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Politics are like medieval royalty. A complex inter-generational web of influence, alliances, and quid pro quo. Support of these influencers was required to earn votes, and policy had to repay these influencers - rather than voters.

Through the application of advanced techniques and data, Facebook enabled the circumvention of that at a shockingly lower cost than in the past.

There is great irony here. These supremacists are the same type of bully they are seeking to correct for: people who abuse socially acceptable ways to oppress others.

In the Middle East accidental innocent casualties create more enemies and terrorists, such that the army often displays greater restraint than our police.

The animosity being generated in the 1/3rd of the population (white males), who also happen to own most of the guns, is already being politically leveraged. I worry that someone will find a way to harness it further.

I'm thinking 'telephone network' rather than 'newspaper'. Phone companies were built as monopolies and faced strict regulation. Imagine your phone only working for company approved topics :)

Speech was worthy of protection under the universal declaration of human rights, and these platforms are becoming so fundamental to communication that they should be given the same consideration.

These platforms have become so centralized, powerful, and ubiquitous that censorship on a platform has a greater impact than preventing a person from speaking. That kind of power should never be wielded unchecked by a private entity.

> I think it's fine for large web companies to apply their own morals.

This is rather like saying you think it's fine for libraries to only carry books in line with their morals. Or perhaps that your phone only works for approved topics.

At a certain size these sites become primary platforms for communication. I would argue that at that point they should be considered a governmental entity for laws around freedom of speech applied to historical means of communication. Or made into one.

voat has users?

It's not just about money, but the appropriate application of money. Sure the Dems may have bought some likes and upvotes, while CA applied information warfare technique normally reserved for military activity.

From the Guardian:

>He had recently been exposed to a new discipline: “information operations”, which ranks alongside land, sea, air and space in the US military’s doctrine of the “five-dimensional battle space”.

This is a fatal vulnerability to the ideal of democracy. The only way to beat this game is to play it, and whoever can play it faster, smarter, and harder wins.

The only limitation is when these actions cross the line and cost you support by alienating your base, but I don't think that line exists for Trump.

irrelevant.

In fact, knowing just four random pieces of information was enough to reidentify 90 percent of the shoppers as unique individuals and to uncover their records, researchers calculated.

https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/with-a-few-bits-of...

You can also commit crimes in novels or roleplaying games that are illegal. That's different from supporting a market that causes child abuse.

Possessing digital/virtual information that required abuse endorses abuse. Entropy is our friend here; only an extremely rare set of bits results from child abuse. You won't just find it.

Even fiction or photoshop is illegal. Your argument is much more applicable here, but seeing how society treats even inactive pedophiles as criminals rather than sick, I don't think it'll be very popular.

SMS 2FA replaced nothing for many people, but better solutions such as hard/soft tokens existed already - they're just unpopular.

"Liberal western-style democracies" were only the best option at the time to maximize productivity.

So was the thinking that they are the "natural end-state of human societies".

Actually this attribution - internalizing success and externalizing failure - is important for mental health.

Discussed in 'How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use'

We clearly eat far more meat than we need and produce/harvest meat in ways that create unnecessary damage and suffering.

However, not everyone is like you. Some people develop deficiencies when they exclude meat from their diet. I have witnessed an ex-vegan health/nutritional professional advise a vegetarian to start eating some meat due to chronic health issues and lab-tested nutritional deficiencies.

It was an hard journey for both of them.

I'm glad it works for you right now while providing a sense of moral superiority, but not everyone is the same.

This isn't about gender, race, political affiliation, or whatever attribute you use to separate people into 'us' and 'them'.

This is about bullies and assholes. Bullies and assholes come in every race and creed. The thing about male/female chauvinists is that they're actually the same! A male chauvinist, born as a female, would still be a chauvinist. They have everything in common. They're the same asshole bully. They are the enemy.

We need to make a stand against assholes whether they identify with us or not, and stop letting the actions of assholes who identify with us cause us to sit by and tolerate further discrimination and bullying. My 'us' and 'them' is whether you discriminate against people.

Freedom from discrimination is a human right. You don't fix discrimination with discrimination - you only perpetuate it. I'm tired of the assholes running everything.

I shared the impossibility of making such a decision with any degree of certainty.

But we have to eat. I'm no longer sure what's more ethical: eating something dead meat or vegetables that are still alive.

