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by topkai22 6y ago
Have the "misinformation" flags been tested in court? It seems like that could possibly be covered by the "Good Samaritan" provision, although it seems it would hinge on if the definition of "restrict access to or a
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by topkai22 6y ago
I think that one is pretty clear- you are providing the phrase "notorious scoundrel", so you are the provider of that information. A subtler one is a site that only surfaced snippets about a subject. It wouldn't be that hard
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by topkai22 6y ago
I was struck by a thought while reading the article- are the feeds of social media companies actually protected under section 230? My Facebook feed is more than just a simple serving of my friends content, it’s a work in and of itself (like
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by topkai22 6y ago
How about just what a giant pain mixing hooks and older code is? So far I've only used react with a side project where one developer knew and loved hooks and the others didn't. The number of difficult to understand integration err
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by topkai22 6y ago
Microsoft presented a pretty fairly innovative vision of what a “game” console could be with the original Xbox One launch announcement. It was a complete debacle. I’m also pretty impressed with XBox game pass- it has changed my relationship
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by topkai22 6y ago
I’ve been to places where there is literally one bar for 60 miles. They still within their rights to throw you out.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Sorry, just hoping you had evidence I didn't!
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by topkai22 6y ago
Any chance you'd like to take a stab at convincing me I shouldn't worry about my (young) kids getting hit by cars? I feel like it's an unfortunately rational anxiety.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Not the GP, but for me the answer is "cars." And child services coming after me for being neglectful. And rattlesnakes. But mostly cars. Even with statistics about danger being down across the board, in still pretty worried about
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by topkai22 6y ago
I had the exact thing happen to me (pre—pandemic). I complained pretty extensively to the test sponsor and the proctoring organization, as that (and a few other "rules") weren't written down anywhere. I didn't get anywhe
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by topkai22 6y ago
I’d be quite surprised if the schools in question didn’t already have tight control of the ingress/egress points of the school, so the there really is a question of if this technology has substantial benefit at the margin. I find that
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by topkai22 6y ago
To me the problem isn't that Google de-prioritized these sites, it's that they did so while running their own shopping service. It's the same problem I have with Apple's work to ban game streaming services from their sit
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by topkai22 6y ago
And, as that article mentions, the YoY delta is closer to 10%, so about 7500 excess deaths compared to a normal year. The data is from around June if I recall correctly, so it could have gone up or down a bit, but I doubt it would change by
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by topkai22 6y ago
As the famous saying goes "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." People look out for thier own interests, and will work to craft narratives that support themse
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by topkai22 6y ago
I think you are taking an overly rigid view of what a game can be. Games exist in an environment and social context. Competitively playing street fighter online is one context, and the way you are suggesting play should happen is probably c
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by topkai22 6y ago
Of course the original creator sets the baseline, but there absolutely can be rules created past the original creation of the game. For example, my friends and I generally disallowed playing as Oddjob in Goldeneye back in the day. Totally v
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by topkai22 6y ago
The point of a game isn't to win, its to have fun. A certain character may disrupt the mechanics of the game that are the most fun to a subgroup of players. To take it to an extreme, let's say a character is introduced to a fighti
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by topkai22 6y ago
One of the comments has an amazing line “ Persuasion is at the heart of information security. Not “information technology security”, but the security a person has about their ability to make information-based decisions about which actions t
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by topkai22 6y ago
I'm not sure that would do much to reign in virality given the number of mega accounts there are- how much of twitter is n+2 from Donald Trump, for example?
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by topkai22 6y ago
Yup, the developers of Operation Flashpoint and ARMA are one and the same if I remember correctly (Bohemia Interactive?). I also have to think the Operation Flashpoint influenced other games, like the first Battlefield game, which was relea
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by topkai22 6y ago
I know they are almost exclusively a racing game maker now, but the Codemasters (published) game I’ll never forget is the war sim Operation Flashpoint. It wasn’t necessarily an amazing game, but it was an amazing sandbox. The sheer variety
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by topkai22 6y ago
You think that Ivys don’t work the same way, or worse?
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by topkai22 6y ago
That’s exactly the point- Google in that time frame did a TON of prestige hiring, whether or not it made sense for the actual work they needed to fill.
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by topkai22 6y ago
This isn’t correct in a wide variety of circumstances. The top end of schools have networking opportunities that are in a league of its own, but school based networking/affiliation remains important regionally, especially for large st
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by topkai22 6y ago
They weren't as open as you remember for most people using pre-iPhone smart phones. Carriers did all sorts of things to cripple reduce functionality so they could sell it back to you. A major factor of the iPhone's early US succes
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by topkai22 6y ago
There is economic theory and research supporting some of this under label “modern monetary theory” ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory )* My fundamental problem with the whole concept is that it is p
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by topkai22 6y ago
I don't find the article very convincing, so let me try to give a different argument. Governments need money to perform the duties they've been assigned. The costs of the duties assigned to them tend to go up during times of econ
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by topkai22 6y ago
The title and heading are wrong. The article and associated says Covid could push an additional 207 million people into extreme poverty, for a total of 1 billion. Edit: the underlying UN study actually states 251 million additional people i
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by topkai22 6y ago
Depending on how far out on the curve a kid is, there are options in many places. Gifted and talented programs exist in many if not most places. In multiple areas I’ve lived, the “local” (it might be over an hour away) university has offere
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by topkai22 6y ago
I think they side step this a bit, but please provide the gift givers in your circles with a list. It doesn’t have to be actual specific items you know exist (the cell phone controlled tea kettle is a great example), but it makes life bette

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