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The only people who can vote federal judges off the bench are 67 senators.
>Several Microsoft Corp employees

Lol ok
I agree with this definition of words and their utility, but I also agree with GPs definition of nature. Now we have two running definitions and they contradict, thus a debate ensues. Political debates are often a matter of warring sides trying to establish their meaning of a word over the other's.

Thankfully, we also have a reasonable expectation in the use of words in that they map to something real. The broader the internal consistency of that word, the more 'authoritative' it should be - although, admittedly, this is just my opinion. (Politics will surely have some say about this.)

On defining nature, we have witnessed two definitions.

1. Not human.

2. All of the cosmos.

Those who appreciate the theory of evolution, I think, will have a harder time determining where the threshold between human and nature would be.
> A solution involves restricting access to public spaces for selfish morons who don’t get vaccinated, and yes, their children.

I'm certainly not an antivaxxer. I receive vaccines and will vaccinate my children.

But the government mandating people vaccinate themselves or their children in order to participate in society crosses a line for me.

It may be reasonable in specific circumstances, which I haven't fully thought through, but not by broadly restricting access to public spaces.
When did I claim a morality or worldview? You may be reading my posts in bad faith.
> He has also repeatedly told my that my high school will be writing me a recommendation letter good enough to get me a 4-year scholarship to the school of my choice. This justified the price of the reactor for my parents.

Just the right amount it seems.
I think it's 1k not 4k

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72851
OP said "why the hell is this something we let YouTube decide?"

And YouTube's decision was to silence anti-vaxxers, not mandate vaccines.
>>A solution involves restricting access to public spaces for selfish morons who don’t get vaccinated, and yes, their children.

Easier than that - you either vaccinate your kids or we take them away, period. We're ok taking kids away from parents who starve their kids or beat them or let their wounds get terribly infected. Why do we allow parents to keep children if they're not willing to vaccinate for bullshit reasons?
>is prepared to use force rather than debate the topic.

Herein lies the problem. The antivax movement is powered by the same propagandistic and diversionary tactics that powers all conspiracy. When brought to a wider audience for debate, antivax cultists use these spaces to appeal to members of the audience that can't tell the difference between pseudoscience and not.

Rather then engage in good faith with the ability to change heart, they use the debate stage to peel off supporters.
Did you read TFA?
You seem to have reading comprehension trouble: it literally validated some of their claims (about censorship rather than response), but not others (about medical facts).

That said, your comment is an excellent demonstrating of my point: it's technically incorrect, and focuses on shaming me for my opinion while lacking a substantive reply.
These conflicts are unlikely to become hot. Maybe some cyber security is worth doing.

But, winning over China as only Trump would say, is more about economics than anything else, isn't it?

Ie. a big thriving economy and by implication a high quality of life gives power and influence -- how does military R&D factor into that?
Polymorphism vs pattern matching: fight
How about having either stay out of moral issues?

The government can still declare vaccinations mandatory and enforce that without forbidding from campaigning against that very policy.

Youtube wouldn't have to do anything at all in that case.
> What happens when they decide to silence or stifle a group that's actually trying to help the good of the people?

It's amazing to me how angry people get at people who choose not to vaccinate.

Throughout history there are countless examples of medicine and medical practices that were deemed safe that turned out not to be.

And the published reaction rate for vaccines is not 0.

So, while completely rejecting conspiracy theories or vaccines as a cause of autism or ADHD, I don't think it's fair to demonize people who choose not to put something into their body that they don't fully understand or trust.

Just calling them names or stupid isn't going to help. A little more empathy and less anger might actually help adoption.

But the last time I checked aggressively guilt tripping someone into a health decision usually creates more resistance than adoption.
After looking at what happened with Google, never even mind this, I think we need to seriously consider having the military taking the Apple approach to systems: own the whole damn widget, or system.

If private sector workers can regularly get their private sector companies to pull out of US military contracts, we have a problem.
thanks for this perspective.
I would expect videos that specifically lie and say that cigarettes aren't bad for you to be demonetized.
How many wars has Trump started? I haven't kept count.
> stop doing business in countries that have bad laws like this

That's not how GDPR works. Any EU citizen, regardless of residence is covered. There's no real way around it.
Also, it's not like Palantir won't pick up the project if they drop it.

Also, LOL if they think Microsoft is going to drop $450M in revenue -- even if was hand-delivered by Satan himself.
Definitely change it. Nobody wants to think of themselves as "labor."
> What if the trusted authority is the Chinese government? would you still keep your same opinion?

