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hermitcrab commented on A Crack in the Cosmos   drb.ie/articles/a-crack-i... · Posted by u/Hooke
Cthulhu_ · 2 days ago
I hadn't heard of this Aegospotami meteor before, I wonder what happened to it given that it was apparently intact and "the size of a wagon-load". I had to look up if that's even possible, but there's one in Namibia that's 60 tonnes and hasn't been moved from where it dropped; it was discovered in 1920. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoba_meteorite
hermitcrab · 2 days ago
I believe some meteorites were used a source of iron, as iron isn't easy to dig out of the ground with primitive tools.
hermitcrab commented on Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition   t3x.org/lfn/index.html... · Posted by u/nils-m-holm
hermitcrab · 4 days ago
The title "Lisp from nothing"

doesn't seem to fit with:

"INTENDED AUDIENCE This is not an introduction to LISP."

on page 10.

hermitcrab commented on How to stop Google from AI-summarising your website   teruza.com/info-hub/how-t... · Posted by u/teruza
add-sub-mul-div · 4 days ago
Also, little chance that down the road they'll contact you asking if you want to pay to be described more positively than your competitors.

Or asking if you want to pay to remove false information that they generate which makes you look bad.

hermitcrab · 4 days ago
I don't doubt that it going to get ugly as these companies desparately try to claw back some of the billions they have spent on LLMs. Buckle up.
hermitcrab commented on How to stop Google from AI-summarising your website   teruza.com/info-hub/how-t... · Posted by u/teruza
hermitcrab · 4 days ago
I resent Google (and other AIs) scraping and repurposing all the copyright material from my software product website, without even asking. But, if I block them, there is very little chance I am going to get mentioned in their AI summary.
hermitcrab commented on Show HN: Bicyclopedia   bicyclopedia.lemoing.ca/... · Posted by u/lemoing
hermitcrab · 9 days ago
The slow text reveal is deeply annoying and spoiled it for me.
hermitcrab commented on Europe's Free-Speech Problem   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/whatisabcdefgh
FirmwareBurner · 9 days ago
Why don't we use the definition based on genitals, that a doctor uses to pronounce you at birth, and not the ultra-rare genetic exceptions?
hermitcrab · 9 days ago
Intersex is not ultra rare. About 1.7% of people are born intersex and with intersex babies it is sometimes hard to tell what sex they are from the genitals.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/sexual-orientation-and-gender-ident...

Also you can have people who develop to look like completely normal adult females, but are actually biologically male.

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001669.htm

It's complicated.

hermitcrab commented on Europe's Free-Speech Problem   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/whatisabcdefgh
FirmwareBurner · 10 days ago
So how many genders are there? The answer is simple, it's in all biology books. Any other answer is virtue signaling revisionism.
hermitcrab · 9 days ago
Not a biologist, but my understanding is that gender isn't that simple. As well as XX and XY, you also have XYY, XXY, XXX, intersex, hermaphroditism, chimeraism etc (the last 2 are very rare in humans).
hermitcrab commented on Europe's Free-Speech Problem   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/whatisabcdefgh
hermitcrab · 10 days ago
Most people don't want to live in a society where:

* people can say vile racist/sexist/homophobic things.

* where the state censors what you can say.

But you pretty much have to pick one or the other. The US took the maximalist free speech approach. Europe didn't. Due to differences in culture and history. I think both are defensible on various grounds.

However successive UK governments also seem keen to restrict the right to peaceful protest. I would say that is a different thing and I'm not sure it is helpful to conflate the two.

hermitcrab commented on Europe's Free-Speech Problem   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/whatisabcdefgh
mc32 · 10 days ago
Other protesters also have said some vile things about other people and it's allowed to go on. So it seems that the law isn't applied evenly.

In any case, people should be able to protest and should only face lawful restrictions if they cause immediate property damage (looting, burning cars, etc.), physical assault or pose an immediate danger to people or things in their immediate vicinity.

Just saying vile and disgusting things should not be a basis for prohibiting and or arresting people. If they become physically violent or threatening, then sure, arrest them. "Shitposting" on X/Twitter, etc., should not get you arrested.

People in China know the consequences of not being able to say vile and disgusting things about their own government when they crush dissent.

hermitcrab · 10 days ago
> So it seems that the law isn't applied evenly.

Of course. It is applied by humans, with all the failings that implies.

>In any case, people should be able to protest and should only face lawful restrictions if they cause immediate property damage ... Just saying vile and disgusting things should not be a basis for prohibiting and or arresting people.

That may be your viewpoint, but UK law says otherwise.

hermitcrab commented on Europe's Free-Speech Problem   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/whatisabcdefgh
hermitcrab · 10 days ago
"When a middle-aged mother lashes out at asylum seekers in a social-media post"

She urged people to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers.

u/hermitcrab

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