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by ve55 10y ago
If you want to convince people it is in their own best interest to invest significantly in diversity, it's not likely the intro to this article will cut it for most. The first paper mentions that they only found a correlation, however
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by ve55 10y ago
I was concerned about this as well. I use Scaleway but I don't host any websites with notable content there. I haven't heard much about these terms being held against users, so I'm not sure how much action there would really
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by ve55 10y ago
Paypal is offered a lot as an option for virtual goods, such as virtual items or services for games. There is always a lot of caution around it, because anyone that has used it in this area for longer than a day realizes that they can be sc
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by ve55 10y ago
thanks for the informative response. I will look into how difficult it is to connect to a server using a user account from an IRC client, as that would make the experience much nicer for users like me. I'm curious about the logging API
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by ve55 10y ago
I would consider this more of a privacy issue than a security issue - but something that should nonetheless be communicated clearly to user. Maybe these terms don't seem worth differentiating, but I see privacy as "what info do t
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by ve55 10y ago
Discord seems to me like it has a very polished user experience, and it's no surprise that users are trashing programs like Skype in favor of Discord when it is better in every area. Discord seems to take security seriously, as they sh
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by ve55 10y ago
Hate exists on both sides. If you want to ban the hate from one side, why not ban the hate from all sides? Both sides have a lot of racism (and other forms of hate in general), but they likely look and feel quite different to very partisan
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by ve55 10y ago
Although Twitter obviously has the right to do this, legally, I don't think it is good. Twitter is esentially a public infrastructure for real-time communication. We have public officials from countries all over the world that use Twit
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by ve55 10y ago
I was checking out their terms of service ( https://www.scaleway.com/terms/ ), a few clauses in there seem pretty restrictive, such as: >Users are required to use decent and respectful language. All abusive, violent o
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by ve55 11y ago
Yes, that would work out really well for them.
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by ve55 11y ago
>What the EFF, and many others, get wrong is that this is terrorism aimed at the West because of 'our freedoms', I'm not sure why that's relevant, I don't see anything like that in this article. I don't see
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by ve55 11y ago
1) This is a good point, but there's very little evidence in favor that /any/ legitimate terror attacks are stopped by most mass survellience. In other words, we have no data points in favor of it, and every time an event lik
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by ve55 11y ago
You're correct, I understand why most people don't want that, and thus also why Slack is so hugely popular. I'm primarily thinking about technical people who actually do want this (such as what's referred to in the artic
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by ve55 11y ago
Freenode sometimes does get a lot of abuse, which is a shame. Some networks definitely do have better anti-spam and anti-botnet functionality, but I don't think most users ever even notice this. Even on Freenode, most channels will go
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by ve55 11y ago
This is one of the better reasons for opting for open-source alternatives to new technologies. If you have a single person that is even slightly technical, it should be trivial to set up your own IRC server, and then you get complete contro
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by ve55 11y ago
Of course I think Github should have the right to do this, but I don't think they should do this in cases as silly as this one. The free market doesn't always work here. Especially when it comes to the Internet. In this instance,
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by ve55 13y ago
Although biotechnology is definitely a significant risk, there are some other things such as nanotechnology, flawed super-intelligences, and transhumanism-related issues that should rank very highly as well. See http://www.nickbo