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> can the government enforce that the software has to be written a certain way? I doubt they would intend to. Instead, they would make it illegal to run, and possibly to otherwise involve yourself with, software written in a certain way.
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The weak suffer what they must. Iran could definitely have gone for some sabre rattling and asking for aid from their allies, but obviously their options were limited.
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>If, even some of the time, obesity is not due to a person overeating or under-exercising, should discrimination against the obese carry the same legal consequences as discrimination based on age, race, or gender? And by the same measure
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Most major sites started out as being pro-free speech, and ultimately bowed to public pressure in removing various forms of content. There is little reason to assume that cloudflare won't ultimately do the same. It's admirable tha
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People have always posted (usually fake) threats in kiwifarms threads. They have always been removed promptly. The same is true of basically every large website on the internet. When cloudflare made their post saying they wouldn't remo
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You're assuming that the government blocking the internet is especially oppressive. It could be that the country is relatively free, but the government sees internet shut downs as easy to implement and thus uses them often. This seems
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This was solved in the past by coining new terms in french, or possibly latin. I like the current system more. Granted, people may assume they know what a term means when it's made up of words they understand. But it is usually quite c
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They dropped support for 8ch after successive terrorist attacks, one of which killed 50 innocent people. The CEO has stated that he regrets dropping them.
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The point being made, I think, is that it isn't the health care system at fault in these disadvantages, but rather some external factors. Obesity, for example, is particularly high in the US, and leads to reduce lifespan.
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>because the money the're "earning" will flow into the economy anyway (because they'll be buying food, Xbox games, etc...) This betrays a lack of understanding of how the economy works. Goods come from people producin
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The price advantage was always going to be temporary. People have clearly demonstrated that they are willing to pay however much for access to content. Furthermore, the content producers have gotten used to a certain amount of funding, an
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>The TLDR is that I think sites like Kiwifarms put a lot of energy into being hard to ignore I think the opposite. The means that KF avails themselves of are relatively easy to ignore, though obviously doing so is distasteful. They succe
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- insofar as "blame" and "ability to prevent" are different, I'm only assigning the latter to keffals - targets of KF shouldn't broadcast their reactions to abuse, as that is what sustains the posters there - n
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Don't post about it online, I mean.
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I don't mean to defend the actions of kiwifarms, but clearly their actions are not particular to any given continent. Her failure to protect her opsec is certainly unfortunate, and she is not entirely blameworthy for it, but I see no r
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Albert Einstein produced a new theory, not new evidence. I maintain that language continues to mean something.
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>PGPP does not support traditional phone calling/SMS and doesn’t include a phone number. Instead we recommend that users install and use more secure apps such as Signal and Matrix for voice and video. Doesn't signal require a p
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''' Why this message Whoops, that's not something I know much about. What do you like to do with your free time? When the AI detects a potentially unsafe topic, it will redirect the conversation. Sensitive topic classif
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This can be solved unilaterally by the library system, with no extra action by google. I would furthermore argue that it should be solved by the library, rather than by google, as the library has the ability to solve this problem more compl
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The difference being that since every app dev expects iphones to be on the latest ios version, as soon as your phone goes out of support it will become obsolete quickly. Android has a larger install base of users on old os versions, so you
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Some factor needs to determine what the content of page on wikipedia ends up being. Since "anyone can edit" (credentials are not used as a filter), the content is determined by whoever is most persistent. There are also various pr
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I wanted to do a repository search on gitlab, as I often do on github to look for existing software projects to build off of. This because a project I found was hosted on gitlab, and I thought there might be others as well if I looked for t
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> Once a company gets VR done well the smartphone is OVER. AR maybe. I seriously doubt that VR will ever be the primary way people interact with computers. People tend to use their phones as a distraction in public, and as a brief reprie
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Their tagline - "life is short, have an affair" - is fairly compelling. You have one life, and romance is one of the great human experiences. Many people don't have the opportunity to experience that in their current relation
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My strategy has been to use Google's parental controls to disable all apps that I had a tendency to misuse. That being primarily web browsers. I left termux installed and can still browse the web, when necessary, through links2. This i
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Planning is not doing. Subsidies are only useful if fabs are on the verge of being built, but are being held back. If no one would ever build a fab in the US, then any subsidies handed out will be wasted. If fabs are being built anyways, th
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They're saying the opposite.
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Political organizations need to bear in mind the appearance of their actions. Big tech companies are predominantly American (google, apple). Europe putting more regulations on them reads as a patriotic act of defending people from corporate
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>These programmers have seemingly imagined a fantasy land in which Microsoft is now totally-on-board with the Richard Stallman free software fairyland socialist utopia. Nobody imagines that. But nobody besides a very small group is on bo
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>But when it comes to traditional family outings, the purchasing power of that income has declined There's an obvious way to dispute this claim: at the time, these were not traditional family outings. They were modern family outings

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