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by will4274 6y ago
What does Israel's conflict in Palestine have to do with Iran? The Ayatollah doesn't care about Palestinians. Saying that Israel could resolve the issue by de-escalating is nonsense, as much as saying the same thing about North an
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by will4274 6y ago
There's a lot in your post that's wrong and this comment won't allow me to correct all of it. Grabbing two: - the Arab nations don't consider themselves kin (or "coethnics" whatever that means) with the Palesti
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Imagine being a programmer in Israel and hearing that the leader of a neighboring country wants to kill you and everybody you know. We're not unaware of the impact of sanctions. Fundamentally, starving a generation of Iranians of infor
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Sure, I'd be interested in your list of European tech companies that have innovated a comparable amount to Google. Whatcha got?
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> The effects can be similarly sinister or even worse in some ways You really think letting liars speak is worse than forbidding anybody except the ministry of truth from speaking?
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> Free speech is a matter for the government No, it isn't. Free speech is a moral principle, and a matter for philosophers, liberals, and all thinking people generally. The first amendment is a specific codification of the moral pri
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Because it's what their customers want? Higher quality news sources have begun to get it (even if 10 years late).
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> wages have declined in purchasing power since the 70s This was true until 2019. Wages dropped in the late 70s and in the 80s, then went up in the 90s, spent the 00s mostly flat, and rose a little in the 10s. It took 50 years (until 201
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> To put it another way: The author happened to be born very close to the peak for average Americans' wages, and every year since then has been an ever-tighter vice squeeze between declining wages and rising rents (in both the real
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I checked (just for you). All four gotos are reasonable forward gotos and not what the article "goto considered harmful" was referring to. As an aside, why did you write goto in all caps in your comment? While your comment was qui
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Additionally shameful: - they haven't printed a retraction yet - the technology reporter in question doesn't understand the tech well enough to recognize the error, even when somebody states it explicitly ( https://mob
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Well, that's certainly not the way I feel. If aliens haven't been visiting humans for years, I don't want to watch a video going through the process of learning about the possibility that they might have been visiting humans
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I haven't listened to the podcast. Can I ask, how would you feel about conspiracy videos doing the same thing? Those that present a conspiracy and then show a reporter trying to verify the theory that ends with the reporter indicating
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To be clear, P3P didn't work because Mozilla and Google and poured gasoline on it, and then Facebook lit a match. Had competing browsers not been desperate to brand it as some sort of weird proprietary Micro$oft thing, we might have a
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> I think what the "legacy" news media failed at more than adapting was effectively communicating the time and effort that goes into serious news gathering and reporting I think what they failed at was actually putting in the t
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The article you are commenting on did not propose any new laws, nor did I in my comment. Did you mean to reply to somebody else or to comment on another article? I don't think the government should require tech companies like Google to
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by will4274 6y ago
Did you read the article? There is nothing in the article in support of government oversight of private companies. Rather, the article argues that private companies should choose to do the right thing, and that consumers should take their b
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by will4274 6y ago
> You have a right to say whatever you want to whomever you want without fear of government retaliation, as long as it isn't "hate speech" in a fairly narrow legal sense. This is what "having free speech in society&qu
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by will4274 6y ago
Every analysis ever has basically concluded that money in politics only matters up until the point of name recognition. Once voters know about both sides of an issue, you actually have to convince them. That's why money is really only
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by will4274 6y ago
You're actually talking about a different thing than parent. You can delete account data without recycling the account name. Nowadays, Microsoft still deletes inactive accounts, but they don't recycle the names. Of course, phone n
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by will4274 6y ago
Have you ever used Facebook and clicked on "my friends"? Have you user browsed a page of forum posts where each user has their own picture? Have you ever looked at a slideshow on the internet? Have you ever gone on reddit or anoth
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Not sure I agree here. The binary protocol aspect of HTTP/2 is already a massive benefit, especially when combined with the ability to omit redundant headers. Consider e.g. just a basic API with Bearer tokens - those tokens are sent on
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Unless you need to peek two levels deep.
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I think you're missing the point. The sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 is just one of many common sequences people play. If you have a primitive bool IsCommonSequence(sequence), then you can do better than random by re-rolling whenever IsComm
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> even where these features are still possible, there's a bad tendency not to use them. Why is that, and how do we fix it? Uh... databases ~~suck~~ have terrible usability issues? And so does SQL? Like, really hard core. I took some
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Jumping up and down in the file while hitting f12 is not good for readability and creates a significant overhead when reading the code. C# finally introduced local functions in a recent version, which will hopefully remind other enterprise-
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There's an angle here of [conflict theory vs mistake theory]( https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/ ). Your post seems to take a conflict-theory only perspective - that disinforma
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Yes because ('0' == 32) returning true makes more intuitive sense. There are languages without type coercion for comparisons (e.g. OCaml), but C++ isn't one of them.
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Yes. You can sue somebody for stealing from you in civil xourt even if they are found not guilty (or more commonly, not proesecuted) for theft in criminal court and win. It happens all the time. Edit: see e.g. https://www.legalma
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by will4274 6y ago
> you must prove the innocence of your seized assets to get them back This isn't true. The burden of evidence in civil asset forfeiture is still on the state. The standard is preponderance of doubt, as per the norm in civil court, n

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