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You're describing a crank. Avoiding cranks is a good strategy even if technically biased.

Non-religious people are also susceptible to the FUD about supposedly or genuinely new things. Whatever innate ick there clearly is, it gets co-opted to demonize much wider ranges …

Could it be all the conservative propaganda that gets people prejudiced against things they're ignorant about and aren't impacted by?

If you believe salt has to be kept secret, yeah, don't write your own auth.

Are you pairing computers by copying certificates to visit this site?

What a blast from the past, this word. Exactly right. It was a spectrum from a sort of mutual aid to regular corruption to outright mafia.

This passionate apologia of nihilism is not consistent with not caring what other people do or want. If "virtue signalling" elicits such reaction, perhaps it's actually working. Be…

The only people who thrive in a dictatorship are its enforcers. And by the way a dictatorship needs quite a lot of them. That's how, decades after its fall, you get voices saying i…

Are we still talking about massive companies with power to arbitrarily decide how billions of people use the personal computers they bought? Who's doing the feeling? Why would we p…

After an album ends Spotify keeps playing some related music. It's expected to include some tracks that are new to you. Then suddenly you notice "artists" you've never heard of wit…

A person praising Vance and Musk obviously doesn't value due process, judicial oversight and ultimately decency.

There's no indication of any failures of the industrial layer in this story. The train was working, it didn't crash into anything, everyone was safe.

Wishing a national identity and sovereignty did not exist just for your convenience is what this thread is about. > I wish I could speak Russian in Ukraine without restrictions The…

It's plain to see that it's the racists who aren't integrated and properly socialized, not the people "with a background".

I sometimes feel we'd be better off without all the paternalistic kitchensink features. The solid, properly engineered features used intentionally aren't causing these outages.

Isn't the purpose of many regulations to stop people who are wrong from harming themselves and others? That is, the experience of being wrong also teaches respect for rules one doe…

Given this was triggered by an old school configuration change across multiple servers, there's too little discussion of that particular process. It sounds like the change could've…

When you get dedicated servers from them that's exactly what you get: you're renting physical servers, which you manage yourself. And they've been in this business for decades. The…

> What happens if I lose my smartphone or tablet? > If you have already checked-in online and your smartphone or tablet is lost, you will receive a free of charge boarding pass at …

How your friend enjoys coffee does not predict how you'll enjoy music? Getting wider ranges of experiences often is fun and worthwhile. Avoiding that to save a couple hundred bucks…

How are the economics supposed to work here? Is the data so cheap they can get everyone's location several times a day despite having no need for it? What's in it for the carrier t…

An upstream search index is not exactly a source and boy is that one politically biased. Given Russia's efforts towards destruction of civic society everywhere and replacing it wit…

A leader who on principle legitimizes and pays companies that are literal tools of oppression will inevitably burn his customers. And isn't it funny how as a paying customer one st…

It's all managed by the car's computers, the complications are already there. You just don't get to control them how you like, for no good reason.

So the society should pay attention and stamp out whatever new fad the students got up to? Never mind the concerted well-financed efforts to smear and destroy truth, reason, democr…