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Is there any indication or reason why they would want to block LGBTQ+ content? Haven't both companies been very vocal supporters of LGBTQ+ in the past?

Do you actually believe that the issue with porn is that it "upsets people's feelings"?

$50,000 seems like a pretty cheap price for saving a life though.

I personally never trust statements where the grammatical subject is "science"

Location: Copenhagen and Stockholm Remote: Sure Willing to relocate: Yes, to SF, NY or other major city Technologies: Startup CTO, and advanced iOS and Mac apps from start to finis…

Every time I have to do something complex related to home renovation, book keeping etc I wish there was a platform for this. Often you don't want to engage a firm for a week, you j…

It's not the "access" to those books that gave you an edge, 95% of children would be completely uninterested in those books. As you know, today 100% of Western children have free a…

No, I am very far from agreeing with you. I am saying that if you keep all other conditions the same, you will still see vast differences in the ease of understanding mathematics. …

Pretending to care? I am not saying I care about communist symbols, I am saying it would be absurd if I did, I wasn’t in the war. And yes I agree that all the people that pretend t…

I really don’t understand this cope. It’s scientifically established that intelligence is highly heritable, especially the analytical kind. It also agrees with experience, we all k…

Asian families, for sure. But that’s doesn’t explain that vast chasm we all observed between non-Asians in school growing up. Why not just accept that it’s possible to be born with…

But how could some 7 year olds have vastly different ”pre-requisites” than others? In my experience aptitude plays a far bigger role. Yes, you compensate for lack of aptitude with …

It's not weird at all, and it's the same in all languages. Some of the countries are very new, or the speakers of the language only came in contact with it recently. Then it's more…

Do you think anyone would take that seriously? I sure hope anyone I associate would just laugh and presume that I'm joking. It just isn't reasonable to be that sensitive. It certai…

> Using "chairman" to describe a position implies that it's occupied by a man. No, obviously not. A "chairman" can just as well be a woman. What it does imply is just that _histori…

>Further, its use is quite restricted - it doesn't admit all the inflections and noun-verb agreements that "he" and "she" do. I agree with all your arguments, but just want to poin…

That is of course awful in every way, but I really wonder, isn't the real problem that there are bad people? I think we can agree that people who are heartless enough to bully a vu…

If you had ancestors that were slaves in the 1800s and for that reason want to avoid any word that looks like "master", even if used in a different meaning, then by all means go ah…

No it doesn't. It's just historical accident. If you look around you will notice that some demonyms are based on the country name, some or not. It doesn't correlate with it being p…

"Allow list" is only more "descriptive" to someone that doesn't know what whitelist means. It is generally not considered a problem if you can't guess the meaning of a word from ho…

But why are you glad that we moved on? Almost none of the old words were offensive in themselves. "Retarded" or "crippled" may sound offensive now, but that is completely unrelated…

> it has an entirely different connotation What connotation is that exactly? Does "The Virgin Islands", or "The Hague" for that matter, also have that connotation in your mind? I a…

I responded to this: > neither of those has “the” as part of its official name which is clearly untrue. Yes, there are two Congos. Both of them have "the" in their official name: -…

Obviously it's political, it's not linguistics. It's not that the word "chairman" didn't work, it's that some people feel that it is wrong for a gender neutral term to be based on …

And I am saying that in most of these cases it is not that the terms "have become offensive", it's that academics and activists invent and promote, sometimes enforce, new terms, pr…