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A DDoS against a blog that iirc was attempting to dox the archive.today maintainer. The bit about tampering with archived pages is news to me though. Wish the wiki discussion inclu…

Great question. It's a vague term and a moving target that not everyone agrees on. For instance, retarded is now considered a slur. If OP is saying "my director said the R word," t…

Because "slurs" is vague and covers a wide variety of utterances that run the gamut from unprofessional to unemployable and I had a tingle of Spidey sense that OP might have chosen…

Don't get shy now. Which slurs?

> Mirza Ghasemi: A smoked eggplant dish cooked with garlic, tomatoes, and eggs, from the Caspian Sea area. That sounds good. Makes me think of hunkar begendi.

It's endemic and it predates AI. I took a CS class 15 years ago where >40% of the class was caught copying the class project off of pastebin (no clue if it was specifically bait or…

The world is full of nuance. Just like whataboutism and "both sides" can be convenient rhetorical devices for people lying to themselves or others, accusing someone of either can b…

Because I don't have a CEO?

It's a really good point. "It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom. Always remember that" is all well and good but pretending 1960s ditch weed and fentanyl are a si…

Sharing network access? That's not friendship. That's a tenth anniversary wedding gift.

Any given trade also has a capacity. A mispricing opportunity can only absorb so much investment before it's no longer mispriced. A particular trade that can 2x $20k won't be able …

Here at least I believe the gambling laws have changed. Most gas stations I go into now have "gaming" machines and there's always some soul sitting at them at any time of day. I'm …

I used to use this as my example for how big a megabyte actually is. I think the entire text is 4 MB uncompressed (a nagging voice in my head says 16 MB, but I think that's just th…

Your company's software enhances the process somehow, making it easier or faster or cheaper. Your company's software did not unlock the technology of road building. There were road…

Just because it's easy to say doesn't mean it's wrong. By the same logic, you could say Microsoft Access should have all the capabilities of Postgres because it's painful for small…

1. Create a domain like myquickanonemailaccount.com. 2. Use the domain exclusively for hosting your own mail, but create a fake account creation page that just temporarily doesn't …

I just showed this to a Black person and they said it was regarded, whatever that means. More seriously. Is "moronic" okay? It's just an ever so slightly more archaiac way to say r…

Mercy me, a slur? Retarded also has a non-offensive meaning. It just means slowed. In fact, while I wasn't around at the time I'd wager that "mentally retarded" came into an offici…

And my point is that I went out of my way not to use it any more in that circumstance. Yet in the years since, I still talk about poor decisionmaking, poor luck, poor performance, …

Why would you think I'd continue to say it after realizing I'd inadvertently hurt the kid's feelings? You are making assumptions of ill will from me in the anecdote I shared just l…

In 2004 I used to volunteer as a tutor at an afterschool center in a low income housing project. One day a middle schooler was complaining about how much homework they had and I ri…

> I'm embarrassed by the way you're trying to be offensive Oooor, try this one on for size: What if they're not out to cause offense and the malice you impute is just an illusion u…

What if there is value to society in removing antisocial individuals from the social compact, whether others are deterred or not?

The article is so facile. > Yet crime-data analysts have noted that Louisiana’s crime wave was in keeping with a national trend This is meant to be mitigating? What is this thought…