mistercow

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by mistercow 15y ago
You do in fact seem to be correct on that point. However, I do not think that your assertion about most of the images failing the Dost test is correct, or that you have adequate evidence to make such an assertion. I also don't think, if i
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by mistercow 15y ago
> Dan Lyons suggests that my defending Path on this issue means, because we’re an investor, that we’re a paid apologist (and much worse). Seems to me that Lyons was suggesting that Arrington was a paid apologist on the basis of the less
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by mistercow 15y ago
> There's nothing unreasonable about stating in your TOS that you can't have a subreddit the very existence of which breaks the law. That's not what they did. What they did was to say that suggestive content featuring minors is prohib
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by mistercow 15y ago
I disagree that the Dost Test even applies to those images. These were not "nude or seminude" images in the first place. They were, at most, girls in bikinis. These subreddits specifically did not allow semi-nudity.
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by mistercow 15y ago
Well see the problem is that we're not all smarter than we think. The Dunning-Kruger effect means that some of us think we're much smarter than we actually are. Unfortunately, 99% of the code out there seems to be written by people in thi
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by mistercow 15y ago
There was nothing illegal on them. All of them were very careful to make sure of that.
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by mistercow 15y ago
Virtually none of the crucial citations on that source seem very reputable; just lots of links to pop-psychology sources, and links to the authors' own books. Very sketchy.
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by mistercow 15y ago
>You feel betrayed when a site like reddit says that child porn is bad No, I feel betrayed when reddit, a community that grew because it did not limit expression that was within the law, bans "suggestive or sexual content featuring mino
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by mistercow 15y ago
> which isn't really a viable point on a website It's a viable point on a website like reddit, which built its community on a no-censorship basis. They're free to do with their business as they like, but I'm free to feel betrayed when t
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by mistercow 15y ago
Yes, but it's an Apple with multiline lambdas vs. an Orange with only single-line lambdas.
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by mistercow 15y ago
>Today we are adding another rule: No suggestive or sexual content featuring minors. It's good to see that smut like Romeo and Juliet is no longer welcome on reddit.
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by mistercow 15y ago
In point of fact, nothing under discussion here is child porn. Child porn implies porn , and none of this was porn.
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by mistercow 15y ago
> Even though images like "13yearoldinabikini.jpg" are legal, they are almost certainly scraped from some unsuspecting teenager's Facebook album. Can you explain what you mean by "predatory"? I understand that it gives you the heeby jee
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by mistercow 15y ago
There's no censorship here. They analyze the file and tell you if they think it's malicious. You are free to do with that information as you will.
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by mistercow 15y ago
Then go to the preferences and uncheck "Enable phishing and malware protection".
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by mistercow 18y ago
Sure, having an organization strategy is a good plan, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. The problem I have is with people claiming that their way is the "right" way without having any legitimate scientific backing for the claim.
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by mistercow 18y ago
I wonder if, one day, people will realize that none of this stuff really matters. Write and comment your code clearly, think your designs through, and comply with your team's conventions so that people know what to expect. None of this stuf