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The last 40 years is not "the range within which modern human civilisation developed". It's a very thin slice of time even on human scales. Let's try not to vastly overstate the da…

They haven’t removed the government. They removed Maduro. Very different.

So your problem isn’t with “banning” books in schools per se. You just have a difference of opinion over which books should be “banned”.

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I just block what I don't want with screen time. My wife sets and knows the passcode. I don't. So I can't override.

I think the "click a link in the email" solution is more than a "tiny" bit better isn't it? It almost completely solves the attack pattern you laid out. Passing the whole link to B…

As far as I can tell, the main reason people give for moving off X is that “there’s more hate speech/misinformation/disinformation since Elon took over because he got rid of a lot …

> Apple is well on its way to ensure you can only run things they allow via app store, they would probably already be there if it wasn't for the pesky EU. People have been saying t…

It’s extremely relevant to the question, which is what the negative nature of the image has to tell us about the relative probabilities of the two hypotheses (miraculous hypothesis…

Why would they have done it?

Whatever else you might want to say about the shroud, one thing we know for sure is that it is not a painting. Analysis shows that the image is extremely superficial, only penetrat…

Of course they weren’t dumb, but having a great understanding of shadows is a far cry from being capable of creating a photo negative. They didn’t even have the concept of a photo …

There is a reason, because DEI introduces non-merit-based criteria for hiring, which necessarily results in less qualified hires.

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What is meant by "civil society" in this article?

How do you know?

I agree you need to control for other factors. But I don't think that is particularly beyond the wit of man.

The relevant metric should be accident rate per million miles driven. What is the rate with autopilot vs without autopilot.

Let me tell you how all this works: you see, Team America is funded by the corporations, so they fight for the corporations... while they sit in their corporation buildings... and …

Or probably just an innocent oversight? I imagine they might have taken this decision early on when they were far too small for anybody to even think of not wanting to be crawled b…

This is defamatory. We should all be a bit more careful and thoughtful before making unfounded accusations about people.

>> The two scenarios are precisely symmetrical. The only difference is that the cause on one side is one that you agree with, and on the other side is one that you disagree with. >…

You think that gay marriage is a good thing, but many people do not. The two scenarios are precisely symmetrical. The only difference is that the cause on one side is one that you …

I invite you to imagine the equivalent but reversed scenario. What if Brendan Eich had been contributing money to the pro-gay-marriage campaign and had been forced out by right-win…

Regardless of what you think about gay marriage, the mere fact that Mozilla forced out its CEO for having an unpopular political opinion is reason enough not to trust its leadershi…