Depends on which was first, right?

To be fair, programming is basically the art of making the computer do as much as possible with as little typing as possible.

To be clear, the accusation is that the mod team is Zionist, and that they consistently moderate all anti-Zionist content.

It’s a Zionist bar not just because there’s a few Zionists, but because the bar owner keeps kicking out the people who cause a ruckus with the Zionists.

1. They had a vote, and the people said strongly that they did not want to see this.
2. Platforming Facism is the best way to spread Facism, and deplatforming Facism is the best way to fight it. Supporting their freedom to speak is in effect the same as supporting the ideology.

Even if we do this, paternity tests are not guaranteed correct. This has the possibility to cause so much unneeded drama.

It’s not really even errors. It is well-suited for what it was designed. It produced pretty good text. It’s just that we’re using it for stuff it’s not suited for. Like digging a hole with a spoon, then complaining your hands hurt.

The government already knows all our ages, right? They issue our IDs after all. Have the government provide a “yes, this person is over 18” service. There are ways of providing signed files/tokens which don’t contain personal information.

If the government wants to write a law, then I think it’s reasonable they’re also responsible to help with a solution.

Fair, but nuanced rules are difficult to enforce, and somewhat open to interpretation. This leads to people trying to skirt the rules and also good faith posts which break the rules which leads to conflict also.

I think it’s better to keep things as simple as possible, as long as the rule is good enough.

This is why ‘American’ politics are banned, and not politics broadly, right?

I don’t see a problem with a bunch of European-specific questions being asked, so I question the need for an expanded rule.

If you broaden the rule, you run at risk of banning or discouraging desirable questions. Stuff about economics or lifestyle. Those are “political” too, after all.

What does this mean …?

It seems that the rule seems to work well enough here as is. In addition to the rule, how you enforce it is equally (if not more) important too.

If you want a simple explanation why he couldn’t spy:

Imagine that your internet traffic is a bunch of letters. HTTP are postcards. You can read the message and destination both. HTTPS are envelopes. You cannot read the message, but you can see the destination.

When using VPN, you stick every letter/postcard in another envelope, addressed to the VPN company’s address. They unpack the letter, set themselves as the return address, and send it on.

Your friend could previously look at the outside of your letters, and see who you’re sending to, and how much. Now, they can only see you’re sending to the VPN company, which isn’t helpful. (In theory, they can see the volume of data, but there isn’t much they can learn with just that).

Non-human, uncaring machines who amass and hoard wealth beyond human comprehension honestly doesn’t sound any different than what we have now.

What, do you think, would be the worst material from which to build a trebuchet and have it still function?

It’s not really “know as 過労死” in Japanese. That’s just the words for “excess”, “work”, and “death”. That’s kinda like saying “it’s known as ‘overworking to death’ in Britain”.

So do goats, but they’re plenty tasty.

That’s not making an argument for privacy, that’s being a jerk.

Perhaps the idea is to stimulate local manufacturing? But I don’t really see a reason why they wouldn’t just explicitly tell us that if that is the case.

The thing is, that billion dollar is worth a billion dollars of stuff. A weak currency is not the same as inflation. It’s just the value of your currency compared to all the other currencies.

If you are doing manufacturing, then having a weak currency is good. You buy raw materials locally, you take those abroad and sell them, and then you have more US dollars to buy raw materials again.

If you’re importing, though, then the opposite is true. You prefer a strong currency. The USA currently imports more than it exports.

Giving the boffins in the White House the benefit of the doubt, maybe they want to strengthen the manufacturing industry within the USA? They are losing pretty badly to China on that front. (China intentionally keeps its currency weak for this purpose, BTW). It’s pretty clear that the USA wants a war with China, but that’s pretty difficult to supply if you can’t actually make anything locally.