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I think the flagged commenter was probably thinking of the quote in terms of a framing related to trans people.

Happens with a lot of websites, unfortunately. Also experienced this with Samsung when trying to manage my account for their SmartThings app.

Isn't that just stressful? Are you ever going to look at more than 20% of the things on your backlog?

My approach is to bookmark things and then if I feel like it's time to read up on something or just a good time to work on the reading backlog, I'll just pick whatever seems suitable at a first glance.

> attributing, to historical figures, modern concepts which they surely never even conceived of, and which would undoubtedly baffle them until they had been brought up-to-date with current knowledge.

I don't think that's quite what Whig history is. The Wikipedia article doesn't seem to imply that, either. If there was a "Tory history", I think this case would be more like that, as it presents a past figure as being more enlightened (while Whig history typically does the opposite in order to extol progress).

Oh no...

Why is that "not a lot"? What would be "a lot"?

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>Apparently it's legal for Congress to insider trade. It's legal for CEOs to insider trade.

I'm pretty sure it isn't.

The main difference is the amount of JS bloat. Twitter takes many seconds to load and navigation is sluggish.

Email addresses are notoriously hard to parse.[0]

I'd wager that one probably misses a bunch of corner cases.

[0] https://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html

I fail to see how this could be called anything else without resorting to newspeak. It's politically motivated downranking of sources that the operators of DDG are in ideological disagreement with. It's a way of exerting narrative control over public perceptions.

Downranking sites that disrespect user privacy using trackers and similar is different, because it is not ideologically motivated. I guess you could call it censorship, but no-one except the site owners are going to take issue with it.

A simple way to tell if something is political censorship is to ask: who will take issue with the absence of this piece of information that is being removed or hidden? If the answer contains groups of people that aren't just corporations, I think it's pretty clear what is going on.

And I guess I have to repeat myself here: no, I don't personally belong to such a group in this context. I just happen to not want anyone telling me what I'm supposed to believe, even if I'm "on their side".

No, I only have their word to go on, but at least they explicitly say that they are avoiding censorship[0], while DDG are quite open with it.

I also did some smell tests by searching controversial topics, and Kagi does seem to present a more mixed bag of sources than DDG and Google on the first page of results.

[0] https://kagi.com/faq#censoring

I switched to Kagi[0] when DDG announced their implementation of selective censorship[1]. The results are much better, and I use the !g bang way less often (for DDG I was basically always using it, making the bangs the only actually useful feature of DDG for me).

[0] https://kagi.com/

[1] https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318 — I think it's sad that I have to clarify that I am personally also sickened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but that I don't want DDG to be an arbiter of truth despite that

I took that course in 2015 or 2016, so yeah, I guess that's about a decade in which he could have added it. I just browsed around Chalmers' course pages and am very happy to see that he's still teaching that course.

I have a similar anecdote which completely stunned us, but which may possibly be part of his standard routine, and thus something he does for every set of students:

He always wore the same striped sweater. At one point, he took a break to drink some water and remove his sweater. But beneath the sweater was another identical sweater!

I assume everything he did was very well-planned and part of his pedagogic system and routine, but it was often hard to tell if he was acting, or if he was actually being serious but eccentric.

It may be a Kremlin talking point, but that doesn't make it baseless. It's a pretty well-known (and I should actually think uncontroversial) fact that Washington and its allies have been bolstering Ukrainian military capabilities in various ways for several years now. How else do you think Europe's poorest country has been able to withstand an invasion from Europe's strongest army so well?

An absolute legend! My favourite of his jokes: "when I moved to Sweden from Norway, the average IQ went up in both countries".

Same experience here. As far as genre fiction goes, the prose itself is pretty good. But the plot and themes did not resonate with me or strike me as particularly interesting. I do understand its historical context, but I don't really think that elevates it.

Maybe? Your alternative seems to be to let a few people die every now and then, so that some companies can get better margins.

Because they didn't design it around that possibility. If the battery blows up, regardless of cause, it should do so in a controlled manner which minimizes the harm caused to the wearer.

Yes, just look at the terrible state of Switzerland.

There is no such thing as fact-checking without an agenda. What would the incentives be? No agenda, no demand, no-one pays for it.

This is why one should watch our for TLAs ;)

To further illustrate that point, would you say that someone who is deeply concentrated while reading a book or solving a puzzle looks like they're on drugs?

Is there any evidence that supposed beta testers are not receiving the source code?

Selling exemptions is a thing.

But the GPL is much better if you want to avoid having your work stolen.

What's the issue with GPL here?

If you're joking, do be aware that it's not very obvious.

I find the wording itself interesting. I guess it's a sort of class-tribalism that's developed to the point where it's so ingrained in some people's mindsets that they causally append bizarre comments like that to their sentences.