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lugg··on All Of Argentina, Uruguay Without Electricity After Massive Outage
USA isn't in much of a better position.

Large scale transformer blowouts are a nightmare scenario due to how long they take to replace / repair.

lugg··on Australia May Be the World’s Most Secretive Democracy
Does that not just make it harder for informed opinions sway outcomes?

Or on the flip side does it actually make it harder to use a small subset of the population to steal an election from an apathetic population at large.

I.e. you'd still be able to take advantage of the apathy but it'd be a much slower moving change towards extremes and polarisation which is pretty good for democracy in general.

lugg··on New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux
Name one major bank not working on blockchain tech right now.

I guess an upending isn't a totally accurate description but I haven't seen banks this motivated to innovate in a long time.

lugg··on Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft grabs close-up thirty feet above asteroid
> It took a 180 million mile trip to deliver this image.

Yup, and you break my ability to zoom in or right click and view image on mobile.

Welcome to the future.

lugg··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
I'm not squabbling over definitions, you're saying they are clarifying.

I am saying they are clarifying what they mean by repeating them selves and changing the definition.

Has their TOS actually changed here? If so, in what way? Does it now include more specifics?

lugg··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
Yes it does, but to attempt and claim that White Supremacy could ever be considered a "protected class" is absurd.

This isn't my bias speaking here, this is a contextual reality, the world has constraints and there isn't any iteration of what we have that would allow this reality to evolve.

The only wiggle room you have here is on free speech grounds but we have already figured out, that this does not apply here.

lugg··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
> Who's being excluded, and from what, merely by having their assumptions challenged in a discussion context?

Good question, so why are we removing all this content?

lugg··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
I don't think the analogy fits. Those individuals are protected classes and refusing them access like this would be discriminatory behavior. Likely not illegal in USA but it would be illegal elsewhere.

Racists are not a protected class of people. They aren't afforded those same rights. And on some grounds their disruption of society actually puts an onus on you as a platform to restrict their access.

lugg··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
What is a clarification combined with a change in behavior?

Redefinition.

lugg··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
Not at all what they were suggesting. Those things bloody happened.

And again, nobody here is denying Nazis were racist.

How can you say it played a major role in the outbreak of war when you can't even say it without tacking on the real causes with an "and" all while ignoring the USA turned a blind eye to the lot of it until Japan got involved?

Nobody here has said it didn't play a role. And it did play a major role later on in WW2 but that's not what this thread is about is it?

Did white supremacy cause WW1 and WW2. No.

Did it play a part? Yes. Why are we talking about this? Because AP minced their words and should have just said nationalist racism.

lugg··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
Thats not at all what they were saying. The thread states white supremacy was the cause of the wars.

It historically and factually was not.

It played a role.

It was not the cause.

Nobody is saying Hitler wasn't a racist (wtf.)

lugg··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
Thats not a paradox.

Suicide / death is as extreme as things get for living organisms.

It's not bigoted to state facts you don't like. Mean, maybe, if I time it right. In fact someone calling you a bigot in this isntance actually makes them a bigot.

Talk about a useless insult.

lugg··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
I never said they didn't have rules.

And re your edit, it's not a clarification it's a redefinition and that's what scares people.

lugg··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
YouTube started out as a way to empower people to post home videos on the internet, a place for every day people to share video.

And you're right, it has always restricted illegal content. And that's a good line to draw.

So..

What's illegal about this new content?

Or what has changed that they now think they're ready to judge what is extreme and hateful?

Or what has changed that they now think they even should?

lugg··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
Probably because it's literally what YouTube is?

Why do you think a nation of free speaking individuals is patently not entitled to say what they want on a platform specifically created to allow people to say whatever they want?

To be absolutely clear on my position, I am not saying YouTube is acting outside their rights to censor content. But I am very much saying people have a right to be peeved about the bait and switch.

