
812.
by mirimir 7y ago
Some huge percentage of Western mass media is illegal under Saudi law.
813.
by mirimir 7y ago
Anywhere, given requisite extradition agreements.
814.
by mirimir 7y ago
Good point. I was thinking China, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, etc. But then, in the EU, you have the Right to be Forgotten ;)
815.
by mirimir 7y ago
Yes. The problem is that, once the ability exists to nuke whatever you consider to be illegal, someone else will use it to nuke stuff that you like. If every country could impose its standards on the Internet, there'd be no Internet. I
816.
by mirimir 7y ago
> Option 1 effectively forces anyone who doesn't want to live on 8Chan off of the Internet. If you have adequate filters, you don't need to see anything that you don't like. I do agree on the antitrust point.
817.
by mirimir 7y ago
I do understand why loss of §230 protection is dangerous, both directly and as precedent. Threatened intermediaries would just do whatever needed to avoid liability. And incentives for alternatives would likely remain inadequate. Also, I&#x
818.
by mirimir 7y ago
Yes, decentralized wouldn't be enough. I'd want anonymously decentralized.
819.
by mirimir 7y ago
I agree with you 100% about current Internet content providers. And I wouldn't miss them if they disappeared. But they aren't the Internet. It was always intended as P2P.
820.
by mirimir 7y ago
This has been my understanding for many years. And so it's ironic how increased moderation to increase marketability brings immunity of service providers under 230 into question. It's almost like 230 has been a bait and switch plo
821.
by mirimir 7y ago
The real bottom line criticism of encrypted email is that people will screw up, and leak metadata or plaintext. But arguably that also applies to any encrypted messaging system. Not just email. So I'm not sure exactly what the point
822.
by mirimir 7y ago
Huh? Hasn't everone know that for years? Maybe a decade?
823.
by mirimir 7y ago
> ... I do want a map that works like a map - something I can explore and annotate. You can do that with Google maps, if you're logged in. You can create a custom map, with multiple places marked, and with annotations. You get a URL
824.
by mirimir 7y ago
From what I've read over the years, it's pretty clear that stents are a con game. And from what I know personally about Abbott, I'm not at all surprised that they'd bribe researchers to yield the results that they wanted
825.
by mirimir 7y ago
I agree that models for the overall development of the universe are a lot like models for global climate change. The scale is vastly different, of course. But I bet that the relative cell sizes in our models are similar. Because they'r
826.
by mirimir 7y ago
> Climate change models are just directly discretized physical equations. I'm no expert, but it's my understanding that they're hugely more complicated than that implies. Sure, there's lots of physics there. But also
827.
by mirimir 7y ago
Thanks again. Overfitting a model for global climate change, for example, isn't an issue, because you're not interested in something like physics. I mean, it's based on physics, but that's buried way down in the model. B
828.
by mirimir 7y ago
Thanks. That sounds a little like parameter fitting. But maybe that's ignorantly harsh. The fantasy of simple being beautiful and so more likely "true" (which itself is an iffy concept). Anyway, isn't Λ basically a const
829.
by mirimir 7y ago
OK, so TFA says: > Combining the H0LiCOW and standard-candle measurements gives an H0 of 73.8 ± 1.1 km/s/Mpc, which differs from the ΛCDM value by 5.3 standard deviations. So what is it about ΛCDM that could lead to the discrep
830.
by mirimir 7y ago
Sure, I get that. But wouldn't folks feel pretty stupid if they'd tweaked their weapons enough that they no longer worked?
831.
by mirimir 7y ago
I must be missing something about this. I mean, we have a bunch of designs that were tested and then mass produced. Many thousands of them, altogether. They do need regular maintenance, of course. Such as replacing stuff that decayed, and
832.
by mirimir 7y ago
> This article is from 2015 ... Maybe Google had more competition in 2015. Although I find even that difficult to take seriously. Where else would they "take their money"? Facebook? I doubt that Facebook ads show up in web sear
833.
by mirimir 7y ago
Money quote from Google rep: > If there are concerns about invalid traffic, they should communicate that to us, and our Ad Traffic Quality team will monitor and evaluate their accounts as needed. Given all the comments here, and everythi
834.
by mirimir 7y ago
Thanks! Lots of great links there.
835.
by mirimir 7y ago
I was thinking about seeking an invitation, but that totally turns me off. I hate reading spam, trolling and insane gibberish. Unless it's amusing, or thought provoking, anyway. But I also hate moderation by deletion or editing, especi
836.
by mirimir 7y ago
I think that it's somehow distinct from NAB. It just gives you ~everything that got posted to Reddit. Which is very useful for research purposes. And it fixes another Reddit defect, wherein it won't display full comment history, u
837.
by mirimir 7y ago
How about Snew?[0] I see TFA.[1] So maybe everything. But I guess that replies aren't implemented :( > Snew is an open-source parody client for reddit. > It is a client forked from the reddit source code that runs entirely in you
838.
by mirimir 7y ago
It's not accidental that young biologists dissect fetal pigs.
839.
by mirimir 7y ago
Clever. They finessed it by inventing new names, rather than combining parts of the parent species.
840.
by mirimir 7y ago
Exactly. It's my vague impression that you get species that can't interbreed after extended geographic/habitat isolation. But short of that, it's a tangled mess, with complex fertility patterns.

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