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b-x··on European Commission prefers breaking privacy to protecting kids
> they would try to solve it as they see fit.

It seems for them the solution is to destroy privacy for the entire population.

> Please, don't post simplistic vox populi stuff.

Please ask this to the European Commision instead.

b-x··on European Commission prefers breaking privacy to protecting kids
> Because that's how you protect people privacy, right???

I'm not promoting such practices. In fact, I was just trying to use the legislators logic: if they are truthful about their "protecting children" slogan, let them start their policing where the predators are most likely to be found instead of targeting the entire population.

b-x··on European Commission prefers breaking privacy to protecting kids
Their true motives are far from protecting kids. Otherwise, they would install security cameras inside all corners in all churches in the continent, and, more importantly, enforce bodycam on pastors 24/7.
b-x··on Mysteries the Standard Model can’t explain
The standard model doesn't predict the graviton neither, nonetheless, they mentioned it in the article.

Does the SM theorize about the impossibility of the monopoles' existence?

b-x··on Mysteries the Standard Model can’t explain
What about the existence of magnetic monopoles?
b-x··on A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
I must congratulate you on this achievement. That's certainly a useful take on search.

Nonetheless, even when coding, one should also consider thoroughly the UX and how it would be addressing the others.

Saying "unsupported word" is much more sympathetic than "needs to be a word" (where you define what a "word" is, and the general user is unaware of such definition).

b-x··on A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
Less insulting error messages would be more welcome than casting out others without any consideration.

You may distribute "shame" however you want, but this only helps enforcing the damaging insults and amplifying them.

b-x··on A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
Maybe a better suited choice for errors than an insulting message: when I provided a query in my native language it regurgitated the error "needs to be a word" instead of more acceptable "not a supported language".

When you claim that a word in some other culture is not "a word", just because it's not recognized by your machine, that's demeaning to say the least.

b-x··on A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
Too bad it rejects non-Latin words, as if the definition of "text" is a sequence of alphabetical letters originated from Latin.

I thought that we've reached the time to embrace all cultures in the world, but this retrogressive engine proves that most modern tech designers are myopic about other civilizations in the globe.

b-x··on International Fixed Calendar
A visual version: https://i.imgur.com/sKQ6dbD.png
b-x··on Citing a serious flight test incident, FAA slows Boeing 777X certification
> [...] after all the 737 MAX issues.

I think using the word issues here is diluting the facts. A more accurate wording would use disasters or catastrophes.

b-x··on How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil
What is your definition of "Legitimate"? Is it just what the US lawmakers define as lawful? In such case, we've witnessed many instances where the US imposes sanctions on various entities with no relevant excuses but to oppress those who disagree with it. One recent example that I can think of is when the US imposed sanctions on members of the ICC [1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54003527

b-x··on Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts
Of course it's biased, you needed to dig back to one debatable instance in 1982, but you couldn't find any recent one since all the recent rulings enforce the hypothesis about bias. The system shifts in time, and you can't just pretend it's the same since 4 decades. But I'm probably arguing with JIDF, which makes all exchange futile since you are here to blindly defend the colonizer actions instead of listening.
b-x··on Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts
> I'm all for them to live a normal lives but [...]

International laws put all the responsibility on the colonizer's shoulder (i.e. The Netanyahu regime). So please stop spreading more red herrings.

b-x··on Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts
> [...] better lives for the Palestinians in the refuges camps [...]

Refugees should return to their homeland, in case you don't know how to let them get the normal life of a citizen.

b-x··on Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts
Your comment would be credible if the Israeli regime juridical system is unbiased. However, their rulings are oppressing the minorities. Indeed, the unrest that we are witnessing in Arab communities inside only highlights the feeling of injustice by the indigenous population.

Let us also remember that the ruling regime is accused of committing the crime of Apartheid. [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56898864

b-x··on Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts
> For the lazy people who would rather listen to a random stranger on the Internet:

The not so much "random stranger" above is clearly taking the Netanyahu regime side and discrediting any humanity from the reaction that the other side is taking.

b-x··on Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts
> An algorithm can't be anything-ist

That's an unbacked claim, but reality says otherwise [1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/XR8YSRcuVLE

b-x··on High IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders
They define high IQs as off the normal curve (on a given side), in the same way they define disorders. Why would they scream surprise when they correlate both factors?
b-x··on 2020 Mathematical Art Exhibition
It was made using Haskell. Actually, I'll list below how the animation evolved. Long story short, I decided in the final variants to cast the RGB cube surface on the big square, then animating it.

* https://gfycat.com/InsidiousPresentGoa

* https://gfycat.com/SpiffyFaithfulBanteng

* https://gfycat.com/PracticalFatKentrosaurus

* https://gfycat.com/CheapMisguidedBufflehead

* https://gfycat.com/InsidiousSphericalAzurewingedmagpie

* https://gfycat.com/HollowGlaringGraywolf

* https://gfycat.com/WillingBothGoose

* https://gfycat.com/PerfumedMediocreAndeancat

* https://gfycat.com/GeneralHandyLeonberger

b-x··on 2020 Mathematical Art Exhibition
A while ago, I've created this one: https://giant.gfycat.com/PolishedThatEkaltadeta.webm

Not sure if it fits here.

b-x··on Elon Musk is going to keep blowing your mind
When he tweets about his support for organizing coups in foreign countries to support his businesses, his ethics should be exhaustively questioned.
b-x··on OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI
> [...] that some people would misuse [Insert any tool here]

Following this logic, one would forbid schooling to lads based on the suspicion that they may "misuse" what they will learn to do some evil. One would use the alphabet to write threats to others. One would use a knife to stab others. So how do you police the right to access the knowledge? Should we restrict accessing knowledge to some few elites that some authority should decide who they are?

IMHO knowledge should be accessible to all. The accumulation of the humanity knowledge should not be controlled by an Orwellian entity. <s> Otherwise, let's start a movement demanding to wipe online universities courses from the Internet </s>

b-x··on OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI
> "This AI stuff is dangerous to world"

It's not exactly that, their rhetoric is: "This AI stuff is dangerous to world if YOU use it. But when we use it, it is good."

All entities think that they hold the key to good values, while the others are always suspected of hiding vile intentions.