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Interesting! I think there's a tangible difference between "you may only use this product if you support/disavow $x" (as in, some public statement of views is a prerequisite to bei…

Could you give some examples of this trend? (Not aware of it, personally—curious to see an example)

> So you need to have a secure method of communication to transfer the code? Then why not just use whatever that is to transfer stuff? Because sometimes that secure method of commu…

*not all inputs

Partial functions are not the same thing as "partially applied functions". Partial functions means that not every element of the domain is mapped to an element of the range, for ex…

This article is not well written.

A big benefit, especially with more people, is that it's relatively painless and socially natural to break out into multiple small discussions (as might happen at say, a coffee mee…

This is a misapplication of Popper's tolerance paradox. You do not describe our "being intolerant of their intolerance of our products (content, code, and signals)", but rather our…

Facebook must make political decisions, because it must have a stance on content moderation. Even if that stance is "we shouldn't moderate content", that is a political decision. A…

If you work for a large social network with huge social responsibilities, discussions about ethics ought to be unavoidable, in my opinion. If you're writing accounting software for…

If anyone is interested, there is an excellent "plain style" guide which is recommend for much of the British Civil Service. It's called "Plain Words", and is by Sir Ernest Gowers.…

From the twitter comments: https://twitter.com/bicycult/status/1255122953798328320 They were still logged in and refreshed the page; they found out by going to their user settings.…

I know what that word means, but only because it appeared in Asimov's "The Stars, Like Dust", which I finished two days ago. I didn't know what it meant, and had to look it up.

At some point, can you not file some kind of harassment lawsuit? Is it legal to continue to send someone bills for which they aren't liable?

Does anyone know of a relatively accessible book that introduces quantum mechanics well?

You're right, but that reflects more on human psychology than the quality of the argument. I'd argue the problem with discussion of current events on social media is exactly this -…

Category Theory (and more advanced Set Theory). After taking an undergraduate Set Theory course I want to explore these areas of mathematics further. I'm currently going though Tho…

"Our results suggest that cancer care in the United States did not always avert deaths compared to Western Europe, and when it did avert deaths, it often did so at substantial cost…

GDPR, the new EU Data Protection legislation, will actually require companies to issue notification of a breach of PII, within 7 days of becoming aware of it, I believe.

Does doing this also delete Messenger? I'm aware there's been a little bit of decoupling of the two services in recent times.