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berrynice··on Baffling Brexit rules threaten export chaos
Louis Rossmann did a video recently on the silly way the UK handles import tax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar_7Z-MzPv8
berrynice··on Uber: 3,045 Sexual Assaults Reported in U.S. Rides Last Year
Uber already has this in the gulf states
berrynice··on How to force disgruntled worker not to publicly disclose “GPL'ed code”
Extremely based, I hope this Francis character shares the code
berrynice··on Ask HN: I am addicted to Porn. Help me quit
This is a bad idea, this information may seriously harm your wife's mental health.
berrynice··on What if we stopped pretending the climate apocalypse can be stopped?
It's also probably a good idea to learn how to resolve conflicts violently and accept the consequences of that.
berrynice··on Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York
It may be a good idea to watch out for cops and guards from that prison suddenly 'buying businesses', making other large and successful investments, receiving expensive gifts and/or gaining large amounts of wealth. My current theory is that Epstein had a bounty on his head and was killed by a cop or guard, it's often case that prison 'suicides' are in fact covers for police brutality gone too far, so I think this is the most likely scenario.
berrynice··on YouTube faces creator backlash
The distinction is largely irrelevant, since creators generally believe such a thing to exist, which raises more questions of algorithm transparency.
berrynice··on Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests
I don't know if the analogy to darwinian evolution makes much sense, it seems to me that it makes more sense to see this as a way of error-correcting our reality, that is to say quantum phenomenon occur because anything else would cause a severe inconsistency.
berrynice··on The Scene: Pirates Ripping Content from Amazon and Netflix
>How do these pirates make money?

It’s not about money… it’s about sending a message.

berrynice··on ArsTechnica Reporter Peter Bright Arrested for Soliciting Sex with Children
Unsurprising.
berrynice··on The prison inside: Japan's hikikomori lack relationships, not physical spaces
What happened was that the mainstream media learnt what 'incel' was.
berrynice··on Millennials and Gen Z Increasingly Pessimistic About Their Lives, Survey Finds
It's not about 'unrealistic expectations', we're just hyper-aware of how bad the world is, that does something to you when you're exposed to it from childhood.
berrynice··on “A company is copyright-claiming every video I have ever made”
I reject the notion that copyright is necessary, what's necessary is my personal ability to use my devices without random companies being able to use the state to punish me for using an abstract concept that may or may not resemble one that they at some point also used. If you would like to make money from your art there are options such as commisions, but the onus is on you to find a business model that works, it is not for the government to be creating artificial monopolies to facilitate a business model that is incompatible with reality.
berrynice··on “A company is copyright-claiming every video I have ever made”
When do we get to the point where people start acknowledging how insane the entire concept of copyright is.
berrynice··on Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked (2017)
That the right arguments win.
berrynice··on Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked (2017)
I believe in the freedom of the people I agree with to speak, this argument is obviously absurd.
berrynice··on Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked (2017)
Yeah I used to use Voat right after /r/conspiracy started getting scared, things were civil and small scale and I had some fruitful discussions, that went to hell once the racist subs started getting hit.
berrynice··on Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked (2017)
Yes, because it divides the communities and smaller communities are easier to extinguish, like cancer cells.
berrynice··on Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked (2017)
>Belief in free speech as a principle assumes that good and right arguments will win out every day in an open public forum.

This is demonstrably not the case. Just look at the chans.

berrynice··on Online trolls are harassing a scientist who helped take pictures of a black hole
I'm so sick of this MSM/social media fueled gender shit flinging. She herself never claimed she did all the work, the MSM did.
berrynice··on The 30-Year Mortgage Is an Intrinsically Toxic Product
The duration of the mortage is irrelevent, mortages themselves are intrinsically toxic.
berrynice··on China Cracks Down on Churches
Quite frankly everyone's a terrorist to a totalitarian machine like China, it means nothing.