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Sorry, but Newtonian physics, the particle nature of photons, and the simple existence of god are not examples of intolerance. If censorship on the basis of intolerance is, in fact, a slippery slope that is connected to these benign topics, you'll need to show how they're actually connected

Edit: oh, I see. You're one of several responders who have latched onto OC's use of the word "reasonable" and are disengenuously attacking that word outside of the actual context. Excellent example of attacking the weakest form of somebody's argument and applying the slippery-slope fallacy from there. We can do better than this, folks.
"A court in Virginia granted Microsoft control over many Internet servers "

I'm waiting to hear the answer too. This sentence seems to be missing context in the rest of the article.
The arrow of progress points in a specific direction. The underlying problem here seems to be that progress isn't happening fast enough?
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I think of it as a tangent because for the people I pointed to it's not a preference. It's not "easier" but rather, there is no other option but absolute directions.

On another tangent, there are some fields which use relative date almost exclusively, like Ma used in paleontology and geology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year#SI_prefix_multipliers and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myr . And "BP" is used in archeology and some other fields as a date before 1950 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Present .
Cause and effect is important to distinguish.

Spurious correlations exist everywhere (ice cream consumption is correlated with drowning, should we ban ice cream before swimming?)

From my experience most people don’t understand this difference and assume any narrative around correlation equals causation.
Popper never said anything of the sort. Quoting from the same link you posted:

"The term "paradox of tolerance" does not appear anywhere in the main text of The Open Society and Its Enemies. Rather, Popper lists the above as a note to chapter 7, among the mentioned paradoxes proposed by Plato in his apologia for "benevolent despotism"—i.e., true tolerance would inevitably lead to intolerance, so autocratic rule of an enlightened "philosopher-king" would be preferable to leaving the question of tolerance up to majority rule. In the context of chapter 7 of Popper's work, specifically, section II, the note on the paradox of tolerance is intended as further explanation of Popper's rebuttal specific to the paradox as a rationale for autocracy: why political institutions within liberal democracies are preferable to Plato's vision of benevolent tyranny, and through such institutions, the paradox can be avoided."

"The chapter in question explicitly defines the context to that of political institutions and the democratic process, and rejects the notion of "the will of the people" having valid meaning outside of those institutions. Thus, in context, Popper's acquiescence to suppression when all else has failed applies only to the state in a liberal democracy with a constitutional rule of law that must be just in its foundations, but will necessarily be imperfect".

Don't get me wrong, I make no excuses for those people. They are garbage human beings that I would rather see dead than alive, but we must be sufficiently lucid to keep separate our personal preferences and our public policy proposals.

Facebook certainly has 100% the right to make that move, and I'm personally happy to see it. But the floor is extra-slippery. Let's be careful.
Yup. Living in Poland, I contracted for an US firm, my rate was actually $26/hour. Which was a 3x step up from my previous salary in a local company, and way above average in terms of general salaries in my country.
Serious question: I think there is a market for a dirt-simple, stripped down car like the original Jeep. If capitalism is so swift, why is the product I want to buy not on offer?

Answer: the market is captured, and controlled via government regulation, by corporations that do not see individual owners wrenching on their cars as advantageous.

Follow-up: how do we restore capitalism to our (nominally) free market?
This seems to be one of those things where the arguments pro and con have already been so endlessly hashed out that it’s simply become a matter of choice which camp you’re in.
Jokes aside, cars have not been analog anymore for decades ;-(

Most stuff (even stuff that looks analog like the speed gauge) now runs thru buses and OBD allows you to tap into almost every controllable aspect of the car if you know the 'right api' for the device.
Exactly how is someone not believing in the holocaust "hate speech"? Aren't people allowed to have their own opinions anymore, no matter if they are contrary to recorded history?

Are Flat Earther's next to be classified as "hate speech" because they also believe something different?

Where does this ban on our freedom to think end? I understand this on Facebook, a private company platform and they can enact any rules they want, but, classifying people's opinions because they differ as hate speech is just wrong and an over reach of their power. FB is a company but their reach and influence stretches far and wide, so they yield immense power, and a decision like this just seems Orwellian.

The message Facebook is sending is this; if you have a different opinion to the mainstream you are inciting hate speech.