We could connect a nociceptor to a computer. Does the computer now experience pain?

Just because the mechanism exists for sedation or pain does not imply the experience of consciousness or pain.

Further delay in advanced countries. The biological clock puts an upper limit on how long women can delay childbirth now.

Groups that breed without control will continue to do so.

I, too, used to think conservative values were an old people thing, but it turns out that's not always the case. [1]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/07/white...

I think you maybe be on a bit of a red herring here. Yes, values vary by age group but I'm unconvinced that cohorts change predictably over their lifetimes especially if we consider a more international view.

However, values aside I think there is an impact from neuroplasticity in terms of how younger people adapt more readily to new technology, etc.

> it's UNETHICAL to discriminate in the name of diversity.

I think Amazon disagrees with you. They include this in their job postings:

>Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

I don't think you can be both equal opportunity and affirmative action at the same time.

Yet this is the same type of work people are using to argue that that crabs/fish can feel/experience pain. Proving or disproving consciousness is basically impossible.

E.g. I feel like a lot of people aren't conscious :) Prove me right or wrong?

I wonder how the profit/risk ratio compares between the poor, slightly better off, and wealthy.

How much of these costs are appropriate economics (e.g. due to defaulting, management costs, etc) vs abuse of the relatively powerless.

You fail CAPTCHAs and get flagged as a robot. Are you sure you're not a robot?

I have the same problem.

To pass Google CAPTCHA you have to perform like an average human. This is different from getting it right. Once I started being lazier, (e.g. back of a sign isn't a sign, picture that contains a storefront but in the distance doesn't contain a storefront), I have had greater success rates.

It's like Google is training me to be dumber.

I suspect that in a society without an endless convenient supply of sugar, the body is much more accustomed to using ketosis to generate fuel. We find it very difficult to turn on that pathway, typically through extremely aggressive carb restriction (<20g/day).

As much as I'd like to turn this into social commentary about the patriarchy, this is the result of women like her buying these items. The return on investment for bra ads to her cohort is superior to other ads, so that's what they see.

It's the same problem with click bait, tv, news, nigerian scams, penis enhancement drugs, etc. Unfortunately this comes down to a 'blame the people' - or at least our psychological weaknesses.

Yes, it's homicide for both parties. Considering that this is the first swatting death, I have to disagree that it's an _attempt_ at homicide, which would imply premeditation/first degree murder.

From the wiki page you linked:

>defendants commit an act even though they know their act runs an unusually high risk of causing death or serious bodily harm to a person.

That definition could apply to manufacturers and vendors of firearms and weapons.

Police (and soldiers) operate on unreliable information all the time. They should be held equally responsible. I've heard plenty of veterans deployed in actual warzones show more consideration for human life. Whoever makes the call to pull the trigger needs to accept the consequences. Being a police officer is extremely difficult and dangerous, and is compensated accordingly.

Of course, the police are not here to keep you safe but to ensure society keeps functioning for those who control their payroll. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

Reminds me of http://programming-motherfucker.com/

Entertaining but a bit sad. Clearly had bad experiences with collaboration and believe they are unique rockstars who only have to produce code, rather than a product that people want.

Yes, it's terrible. Make sure none of the following list apply to you or anyone you care for.

>If you’ve ever taken antibiotics, had a vaccine, a blood transfusion, dialysis, an organ transplant, chemotherapy, bypass surgery or joint replacement, you have benefited from animal testing and research. In fact, practically every drug, treatment, medical device, diagnostic tool or cure we have today was developed with the help of lab animals.

>Many diseases that once killed millions of people every year are now either preventable, treatable or have been eradicated altogether. Immunizations against polio, diphtheria, mumps, rubella and hepatitis save countless lives and the survival rates for many major diseases are at an all-time high thanks to the discovery of new drugs and the design of sophisticated medical devices and surgical procedures.

Where did you go by any chance?

I've been ice training for a while but I'm basically always cold now. When does this change?

Also: Freediving is amazing for forcing a meditative state.

My understanding is that the car manufacturers pushed the train system to convert to combustion over electric, as combustion was less reliable/costlier to maintain/etc.

Thus rail lost a significant competitive edge.

So basically blame capitalism.

Freedom exists because, for a while anyway, freedom was more effective at increasing the wealth and power of nations.

This video has a great outline: http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/rules-for-rulers