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Clearly you haven't lived in close proximity to these people.

They trickle in, respect no boundaries and no laws.

Now if they integrated and contributed to the regions culture and economy, that would go a long way towards their acceptance. But that's against the tenents of their religion/culture/ideology and it's demonstrated by their violence.

I'd quote Karl Popper on tolerating the intolerant, but it would be another "weak argument."

You can't drag people who insist on living by pre-medieval norms into the 21st century.

They are Bangladeshi Muslims, much like the "Assamese" flooding the labor market in South India right now.

Get ready for your comment to be down voted into oblivion, the usual reaction by ignorant SJWs. This place is getting to be as toxic as Reddit.

Anyone who understand Bengali should listen to the "Rohingya" language. The similarities are unmistakable, even if you can't understand either.

If they really have been in that area since the 8th century - an assertion made by Soros' HRW, and mindlessly repeated by the media - you'd expect the language to diverge a lot more.

They are clearly not native to Myanmar.

Also, it's conveniently forgotten that they triggered the latest spurt of violence by attacking Buddhist and Hindu citizens.

It's odd how suddenly this is the latest humanitarian crisis.

Nothing to do with oil and gas pipelines, I'm sure. Unlike Syria, Iraq, Libya and so on.

Call me cynical but I don't see the international community - code for US interests - caring about people in resource poor regions.

Wonder what would happen if NK suddenly was found to have oil fields ...

I agree. Not only is it the fastest, it's also the most reliable. I have Firefox thrashing about more often than not, and I refuse to use Chrome or its google infected variants.

Brave seems promising but doesn't yet have extensions.

Safari may be broken but it's not as broken as ie6 was back in the day.

I might have forgiven them if they had gone USB C.

But they launched the 7 without a jack and the latest MacBooks without USB A so their latest phone couldn't connect to the latest MacBook without a single.

I know - lightning to USB A makes sense for legacy laptops but still. It was a bizarre decision, one that I doubt Jobs would have made.

And the NSA is trustworthy. Okay then.

The first I've heard of this. Any citations?

Microsoft and Google are definitely vectors both for themselves and as puppets for the US govt.

Apple isn't there yet, but who knows when they'll be compromised.

The NYT had been quite biased for a long time. I think the last time they did any real journalism was during the first major Wikileaks story - the one where Greenwald played a big part.

The communities already there appear to be as toxic as reddit, so good job. I guess.

Can concur. I spent 5 years dealing with a German company and the obsession with spreadsheets, processes and plans for the most trivial of projects lead to major overruns.

They're very good at creating big organisations but don't have a clue when it comes to quick and dirty throwaway projects.

Not everything needs to be a BMW.

The Paris attacks were coordinated by plain text SMS.

This is just propaganda designed to lead to curbs on encryption.

They won't focus on the real reason for modern terrorism, which is a certain abhorrent fascist ideology masquerading as a religion.

That's pretty much what happens to de facto monopolies.

I've heard much the same about Microsoft's program managers.

Alternatively here's my curated list:

Mozart Erbach Handel

Why would anyone go back?

That cop belongs in jail. People who enforce the law should be held to higher standards.

But he'll get paid leave, and will be back once it all blows over.

After buying a number of apple accessories, I've come to the conclusion that Apple treats them as disposable items.

I've upgraded from the Apple 1 through 3 and then switched to the Fire stick.

Airport Express? Got a number of those AND an old XP machine to configure them since Apple abandoned support on macOS.

Their routers don't do WDS with other routers.

When the 7 came out without a headphone jack, it was the last straw. I don't know what I'll buy when my 5s dies, but it's not going to be an iPhone.

I don't care much for Apple but I agree they're the best of the lot when the lot consists of companies like Facebook, and Google.

My beef with Apple is their holier-than-thou attitude when it comes to Apps on their store. They didn't allow Gab.

In the past they've kicked out political parody apps. Finally they allow hate speech masquerading as religion while banning criticism of the same.

Secure means encrypted. Most people, leave alone journalists, don't know how to set up PGP and then use it properly.

It's there right in the article as well; the reference to secure messaging vs secure email.

> scapegoat

I wouldn't be surprised that happened ultimately, but I really don't think that she was hired with that role/goal in mind. No one could be that evil. Could they?

If you look at the history of reddit over the years, they've always lurched from one crisis to another. An absence of adult supervision. Reactive solutions.

I would bet that reddit was under pressure to monetize somehow and ads (a la Facebook) on that "community" wouldn't cut it. I believe that they had an influx of funds around the same time, and the investors were looking to start getting some returns.

Their various stealth marketing schemes were suffering at the hands of the entrenched trolls. The unsavory subreddits were probably putting off established customers.

Maybe Pao just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

yishan's comment is interesting, thanks for linking to it. I didn't follow the whole Pao affair, but I do remember someone telling me that yishan might have been trolling reddit.

One thing jumps out at me from his comment. He calls Pao "the only technology executive anywhere who had the chops and experience to manage a startup of this size, AND who understood what reddit was all about."

Technology executive? Really? That's news to me. I thought she had spent her pre-reddit days in finance.

And she definitely did not understand reddit.

Interesting. I whitelisted this site, and 2 of the 4 ads it displays on each refresh are from Facebook.

I've never had an FB account and they seem to know it.

Well, I do run a content blocker on macos/IOS which turns off all comments on all websites, but that's a trifle limiting.

What annoys me about reddit comments are the pun "trains," endless reruns of old reddit jokes. Every conversation is swamped with these comments, perhaps deliberately, to drown out unpopular opinions. No wait, the Pao era introduced mass deletions instead.

Is this the same channel?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA9r2NNlWMitk1hhR7yj8SA

Demonization of the enemy.

Cuba has this tech? Yeah, right.

Digg users didn't care when that site committed suicide. K5 users too moved on.

Myspace, anyone?

It's just a matter of time before reddit dies as well. Unlike google or facebook, there's not much value that a user can extract from reddit.

Google with all their services still provide value to users.

Facebook, despite their privacy issues, still provides something of value to their users.

What does reddit provide which can't be done by an alternative?

I've been on BBSes and various forums since 1987.

Reddit is the only site where I've been banned off a single sub. And this was to correct an error referencing my own work and expertise.

As far as I can tell, they've gone overboard on their censoring, marketing and propaganda.

I now log into reddit very rarely and only to correct errors in comments where I am actually somewhat experienced.

I've been gilded more than a few times and I've never come to know until the expiry notice shows up.

So it's actually hard to tell what the reddit gold buys one, apart from virtue signalling that one is a "supporter."

Now if the gold bought me to ability to turn off all comments, see what the mods have censored off the various subs, and actually extract some value off the site, I'd pay up in a flash.

But as it stands, reddit has lost any credibility that it ever had, and logging in that toxic mess provides no value to me and too much value to reddit.

In short, not a site worth supporting in any shape or form.

I switched to ddg and know lots of others who did too. DDG uses Bing.

Fermented shark? TIL.

I don't personally know what's wrong with soy, but an excess of anything is bad in the long run.