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  1. Luckily, I have a post already made for this:

    https://slashdot.org/comments....

  2. Wow did you ever guess wrong. I've never used a ride-sharing service in my life. I try not to feed the "gig economy" and I'm doing a perfect job so far.

  3. Not hide facts, just ignore some facts for any practical uses in our society. I'm not concerned if some if it is correct, it's just that it shouldn't matter outside of an academic context. If you let science replace civility, you're on your way to constructing a utilitarian dystopia.

  4. Yes it was sexist rather than racist, but that makes no difference legally, just a different form of unacceptable bigotry.

  5. Google doesn't discriminate against conservative white men. It discriminates against people who create a hostile work environment by sending around racist screeds, regardless of their color, gender, or ideology. This will be laughed out of court.

    Yes it is still a racist screed even if it's scientific racism and regardless of how scientifically correct or incorrect it was. We've been through this.

  6. Re:Because they are waffling on own standards on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, the old "sufficiently advanced trolling is indistinguishable from mental instability" defense.

    Well I hope he actually has real mental problems, because he's not just saying crazy things on Twitter, he's doing crazy things in real life. And what's scarier than an actual crazy person is a supposedly sane person who expertly plays the role of a crazy person 24/7 for the lulz.

    I don't know why you think he's smart or polite in private either. In private he talks about grabbing pussies (and later not actually grabbing pussies because that wasn't his voice?), obstructing justice with the Russians, and asks if Amazon is a monopoly and why the US can't actually use its nuclear arsenal. There are also accounts of him raging about the exact same conflicts with reality in private that you think he's just trolling the public with.

    Different from the status quo isn't necessarily better, and you shouldn't praise change arbitrarily. Things can always be worse.

  7. Re:signal to each other in plain sight on Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what you can get away with when you have borders and oceans separating you from jurisdictions with the loosest gun laws this side of a failed state.

  8. Re: Great, I work with lowlife pervs on Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you've failed quite miserably. A phrase being new doesn't make it meaningless. Complaints about virtue signaling are not virtue signaling. Virtue signaling is when a person's main intent is to signal their virtue to others. Leveling accusations of virtue signaling is a way to call out the ulterior motives of the signaling party whose statements are in reality an attempt to say "I am/we are a better person/group than [insert hated person/group here]" without being called on it.

    How can an attempt to call out virtue signalling be immune from being called virtue signalling? Just by playing the 2nd turn? The person who complains about the original signal it just signalling to others that they are better than the person who sent the first signal (for different reasons, supposedly being more honest perhaps). They're all equal statements, but the 2nd player gets to send the ultimate virtue signal according to these rules.

  9. Re:signal to each other in plain sight on Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    LOL is that what you think? Here's a quick overview of Thailand's gun laws:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Also Switzerland isn't much wealthier than the US:

    http://www.nationmaster.com/co...

    There's no relationship between monocultural and monoracial places and lower gun crime. Look at Somalia or any other war-torn African hellhole. Or on the other end of the spectrum, look at France, England, or eastern Canada. Those places are also not far from the US in wealth and have much lower gun crime. Or look at Australia or NZ - mostly white, monocultural or damn near close to it, incomes in the same ballpark as the US, and much lower gun crime.

    On that note, you're right that the US' gun violence is due to a cultural difference. The US has a cultural problem called gun culture, and it keeps them from having sensible gun laws. Australia used to suffer with it, but they got over it.

  10. Re:Because they are waffling on own standards on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    On the other hand, it's either intellectual lazy or indicative of topical ignorance to yell "SAUCE OR FAKE!" in response to references to mainstream news closely related to the topic at hand. But here you go:

    Original poster of video Trump retweeted was banned:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...

    Trump has engaged in harassing behavior that others have been banned for:

    https://www.vox.com/culture/20...

    Twitter's newsworthiness defense, pretty much reiterated in TFA:

    https://www.recode.net/2017/9/...

  11. Re:signal to each other in plain sight on Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    *Of course I mean that Switzerland has nearly as many guns per person as the US.

  12. Re:Because they are waffling on own standards on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    He's retweeted hate speech (that a UK lawmaker was banned from Twitter for) and posted harassing content. The only reason he's seen no consequences for multiple bannable offenses is because he's POTUS, which grants you the power to be an unkillable super-troll on Twitter for newsworthiness reasons.

    I sincerely hope that Twitter at least has some kind of anti-nuclear-holocaust system in place, that could intercept tweets that an algorithm would find likely to start a nuclear war and send them for quick human vetting before sending them out.

    From everything I've seen and heard of Donald Trump, I'm now assuming that he's dangerously mentally unstable, to the point that he could start a nuclear war in a fit of rage, until proven otherwise.

  13. Re:signal to each other in plain sight on Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    2, Your defense only works if you find nothing wrong with racial profiling:

    https://slashdot.org/comments....

    5. Stay on topic. We're talking about whether gun control reduces violent crime. Look at this chart and tell me how gun control doesn't work. If you'd like to imagine that the presence of more guns justifies more gun crime, remember that Switzerland has nearly as many guns as the US, and they're far more evenly distributed among the population there.

  14. Re:signal to each other in plain sight on Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Gun ownership isn't what we were talking about, it's gun control. Check my link again, especially the differences between countries, particularly Switzerland which has a high gun ownership rate and heavy gun control.

  15. Re:signal to each other in plain sight on Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    To state that that black crime rates justify police violence against the black population requires acceptance of racial profiling. See this article from a conservative publication:

    http://www.nationalreview.com/...

    All the facts it uses are true, but it fails to confront its implicit acceptance of racial profiling. In the US, statistically a black person is 3 times more likely to commit a crime than a white person, and 3 times more likely to be a victim of (nonlethal) police violence. But violence is not being dealt only to criminals. If there were no racial profiling going on, you should expect similar rates of police violence against all races. Of course you only mentioned lethal violence, which is more specific than the topic at hand.

  16. Re:signal to each other in plain sight on Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ugh, here we go.

    https://www.vox.com/cards/poli...

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and...

    I hope these facts will persuade you to stop spewing lies.

  17. The problem is when the definition of "hate" keeps expanding to encompass anything a particular group does not agree with

    Deplorable hatemonger nonsense. See definition here:

    https://slashdot.org/comments....

  18. Antifa has literally never killed anyone and isn't communist.

  19. Oh it was socialism alright. It was also complete oil export dependency and suicidal agricultural policy. Socialism isn't what ruined them.

  20. Re:signal to each other in plain sight on Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Do you realize that you're pretty much a nazi sympathizer now? How does that feel?

  21. Re:signal to each other in plain sight on Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook (vice.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    #2 and #5 are factually wrong. Wrong facts alone cannot constitute an opinion.

  22. Would you also think it's wrong for a baker to be forced to make a cake for an interracial wedding if he didn't wish to? Just for the record, lady. You don't mind me calling you a lady, do you? It's my right.

  23. Re:Can't get Meltdown/Spectre JS exploit to work on When F00F Bug Hit 20 Years Ago, Intel Reacted the Same Way (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    This explains how the source works:

    https://spectreattack.com/spec...

    Apparently it was only intended to work on Chrome. If it works, it should output a small memory dump.

  24. Can't get Meltdown/Spectre JS exploit to work on When F00F Bug Hit 20 Years Ago, Intel Reacted the Same Way (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I've tried this exploit code on Win10 with full updates in FF+Chrome+IE, and on LineageOS 14.1-something on FF+Chrome+stock browser. All just give the output "0".

  25. This. The problem can be solved with education rather than censorship. And society has to stop coddling any ideologies that think they're entitled to their own facts.