paulnechifor

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It would probably be a good thing for me, since forcing annoying ads will make me stop using YouTube. I insta-close any website which forces me to turn off my ad blocker.

I think that was a joke mate. You'd make a fantastic rule enforcer. :P "Is that little girl selling lemonade? She better have a selling license or I'm calling a SWAT team."

If you allow for someone to be disqualified based on accusations which haven't been tried in court how are you going to prevent that from being weaponized? In fact, isn't that what they tried to do to Biden this election?

That's intentionally taken out of context. He specifically said that nazis and racists are not included and that they should be condemned.

> NP completeness

Programmer here. It's true. I deal with NP completeness every day.

"Stop using the product" works for coffee, where if you don't like it you can try an alternative. But with the cash cows of mega corps you often have few alternatives and it's intentionally difficult to switch.

I don't understand why some are wary of government regulations, but have no qualms about being controlled by major corporations where you don't even have a vote.

You're not even trying to hide that policies don't matter. Apparently it's all about whether you agree with the author or not.

Social media sites are legally entitled to censure things they disagree with, but it's dishonest how they portray themselves as being non-partizan.

Hagia Sofia is a church though.

> people in this thread that clearly do not understand the impact on the app ecosystem

The entitlement of ad tech is unbelievable.

> I'd liken it to reading a post on mumsnet.com with 100+ middle aged women arguing

Yeah, women, amirite?

What does this have to do with speech? And yes, the courts can compel you to do something you don't like. That's what the law is.

If you steal an candy bar, the government can "compel speech" in the form of forcing you to return the stolen property.

> whilst (while)

I'm not a native English speaker, but I find it funny how Americans often consider English spellings wrong.

I wonder if American Hispanics do the same for Spaniards:

> Ahem, it's pronounced "ustedes", not "vosotros". That's not a word.

It's not that simple, and I hate it when it's inconsistent.

For example, even in the US, courts have established that Twitter is a public forum with respect to what politicians (such as Trump) say. But do other people get such protections?

In my country, Romania, the supreme court declared that Facebook is a public space, so if you say something like "the police can blow me" you'll get a letter from the police telling you so show up at the station so that they can fine you (swearing is illegal in Romania).

But Facebook can take down something I can say in public, meaning I'm not allowed free speech. It's not fair that I suffer all the consequences of a "public space", but none of the rights.

> You need internet to download games to your oculus quest, so it makes sense to have an account to keep track of what games you own no?

Not really. If they're downloaded, why would you need to look up remotely what you have locally.

Is this what Google is complaining about, changing laws?

"Conspiracy theory!" has become a term for dismissing genuine concerns.

I'm not sure about any of that. Android phones are ridiculously diverse, from overpowered "gaming" behemoths to tiny ones like Unihertz Jelly.

But in the end I guess what matters more is whether you want a single person to control what you view or not, like when they banned James Joyce because of an illustration of a man skinny dipping.

Even worse. Imagine millions of people knowing this and still buying these inferior phones.

Isn't that a good thing? runs away

> Who says it’s the silent majority? The loud minority are those who keep bitching and moaning imo

Yeah, they're the ones bitching and moaning all of the loot out of the stores.

Same, but also Bosnian Bill. Here's him opening a master lock with a plastic sheet as a pick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayQIm3Lo6ZM or a zip tie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIq9khF-axs&list=PLTSWkYxuSl... (he has an entire list of these ridiculously easy picks).

I've always wanted to do this, but it only really works if you have a typeset handwriting style. Regular handwriting has too many "ligatures".

For example consider just "vo" vs "io". The end of "v" ends horizontally near the top. "i" end at the bottom. So the line that starts "o" has to begin at different positions.

Most fonts solve this by starting a discontinuous "o" always at the bottom. But this looks ugly.

And that's jut two letter combinations...

To talk to family members who have chosen to permanently live in China. :'(

Free speech is the principle that you should let people say whatever they want without censorship or legal consequences (excluding cases where the speech causes direct harm).

> They can do what they want with their platform.

Of course they can, but they can't then say they believe in free speech. Similarly to "you don't make peace with your friends" : you can't say you're free speech if you only allow information you agree with.

What annoys me is when people think that free speech isn't a principle, but just a law in the US which applies to the government only. It's usually: "Hurr duur, it's a private company so it can practice full communism and we should be okay with that."

(That said, personally I have mixed feelings about this because I feel like it might be causing harm... Same with the antivaxxer crap.)

Many countries do "recognize" Taiwan unofficially, but surely matters of life or death should be treated a bit differently.

It's disgraceful that WHO refused information requests from Taiwan and to see senior officials feigning deafness when questioned about Taiwan.

> I think the greater good of the Linux community is served by auto updates

"Greater good"? You sound like an ambassador for Red Star OS[1]. :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

I don't understand people's fascination with bidets. I don't want to sprinkle my ass with water and have the resulting shit water splashing all over the place.

The argument I've heard people make multiple times is that "if you have mud on your shoes, do you wash them with water or with paper", but that's the wrong analogy. If I had (human) shit on my shoes, I wouldn't do either, I'd throw them away.

> This is how land is managed e.g. in Hong Kong and Singapore, and the system works quite well.

Really? I thought HK was notorious for it's housing crysis where you have people living in flats the size of closets. According to this[1] only 24 % of land is developed in HK (7 % is residential). My understanding is that the government does this on purpose because it makes the majority of its budget from this.

[1]: https://www.cedd.gov.hk/filemanager/eng/content_954/Info_She...

I'm not sure why people are downvoting you. The website even admits to being controlled by a communist organization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_of_the...

It doesn't sound like mister_hn is excusing Microsoft's behaviour. It's just that, if people think Google is the "victim" here, they are completely wrong. They both have little regard for a user's preference.