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zuuow··on What Germans Are Reading
If they removed a book because they didn't like it because it was antisemitic, then it's clear to me that they will most likely do so again in the future for antisemitism and, maybe, for other reasons.

That's what happens with having editorial control: either you play sides (by removing stuff you don't want and maybe pumping up stuff you like[]) or you don't play sides (by publishing the rank without modifying it). And Spiegel is playing sides here.

[]I'm not saying Spiegel has done or will do this, this is just an example.

zuuow··on What Germans Are Reading
I disagree that it's misleading, because the reason is not stated.

"Books" may not be correct in this context because it's been a single one thus far, but if another antisemitic book appears, they'd probably delete it too, so I'd argue it sounds more like a norm than a one-off event. By removing a book they didn't like, they opened a can of worms, so to say.

zuuow··on Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs
Hot take: I watch almost no HD video, and I practically don't download anything. Why should I have to pay the same money than someone who spends all day streaming 4K Netflix from 5 screens?

"Just buy a lower speed" is not feasible since ISPs keep pushing the lower speed that you can get higher and higher. Overselling. If all you get is fibre, here the minimum is usually 100 Mbps, which I evidently don't need. Same about data caps in mobile connections.

zuuow··on What Germans Are Reading
Both are correct. They removed a book they didn't like because they considered it to be anti-semitic. They are not exclusive.
zuuow··on Do we need to worry about artificial stupidity?
Mass media feels like a direct impediment to democracy. When what they publish consist of the same crap all the time, it may seem as though that stuff carries more weight than it really does.

I wonder to what degree the mass media are responsible for the current political climate.

zuuow··on Kevinism
Also in Spain. Kevin, Joshua, etc automatically mark you as being a gypsy. No Chantal here though, but names like Jennifer or Yolanda are arguably used to that effect too. Very, very surprised though to see this as an international phenomenon.
zuuow··on Michael Cicconetti
4 year sentence for weed, I assume it's a huge quantity
zuuow··on Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click
The correct answer in SO questions is always the most voted one, not the accepted one. I always check for that. I think I've seen SO recently sort the answers of a certain question by number of votes by default but I might be wrong
zuuow··on Xi’s Dilemma: Send Forces into Hong Kong, or Wait Out Protesters
I think Xi is not well prepared for urban guerrilla. He'll probably wait this out, get prepared for it, and shut up the protestors once and for all the next time they decide to make noise (maybe in 2-3 years?).
zuuow··on Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong
Not everybody agrees with your politics. And not everybody who disagrees with the Western, liberal view of the world has been brainwashed. Maybe those soldiers want one China.
zuuow··on Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon
As if a virus really needed administrator access for anything...

Maybe to fuck up your machine... but if they want to snoop on your passwords, encrypt your files, mine bitcoin, participate in a DoS attack... they can do that without elevating

zuuow··on Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic
What's your plan to wind down Tumblr?
zuuow··on Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
I see your point, but in this case they are blacklisting domains by hand because of their content, which they don't agree with. And that is very bad. Maybe it was my mistake, thinking that their organic search was holy, which no longer is the case it seems.
zuuow··on Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
So... Google is openly editorialising their results?

They were already doing it with the carousel (google "american inventors") but if they are doing it with what seemingly is the list of organic results this is very, very troubling.

zuuow··on Loot boxes a matter of “life or death,” says researcher
Whatever happens with WoW Classic will echo across the industry.
zuuow··on It Takes More Than Mass Protests to Drive Change
>Soros

Strawman/10

zuuow··on Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations
Both tourism and Python use an insane amount of energy, thus they are equally bad for the environment. But they both feed a lot of people so we can't just get rid of them just like that :/
zuuow··on Python Is Eating the World
Let's count the minutes until someone comes saying "but you can just write C and bind it to Python", completely missing the point.
zuuow··on Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the current record of 16 MB
A guy I knew used to reencode his songs as 16 kbps mp3 files to save space. When I told him they sounded horrible, he told me "no problem, I can always reencode them back to 128 kbps!"