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My experience is that one-off human costs tend to be extreme for exceptions at big organizations. Handling exceptions might require a business day or two of admin time just to hand…

Even without the crisis, what upside does the UK have over the EU proper? I feel like the UK was competitive when it was competing with European countries. Competing with countries…

I don't care about "legally." I care about whether we live in a society where we have diverse opinions, and people feel free to express themselves. If we have a system where: - Mar…

If it's just AI, you separate them with actual human oversight. From what I understand, they moved less because of demonetization, and more because of the chilling effect it had on…

They didn't pick Ron Paul to test this on, and it's not a bold move. YouTube has been in the censorship game for a long, long time. A lot of content creators -- of documentaries --…

This is sad. As much as I'm offended by many of the things Ron Paul does and stands for, I'm glad he's there. There's a lot of divergent thinking there. Outliers are good. I'd be t…

* Well, the links on the front page point somewhere random -- to a clipart site. * There's nothing about who is doing this or why. * There's no way to actually pay that I could fin…

Youtube doesn't give me a reliable feed of my subscriptions. If I haven't watched something in a few months, it's basically dead to the algorithm. This is obnoxious since I tend to…

Epidemiology. Different scientific communities use different scientific methods, and often come to vastly different conclusions as a result. Epi, and related communities, uses freq…

That's an interesting hypothesis: The antivax/antimask/etc. movements as social media manipulation in preparation for a bioweapon. What's interesting is the dynamic between the epi…

Without commenting on China specifically, a few facts: - The cheapest, safest way to "invade" the US (or any Western democracy) isn't through an army, but through manipulation of n…

I don't run Windows. I believe I was running Ubuntu at the time this was a problem, possibly Debian. This was a few years back.

I've had hibernated laptops wake up for whatever reasons in bags before. They get super-hot and shut down. Come to think of it, they were Dells. Perhaps some switch is not properly…

Level of perceived versus implied condesension is a function of cultural communication style. People in some countries just talk like that.

And this is one of the many reasons why I'd never use Google for anything B2B, or that I have to rely on. I do tend to automate things in corporate settings in ways which differ fr…

I say charge company B, but I disagree with your analysis of where the money will come from. Companies charge to maximize future profits. If company B tries to charge customers an …

You're assuming perfect market transparency. That's a false assumption. Company A has good security, which adds $5 in your costs. Company B has poor security, which doesn't, which …

They're npt. That's why they happen so often.

T-Mobile explicitly excludes out-of-date software from their bug bounty program. Same with CSRF and XSS issues. https://www.telekom.com/en/corporate-responsibility/data-pro... Most…

Yes, the solution are astronomical penalties. And a corporate dissolution isn't the outcome. The outcome is that T-Mobile goes into bankruptcy, with its customers as the debtors. T…

I'm over 30 too, and I believe in not allowing corporations to externalize costs onto customers. If my data is compromised, that should be very, very expensive for the corporation.…

The best source I've seen are the tracing studies in China. Police state meant China could follow exact paths -- from camera footage -- of who caught COVID from whom. If both sides…

It depends on what other measures they take. A big part of the problem is everyone said "We're vaccinated, so we're done." That put enormous evolutionary pressure for the virus to …

... or using N95-equivalent masks and mild social distancing ... What's scary is gamma through omega.

No... early social distancing would have dramatically reduced R0. It's exponential growth. Fewer infections => fewer mutations. Proper masks (electrostatic or nano layer) are widel…