Given the gambling example, should we be mad at the advertisers or at the forum for making money off of allowing such ads? If the Gambling Association made a bunch of posters about their new lotto and paid anyone who…
A sane system would consider the knowledge and power differences between the average individual and the corporate lawyers who wrote the agreement, along with the one sided nature of the agreement, and void any consent…
>which makes them look very different from normal traffic which kind of by necessity makes them look a lot more like bots. But if they are doing so because they are disabled, and the difference means they receive a…
What about the deafblind?
>Blame the laws, not the company. Why not both? If I move to a country that legally allows me to do something horrible, people will rightfully call me a bad person regardless of the legality of the action.
>the answer from the dev team is almost always, "Works as designed". When I say 'works as designed', what I'm actually saying is that I didn't have control over the design, go talk to the ones who did.
>There are cases that I'm all for bashing Google when they don't give the company they're targeting enough time to patch something While I understand the common ethos of our current culture supports this, has there been…
And they do. But what exactly is that line. Prurient content that empowers people? Banned. Content that literally allows control over non-consenting individuals based on their gender? Accepted. This is like a serial…
>If we enforce some morals and not others in our app stores, who exactly do we choose as the arbiters of morality? Apple and Google are, and their moral guideline is money. They are in the business of making money. If…
> They’ve been exempt / free from responsibility for far too long. I've seen arguments that the government not allowing these debts to be discharged through bankruptcy was a major cause of the problem. Do we want more…
Is it that they are helping insufficiently, or that they are using this as a strategy for making money and showing their true colors by engaging in it only to the extent they make money? It is easier to support someone…
Getting research subjects is hard. For any significant sort of test beyond a simple survey, it is really really hard. So colleges force their undergrads to be participants so that the graduates have enough fodder to…
>It is likely easy to pronounce in that person's culture, just not for you. Often names will live on long after the family has left the culture. In my own case, my original family name was difficult for anyone in my own…
>Nobody, or very nearly nobody, lives up to their "true potential". I agree. But how do we discuss reasons that are or aren't justified to be taken into account. For example you can break down potential blockers into…
>A huge part of science as a field is consensus. How many were against Einstein for decades? Appeal to consensus among experts is still a fallacy.
>This is not denying the bad behavior of intelligence agencies in the past. But to say it is okay for someone to work for those agencies is to deny their bad behavior in the past. There has been no change to those…
I think the legality and the morality of free speech aren't connected. You can have legal but immoral speech and illegal but moral speech (such as the example you give). It is possible to have speech that is, regardless…
>legal and morally right I guess the first question is, if I do something illegal, but either avoid being captured or manage to otherwise avoid prosecution by using money or influence, have I done something wrong,…
Isn't the scale of potential damage far different between the two? A failed nuclear power plant can cause harm that will last longer than any human civilization has managed to last. The harm caused by launching…
>Which isn't acceptable either. Based purely on the evidence at hand, our society deems it not only acceptable but not even noteworthy.
Or is it? Look at cases where SEA countries were pushed to stop using child labor in their factories. It was done more by economic pressure than by law, but the end result was that those children ended up much worse…
>password fields are encrypted If you are encrypting your passwords you are already doing it wrong.
I don't think the issue is that 'good' dictators are so rare (one in a million), but that they are rare enough that two back to back is extremely rare and three back to back is beyond hope, even if each dictator tries…
Does the developer not work on any systems unless they feel it is theirs, or is it a particular system that causes this phenomena? If it is the latter case, then the dev's reasoning is really a symptom of a deeper…
If I have to work 8 hours a day to make 6 hours of income because of tax, then 25% of the risk of me being killed in a day is because of the tax. Probably more, because the extra 2 hours of work will be while I'm more…
Given the gambling example, should we be mad at the advertisers or at the forum for making money off of allowing such ads? If the Gambling Association made a bunch of posters about their new lotto and paid anyone who…
A sane system would consider the knowledge and power differences between the average individual and the corporate lawyers who wrote the agreement, along with the one sided nature of the agreement, and void any consent…
>which makes them look very different from normal traffic which kind of by necessity makes them look a lot more like bots. But if they are doing so because they are disabled, and the difference means they receive a…
What about the deafblind?
>Blame the laws, not the company. Why not both? If I move to a country that legally allows me to do something horrible, people will rightfully call me a bad person regardless of the legality of the action.
>the answer from the dev team is almost always, "Works as designed". When I say 'works as designed', what I'm actually saying is that I didn't have control over the design, go talk to the ones who did.
>There are cases that I'm all for bashing Google when they don't give the company they're targeting enough time to patch something While I understand the common ethos of our current culture supports this, has there been…
And they do. But what exactly is that line. Prurient content that empowers people? Banned. Content that literally allows control over non-consenting individuals based on their gender? Accepted. This is like a serial…
>If we enforce some morals and not others in our app stores, who exactly do we choose as the arbiters of morality? Apple and Google are, and their moral guideline is money. They are in the business of making money. If…
> They’ve been exempt / free from responsibility for far too long. I've seen arguments that the government not allowing these debts to be discharged through bankruptcy was a major cause of the problem. Do we want more…
Is it that they are helping insufficiently, or that they are using this as a strategy for making money and showing their true colors by engaging in it only to the extent they make money? It is easier to support someone…
Getting research subjects is hard. For any significant sort of test beyond a simple survey, it is really really hard. So colleges force their undergrads to be participants so that the graduates have enough fodder to…
>It is likely easy to pronounce in that person's culture, just not for you. Often names will live on long after the family has left the culture. In my own case, my original family name was difficult for anyone in my own…
>Nobody, or very nearly nobody, lives up to their "true potential". I agree. But how do we discuss reasons that are or aren't justified to be taken into account. For example you can break down potential blockers into…
>A huge part of science as a field is consensus. How many were against Einstein for decades? Appeal to consensus among experts is still a fallacy.
>This is not denying the bad behavior of intelligence agencies in the past. But to say it is okay for someone to work for those agencies is to deny their bad behavior in the past. There has been no change to those…
I think the legality and the morality of free speech aren't connected. You can have legal but immoral speech and illegal but moral speech (such as the example you give). It is possible to have speech that is, regardless…
>legal and morally right I guess the first question is, if I do something illegal, but either avoid being captured or manage to otherwise avoid prosecution by using money or influence, have I done something wrong,…
Isn't the scale of potential damage far different between the two? A failed nuclear power plant can cause harm that will last longer than any human civilization has managed to last. The harm caused by launching…
>Which isn't acceptable either. Based purely on the evidence at hand, our society deems it not only acceptable but not even noteworthy.
Or is it? Look at cases where SEA countries were pushed to stop using child labor in their factories. It was done more by economic pressure than by law, but the end result was that those children ended up much worse…
>password fields are encrypted If you are encrypting your passwords you are already doing it wrong.
I don't think the issue is that 'good' dictators are so rare (one in a million), but that they are rare enough that two back to back is extremely rare and three back to back is beyond hope, even if each dictator tries…
Does the developer not work on any systems unless they feel it is theirs, or is it a particular system that causes this phenomena? If it is the latter case, then the dev's reasoning is really a symptom of a deeper…
If I have to work 8 hours a day to make 6 hours of income because of tax, then 25% of the risk of me being killed in a day is because of the tax. Probably more, because the extra 2 hours of work will be while I'm more…