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New comment by throwaway75 in "Keep Android Open"

throwaway75 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:56:53 +0000

> We accept everyone who accepts everyone.

If we were to accept and enforce this rule, billions of followers of some major religions would not be eligible to be part of a free and open society.

New comment by throwaway75 in "AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder"

throwaway75 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:33:46 +0000

Let's say sufficient instances for the student to prove his/her point - the student used "all" in the AI prompt, but really meant as many as possible from which they could pick and choose. Is it ethical or should it be viewed as cheating?

New comment by throwaway75 in "AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder"

throwaway75 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:14:43 +0000

Perhaps not. But it'll probably find sufficient passages/instances that are useful.

New comment by throwaway75 in "AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder"

throwaway75 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:44:53 +0000

What is the general take on the ethics of using AI as a much more powerful search engine? For example, "Find all occurences in the text where Odysseus' will is overridden by the Gods." The question is not something that would be directly set by an instructor, but might be required to substantiate an interpretation that a student is aiming for.

Finding something like this is difficult and requires reading the text closely. But with AI, you could get away by reading around the passages returned by AI.

New comment by throwaway75 in "Show HN: I automated half of my typing"

throwaway75 — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:12:40 +0000

Ok, just who are these people who can type faster than I can ever hope to think?

New comment by throwaway75 in "How to fix India’s decrepit cities"

throwaway75 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 03:46:02 +0000

> Umm, I’m pretty sure all of them are in much better shape than India’s cities.

Umm, no.

New comment by throwaway75 in "Who are the worlds biggest landowners"

throwaway75 — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 18:26:47 +0000

The islamic waqf board[0] and the catholic church[1] are the largest non-government landowners in India!

0. https://theprint.in/opinion/waqf-boards-are-indias-big-urban...

1. https://myvoice.opindia.com/2022/06/who-owns-most-of-india/

New comment by throwaway75 in "Having a 20GB file that lets you ask an offline computer any question is amazing"

throwaway75 — Mon, 22 May 2023 06:38:37 +0000

Really? Wikipedia's left-wing bias is well known:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wikipedia-bias-socialism-pa...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600200000763756544

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9283061/Wikipedia-f...

https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/wikipedia-co-founder-says-site...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/04/27/wikipedias-left-wing-...

Compared to Britannica:

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/is-wikipedia-more-biased-than-enc...

New comment by throwaway75 in "Cloudflare is slow and Cloudflare can’t do much about it"

throwaway75 — Fri, 12 May 2023 05:10:31 +0000

From India, and cloudflare to my website resolves to the same ip block. The 172.67.198.x is very much reachable. In fact I can ping and access the exact ip in the article. Not sure what the OP's problem was, but it does not seem to be cloudflare or a govt block.

Edit: Link to screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/d7zLuCP

New comment by throwaway75 in "Show HN: Anonymous Feedback Tool for Teams"

throwaway75 — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 06:55:34 +0000

All I see when I navigate to the page is this:

https://imgur.com/a/HmBC9fj

Just a blank page with "No Signals" in the center. Only when I allow stripe.com to load, do I see the webpage. I get it that stripe is required for subscription, but to prevent the site loading if stripe isn't enabled is not exactly nice I think.

Note: jquery.com, jsdeliver.net, and prismic.io allowed to load. licdn.com and stripe.com disallowed.

New comment by throwaway75 in "Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protesting Israeli contract"

throwaway75 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:09:10 +0000

Is "activism" against the employer protected under anti-retaliation laws? I thought these laws protected employees for things like reporting workplace discrimination, harassment, being a witness in such an investigation, etc. Can you indulge in activism against your employer and claim that you need to be protected from retaliation if they fire you?

New comment by throwaway75 in "Uyghur kids detail abuse at China's boarding schools in Xinjiang"

throwaway75 — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 04:57:09 +0000

A good example of this success, is the muslims of India today. A successive train of islamic invaders have forced multiple generations to take up the religion. Invaders raised towers of skulls of the "kafirs" they killed, and imposed "jizya" (a kafir-only tax) on generations of them. The result today is a large population of their descendants that is completely assimilated in islamic culture.

New comment by throwaway75 in "Zambia: Social media blocked amid 2021 general elections"

throwaway75 — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 06:21:57 +0000

The problem with anything to do with social media in regards to free speech, censorship, and elections, is that no side is able to define and agree on a common framework that should be applicable to all parties without bias.

The same people who cry murder over censorship will turn around and outrage at provocations against their point of view, label it hate-speech or fake-news, and demand that Facebook/Twitter/Whatsapp take stringent actions against perpetrators who are "trying to influence the outcome of elections."

The problem is that misinformation, fake-news and hate-speech are ill-defined continuums that occupy a fuzzy space - there's no well-defined point at which a news story crosses the line and becomes misinformation or fake-news. Everything about a news story is tinged by bias and political narrative - the choice of words, the tone, the sources, the timing, and even what to cover. Even the most neutral sounding ones cannot escape tinging the story with a hint of what the author believes.

Given this, blocking social media by governments during elections is not so bad after all. Unlike other solutions that try to regulate it, the blocking is uniform across ideology and party.

Either that, or open it up fully and stop trying to regulate it in any way. There's no in-between point that is fair.

New comment by throwaway75 in "Bahraini Government Hacks Activists with NSO Group Zero-Click iPhone Exploits"

throwaway75 — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 13:23:00 +0000

But if that's the chosen path, then you'd have to be ok with the imposition of majoritarian laws on the minorities of the country - at least until the majority wakes up and tunes into the west's liberal values, or until the minority ceases to exist - whichever occurs first.

New comment by throwaway75 in "Bahraini Government Hacks Activists with NSO Group Zero-Click iPhone Exploits"

throwaway75 — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:48:12 +0000

On the one hand, the west seems to think that people have a fundamental right to protest and affect change in government, because, yeah, democracy, will of the majority and all that.

On the other hand, if you let democracy get a foothold in many of the muslim-majority states, the winner of a democratic process will very likely be what the west perceives as a religious fundamentalist group whose values are antithetical to almost every single value that the west holds dear (including democracy itself). It will mean the rise of groups such as the muslim brotherhood that have pan-islamism and the establishment of sharia as their stated goals.

So you can either support the right of the people to overthrow an authoritarian regime and establish a democratic process that will lead to a fundamentalist islamic state, or you can support a regime that is authoritarian but will allow the practice of some western liberal values.

Which is it, and why?

New comment by throwaway75 in "WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan"

throwaway75 — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 03:46:37 +0000

> how long will it take the predators to learn not to use apple devices as cameras?

Which is why you make it mandatory on all devices sold, not just apple.

New comment by throwaway75 in "WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan"

throwaway75 — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 16:45:01 +0000

Child pornographers love this guy ^ ; that's the way to right-think consumer, carry on :)

New comment by throwaway75 in "WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan"

throwaway75 — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 16:40:30 +0000

Imagine now a young child being sexually abused in front of a camera for all its years of existence, and that there's no knock on the door.

New comment by throwaway75 in "WhatsApp lead and other tech experts fire back at Apple’s Child Safety plan"

throwaway75 — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:19:11 +0000

Sometimes there are more important things than maintaining individual privacy and this is clearly one of them.

Finding and protecting even a few children from becoming victims of pornography is clearly something that is well worth my not having 100% privacy.

Even knowing that there might be false alarms.

Despite what the strident discourse has been, individual privacy is not some sancrosanct idea that cannot ever be tread upon. There are some things that are far far more important than that.