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The Rise of Archaeologists Anonymous(unherd.com)
8 points by pannSun 4y ago|9 comments
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by pannSun 4y ago
The same S&P that had no trouble rating billions of worth of worthless CDOs as AAA quality, has suddenly become much more cautious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_%26_poors#Role_in_the...
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by pannSun 4y ago
"I don't understand why people are upset when they get banned from the 40% of all roads, parks, and sidewalks that are owned by GloboCorp. In the old days of private homes, sure it sucked when you got thrown out of a houseparty, b
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by pannSun 4y ago
> the company will work toward “pinpointing many types of online harmful content, including toxicity and misinformation .” If your goal is not to identify misinformation (or political misinformation, or medical misinformation) but onl
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by pannSun 4y ago
> Because being kicked off Twitter is hardly the same as not being able to dial 911 The Civil Rights Act also prevents Twitter (or any company) from banning users based on protected characteristics (e.g. race and sex). It is not remotely
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by pannSun 4y ago
You can't have what both ways, specifically? User-facing spending and capacity limits that are hard to accidentally set too high, without also unilaterally and without warning terminating compute nodes for opaque, alleged ToS violati
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by pannSun 4y ago
You are being deliberately obtuse. No matter how one answers your question, most internet users still have unaccountable 3rd parties opaquely choosing who they communicate with [1]. Do you admit this is a problem, but you just don't se
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by pannSun 4y ago
Keep in mind that "gun deaths" include suicides. I'm not sure what kind of policy choice is informed by counting suicide and homicide under the same category. But it does make the gun problem seem more severe to the inattenti
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by pannSun 4y ago
Let's ignore for the moment that their CEO is paid over $3 million/year [1], and focus on the $200K for the junior software engineer. If that's what it takes to hire a programmer in CA, then maybe Mozilla should headquarter s
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by pannSun 4y ago
> That will also help the company prepare for an "extensive independent audit" — as required by the new law — which is aimed at protecting internet users from illegal content and reducing the spread of harmful but legal materi
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by pannSun 4y ago
This would not be any less wrong if there was a law mandating it, instead of informal pressure.
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Apple demanded our apps filter some search terms from being returned(twitter.com)
56 points by pannSun 4y ago|15 comments
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by pannSun 4y ago
Yes, until every spark of freedom has been irreversibly extinguished, we are blameless for helping in that process.
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by pannSun 4y ago
Here are a few examples of non-extreme/factual positions resulting in backlash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33800802
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by pannSun 4y ago
If you take the most uncharitable interpretation of the most extreme position, then of course the backlash looks justified. But have you tried actually understanding the "other side"?
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by pannSun 4y ago
That distinction is irrelevant to the morality of Apple's actions in this case.
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by pannSun 4y ago
Law of the land, government pressure, it's ultimately all the same.
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by pannSun 4y ago
I wonder if Apple's repeated cooperation with the Chinese police state [1] will result in the same kind of advertiser exodus as Musk's loosening of censorship on Twitter. [1] One may claim they're just complying with the law
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by pannSun 4y ago
> All four accounts had been singled out for criticism by Andy Ngo, a far-right writer whose conspiratorial, error-riddled reporting [1] on left-wing protests and social movements fuels the mass delusion that a handful of small antifasci
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by pannSun 4y ago
> To be very naive, as long as the set of voters includes me, my wishes will be at least proportionally represented, right? How this fails is difficult to arrive at through theory. "Fortunately" we have examples from practice:
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by pannSun 4y ago
This article makes out China's social credit system to be much nicer than how Wikipedia portrays it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System#For_indiv... > behavior listed as positive factors of cred
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by pannSun 4y ago
> So if you were from Belgium and it grew to 500M, you'd have to support a move to partition Belgium into 50 separate nations, for the same reason you're against the EU [1]. Right? Such as how the British empire partitioned int
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by pannSun 4y ago
Yes, I believe a government that is more local, and representing a community that has more in common, will be more reflective of the wishes of that community, and more responsive (and vulnerable!) to its criticism. I find it somewhat insult
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by pannSun 4y ago
Should we even worry? If it were only remote communities using fossil fuels, the climate would barely be affected. It's only a problem because everyone is using them. This is the highest fruit - once we've picked all the rest, w
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by pannSun 4y ago
It's mere chance they all agree on this issue, and certainly not a reason to look critically at these ad agencies that decide which businesses live or die.
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by pannSun 4y ago
I.e. put themselves in massive legal peril.
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by pannSun 4y ago
Of course, if we pretend nations don't exist and their people have no common interest, it doesn't matter if laws come from your national government, from Brussels, or from a distant capital like Washington or Beijing. So long as y
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by pannSun 4y ago
It is not the amount of regulation I take issue with[1], but the scope . While I am strongly pro-EU, I am also strongly in favor of it being made up of countries that are more than just nominally sovereign and independent. Power is slowl
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by pannSun 4y ago
The scope of EU laws is growing. Do member countries enjoy having social-economical policies dictated from above? This is meddling in what should be internal matters of sovereign states. Then they are surprised anti-EU sentiment is growing.
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ABA votes to end law schools' LSAT requirement, but not until 2025(reuters.com)
2 points by pannSun 4y ago|0 comments

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