In that case it is likely _mandated_ that I trust this authority regardless of my personal wants.
> just allowing you to publish your videos should be unilaterally deciding

Youtube is a not a public institution nor is it public land or space. Google can allow, or deny, whomever or whatever they want on their platform so long as their motivates for denying service are not due to regulated prejudice such as racism or sexism.
Shingles is caused by the chicken pox virus.
I'm suggesting taping the note to the inside of the door on your way out. I don't think that counts as presence. The locals aren't likely to know why it closed. Seems reasonable to me that they know.
Foucault also wasn't the only one with an opinion on postmodernism.
It seems crazy to me that we expect companies to tackle this problem. If you don't vaccinate your children when there are no extenuating circumstance (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/should-not-vacc.html). Then how can this be seen as anything but neglect and child endangerment, which should be handled by child protective services.
Nah, CO2 is absorbed by rock weathering and released by vulcanism. There are currently 740 gigatons of CO2 in the atmosphere and 1 of those is absorbed every year by rocks. you should expect that most of the molecules he exhales are going to be gone in just a millennium.
"I've always wondered what it would look like if were were paid in multipliers instead of salaries. The lowest would get 1x, middle folks 5x, and CEO maybe 20x. The usual "a rising tide lifts all boats" mindset."

I like that idea!
ITT: People talking as if being demonetized is equivalent to being removed.

Anti-vax channels have not been deplatformed. They can still post their videos on YouTube. They just can't profit from it anymore.
> Still... why the hell is this something we let YouTube decide?

The only thing YouTube has decided here is that they aren't going to take money from advertisers and give it to anti vaccine channels.
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But surely, people who want to work for defence contractors can and will.

And if you were working for a company that wasn't a defence contractor, but is becoming one, you can yell and shout if you think it might deter the company and let you stay where you like staying.
Probably just refit of stuff they sell to China already.
"Anyone with a passing acquaintance of history knows that pretty much every family, from anywhere, will have a long history of trauma starting not very many generations ago."

This sidesteps the issue of scale and omnipresence. It's not limited to someone you hold kinship with, or you, or your direct parents, it's the very idea of you. There are few things that personal... and it happened to millions; it's that long "history of trauma" extended from kin to kind.

I'm ethnically Armenian and I've seen children who've never been exposed to any of the gruesome photos, or even set foot in the country, burst out into tears on Red Sunday. The concentration of generational transference is on a different order of magnitude. From there, if you add the wrinkle of knowing what gruesomely and specifically happen to the people closest to you, experiencing trauma like it happened first hand becomes a much more understandable occurrence.

TLDR: Large scale communal lose shift the starting point, personal trauma pushes things over the edge.
Is that really equivalent? Anti-vax arguments risk convincing someone to put their children, and those around them in grave danger on the basis of fundamentally flawed arguments that can be made to sound compelling. I don't think the argument for hand washing ever met this criteria.
Censorship has shaped you and changed you in ways you will not understand.

The slippery slope concept has played out many times throughout history and the idea that history keeps repeating has as well.

Not moving in that direction is the only thing stopping the slide down.

This decision will shape future decisions and force youtube to make decisions based on popular opinion. Youtube one day will ban any videos with waterbottles or sugary drinks or something else you deem acceptable ytoday that could fall out of fashion tomorrow.
Your post implies that a person ought to be concerned if the military wants to use software that person has written. To me, it seems obvious that that perspective follows from various propositions about the world and about morality.

If you meant anything other than that by your post, feel free to explain. But I don't see any other way to interpret what you wrote. I don't think I'm guilty of misinterpretation, and certainly not "bad faith" i.e. willful misinterpretation.
Yes, and everyone missed the joke because that sentence reads naturally, thus proving that "their" is an appropriate pronoun to use.
Do you believe it's a bad idea for governments to mandate that you're up to date on your vaccinations before entering their country? Should you be allowed to lie about your vaccination history because you believe it's unfair for them to force that upon you?

Is it your right to potentially threaten their population by bringing in dangerous diseases? Or does this only apply to your current government?
This analogy doesn't really explain how much having only one kidney effects life expectancy.
...Measels, Mumps, Rubella, Polio, Varicella (i.e. what you need to contract to get shingles).

