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Comment · 4 years ago
This is an inflammatory, fact-free assertion.
Comment · 4 years ago
How does one reconcile the idea that KiwiFarms is guilty of unspecified crimes that threaten lives and require emergency intervention, but also those alleged crimes aren't urgent enough that authorities would prosecute them? Is that entirely handwaved by calling the whole of U.S. law enforcement "transphobic / homophobic / white supremacist / right-wing"?

As this submission shows, cybercrime is prosecuted in the U.S.

Comment · 4 years ago
If you want to claim that they do, then you should provide some evidence. Preferably not in the form of circular references to unsourced blog posts/articles.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Customers deserve access to all app providers.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's worth noting that the @RomanRaminsky Twitter account it refers to was created today and all of its tweets are to throw barbs at the @bitsdigits account.
Comment · 5 years ago
The same multi-tone scheme would generate more than 10,000 combinations for the family emoji. I wonder if it will ever be seriously considered.
Comment · 5 years ago
That's a transparent attempt at concern trolling.
Comment · 5 years ago
That sounds like a you problem. Also, you could say "the language" for the oh-so-many times(?) you apparently have to have to refer to it during a programming class.
Comment · 5 years ago
Sure, but that's an issue with those websites, not the law. The law doesn't mandate to have a fullscreen modal that says "We value your privacy" with a big button that allows all cookies and myriad tiny buttons to disallow them individually.

If websites choose to sacrifice usability to be able to fingerprint users, that's on them.

Comment · 6 years ago
I replaced mine with a static HTML page via a custom extension loaded in "Developer mode". It only takes a small JSON file for the manifest and the HTML page itself.
Comment · 6 years ago
> The per capita rate is far lower than nearby Denmark or the Netherlands (if higher than the negligible rates in Norway and Finland).

According to this article, Sweden's per capita infection rate is far lower than Denmark and the Netherlands, and slightly higher than Norway and Finland. Compare that to population density: (numbers from Wikipedia)

    Netherlands: 521/km²
    Denmark:     137/km²
    Sweden:       25/km²
    Finland:      16/km²
    Norway:       14/km²
Not so coincidentally in my opinion, Sweden has a far lower population density than Denmark and the Netherlands, and slightly higher than Norway and Finland.
Comment · 6 years ago
The patients in this study were not given a prescription of "go outside", they were given vitamin D3 as calcifediol.
Comment · 6 years ago
The repository has 2,221 issues labeled as duplicates. If it takes the developers 30 seconds to close an issue, that's about 18 hours spent on handling bogus reports.

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