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They're unable to handle their child pornography problem but they can still find the resources to rig democracies.

Why people let any of their software near their computers is a very interesting psychology problem.


I'm not aware of a major child porn problem on Facebook. It is a dominant social media platform. You make it sound like it is rampantly abused by a bunch of pedos to share images of naked kids, when in reality the problem is mostly teens sharing photos of themselves with friends or other teens sharing photos in message groups. In one statement you mention not letting their software near their computers, presumably because of privacy issues but in the next you indicate the the only solution would be to enact more spying and privacy intrusion.


Not to defend facebook, but they are hardly the party to blame here, any company to operate anywhere has to bow to the local government wishes,

Companies should not be expected to make a stand against governments.

Indian government has bungled the covid19 response in so many ways already, not helping anyone, not allowing ppl to help each other either.


This takes surprisingly little precision, you really exhale quite a lot of mass over 8 hours.


Tinder does have a web interface, so does doordash (I've never head of Gojek but I'd imagine it does too.)

I thought WhatsApp also had a web interface but I wouldn't use it anyway and there are similar chat apps that do so why would you?


> I've never head of Gojek but I'd imagine it does too.

You imagine wrong.

> I thought WhatsApp also had a web interface but I wouldn't use it anyway and there are similar chat apps that do so why would you?

The web interface is just a proxy to the phone app. The other "similar apps" don't have all my contacts on it.


Maybe something to do with household cleanliness? I know when I go into dirty buildings my allergies mess me up.


Does the perspective on the boundary matter if the end result is that you can't cross it?


I'm still not convinced Python's syntax is great for beginners.


Could you elaborate why? Personally I agree, and the reasons I have is the use of white-spaces as part of the syntax (being one of the only modern languages to do so) and the need to explicitly add the 'self' keyword in class methods.

I would still lean on one of the modern Logo's to learn kids or non-technical people to program, such as MSWLogo or NetLogo (I used to teach programming to people from Social Sciences using Netlogo).


Python was originally derived from a teaching language called ABC.

It says something that Python has grown so complex as to need a new intro version.


So tinder is essentially iPimp at this point, except the women get 0%.


Not sure that's a fair comparison. As far as I can tell, Tinder doesn't physically assault the women who don't match frequently enough.


If you’re in the camp that considers every PIV as rape, sure. Every action can be bent into something ominous-sounding: There’s a small group of people in DC forcing a whole country to follow their rules “or else”.

Women here get to choose, it’s hardly pimping.


"Oh no you can just run malware on your computer! It's the worst hack in years!"


Who the hell would pay google for youtube? Anything worth watching is on patreon so you can just watch it there if you want to pay for something without dealing with all of Google's crap.


Yeah, if there's an alternative with functioning scrollbars people will probably use that instead. It's always surprising how popular screwing with basic UI elements like that always becomes.


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