Why can't people believe whatever they want to? I thought we were free to think, to feel, to believe what we wanted.

I guess not.
The mayor or governor can be corrupt and block it. The FBI has been corrupted before. Whitey Bulger. Richard Hansen. Epstein. Or they can be honest, but can't intervene because they are on the world stage and arresting a Cuban or Chinese spy running everything would start a world war.

It's a lot different when your number is called, when you're the one who's going to be shot to death by a criminal. You want everything you have and it's nowhere near enough. It's the opposite of what you think. Police just contain as much as they can. And they hide a lot of horrible monsters, worse than you can believe. If they talked about what criminals really do, there would be an unrestrained outrage which would engulf us all.
Considering how casually the word "Nazi" is thrown around these days, perhaps that should indeed be a matter of concern.
> This heavy-handedness isn't an encroachment on free speech

Maybe this is necessary and good, but of course it's an "encroachment on free speech". That's literally what is is. We can obfuscate this by replacing the words "encroachment on free speech" with "heavy-handedness" to get the sentence above. But really what is says if we remove the obfuscation is:

> This encroachment on free speech isn't an encroachment on free speech

That makes no sense.

Again, it may be a good idea, but censorship with a good reason remains censorship, or as you put it, an encroachment on free speech.
It might be worth considering The Paradox of Tolerance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

> The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant.
Holocaust denial is also a marketing strategy for fascists. The average person is repulsed by obviously fascist ideas because they know what happened with the Nazis. So fascists try to first convince them that actually, you were lied to about the Nazis. https://youtube.com/watch?v=HOHthnsuhPw
To me a wholesale ban on a religion, whose practitioners vary wildly seems like a completely different thing.

Holocaust denial is pretty specific in comparison.
What’s the point of an anti-theft mechanism if it can be bypassed by turning off the Internet?
Somewhere. Usually what happens is that it's drawn at the place that makes everyone unhappy. It's far enough in that some will cry censorship make casual dystopian insinuations, but well short of anything that actually makes in impact leading others to say it's ineffective because they can see obvious hate being allowed. And it happens because line-drawers are terrified of type 1 errors thanks to the media shitstorm that happens whenever it happens to someone with an audience.

This pattern happens everywhere: It's the same story with Google and obvious-spam/scams, and Amazon with fakes. Until a company has the balls to say that you're gonna have to suck it up and deal with false positives the cycle will continue forever.
To save free speech, we have to destroy free speech.

In the future, some historian is going to write the seminal work on the decline and dissolution of the United States - and there's going to be an entire chapter dedicated to social media.
TIL: US Bail system is a bond. I.e One has to pay that money to get out of jail before trial. If they skip trial, they don’t get the money back, otherwise they do.

Then there are Proffesional Bail Agents. https://www.allcitybailbonds.com/bail-calculator . They charge 10% of bail bond as a fee. Bail agents will pay the bond and recover the money when the person shows up at trial.

So this has the same effect as college loans. Colleges keep on amping up their fees, since students don’t fully understand how loans work. Or how healthcare keeps on getting expensive YoY.
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Thanks. Sounds like it’s like learning Klingon, for a new generation. :)
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Ferrari used to make really beautiful cars but their modern stuff just does nothing for me. I don't think they will age well.
> when say 3 years from now, you can't criticize FB for their known co-operation with the surveillance programs of the government without having your content automatically detected and removed, you might have a different view.

If that were to happen, then you would take your criticism to a different platform or your own domain. Facebook isn't the Web let alone the Internet.
Facebook isn't a collection of books, and it isn't a collection of speech: the speech is a side effect.

Facebook is a virality engine. How do you get content that's appealing to the widest variety of people shoved into their faces?

The popularity of a President almost always goes up by starting a war, because the American public loves war. It's how Bush Jr. got the popular vote after losing it so miserably the first time.

People love hate, so an engine aiming to do nothing but push content with the possibility of going viral, viral, will endlessly promote the most inflammatory content. It drives engagement! The speech doesn't matter at all; it could be anything. On their other popular platform, a platform with a younger population, the most popular post is literally a picture of an egg. It's more a video game than a "marketplace of ideas."

