benwad

When the Queen died, she managed to avoid £200m in inheritance taxes. That's another right nobody else in the country has.

Remember that English wasn't quite as dominant in Tolkien's day as it is today. In the 50s most people in e.g. France wouldn't speak English.

Causing two global conflicts isn't what I'd call 'sustainably successful'. Since those, I'd agree with you, but definitely not hundreds of years.

But the issue here isn't just the actions of individuals - without a community like Kiwifarms to coordinate and plan these attacks then these individuals might not have the motivation or organisation to do them. While I don't think Cloudflare has full responsibility over everyone they do business with, I also think they have a moral imperative to intervene when one of their customers is using their service to coordinate attacks on someone. And remember, that person is being attacked for their perfectly reasonable free speech.

As far as being able to read the posts and piece it together yourself, you can probably find something on the Wayback machine if you want to. Cloudflare's action was about preventing activity on those threads (i.e. planning/instigating further attacks), not to completely censor the contents.

...and when you don't 'control' for an irrelevant number, it's the other way around.

I'd agree if we were talking about low-skill work where people are just scraping by. Programmers have the luxury of choosing from a wide range of places to work. We're all in a position where we can refuse work we find unethical, even if it means taking a pay cut.

I once interviewed for a startup during its "hyperspeed growth" period (can't remember what specific jargon they used but it was something like that). Got a good offer, handed in my notice, then the recruiter called again and said the offer was actually about 10% lower. I was a bit put out but I was relatively inexperienced in this negotiation stuff so accepted it. Then when the first day came, I was put into a team entirely different from the one I applied for - I applied for a Python ML engineering position, got put into a Java data engineering team. Naively I accepted this, hated it, managed to change teams (after ~4 months) to something more like my expertise, but eventually left the company because the management culture was generally toxic.

First impressions may not be everything, but I wish I'd gone with my gut on that one.

I feel like this has been said many times, but I'll say it again: there's a difference between sex and gender. Sex refers to the genitals you're born with, so you're correct when you say there are only two sexes (ignoring intersex for the moment, which does occur but can be considered an edge case).

Gender, on the other hand, refers to the social construct of how we see the relationship between these sexes in society. Transgender people are those who identify as a gender that doesn't specifically match their sex. There's no re-writing of science here, just an acceptance that a significant chunk of the population (yes, ~1% of the population is significant) want to live as a different gender than the one they're assigned at birth.

I hope that cleared it up.

Did FB ever take any legal action against Cambridge Analytica? I can't remember anything about it and this sounds very similar to that (although back in those days FB's tools made this incredibly easy).

> What's the alternative?

Just show the navigation stuff. The driver should be able to see other cars with their eyes. The car clearly isn't good enough at spotting them itself, so why further distract the driver by trying to guess?

Wow I hadn't heard that before! Why would that be in the Treaty of Versailles?

So... someone wrote an article criticising it? That's not the same as banning it.

Half of those companies you listed are owned by the same guy, who has a significant interest in pumping the price of BTC.

When was the last time you made an everyday purchase like food with BTC?

Does anyone have a mirror of this announcement that doesn't require me to log in to FB?

I don't think anyone is taking issue with the Blockchain technology itself, it's about what cryptocurrency manifests in the real world. That's an argument about economics, not technology.

But you see why hiring people of colour is different from hiring toddlers right? In one case you're expanding your talent pool to a group who haven't had the same chance to contribute as other groups, and in the other case you're hiring a toddler.

> I felt completely safe to make the trip

> I had assumed that they were allowed entry

So instead of waiting a few weeks until international travel is allowed again, the author just went ahead and booked a non-essential flight and then wrote an article in the Spectator complaining about how he wasn't allowed.

Transferring publicly-owned assets to privately-owned companies is exactly what Friedman proposed to the various South American dictators he advised.

I think "trickle-down economics" is usually a synonym for the Chicago School, promoted by Milton Friedman and exported (often forcefully) by the US government.

As for who's responsible for 'debunking' it, Thomas Piketty is the name I'd usually associate with popularising the skepticism towards the Chicago School.

This is just anecdotal, but one of my professors at university said that the name was intentional, as a joke to make English speakers feel uncomfortable. I've not idea if this is true but it would make sense that the creators of Coq would have been aware of its English translation (lots of people in France speak English, especially in academia).

I just went on the site. The 'top' profiles include usernames like `elonmusk`, `loganpaul` and `arianagrande`, next to an icon saying they're "waiting to join". This sounds like a lie right? Unless there's such demand for this site that Elon Musk and Ariana Grande are waiting in a queue to get in on the BitClout action?

Lowering taxes, lowering regulatory and environmental standards, and undoing workers' rights legislation can all increase the wealth of those who are already wealthy. I'm not saying all of those things are in the pipeline, but they've all been proposed by pro-Brexit politicians (and this article is one example of lowering regulatory standards).

I'll throw a theory out there - less recreational drug use due to lockdown (especially cocaine). What was a massive industry last year is now orders of magnitude smaller, with the same violent groups fighting over this much-reduced pie.

What happens with these loans if the recipient defaults on repayment?

IMO Facebook should be able to police its own platform, so if it has a large presence in Ethiopia then it needs to police that part of its platform (ideally using employees based in Ethiopia). If it feels it can't effectively police Ethiopian Facebook without amplifying hateful/violent messages then they shouldn't be operating there.

Because coming up with a legal definition of a 'gang' is tricky without criminalising a lot of innocent people.

I wonder what Karl Marx would think of this.

Is Cuba still sanctioned? I thought the main embargo was lifted a few years ago.

Indeed, apparently the real reason they switched was so that they can have conversations bigger than WhatsApp's limit of 256 people. Good luck preventing leaks from a group that size!

They do! https://cdm.link/2016/11/free-jazz-now-ableton-link-sync-wor...

I also once managed to get PD into Logic X but it took quite a lot of fiddling around.