We can both make lists of equal length back and forth, but we also both know that there are plenty of communicable diseases between humans. Would we be having this debate if the outbreaks weren’t measles, but Variola Major? ZEBOV?
This is the process of eroticization, of making distasteful things appealing, seen a lot in film. Schindler's List does this with the Holocaust, Titanic sidesteps it by overlaying a love story, Irreversible confounds it by [spoiler] ending at the beginning of the story, and so on.
I assume you support enforcing vagrancy laws then and removing vagrants from public spaces? Because vagrants defecating in public and leaving used drug needles and other filth lying around certainly is a matter of public health[1][2].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/14/health/hepatitis-a-outbreak-s...

[2] https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Typhus-Epidemic-Wor...
I'll be ok with it just powering my house
The average salary also seems to be $180,000 which is pretty good.
I think _you_ are missing the point. Bitcoin resolves the problem where funds from wallet X are moved into wallet Y. That alone does not solve much. I still have to trust that whatever I paid for will be delivered. And worse, if it isn't I have no way of reversing that transaction.

The moment I go to an authority and file a complaint, I am trusting that authority. I might as well just use their fiat as well.

The point above is that if I cannot trust the authorities (because my transaction is illegal), then there is a use case for bitcoin.
I don't know about the scores/thresholds of this particular test, but the best way to know for sure is getting evaluated by a trained professional.
Ah, what if your phone company or internet provider decided to filter your ability to voice your opinions?

At some point a private company that allows you to post amateurish videos or 140 character messages becomes public utility used by millions and if they decide not to allow you to express your opinion your opinion becomes effectively unavailable to others.
> Would having event data & PII-ish data decoupled be an acceptable compromise to privacy

That depends on how you define "event" and "PII" data. The normal industry and legal definitions of PII leave out huge swaths of actual PII, after all.

Personally, I'm not even at the point where I can consider what is or is not acceptable for companies like Facebook to keep. I'm still stuck at the point of stopping them from collecting data about me without my permission in the first place.
> The antivax movement is powered by the same propagandistic and diversionary tactics that powers all conspiracy.

Yes -- and their ability to recruit and sustain their movement, like all movements, owes to a serious social problem that has a great deal of associated latent stress that they give an outlet to.

Namely, medical professionals have two serious problems:

1. They don't respect and communicate with their patients, as a matter of course. Just look at the standard discourse around medical treatment -- including the standard "15 minute blowoff" appointment.

2. (This is related, in that 1 likely caused 2, but --) They've utterly failed to explain modern medicine in a way understandable to their patients, forcing people to decide if they trust the same people who, eg, over-prescribed opiates based on shoddy science, leading to a national emergency. For a lot of people the answer is "no"; for some, it's "fuck no -- are you serious?"

The anti-vaxxer movement stems from these two facts of modern medicine, as much as whatever else you're trying to attribute.

The response that it's acceptable to use force against people for refusing to just shut up and trust you silently when you've routinely betrayed their trust without taking full, public accountability is psychotic.
There's a massive demand for Devops and infrastructure engineers. Most people go straight for developer
Sure, but the primary transmission vector for chicken pox isn't adults with singles, it's other kids with chicken pox.
Fair point. You are correct, they were not prevented from expressing their opinion.
There are enough people who like to talk about liking Bukowski the person more than (or as a result of) Bukowski the author, so I think that protection winds up being a bit thin.
The idea that demonetization is equivalent to censorship needs to go away.

That idea is the same thing as believing that advertisers are obligated to show ads on your content, which is obviously wrong.
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In the former Yugoslavia we have a concept of "inat", which (among other things, it's a complicated and multifaceted term) is kind of a genetic hatred, passed down from generation to generation. The attempts at genocide in the region are sure to have strengthened those hatreds in future generations, as did all of the other regional conflicts in the past.
Favorite bit of wording from the article:
"the number representing pi up to 15 digits "
Being able to order dogfood, delivered, for less than I could buy it for locally.
Literally... zero?
A lot of people are comparing RTX's NVENC to x264 medium. Favorably, I might add: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fi9o2NyPaY
Oh no I get that, sorry I guess I was more looking for an example where this would be really useful.

Like a certain business model that currently runs into large issues because of the costs of litigating small transactions, and would be improved through block chain.
Another example of language evolving: why isn't it "I assure thee, it is not correct" when addressing a single person?
For reminder, Activision Blizzard laid off 800 people last week.
> these people are just too dumb, selfish, or gullible to believe them

This argument has convinced people exactly never.

It's amazing how much name calling is on this thread and how few links to research.

Want people to listen? Show them compassion.

Want people to vaccinate? Give them great information from trusted sources.