Of course, the obvious solution would just be for Facebook to stop suggesting this content algorithmically rather than removing it outright, but hey, I'm not Facebook. It's not an attack on speech for a company that makes money off of suggesting content to other people to stop suggesting some variant of content, though, because again: the content never mattered.
How do you think I can help push adoption ? Is there a possibility of moving to a different format (non xml based) say html for docs and json for xls and so on ?
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Unfortunately, this is now illegal in Germany and has a monetary fine attached to it.
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Or just the looks of the police makes de-escalation less likely, resulting in more officers getting attacked, resulting in more officers shooting back.

That should be testable by looking at the “how often do officers get attacked seriously” metric. I haven’t checked whether the article discusses this, as I can’t read the article because AJC can’t, in two years, figure out how to handle GDPR requirements. I wonder what they do to visitors from California.
In Poland consulting agencies are charging 50-100$ and paying 50-150PLN (1/4) to devs.
why do any police forces get military hardware at all? it seems mad to take an already over-armed group and then give them APCs and even more guns.
Well, if you believe in the First Amendment, then Facebook itself gets the freedom to decide what does and doesn't go on its platform.

If you want something more generic, you could start with hate speech laws in Australia, Belgium, Canada...Spain, Switzerland, the UK, etc. Or even more generally, the UN's International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

So, there's plenty of established frameworks to base your work off of and they've been around long enough that we can measure what the impact is.
Assuming you support facebook's move to remove this content, would you not also support the removal of similar content that you also consider objectionable? Do you not hope that this leads to more content removal or is this the only piece of content that you consider necessary to remove?

By my estimation -- and there are certain individuals where this might not be true -- if you support this you likely _want_ this to be a continued effort to remove objectionable content.
The problem with the second amendment is that it is an awful sentence. Malcolm Gladwell went over this in a podcast with an NYT chief editor, the way it is structured makes in ambiguous whether the intention was for militias to have access to firearms, or the people. That's why it is a such a hotly contested topic, that and we're talking about guns. To say it's "already dreadfully infringed" completely depends on your interpretation of that amendment.

I think pro gun advocates need to distance themselves from irresponsible gun owners and the NRA. It doesn't help your cause. Promoting responsible gun legislation without spouting "they're going to take our guns over my dead body" just makes you sound like a nut. We also need to address the vastly different circumstances the city living has compared to rural in terms of gun ownership. As well as stop burying the conversation when it comes to mass shootings, they happen way to often and absolutely would not happen if gun control was stricter, the entire world is evidence of this. Making guns harder to acquire makes them less likely, but only if that applies to an entire geographic region. If DC makes guns really hard to get, but Virginia makes them super easy, then it doesn't matter at all.

I just don't have much hope for anything bipartisan to actually work. Things are too split, and there's very little upside for people to change sides.
Why does Apple have more control over my phone than the US government has over guns?
Why would you want the death of somebody for merely holding an opinion, no matter what that opinion is? That was a pretty WTF moment while reading your comment.
You're right, you don't need "linux for dummies" (don't even understand the point of linking to that), you're probably better off sticking with windows.

For what it's worth, though, I haven't been "my own sysadmin" nor have I had to "spend time dealing with all the configuration idiosyncrasies and driver issues on a day-to-day basis" in linux for the past six years. In fact, I don't even install extensions anymore. My secret ain't manuals, though, it's the much simpler "only buy machines that the vendors declare as compatible with linux" or the even simpler "buy machines with linux installed already".

Though I only use my computer for browsers, editors, IDEs, terminal windows, and productivity apps; and pretty much nothing else, so experience may vary of course.
Well, there's Columbus statues being torn down (https://www.google.com/search?q=columbus+statue+removed) and movements to change the curriculum wrt Columbus and the early invaders/colonists, so there's that. It took a while, but it's moving in the right direction. I'm sure that if it becomes a bigger thing, Facebook will add fact checking and additional information with regards to that as well. I hope so anyway.
Hellman (yes as in Diffie-Hellman) invented this idea (chaining a reduction function and a hash together over and over) for the improved time/space tradeoff. Hellman's idea actually predates the terrible Microsoft cryptosystems which are famously vulnerable to it, because too many software engineers don't realise Computer Science and thus Mathematics are applicable to their work whether they like it or not.