Further to my point. People being concerned about who and what specifically will be caught up in this is well, well within reason to bring into question given their current approach to takedowns which consistently missflag videos inappropriately.

"It's their business they can do what they want" isn't a valid argument against any of these questions, you're just stating a fact that doesn't answer or even acknowledge the potentially problematic situation at hand.

lugg··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
Marginalizing a group of individuals for nothing but their culture is a violation of individual rights if you ask me.
lugg··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
How is that not extreme?
lugg··on YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
What do you mean white supremacy was the cause for WW1/2?

Edit, this is an honest question. It's my impression these wars were caused by nationalist movements. The first didn't even involve "whites" until later and it certainly had nothing to do with white supremacy.

The second world war got very white supremacy eventually but again, zero fucks to do with the cause. Hell America turned a blind eye to ALL of it until they got dragged in, that's how little it had to do with anything.

(Not some gun toting denier nazi here, it happened it was disturbing as fuck and it was a big deal, but please don't run around claiming this made up narrative)

lugg··on GitHub Package Registry Will Support Swift Packages
Why would anyone say this?

No.. they buy GitHub so they own pretty much most of open source software. Embrace.

Then they release a new package registry, one to rule them all, it supports all the things. Extend.

Extinguish, I don't know, that's why I asked the question, I don't know what the play here is.

Is it simply they now fully control distribution?

This doesn't sound like an issue until we're 10 years down the line and nobody creates package managers anymore. Nobody mirrors Linux, and everything has to go through GitHub.

Like I would think this is my own bias, and it certainly sounds tinfoil hattish to even me, but then I haven't forgotten those memos. Have you?

lugg··on GitHub Package Registry Will Support Swift Packages
No.. package managers / GitHub is the play here.
lugg··on Huawei reassesses goal to be world’s bestselling smartphone vendor
Yea they should do that for apple and google too. Oh wait.
lugg··on [dead]
It's posturing.

They don't actually care one way or another about Taiwan or Tibet.

The problem is that if they let it happen it shows the rest of the country that they're able to get out if they choose to do so.

Try to think of China more like the EU and Taiwan as Greece or Britain.

lugg··on Boeing Built Deadly Assumptions into 737 Max, Blind to a Late Design Change
Please, no. This is not the same thing at all.

This is like taking your MySQL app and running it against MongoDB with a bunch of hacks to translate the SQL into mongo calls.

And then claiming you did all this so you could "avoid a rewrite".

Some architectural decisions are far reaching and leaky. This is not the ideal but it often is the ideal trade off. The alternative is decoupling to the nth degree resulting in a hunk of junk impossible to change that won't get off the ground.

lugg··on Carrier Group in Recent UFO Encounters Had New Air Defense Tech
Or its just aliens.
lugg··on Bonini's Paradox
Woosh..

That's the point!

lugg··on Scrum is fragile, not Agile
Reminds me of this goto conference talk from one of the original Agile developers "pragmatic" Dave Thomas.

Speaks a lot bout what agile truly is and how scrum is a very large mismatch.

https://youtu.be/a-BOSpxYJ9M

lugg··on Self-distancing can help you make better decisions
This is a very difficult area to draw a line on.

Your emotions can effect your actions and decisions like anything else. Are we to apply the same logic to how advertising made me feel a certain way leading to a purchase u wouldn't otherwise have made?

We are talking measures of degree here but it's a spectrum that is incredibly difficult to nail down.

What constitutes being of sound mind?

lugg··on GitHub Sponsors
Bug bounties would be amazing.

I'd drop a lot of money on a particular docker feature that hasn't been dealt with for the last 3 years running.

lugg··on “Python's batteries are leaking”
Big 4?
lugg··on Washington state lawmakers approve human corpse composting
I don't know why but I laughed too hard at the thought of someone dumping their grandma in the trash out back, feet sticking up and all. Then the garbage man coming and being annoyed at the pointy toes but not really all dismayed.
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