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I am not sure if I understand your argument. If whoever develops and hosts the service gets to limit what is allowed, then why Google shouldn’t censor its search results?

Because Facebook, unlike say a subreddit, is not a a community formed around a certain topic. There is no 'we' in particular.

They don’t quite know: > We made Google+ with privacy in mind and therefore keep this API’s log data for only two weeks. That means we cannot confirm which users were impacted by t…

I really like the idea behind Brave. However, I think a fundamental issue arises if you are going to pay people to see ads: What if someone forks Brave, and creates a browser which…

Eliminating all bots is not desirable. Many of them are useful and interesting. Eliminating the bad ones with few false positives is hard.

May I suggest that problematic speech is often simply what people don't like to hear? Of course, I think it's their right to choose what they want to hear. But that does not mean I…

The backwards induction argument assumes the time of execution is a discrete variable. However, at least as far as we know, time seems to be continuous.

Thanks. You are right. I stand corrected.

> It added it had received the microphone data only as code rather than audio, and that it could match that code with audio data from a match. That sounds funnily absurd to me. By …

HSTS is trying to protect against a specific kind of Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack: when the man in the middle pretends that the website you are trying to access does not support…

Also, are there any advantages to implementing arbitrary-precision arithmetic at a hardware level?

Here's Feynman's take on learning algebra: Around that time my cousin, who was three years older, was in high school. He was having considerable difficulty with his algebra, so a t…