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The US has a serious problem with saying normal things like fuck, cunt and shit. I find it extremely offensive to hear beeps in series and even the verge author self censors his article. Fucking stop being hypocrites.
Edit: People seem to think I'm offended by those words. I'm not.
Its funny to me how they try to apply christian values like avoiding vaguely sexual sounding words while also making significant amounts of money off late night debauchery, picking people up from clubs at 3am.
> while also making significant amounts of money off late night debauchery, picking people up from clubs at 3am I'm not Christian but I don't think most Christians consider a night out a club to be debauchery.
Besides the humor of how Lyft's filter flagged traditionally Caucasian names like "Cummings" – in addition to the usual issues with non-Western names, e.g. Pimpong and Poon – I'm fascinated/confused how this made it into production? The user database already exists and was currently being used by the live application. Before deploying this new filter onto the production database, wouldn't you do a dry run to get not…
This guy would disagree:
http://mw.eco.br/ig/prof/ReinhardtAdolfoFuck.htm
Along the same lines,
It seems like tech companies have been doing DIY profanity filters. Apple has a profanity filter for engraving text onto a device in the online store ( https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1213188371452841984 ); intended to be your name, so terms like "Dick" have to not be filtered. I learnt that Apple has a validation endpoint. Since the engraving service was recently updated, I took a profanity wordlist and checked…
I can't imagine Jobs putting up with trying to swear at someone over text and repeatedly getting "ducking."
A german user was banned on Twitter for writing "Die Boomer" = "the boomers" https://www.dw.com/en/german-grammar-in-ok-boomer-tweet-gets... Also my all time favorite when Facebook banned people posting about faggots which is a traditional food in the UK Midlands https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10419598/Man... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)
I have to say, when I first moved back to the U.K. after a long time in the states, I absolutely could not control my shock followed by giggling when people asked if they could bum a fag off me at a pub or suchlike. (Fag is slang for cigarettes for those outside the U.K.)
Life seems to be peppered with problems with people with limited vocabularies who would rather make themselves "offended" by something, rather than think.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_n...
Its funny to me how they try to apply christian values like avoiding vaguely sexual sounding words while also making significant amounts of money off late night debauchery, picking people up from clubs at 3am.
Polite language is secular. Where do you get this religious connotation from?
Besides the humor of how Lyft's filter flagged traditionally Caucasian names like "Cummings" – in addition to the usual issues with non-Western names, e.g. Pimpong and Poon – I'm fascinated/confused how this made it into production? The user database already exists and was currently being used by the live application. Before deploying this new filter onto the production database, wouldn't you do a dry run to get not…
positives (anyone named "Fuck", ostensibly). This guy would disagree: http://mw.eco.br/ig/prof/ReinhardtAdolfoFuck.htm Along the same lines, https://www.nie.edu.sg/profile/chew-shit-fun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem the scunthorpe problem will never die.
It seems like tech companies have been doing DIY profanity filters. Apple has a profanity filter for engraving text onto a device in the online store ( https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1213188371452841984 ); intended to be your name, so terms like "Dick" have to not be filtered. I learnt that Apple has a validation endpoint. Since the engraving service was recently updated, I took a profanity wordlist and checked…
The profanity filter in the Apple App Store was [0] amusingly wrong, but fortunately also a soft filter rather than a hard filter. What happened was, the German localisation of the app description included the word “Knopf”. Knopf is not a rude word, according to any German I’ve discussed this with — it is one translation of “knob” in the sense of “button”, but Apple’s naughty word detector clearly thought it was “kno…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does this directly relate to “Christian” values? Could “Islamic” values be applied? Afterall, the Prophet Mohammed made his opposition to crude language clear in the Hadith. Follow up: Also appears there are some misgiving regarding crude language within the Hindu religion as well. [0] [0]: https://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?...
Ok, let's call that puritan values of abrahamic religions.