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by xdennis 4y ago
No you don't have that right. The US literally had an Office of Censorship during WW2. Every country has different rules during war, and here in Europe many Russian politicians have made statements about attacking us. We shouldn't
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> You let it be published and broadcast, like a normal free country would. You're being irrational. Free countries don't broadcast the enemy's information during a war.
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> Banning media is a thing repressive dicatators do. That's what you do during a war. All democracies do it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Censorship
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> Europe will certainly not give up this power even after the war ends That's competently true, but you have to weigh the options. Giving Russia any access is far more dangerous.
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> we don't want to 'completely ban' content from Russia I do. There's no reason to have any connection to those people since the invasion until the heat death of the universe.
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> And yes, this is a dark part of EU history... Was blocking Hitler's propaganda during WW2 a dark side of Europe's history? This is war! You can't allow the enemy to trick your population. In Romania, when we were occupie
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> How about European censorship? That's to protect people from the barbaric country which castrates Ukrainians for fun. There's nothing to be gained for accessing that stuff.
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Seeing it from afar, basically just Libs of Tik Tok, it doesn't seem that fun. (Although I guess the point of that is to highlight extreme stuff.)
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> TikTok is successful because it understands the power of video without the legacy mental model of television: longer videos punctuated by attention-breaking ads. YouTube is still firmly operating in this legacy model. There's noth
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This is similar to Traian Vuia[1] in Romania. We were taught in schools that he was the first person to build an airplane. The contentious issue being what an airplane is: Wright Flyer needed a track and a catapult to take off, but was cont
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The data isn't public. It belongs to Google. They can ask for a warrant or just give away "your" data willy nilly.
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Would it be so difficult for Google to add a configuration step where people can explicitly consent to this?
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Freedom. You don't have to move everything in one month because your landlord wants you out. You can drive a screw through the wall and not have your landlord shout at you.
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Don't allow LLCs to own homes.
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Ban renting. You buy a house to live in it. If you don't want to live in it then sell it. Renting houses is literally rent-seeking. Additionally, remove all zoning laws. The free market will handle zoning. In the West in the 20th centu
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by xdennis 4y ago
> To be explicit, if you count conflicts from Napoleon on up to WWII, from Russia’s perspective they have fought defense wars on the north european plains once every ~33 years. Between Napoleon and the present day Russia has only been in
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You don't need to design your way out of a problem with a custom solution every time if you just add the scroll bar. Being fooled into believing there's no more content is often incidental: some gap in the content aligns perfectly
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This is the same way Apple designs cables. Every engineer ever has known that you need add strain relief for cables, but Apple removes them because "it doesn't look clean". There's also probably a financial incentive.
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But the point is that you don't know if there's more content without trying to scroll. That's why so many websites have pointless scroll arrows inviting you to scroll.
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> I worry that we end up in the situation where if you need to use a particular app, you can only get it from a third-party store that you don't trust. This works both ways. Some people want to use iOS exclusive apps but can't
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> True, but that's caused by OEMs packaging bloatware, which would not be a concern with iOS. Not only that, but this act requires the ability to uninstall bloatware.
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> Adobe will make sure all its apps require Adobe App Store It seems like your defense of Apple is that other companies will be able to act like Apple. I'd rather have multiple small masters which compete with each other than a sing
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You have a lot more freedom in the EU to switch countries than you do to switch phone ecosystems. There are 27 countries you can freely move between. If you work in one and move to another your pension gets rerouted when you retire. There a
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I don't know what type of fragmentation you're referring to, but at least this act requires them to allow communication between companies (i.e. what phones were created for in the first place).
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> Requiring alternate App Stores will mean Facebook, Epic (Tencent), TikTok, and Scams R Us will all set up their own app stores. Where are the these app stores for Android?
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> I'm relatively new to python. I use venv, pip and requirements.txt. It's dead simple. What am I missing? Compare this with Node. It always installs locally by default and always installs in node_modules regardless of which pa
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Completely fair, but that's often not built into dynamic languages. My main criticism is with their nonsensical approach to dealing with the limitations of JavaScript. As far a I know, ESlint can't detect missing methods, and they
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by xdennis 4y ago
I was on a team for a short while (Java programmers) and their frontend code was really overly "careful". For example, they would always check if a method existed, before calling it. var o = new SomeObject(); if (o.comp
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To remind people in case they didn't know (because there was a huge backlash against Romanians at the time and newspapers never correct themselves after investigations) the meat was labeled as "horse meat" when it left Romani
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> Texas even bans transportation of horse meat through the state. Horse meat is banned in the whole US in the most American way possible: by the roundabout way of the government not providing horse meat inspectors. Technically, you can e

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