Want people to dismiss you? Call them names.

If we want to increase adoption, then please silence yourself on this subject as you're doing more harm than good.
> it puts then in the position of having to actively break the law to lie about whether they've deleted your data.

True, but I don't think Facebook is too bothered by that sort of thing.
The Internet is dominated by people with no output filter, from Reddit to Twitter and more.
I have a choice to travel to other countries or not. I don't really have a choice to not live in (or not pay taxes to) the country I was born into.
"...it's why the accelerator ring diameter has to grow to achieve higher particle energies. The LHC has a circumference of 27 kilometers."

Please humor me. Does this mean that if the LHC had x diameter, it would perform the same if it was 1km in circumference?
> The problem is if you allow those comments, then by extension you do in fact support them.

FALSE. But you do in fact support censorship (or at least deplatforming, which I vehemently despise).

Here's what your position is like. Remember that baker in Colorado who wouldn't bake a cake for a gay wedding, because he felt that he would be participating in something he didn't think was morally right? You're agreeing with his position. In fact, his position is less extreme than yours, because he was willing to sell them any cake in the store, but wasn't willing to design a custom cake for them.

Yet I suspect (am I wrong?) that you think that the Colorado baker was in the wrong. But you're using his logic.

Your second and third paragraphs I think I agree with.
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I'm very confused by Nvidia's numbering scheme. It used to be generation-model, so my 1080 is generation 10, and "80" is an arbitrary model number where higher is better. It's the logical successor to the 9-80.

The 20-x cards I suppose are OK, a big jump to signify a big change in architecture.

But now we have... 16-60? Why 16? Is this the successor to the 1060? And it's a "Ti", but there isn't a non-Ti 1660?

I'm confused.
And cyanobacteria transformed the entire atmosphere, to such a degree that almost everything else died out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
So say my use case was birth certificate recording. As far as I understand in the US, there are a bunch of databases run by the states where state employees enter records. There are access controls in place that stop them from removing records. What exactly would "blockchain" solve in this case? And I don't mean theoretical problems.
I don't see any factual statements in your argument, just broad generalizations about a specific medical industry on a site used by people across the world, when talking about a problem that spans the world.

At this point you're supporting pseudoscience and ranting about modern medicine in a very conspiratorial way.
YouTube demonetized them, they’re not silencing them. This is a hard enough conversation to have without inaccuracies.
I'm not quite sure the point you're trying to make here, but this isn't about freedom of speech.

People should be restricted from accessing public spaces if they pose a direct and credible threat to the public. If a person is not vaccinated, they are a threat to the health of those around them. It is not an issue of speech.
The herd community is making it difficult for those who cannot receive vaccinations from attending places even schools in some area by enforcing vaccinations.

They end up doing more harm.
just FYI kids can't get the MMR vaccine until they're 12 months, and plenty of folks who are immunocompromised for any one of a number of reasons can't get the vaccine at all, but they can all get measles.

In fact measles is probably not going to be much more than a painful few days for most school-age kids but infants and folks who are immunocompromised can die from it, so if anything your "dummies deserve to die" stance is probably going to wipe out the wrong population.
I frankly don't care to try to convince anti-vaxxers. You can't logic someone out of a strongly held belief that they didn't logic themselves into. If someone can seriously look at the breadth and depth of information on the subject -- available with even the most cursory search on the subject -- then they're lost. I think these people are child abusers and should absolutely be shamed.
You know, uninstalling all the apps and starting fresh is exactly what I've been wanting to do for a while. Now I have the motivation for it. Goodjob developers (ones with the Facebook SDK), you played yourself.
Fusors are totally different from the concept of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) right?
You don't really mean this. There are countless examples in history where being on the winning side is far better than not having been involved in the war/conflict in the first place.

The status quo is sometimes hellish.
Well, GP didn't mean this, but most thermonuclear bombs derive a large amount of their yield from fission of a U238 "tamper" and "sparkplug", driving by neutrons from D-T fusion.
The linked article can be summerized into a few word sentence: The p-value of a famous study, cited by researchers and media, is claimed to be 0.33.

I am completely amazed that from there you interpret biological determinism, leading to red pill, leading to nazi worship, and finally landing at the far-right. I guess that answer my question why people think it is far-right, while my own definition of far-right is no where near that.
A single raise? Doesn't the CEO make $28MM every year?
Consider your browser fingerprint. Most people use Chrome. Most people use Windows. Most people use English.... but when you combine all those "most"s, you find that you only have a minority of people.