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Ah, but TSX is also used to block attacks (on SGX enclaves). So just disabling it entirely seems over simple.

Look at codebar.io and then adjust your priors for what you consider a "right wing caricature". In particular read https://codebar.io/student-guide#eligibility (straight white men …

The real problem here is a deep political schizophrenia in modern society, or at least parts of it, which demands decisions be deliberately biased towards the outcomes they politic…

Creating unbiased data is, imo, impossible, as I am also biased, and so are you What about just learning based on the entire web? I think you're using the word "unbiased" to mean "…

There's only been one case of being unable to recognise black faces that I know of, and it was shown later to be due to the lighting conditions the guy was using leading to very lo…

Why would a name letter bias be biological caused? Or do you mean bias about biological factors? Bear in mind "bias" is just a perjorative for "generalisation" or alternatively "le…

The web is anything but small/lightweight and WASM requires a full blown JIT a la V8 to get good performance, so WASM being "small" (relative to what?) seems hardly a benefit. JVMs…

Damore didn't condemn anyone, that's just a smear attack.

Physical safety trumps most other things in our culture, rightly so. So political activists realised they can brainwash or pressure idiots by claiming that any opinion, person or c…

They aren't really asking, are they? Asking is a question at TGIF. What these people were doing is trying to create a bloc of activists that comes with the implied or explicit thre…

Bombing has become a regular occurrence in a first world European country that isn't fighting a war, or experiencing mass civil unrest, nor are there any major terrorist groups or …

The IPCC, being a UN body of government appointed scientists, economists etc, consistently take an overly conservative view No, IPCC predictions have been wrong/over-aggressive in …

Is it? Political threads are pretty routinely allowed and surface. This one is patently being killed because a lot of people really hate the implications.

Yes, for sure any implementation is very much about the design subtleties. I did work once on an email spam filter so I have a pretty good idea of the complexities involved in that…

Who underwrites the investment risks taken by Bill Gates exactly? Wealth mobility in the USA is pretty high. It's entirely possible for billionaires to stop being billionaires, or …

Spam didn't break email's network effects. Yeah, it hurts it a bit, but there were lots of attempts to build competing email networks that didn't go anywhere. This is partly becaus…

As to the touted ineffectiveness of political advertising, the arguments would ring far truer if 1) the parties claiming such reflected the belief in their actions and 2) would not…

I think it's a difference of additive vs subtractive distortions. Censorship deletes things: it reduces the size of the marketplace of ideas. Money adds things: if I spend money to…

It's easy to write laws such that totally blocking automation is allowed, totally blocking human written content is 'censorship', and categorising/hiding by default/ranking content…

Depends what you mean by "a forum like HN". Before HN the main geek watering hole was Slashdot, which famously never censored content and fought strongly against attempts to force …

Spam can be solved by just making it easy for people to spot when something was classified as spam, e.g. as spam folders do.

I don't, because you can still see such comments (it may require an account and flipping a switch). And in fact I browse Hacker News with showdead turned on, and I often start from…

They say they would consider it? Sure, such a weak claim is bound to get 90%+ agreeing with it. Who wouldn't say they'd consider it? Now how many actually do? Not that many, for su…

See my other comment on this thread about that site. Most of those "myths" are actually cases where the press told the truth and the EC just didn't like it.

That's what cryptocurrencies allow, since Bitcoin. People can pick a dispute mediator who gets involved and can reverse the transaction only if there's a dispute. It's all done wit…