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Maybe start by not conflating privacy with concerns about censorship. Then, it'd be great if privacy-focussed platforms would show a commitment to find privacy- and freedom-preserv…

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The quickest way to autocracy is pretending there's no difference between it and democracy. This is civics 101: There is no "one ruler". There are parliaments, with multiple, oppos…

That argument is trivially true for most any civil liberty: the promise of a fair trial is protected only by the next higher court's fairness, etc. To categorical discount the valu…

In the US, very little. That's because there really aren't many meaningful protests these days, because the US has effectively killed the public spaces protests rely on. But the Te…

I hate to break it to you, but the BBC being British and public hasn't exactly been a secret.

Do you have any examples from, say, an EU country supporting your accusations?

Erdogan is a corrupt fascist and a war criminal (most recently: killing civilians in Syria). But I agree: the coming economic crash is the least offensive consequence of his regime…

I really don't understand how protests became conflated with violence (mostly in the US, as far as I can tell). Protests are a basic right in every democracy. The vast majority of …

One person squarely at the center of this scandal is Boeing's Chief Test Pilot. Here's his bio: > O’Donoghue’s military experience includes 12 years of active duty as a U.S. Marine…

That statement seems wrong in the strict sense, since the "Havlak" benchmark from your link has a more extreme difference between Crystal and Nim and was not included in the articl…

OT: This is the first time I've seen "Energy" being measured in a benchmark. That strikes me as a really cool idea, both because it measures CPU usage over time, a figure that has …

FWIW, my experience with quite a few (usually small(ish)) tasks I implemented in Crystal is in line with the article's. Once, a CSV-parsing and string-wrangling data batch job in p…

All employees are free to leave... That does not excuse misconduct by managers or violations of law. But the specific outcome here, I. s. suicide, is fiendishly difficult link to a…

Click on “jsmol” under “Structure”: https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/164 (No, it’s not a complete brain simulation. But there is serious neurological science done in cool browser toys)…

Note that “the oldest species of ” doesn’t make any sense. Both that species as well as its closest evolutionary relative have a last common ancestor, meaning they are equally “old…

If there’s been one positive development in politics in the last few years it’s the disappearance of the sex-scandal. Sure, anything too extreme, funny, or illegal would still be p…

A/B testing is pretty much the gold standard. It took medicine a thousand years of bloodletting to get there. Of course its’s not always possible , which is what economists and nut…

Today's data concerns Saudi Arabia, somewhat contradicting your theory.

If there's nothing to hide, why not publish it where people would check first, i. e. on your website? There are countries where that's required by law. And while that may be on the…

> With regards to being able to scrape your data or just get your data back from 3rd party's, I think that's a losing battle. Both Google and Facebook have tools that allow you to …

That's the sort of tough-guy prepper-with-a-slide-rule speech that people (apparently) just can't get enough of. But does it mean anything? There is no bright line delimitating wha…