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And that's when we discover that outside of the Western societies, courts don't work that way.

That's what people always said: if you don't like Twitter's policies, build your own.

Turns out if you do that, you'll also need to build your own AWS, your own DNS, your own payment systems, your own internet providers.

No, it doesn't work this way.

Funny how the media only mentions that the SWIMMING POOL DID NOT COLLAPSE somewhere in the ninth paragraph.

Hmmm. Imagine for a moment that someone argued: "this is such a cold winter! See, I told you global warming is a hoax!"

That would be laughable. Yet people have no concerns about cherry picking anecdotal evidence when they say "see, it's so hot today, that means global warming".

Put simply, Amazon is about more conservative values, meritocracy and getting things done. Google is about less structure, more politics, and more creativity.

"Please let us arbitrarily censor anyone for any reason and we promise your life will be better"

Yes, this idea worked every time.

By your anecdotal logic, if you encounter an unusually cold winter day, that will be proof that global warming doesn't exist.

True equity of outcomes means that people spend different amounts of effort but get to the same results.

So people from underrepresented backgrounds should be paid the same as top engineers regardless of output.

Okay so we can't ask today's 30 or 40 year olds about their feelings growing up?

This makes your theory conveniently unfalsifiable.

Windy Maps is an earlier clone of maps.me which also works exceptionally well.

Here's an idea that Russians did. Put it on the boat! Transportable, plenty of coolant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_pow...

Windy Maps is a pretty good fork too, and from a company with good engineering resources.

Interesting point of view. Have you ever sold a product? I assume not, otherwise I can't imagine how you would conclude that ads don't contribute to sales and don't bring value to customers.

Why do you want to disable it? Isn't it nice to see ads that are interesting and useful to you rather than looking at some useless ads you're not interested in?

As a solution, I propose a popup on each website that forces the user to accept FLoCs.

If you were starting a business, like a software company or even, I don't know, a bakery, would you start it in South Africa?

No.

Some countries have a shortage of people. They're hiring, but they can't find people.

However, South Africa has a shortage of businesses. That shortage makes people useless: they're not hired, nobody needs them.

Solution: create policies that favor businesses. Employment goes up, quality of life goes up.

This got flagged by our pentest vendor as well, but to me it sounds like a very unrealistic attack vector.

If one can steal a token from your browser's storage or can intercept your HTTPS connection, then sure, yes, you have a huge vulnerability even without JWT.

If my friends are any indication, most would be hesitant to move to the US due to physical safety issues in American streets.

I am also upset by the lack of elections, but looking at the US politics from Hong Kong, I see a lot of similarities.

The attempts to silence and stigmatize opposition, to close opposition media outlets and deplatform them on social media, harassing advertisers to make sure they don't advertise with the opposition, and the media working with the government to promote some events or views and to bury some others — that all is painfully similar to Hong Kong.

You guys over in the US should take a closer look at that.

The altruistic model seems to be doing not that well. The number of editors peaked in 2007 and has been going down since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians#Number_o...

Even better, these autogenerated summaries should give most weight to paragraphs at the end of the article.

I often find that New York Times and other media put important details that sometimes contradict the headline or challenge the main idea of the article somewhere close to the end of the article.

This lets them still claim objectivity while preserving a highly polarizing message.

Reminds me of this dude who hacked Russian Railways just for fun

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/01/21/thanks-for-the-data-...

> FAANG (minus Netflix)

You could just write FAAG

As a general rule, if the headline of an article is a question, the answer is "No".

As a hack, if you can't use a uniwidth font, you can simulate bold font by having a `text-shadow` of the same color offset 1px to the right.

This is helpful for UI elements that need to become bold when selected.

Indeed! As a software developer in Hong Kong, I learned that the "month of birth" and "day of birth" are optional fields - some people who fled from Communist China to Hong Kong only knew their birth year, and the ID card just shows something like "1946" instead of a full date.

In the last 10-15 years ACLU has moved away from being politically neutral (and has publicly stated so), so one might easily see this action as an attempt to undermine the government's capabilities rather than to legitimately protect the freedoms of Americans.

Now I know why some magazines won't let you subscribe online - they take your credit card details on paper so that you can only cancel by calling them. I would rather close my credit card than call.

I think the original point of the article is that plenty of adults can afford many things, yet they unnecessarily restrict themselves and inflict suffering on themselves.

I know people who are not going to break their budget by spending $10 on Uber when they are late, yet they would rather wait for a bus in the freezing cold or rain, waste time and be late.

I wonder why services like Uber (which rely on Google Maps for everything are still working, with things like routing being completely okay).