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Given the gambling example, should we be mad at the advertisers or at the forum for making money off of allowing such ads? If the Gambling Association made a bunch of posters about…

A sane system would consider the knowledge and power differences between the average individual and the corporate lawyers who wrote the agreement, along with the one sided nature o…

> may then pass discriminatory laws for which the Bill of Rights no longer applies against. Cannot they already do this to some limited extent (and perhaps are even required to do …

>which makes them look very different from normal traffic which kind of by necessity makes them look a lot more like bots. But if they are doing so because they are disabled, and t…

What about the deafblind?

>Blame the laws, not the company. Why not both? If I move to a country that legally allows me to do something horrible, people will rightfully call me a bad person regardless of th…

>the answer from the dev team is almost always, "Works as designed". When I say 'works as designed', what I'm actually saying is that I didn't have control over the design, go talk…

>There are cases that I'm all for bashing Google when they don't give the company they're targeting enough time to patch something While I understand the common ethos of our curren…

In C# var is always a place holder for the actual type which the compiler only accepts if it can figure out the type. If you do anything to the var that you can't do to the actual …

And they do. But what exactly is that line. Prurient content that empowers people? Banned. Content that literally allows control over non-consenting individuals based on their gend…

>If we enforce some morals and not others in our app stores, who exactly do we choose as the arbiters of morality? Apple and Google are, and their moral guideline is money. They ar…

> They’ve been exempt / free from responsibility for far too long. I've seen arguments that the government not allowing these debts to be discharged through bankruptcy was a major …

Is it that they are helping insufficiently, or that they are using this as a strategy for making money and showing their true colors by engaging in it only to the extent they make …

Getting research subjects is hard. For any significant sort of test beyond a simple survey, it is really really hard. So colleges force their undergrads to be participants so that …

>Over a reasonable horizon, you weren't profitable. The average worker isn't allowed to do that even when they lose money in a given year. Why is it so naturally assumed to be acce…

>It is likely easy to pronounce in that person's culture, just not for you. Often names will live on long after the family has left the culture. In my own case, my original family …

I think it would have to be a requirement of any money the government spends on code. Otherwise, they will easily defeat the requirement to make it public by passing it through a p…

By hiding the code, it makes security through obscurity far more possible. If you force the code to be public, very poor security will be discovered far faster and be more of an is…

>Nobody, or very nearly nobody, lives up to their "true potential". I agree. But how do we discuss reasons that are or aren't justified to be taken into account. For example you ca…

>A huge part of science as a field is consensus. How many were against Einstein for decades? Appeal to consensus among experts is still a fallacy.

Could one say that meritocracy is not meritocracy? No matter what skill you measure, a population with adequate nutrition since conception is going to be far better than a populati…

>This is not denying the bad behavior of intelligence agencies in the past. But to say it is okay for someone to work for those agencies is to deny their bad behavior in the past. …

I think the legality and the morality of free speech aren't connected. You can have legal but immoral speech and illegal but moral speech (such as the example you give). It is poss…

>Whom is a representative democracy supposed to represent - only educated, upper-class, "quality" folks? I think there is an valid question to what extent should people and views b…

>legal and morally right I guess the first question is, if I do something illegal, but either avoid being captured or manage to otherwise avoid prosecution by using money or influe…