Oechslin improved on Hellman's idea to make "Rainbow Tables" by sightly perturbing the reduction function with the depth, so that collisions are fleeting unless they also coincidentally happen in the same position on a hash chain, this makes his Rainbow Table far more efficient/ reliable for the same pre-computation effort and it produces the "rainbow" picture in his slide deck.

For my purpose Oechslin's improvement was irrelevant of course because I actually wanted collisions.

But memory fades, it is possible either that I got lucky, that I actually had 16GB of RAM, or that I made some minor efficiency improvements that were enough to make it work.
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I got curious about it's current, banished form because I'd missed that bit of the story. It's about what I'd expect except they have a non-CCDA compliant cookie notice with no opt-out. Makes me wonder if that's because they have amateur web devs or if the management didn't want to include it because California and politics.
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> I can give you very little advice. My first job out of college was in embedded systems, and I've spent most of my career there. I never had to figure out how to switch into it.

Maybe I'm wrong but I have a feeling most for fields outside of web dev type stuff (note when I say web dev I dodon't mean exclusively frontend, but general application programming which mostly tanes place kn thr web now) this is how it works. I casually browse jobs from time to time and out of curiosity I notice that a lot of domains and companies seem to have to categories of jobs: "student / recent grad" which generally seems to be supported by university recruiting and "experienced".
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Firearms and ammunition are regulated in the same way in Switzerland, and to purchase ammunition you just need to be able to show your right to purchase it at the shop - a proof of residency and a recent criminal records check. This is harder than in parts of the US, but no-one with a legal gun has problems getting ammunition.

Now, the boxes of 50 rounds that were issued as standard kit for military conscripts is no longer issued. This was designed to allow the conscript to fight their way to a designated muster point. As the need to do that is low currently the practice has been stopped to both save money and hopefully have a small effect on impulsive firearms related suicides. It's perfectly legal and normal to put one's own ammunition through an issued rifle.

There are also government sponsored shooting events, to encourage practice. The rounds here, being paid for by the government are tightly controlled to stop people walking off with handfuls for their own use.
The API is quite shim-able; WINE has done that in the reverse direction, and there is (or was) the "POSIX subsystem" and cygwin. People build cross-compilable C code that works on both. It's just a bit of a hassle because the semantics are different in key places.

Leaving aside things which touch the GUI (which is a lot! You need a window to receive messages to use certain APIs!), the next big differences are the process API (no fork, starting processes is a lot more time consuming) and the advanced filesystem API (completion ports).

There are frankly a few pieces of the API that I would like to see go in the other direction, like WaitForMultipleObjects().
"Sometimes Less Is More: Censorship, News Falsification, and Disapproval"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajps.12501
> You can simply ignore people you don't like, or you deem "intolerant", etc.

No, that's not how the Internet - or people in general - work.
It is avery strong way to publicly, and legally, counter that specific case of propanda and falsehoods. Extending that to social media can only be a good thing. It also makes it very clear, that everyone agreeing with people like Irving, and following them, is aslo most likely a Nazi.

And these claims have been refuted so often already, that not everyone making these claims has to be refuted on an individual basis.
It is limitation of modern browser, first browser was browser-editor. Opera Unite was a server running in the browser, have not tried it though...

There is Web Server as Chrome extension [1], MIT license.

PWA should be able to intercept PUT request and stub GET request with empty page.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-server-for-chr...

[2] https://github.com/kzahel/web-server-chrome
You either have free speech or not. When Facebook censors something, it means that there's no free speech on this platform. Whether you're censoring holocaust denial, global warmth denial, Stalin is evil denial, BLM denial, spherical earth denial, it matters not. You can't define what is beyond reason.
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> Or departments with more military gear are in more risky areas where the use of force is more likely.

Which, itself deserves a different study to understand whether risky areas lead to more use of force, or whether excessive use of force leads to police distrust, making areas more risky for police.

There is probably no single causal path here. Use of force, aggressive police, police's fear of the public, the public's distrust of police, militarized training, military gear, socioeconomics, race, and crime are likely interrelated in complex ways, without an easy line to draw from one to the other.
> I like it better how it can be done at e.g. reddit

Reddit is heavily censored. Content is removed, subreddits are removed and people are banned and shadow-banned.
Are you really purposely using the wrong word to force the conversation to fit your narrative?
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