throwawaylolx

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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
That's a very ungenerous characterisation of the show. Melvyn is very careful to keep a coherent progression in each episode, and he invites experts in fields relevant to the topic at hand. Among the ~1,000 episodes I'm sure there
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
I don't see how anything you said should contradict or even relate to the BBC statement you quoted--the statement seems perfectly fine, accurate, and objective.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
> other than causing the story to spread like fire. Does it really? I haven't seen anything on Reddit or the likes. Seems to me that the censorship has been rather successful so far.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
I like how they banned "empower" with no added explanation while the Rust team was bending backwards to argue that there is nothing wrong with the word when, in 2018, they controversially changed their motto to "A language em
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
It appears to have been a cross-platform mass-banning which included actions from Google (YouTube) and Amazon (Twitch) as well.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
The original post made an argument of the following form: >People who could offer smart insights consor themselves for fear of being attacked for their opinions. The user you're replying to asked what opinions is Scott risking to be
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
I think GP and many people ITT project their current political concerns on OP's post. It doesn't seem apparent to me that Scott is deleting his blog due to any recent political changes.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
It's not just commenting--it's any interaction at all: https://old.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/hddnml/the_...
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
And does the German government care what the data chief says or is this just a HN-feel-good article of no consequence or substance?
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
>I am scared. Really scared. May be from reading too many scare-mongering alarmist articles like the one in OP where the usual quantitative terms that are supposed to be present in the abstract are replaced with "much lower", &
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
I believe you're right--that's not so different to what WeChat is doing.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
What's censorship and what is not seems to always change depending on convenience https://i.imgur.com/xTCKWNM.jpg
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
Please feel free to provide examples of mainstream Western apps censoring criticisms of government.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
> (Israel is also the other giant player in this arena) Mind elaborating on this?
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
Other apps don't have a policy to censor anti-government talk.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
> lots of century-old brands that people have fond relationships with. That's the problem being discussed--the fond relationships are built with entities that no longer exist, and it is argued that current brand practices are deceiv
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
>so arguably that's not a problem. As soon as you try defining "small changes" and the period of time on which they can occur, it is arguably a problem that will lead to loopholes easily abused by the legal departments of
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
Amazing. A pretentious, emotionally-manipulative version of "if you don't trust closed-sourced public corporate #43214 you're basically an anti-vaxxer!" is the most upvoted comment in this HN thread. Hilarious
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
No wonder universities have no money if they spend their funding elevating self-help books to the status of science courses. Also the OP link has a ref parameter.
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
>I wonder how they get those numbers. They explain in their article: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2020/04/14/we...
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
That's just an estimate. From your link: >Be warned, these numbers yield an imprecise estimate of today’s unemployment rate, and the truth could easily be quite a lot higher or lower. This is not an estimate of the official unemploy
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by throwawaylolx 6y ago
How is it a depression if it's only been a few months? Also the IMF article predicts a 3% contraction for 2020 and a 5.8% growth in 2021, so by what definition is this a depression?
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by throwawaylolx 7y ago
GDP correlates with life expectancy, so you can't separate deaths and economy as if they were behaving in isolation from each other like you seem to assume in your tantrum.
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by throwawaylolx 7y ago
This is a nonsensical approach unless you consider the damage caused by overprotective measures such as the rapidly increasing number of people who are filling for unemployment every day.
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by throwawaylolx 7y ago
Why focus only on the low-hanging fruits at one end of the spectrum? How about all the scientists who made doomsday predictions that failed to materialize?
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by throwawaylolx 7y ago
The attitude of excusing any behavior in a mass panic while shaming those who call out dodgy behavior is only making this entire thing much worse.
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by throwawaylolx 7y ago
> Is it rational to choose economy over lives? That's a false dichotomy: GDP is correlated with life expectancy, so you can't really choose one without the other. It's a question of which method saves more lives in the lon
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by throwawaylolx 7y ago
Not if the staff is lured by all the E2EE promises and all the lock icons to overestimate the security of the app and share more information than they would otherwise.
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by throwawaylolx 7y ago
Not so much selfish as realistic: now intelligence agencies like NSA can justify spending much more resources to exploit potential vulnerabilities in Signal, so—with Wikileaks in mind—it practically makes Signal less safe long-term.
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by throwawaylolx 7y ago
I think an otherwise interesting point is obscured by your construing of a strawman argument: >I don't feel like telling people that they shouldn't say anything wrong or potentially unimportant is the right way to go. That&#x27

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