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balladeer commented on Apple takes legal action against small company with pear logo iphoneincanada.ca/news/ap... · Posted by u/_qulr

JSavageOne · 5 years ago

> Our lawyer let us know that they had no strong grounds against us, but would drain us in a legal battle we could never afford.

This is a clear failure of our justice system.

balladeer · 5 years ago

You mean "legal" system.

balladeer commented on Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (2014) hndex.org/7798063... · Posted by u/hawkoy

saagarjha · 5 years ago

This is how you get people to hate you; it's the same reason vegans have a bad image.

balladeer · 5 years ago

Then that's rather pretty shitty of rest of us. The rest of us should just have someone's "No" and bugger off.

balladeer commented on WordSafety: Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages wordsafety.com/... · Posted by u/fn1

StavrosK · 5 years ago

Yes, he'd have to do something very uncharacteristic of the position, otherwise it's an entirely appropriate and reasonable reaction, which isn't really what one would characterize a "snap".

balladeer · 5 years ago

I think I am coming from the perspective that incessant trolling forced them to issue an official response and that's "snap enough" for me.

You seem to be coming from the point of view (that's my assumption based on our short comments; it maybe something else) that it doesn't meet the literal dictionary meaning so it's not a snap - which I disagree with.

I think that's all to it.

balladeer commented on WordSafety: Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages wordsafety.com/... · Posted by u/fn1

StavrosK · 5 years ago

I wasn't aware of the meaning of "snaps" as "asks people politely to refrain from harassment".

balladeer · 5 years ago

So an admin at a university (probably a person who should be sensitive to PR) should have said "You #$&*^$ #^#%&%$#$@, stop doing this already!" to make it look like a true "snap"?

balladeer commented on Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations businessinsider.com/micro... · Posted by u/sandGorgon

mensetmanusman · 5 years ago

Hopefully it will be rebranded MikMok or ZuneZok.

This seems like a dumb move, why would MS want to get tied up in the horrors of social media when they have such a profitable empire.

They couldn’t possibly tie in MicMok to Office 365 and have anything good come from it.

balladeer · 5 years ago

To phase out TikTok usernames/handles and force users to move to Live/Outlook emails e.g tiktok-user@outlook.com. Then sit back and gleefully marvel at their own accomplishment.

balladeer commented on WordSafety: Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages wordsafety.com/... · Posted by u/fn1

aijony · 5 years ago

I think this is a great idea for people for people wanting to respect other's sensitivity.

However, I also think that it is even more important for people to respect other languages/cultures by not attributing their own independent negative connotations.

For example when it comes to naming a project, a Swede shouldn't get offended by an English-speaker using "fan" (Swedish swear for devil), and an English speaker shouldn't get offended by a Swede using "slut" (Swedish root for stop/end).

Maybe I'm wrong, but this is a neat service nonetheless.

balladeer · 5 years ago

Since you mentioned Sweden

Sweden's Lund University admin snaps after being trolled by Indians on Facebook - https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/swedens-lund-universit...

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joelbluminator · 5 years ago

"Currently working as an applied AI researcher and about to go back to get my phd in AI as well" : You're probably in the top 2% of intelligence, that's a huge advantage over most everyone else. People who are closer to the average may need to take more conventional paths to succeed.

balladeer · 5 years ago

What is that intelligence you’ve mentioned?

balladeer commented on Ancient trash heaps reveal the Plague of Justinian’s economic toll arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/diodorus

evan_ · 5 years ago

> I wonder what the long term fallout of the current situation will be (will there be a large one?).

I'm thinking that the rest of our lives will basically be dealing with the fallout of these last six months in one way or another.

balladeer · 5 years ago

You meant to say dealing with

- indirect consequences such as a very late recovery of economy, social habits changed for ever,

- or literally keep dealing with this pandemic (resurfacing again and again),

- or direct consequences such has ravaging other parts of body in an unseen manner which would become seen later?

Of course there could be and would be all of these but anything that would be very pronounced kind of a single major consequence?

balladeer commented on Facebook sues EU antitrust regulator for excessive data requests reuters.com/article/us-eu... · Posted by u/ckastner

ryandrake · 5 years ago

Not The Onion, but I think sufficiently satirical:

https://chaser.com.au/world/social-media-should-not-fact-che...

"“Social media should not fact check posts” says child molester Mark Zuckerberg"

balladeer · 5 years ago

What is it always com.au and not co.au, or just .au in Australia?

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