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This is how Chinese citizens in China react if you ask them about it: https://vimeo.com/44078865 Do you think Americans would react that way if they were asked about the Kent massa…

I don't get why that would be wrong. If law enforcement asked Binance about my account, of course I would want to know, and would choose an exchange that does tell me vs. one that …

> Most of what we believe separates men from women is learned behavior. I haven't seen convincing evidence to support this. There's the possibility that the differences we see in t…

There's isn't any evidence that there was any sort of "fraud" involved in the Bitfinex hack. It was just a hack.

Your thesis is true, but we should keep in mind that outrage almost always comes from a perceived injuste in the world. We have always and will always disagree about political issu…

> Mac notebooks have a camera indicator light to let you know when the camera is on. That's great, but we'll need the electronic schematics and the OS source code to trust that.

In the same vein that "hate speech" means "political opinions we disagree with", "animal cruelty" really means "animal cruelty towards animals we don't like for reasons we don't li…

I much prefer Facebook's relatively laissez faire approach instead of Twitter's politically biased approach where hateful things are allowed as long as they are from the left side …

> I don't want the government in my private conversations, but I don't want my kids in someone elses either. Easy: don't let your kid join zoom meetings without your permission/sup…

I use Linux everyday, and it's a UX disaster. I have tried Gnome, Xfce, Cinnamon, KDE, I like none of them. The only DE that I somewhat liked (Unity) was discontinued. Linux sucks,…

2. In the specific case of the College Board, yes. Keep in mind that maybe the license fee is based on number of institutions and every student would end up indirectly paying for t…

1. I think both parties are at fault The testing system for not using the tag appropiately and Apple for using a closed, patent encumbered format as the default when most of their …

Using HEIC apparently [1][2] requires a license and is patent encumbered[3], so I actually blame Apple for using a closed format by default. [1] https://forums.developer.apple.com/…

At this point, each time I read "ethics" I think of someone proselytizing their political ideology in the most obnoxious way possible. I do have ethics, they're the product of my o…

Some people stand up to wipe while others wipe while still sitting.

Pulling the paper from the side of the wall is like taking off your shoes by grabbing the sole.

It was too small.

Glad to help.

Nim, Zig, Odin?

As someone who uses Linux as their main OS, I can tell you a few: 1. Ugly UIs: Of all the distros I've tried, the only one that doesn't make me wanna gouge my eyes out is Ubuntu. M…

> I only want to belong to a social network that values science and public health. Why shouldn't I be allowed to be a user of a website that has those same values? I think it's a p…