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In the case of child pornography the law - in many countries - explicitly makes it the platforms responsibility.

Maybe India should also stop accepting “recycling” waste from western countries. Then the west can lead the way even better.

Because those actions are favourable to Allah. If there are those who don’t like Allah, then you get rid of those people. When all in the populace are worshippers of Allah, then actions favourable to Allah will bring you respect.

No. I clearly remember seeing that in the end credits, when I first watched Rambo 3 on TV, in the late 90s. Rambo 3 was a great movie and I liked it more than the first one, because I was a kid back then.

I remember it clearly because that was the first movie I saw exploding arrows. I don’t know if the explosive arrows were made famous in Rambo 3 or in Predator. In any case I watched quite a few reruns of Rambo 3 on TV, and they clearly had that dedicated to mujahideen fighters message in the end credits.

It’s hard to imagine any politician being able to sell their voters on “we’ll stay there as long as we feasibly can”, because that’s what the US signed up for after 9/11. The scope of the project crept almost immediately from kill AQ, punish Taliban to Nation Building because there was no standing state to punish and most of the leaders involved just melted away. Now, the way the US is pulling out, makes it very likely that Afghanistan will once again become a hub for Islamic terrorists from all over the world.

Everything. It certainly isn’t as sexy as CSS and JavaScript. It doesn’t have the arcane mystical aura of Haskell and Brainfuck. Nor the fanatic intensity associated with Rust and C. Nor the stupid simplistic charm of Go and Ruby. “Select a from b where x join blah blah”. What about that isn’t boring? It’s like ordering around a servant who has to do the real planning and stuff.

I used to think that privacy arguments are ok in principle but we aren’t really loosing much by sharing some personal data with Apple or Google’s algorithms. In return we got so much convenience, software and products that worked well with each other and even shopping recommendations that were great.

But with this move, they have just crossed a huge threshold. Now it’s clear that we are hurtling into a truly dystopian future where our personal thoughts and experiences are simply not our own. America at least seems to be heading towards some form of corporate fascism that may not be dominated by an individual or a group, but will eventually lead to social ossification and societal decay by outlawing dissent.

To introduce this tech under the disguise of fighting child abuse is just amazing. This will eventually lead to identification of individuals who for example may hold sympathetic views for political views that are currently out of favour.

At some point you have to swallow the inconveniences outside the garden and recognise what this is leading to.

Not if one doesn’t play any multiplayer games. There are many who don’t.

If you’re looking to switch then shouldn’t you be doing your own research? Words like disingenuous reek of fanboyism.

What an idiot. As an ignorant fool myself I was hoping for a coherent argument that would confirm my own gut instinct against bitcoin, only to be served with this!

I disagree. Banning tuition is a very stupid move. All they did was to deprive poorer kids from accessing these facilities. The families of kids with resources are going to find a way to subvert the ban anyway.

The focus of those seeking to help kids is on completely the wrong things. The solution doesn't really lie in optimising the coaching exam system - sure it can be improved but the leverage of outcome is very low - but rather in the larger economy. We need more businesses, better regulation, sleeker government and policing system. This would do more to ease the pressure on kids and families than any regulation on the coaching industry would.

Please tell me these were ASIC machines and not GPUs.

What’s the problem here? Check out reviews on steam and participate in the discussion forums, and make your purchase in Epic, to support the developers.

Benefits: Videos where a person pisses on the Quran or desecrates the statue of a Hindu god, can be removed. Left alone it might cause a riot where dozens would die, and a lot of private (and public) property would be destroyed. The details of the uploader would be shared with law enforcement.

This course of action is primitive in western countries, but understandable in a country where the police to population ratio is around 100 times lower than in the west and only 2% of the working age population pays any taxes.

Self regulation as a course of action is a failure. Companies who want to “grow fast and break stuff” don’t care about riots in a country like India.

Dangers: Indians’ free speech will get trampled. Parties in power will enforce the law in a biased manner as they always have done.

This trade off is acceptable since western companies operating outside their home country only care about profit and don’t operate with any social conscience. It would be utterly foolish to outsource the fight for our rights to them. It is more preferable to have these companies operate within the boundaries of Indian law, no matter what they are.

I’m interested in this. I live in a country where I can’t get the US editions without spending the equivalent of a big percentage of my monthly income. I have the international edition of CSAPP, but the booksite says it’s full of errors and even misordered pages, and the problem sets don’t match.

Because We are knowledge workers, Not manual labourers!

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Yeah. Your recovery is still not complete it seems. All the best. Eat healthy, stay occupied, and think happy thoughts.

It’s based on them neither being “prominent”, nor being “fact checkers”. Please produce sources to back your claims.

Also cite, why there needn’t be any arbiters of truth in a democracy. Maybe you have fully embraced the post truth age.

Great news. I hope the government grows a spine and does it.

The founder of Private Internet Access and also… the Crown Prince of South Korea it seems. XD

Wait. He’s the crown prince of South Korea it seems. XD

I am saying they are lying and so should you. You are engaging in a losing battle trying to argue these people into sense.

Neither are they “prominent”, nor do they “check facts”.

Someone has to be the arbiter of the truth. I’d rather it be courts and some legal process, or even the government rather than some so called “prominent fact checking organisation”.

This thread is insane.

Chads... collect their own garbage?

This sounds pretty ignorant and insensitive. What someone wants or needs to live a happy life cannot be generalised. While I don’t think people owe you more than some empathy and politeness, they shouldn’t also be allowed to make sweeping judgments about your character on the basis of what you hold valuable or not.

It would be hard to show this wasn’t genuine behaviour but a malicious attempt to infect the Linux kernel. That still doesn’t give them a pass though. Academia is full of copycat “scholars”. Kernel maintainers would end up wasting significant chunks of their time fending off this type of “research”.

What an effing idiot! And then turn around and claiming bullying! At this point I’m not even surprised. Claiming victimhood is now a very effective move in the US academia these days.

Social decline or social change. It’s difficult to say for sure, unless they also go into technological decline very soon.

Haha. It’s actually not a bad idea.

Making good health, community service and social skills a core requirement to get admission seems like a great idea. Can this also be gamed? Sure. It’s not like the existing criteria are not being gamed by families with a lot more money.

It is futile to complain about how the admission system cuts kids off from society and takes a toll on their health. Fierce competition for scarce resources is inevitable. Sure, the government can do a much better job of spending whatever resources are at hand, but even efficiency can only go so far.

This kind of out of the box thinking is more likely to yield results than pining for ideal situation that simply doesn’t exist.