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I also agree with the parent comment here, but wanted to shed some light on your input. The problem with your "negative" vs "positive" distinction is that it's quite subjective and…

I'm normally one to see both sides in a situation like this, but this one struck me differently. YouTube appears scared of extremists. They claim to fear a anti-conservative bias. …

The author's opinion of Rust being less is that, an opinion. It does have large advantages over C: memory safety, an incredibly powerful type system, a compiler that supports detai…

Most of the author's points here derive from the fact that C has been around for nearly 50 years and Rust a mere 8. This post should really be titled "Rust is not a good C replacem…

Good information, and based on that, I agree, Nielsen is doing similarly bad things, one distinction being that a child is unlikely to sign up for these services without their pare…

I understand your sentiment here, but the broader point here is that we as industry have been historically timid about taking hardline ethical stances. In my opinion, Facebook's be…

There's a huge difference between what Nielsen does and what Facebook did. 1) Nielsen doesn't explicitly target children. 2) The data that Nielsen collects is far less intrusive th…