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Re:What Germans Are Reading on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:36AM (#20695382)
If they removed a book because they didn't like it because it was antisemitic, then it's clear to me that they will most likely do so again in the future for antisemitism and, maybe, for other reasons.

That's what happens with having editorial control: either you play sides (by removing stuff you don't want and maybe pumping up stuff you like[]) or you don't play sides (by publishing the rank without modifying it). And Spiegel is playing sides here.

[]I'm not saying Spiegel has done or will do this, this is just an example.

Re:What Germans Are Reading on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:20AM (#20695201)
I disagree that it's misleading, because the reason is not stated.

"Books" may not be correct in this context because it's been a single one thus far, but if another antisemitic book appears, they'd probably delete it too, so I'd argue it sounds more like a norm than a one-off event. By removing a book they didn't like, they opened a can of worms, so to say.

Hot take: I watch almost no HD video, and I practically don't download anything. Why should I have to pay the same money than someone who spends all day streaming 4K Netflix from 5 screens?

"Just buy a lower speed" is not feasible since ISPs keep pushing the lower speed that you can get higher and higher. Overselling. If all you get is fibre, here the minimum is usually 100 Mbps, which I evidently don't need. Same about data caps in mobile connections.

Re:What Germans Are Reading on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @08:24AM (#20694765)
Both are correct. They removed a book they didn't like because they considered it to be anti-semitic. They are not exclusive.
Re:Do we need to worry about artificial stupidity? on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @07:26AM (#20694378)
Mass media feels like a direct impediment to democracy. When what they publish consist of the same crap all the time, it may seem as though that stuff carries more weight than it really does.

I wonder to what degree the mass media are responsible for the current political climate.

Re:Kevinism on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @03:49AM (#20693480)
Also in Spain. Kevin, Joshua, etc automatically mark you as being a gypsy. No Chantal here though, but names like Jennifer or Yolanda are arguably used to that effect too. Very, very surprised though to see this as an international phenomenon.
Re:Michael Cicconetti on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:47PM (#20689527)
4 year sentence for weed, I assume it's a huge quantity
Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:25PM (#20688783)
The correct answer in SO questions is always the most voted one, not the accepted one. I always check for that. I think I've seen SO recently sort the answers of a certain question by number of votes by default but I might be wrong
I think Xi is not well prepared for urban guerrilla. He'll probably wait this out, get prepared for it, and shut up the protestors once and for all the next time they decide to make noise (maybe in 2-3 years?).
Not everybody agrees with your politics. And not everybody who disagrees with the Western, liberal view of the world has been brainwashed. Maybe those soldiers want one China.
Re:Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:49PM (#20680933)
As if a virus really needed administrator access for anything...

Maybe to fuck up your machine... but if they want to snoop on your passwords, encrypt your files, mine bitcoin, participate in a DoS attack... they can do that without elevating

Re:Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic on Monday August 12, 2019 @04:47PM (#20679814)
What's your plan to wind down Tumblr?
Re:Why has examine.com disappeared from search results? on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:49PM (#20678570)
I see your point, but in this case they are blacklisting domains by hand because of their content, which they don't agree with. And that is very bad. Maybe it was my mistake, thinking that their organic search was holy, which no longer is the case it seems.
Re:Why has examine.com disappeared from search results? on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:36PM (#20678434)
So... Google is openly editorialising their results?

They were already doing it with the carousel (google "american inventors") but if they are doing it with what seemingly is the list of organic results this is very, very troubling.

Whatever happens with WoW Classic will echo across the industry.
Re:It Takes More Than Mass Protests to Drive Change on Monday August 12, 2019 @11:04AM (#20676037)
>Soros

Strawman/10

Re:Tourism Is Overwhelming the World's Top Destinations on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:26AM (#20675688)
Both tourism and Python use an insane amount of energy, thus they are equally bad for the environment. But they both feed a lot of people so we can't just get rid of them just like that :/
Re:Python Is Eating the World on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:48AM (#20673933)
Let's count the minutes until someone comes saying "but you can just write C and bind it to Python", completely missing the point.
A guy I knew used to reencode his songs as 16 kbps mp3 files to save space. When I told him they sounded horrible, he told me "no problem, I can always reencode them back to 128 kbps!"