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by ve55 6y ago
Copyright laws are often some of the most user-hostile laws that regularly seem to be passed in many countries recently
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by ve55 6y ago
One large difference is the Internet forces us to live with each other. Without the Internet it's easier to have two differing communities with different values and laws and so on, and they can both live and let live. But now we have p
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by ve55 6y ago
Although this appears very alarming, it's also worth noting that due to covid it's allowed for them to defer payments for a bit, and that is included in this statistic.
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by ve55 6y ago
For those interested in this substance, it is worth first noting that it is present in many common foods in notable quantities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq10#Dietary_concentrations
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by ve55 6y ago
The website cannot identify who they are, what ISP they use, or where they live. Similarly, middleboxes such as their ISP cannot find out what websites they are browsing, which is still easily possible even with TLS via many methods (DNS, S
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by ve55 6y ago
They might to an extent, but I don't think it's required or necessary. Ads can go on any type of videos, and if Youtube had less traffic as a result of less clickbait, then presumably the costs to host it would be a lot less too.
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by ve55 6y ago
I find it kind of sad looking at what popular Youtube channels looked like 5-10+ years ago, and comparing it to their videos today. As you scroll down the list of videos from oldest to newest, the lengths get longer. No longer are there any
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by ve55 6y ago
With seeing more letters like this recently, I wonder if they can really have much of an effect. They seem to just ask kindly that people act more kind, which often doesn't do a whole ton. What is needed is to change the way communicat
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by ve55 6y ago
The idea that a feature like a 'forgive' button to forgive someone for acting out of line is so important that it's being suggested is..harrowing, in my opinion. I see how these features can seem like a good idea, but my issu
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by ve55 6y ago
It is, but it's also a cost for not removing hate, and also just for having a slightly different opinion on what constitutes hate than some of your users. When you have a billion users, there's going to be a lot of them that dis
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by ve55 6y ago
Cloudflare isn't in the business of deplatforming and moderating the way that social media companies are. We all know about that one case, but it was not only an extreme outlier, but also had some other reasoning behind it. I will pred
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by ve55 6y ago
Worth taking note that in today's climate, you really cannot win when you are in a position to moderate important things that a lot of people use. There is constantly tremendous pressure on you to perform opposing actions, and even m
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China Is Collecting DNA from Tens of Millions of Men and Boys(nytimes.com)
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by ve55 6y ago
Some ommenters are stating that some subreddits are specifically banned as well, such as r/NSFW. Given that reddit uses TLS, I assume Reddit is assisting governments in banning content like this as well?
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by ve55 6y ago
It's interesting that no advertisers had even a hint of concern when informed about the massive privacy invasions, many of them highly illegal, that Facebook performed for a profit.
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by ve55 6y ago
Yes.
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by ve55 6y ago
It's hard to phrase this in a way that doesn't sound snarky, but I mean it sincerely: Would you rather they become more like Twitter instead? Promoting virality is promoting outrage content, full-stop.
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by ve55 6y ago
Scott Aaronson has a great reply to a question that directly answers what you're asking, I will quote it below in full and link to it: >Would you say that you, personally, have ever experienced true free will? And if so in wha
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by ve55 6y ago
A lot of political extremists hate people like Scott, and it has caused him a lot of trouble in the past. This is why anonymity is more important now than ever, because just writing a scientific blog about interesting topics can make you th
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by ve55 6y ago
Context: Metformin is a simple, very safe, and very common diabetic drug that appears to improve all-cause mortality and have some positive health effects in the average person, even if minor (such as improving blood glucose levels and insu
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by ve55 6y ago
With that said however, the average American diet is generally messed up enough that a lot of substances could benefit them, because there's so many existing problems that have room for improvement which are created by bad diet. With a
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by ve55 6y ago
Won't the results of this just be heavily biased via sampling by the fact that only certain types of people want to download and vote using an open-source public/private key voting simulation app?
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Gene-Centered View of Evolution(en.wikipedia.org)
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Do the Real Thing(scotthyoung.com)
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Some Perspective on the Japan Earthquake (2011)(kalzumeus.com)
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by ve55 6y ago
Just as covid seemed to hit many with little warning and little preparation, serious cyberattacks will at some point too. Nations need to have more preparation, funding, and simulations, for potential large future cyberattacks before one ca
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by ve55 6y ago
Although mods do perform many such actions, generally political posts are flagged quickly by normal users, indicating that they don't want to see them either
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by ve55 6y ago
For myself the largest impact would have to be diet improvements, just like for most people. But, in general I want to be able to be much more preventative instead of reactive. I don't want to get diagnosed with atherosclerosis or diab
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by ve55 6y ago
>all of which I won’t go into full details of because it lets a bit too much of the mad scientist crazy out. This is a bit disappointing, but I know how the author feels. I can definitely feel like I am going to be judged for being crazy
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by ve55 6y ago
The ACLU used to be on the top of my list of my personal favorite charities, but I've found they've become significantly more reactionary in the last few years, prioritizing emotionally outraging causes over utilitarian causes, so

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