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sadris··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
But they're not banning Zionist (Jewish nationalist) content, only White natl content. So they're engaging in illegal discrimination due to disparate impact.
sadris··on EU says new cars must include built-in speed limiters
Seems completely pointless as nobody will be driving cars by 2022. Self driving will be available way before then.
sadris··on Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice chat software
VoIP
sadris··on Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice chat software
I think mattermost is working on a couple plugin.
sadris··on Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
Correct. And they get that interest by placing it in an interest bearing account.
sadris··on European Parliament approves copyright reform
Maybe you should have sided with the nationalists all along?
sadris··on Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
Landlords are allowed to place received security deposits into interest bearing accounts.
sadris··on Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
Twitter is a US corporation.
sadris··on Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
Require a deposit to sign up. If you quit you get it back. If you get banned you lose it.
sadris··on Facial recognition overkill: How deputies cracked a $12 shoplifting case
Why is catching criminals a bad thing?
sadris··on California Has the Jobs but Not Enough Homes
That's why you have your spouse get the second mortgage.
sadris··on Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shooter videos
If you want it to not happen again, then you should look at the why, not the what.
sadris··on Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shooter videos
He was a nationalist, not supremacist.

> I have seen zero proposed solutions or ways of combating the rise of white supremacists because so far, the market place of ideas has not been successful.

The moderate nationalists like Taylor have been purged from common media. He is equated to the exact same as the shooter.

After a Muslim terrorist attack we all call for moderate Muslims to help engage in dialog to talk radical ones out of violence. But in the case of nationalist terrorism that is no where to be seen.

If you ever listen to interviews of former nationalists, dialog is what got the to change their position. Not once did no platforming or throwing bottles at them work. There was an interview with one on CNN last week about this.

sadris··on In Fatberg Fight, NYC Goes to War Against Flushable Wipes
Bidets work way better than the wipes.
sadris··on New York City considering legislation to ban cashless retailers
But not having a bank account is a choice. It's not about "rights."
sadris··on Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
The heritability of certain political preferences are higher than the heritability of homosexuality (a protected class).
sadris··on Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
They've admitted that they work together on censorship issues. They're colluding together to harm potential competitors: Gab is banned from the Google app store, and Google was running a competing social media network Google+. This is exactly what ATT was doing that got them broken up.
sadris··on Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
Moderation of public utilities would be unconstitutional.
sadris··on Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon
Is it equally unacceptable to be entitled to try to force companies to hire/fire who they don't want?

What about forcing companies to offer housing to people they do or don't like?

And what about offering loans? Should companies be forced to offer loans to people, even if they don't want to?

sadris··on Ask HN: Anyone Using Google's “Speech-to-Text” Service?
Amazon has a s2t API as well
sadris··on FBI head Christopher Wray: We can't let criminals hide behind encryption
Why is there a never ending stream of FBI chiefs who peddles this crap?
sadris··on UMass president calls for online college to help face ‘existential threat’
Maybe they should lower prices like every other industry does when customers are sparse.
sadris··on Neurosexism: The myth that men and women have different brains
Correct. That's why I explicitly said shared environment (the "nurture") and not all environment (which includes non shared environment).

When comparing nature vs nurture it's going to be always nature. When comparing total trait variance, the genetically explained variance is on average 50% (averaged across all traits).

A fraction of the remaining 50% is non shared environment (randomness) and a minute/neglible amount is shared environment (nurture).

sadris··on Neurosexism: The myth that men and women have different brains
Everything you said was incorrect. There isn't a single trait ever examined in which the impact of shared environment is larger than the genetic impact. In other words, the heritability of every trait ever examined is vastly larger than the effect of the shared environment (nurture). It's literally the second law of behavioral genetics: The effect of being raised in the same family is smaller than the effect of the genes.

And about evolution, also wrong. We have evolved 100x faster in the past 5000 years than in the Pleistocene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_10,000_Year_Explosion

People like to believe in falsities like yours because they don't want to admit than ability is mostly innate and there's nothing we can do about it.

sadris··on Neurosexism: The myth that men and women have different brains
Narrator: there are gender differences in the brain.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2031866/

sadris··on Ask HN: Has climate change factored into your decision to not want kids?
Climate change can only be fixed with smart people coming up with smart solutions. The dumb aren't going to save the world. And intelligence is almost entirely genetic. So no: I'm not going to engage in dysgenic fertility.
sadris··on Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed
How did Bitcoin fail? If you're referring to transaction times, IOTA solved that problem.
sadris··on Liberapay – A recurrent donations platform
Flattr did this. It may still. It got bought a few years ago.
sadris··on Ask HN: What feature would you like to have in a new programming language?
Typing. No unchecked exceptions. Optional memory management. (I think D has all of this)
sadris··on A Proposal for a Decentralized Youtube Alternative
Mastadon is not decentralized. Its federated, like SMTP.

> Youtube’s copyright strike system errs on the side of the entity making the copyright claim.

Youtube is required by law to do this, else they lose their DMCA liability protections.

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