Interesting Links for 30-05-2017

[andrewducker]

Pokémon Go cheaters get trapped in a world full of Pidgeys (tags: games funny ) What Does Wonder Woman Actually Represent? (tags: comics women history ) Painstaking detail of Brexit process revealed in EU documents (tags: Europe uk ) Do Ashkenazi Jews win more Nobel Prize awards than other people (tags: Jews Intelligence israel Education ) If

Comments

[gonzo21]

And yet May continues with her policy that 'no deal is better than a bad deal'.

It's hard to believe so many people are convinced that Brexit is the one issue that matters this election, and more so that they are onboard with May's catastrophic intent.

(And it's quite clear the way the Tories are managing the message that the NHS is at risk if there is a bad EU deal, that they're going to destroy the NHS and blame it on those evil Europeans.)

[skington]

The problem with "no deal is better than a bad deal", is that "no deal" is an objectively terrible deal. And that's where Paxman failed to follow up: to explain what "no deal" would involve, and to check whether Theresa May was really happy to go ahead with that.

I still don't understand how it could ever be that the EU27 would actively propose a deal that was genuinely worse than no deal, and I suspect that Theresa May and David Davis never properly thought about that originally, and either still haven't thought about it properly, or are sticking with the same talking points because they don't want to admit that they had no clue a few months ago and were making it up as they went along.

[a_pawson]

I suspect May and Davies are sticking to the "no deal is better than a bad deal" line, not for the benefit of the EU negotiators, but for the benefit of the UK public and press. The harder a line they appear to take, the more support they seem to garner from the right-wing press and from a good section of the UK electorate. I expect this sort of talk will vanish abruptly once the election is over and the real negotiations start.

[gonzo21]

To be replaced by 'Oh god please, please, please, give us some sort of a deal, please, just let us pretend it's better than the membership we had before, please, we'll give you the Queen! Anything!'

[cartesiandaemon]

I've mixed feelings about shadowbanning. It has some advantages, that it may sometimes make it harder for bots to detect that something is wrong. But it tends to combine a sense of shadenfreude, ha ha, aren't we clever, people had it coming, with an unaccountable automated process for banning people

[cartesiandaemon]

And it shouldn't really make a difference, but I'm also annoyed about my experience with Ingress -- using wifi randomly positions you on a different continent, and if you spin a pokestop, then bam, banned. And I know why, but it seems very set-up-to-fail to turn the entire interface into a "ban me" button with no warning. You CAN turn off google location in settings, but it doesn't say "you must do this in order to play the game."

And they don't say, "look, we make this game for free, we HAVE to have some anti-cheating measures, a small number of people will get false-positives, it's unavoidable, sorry". The first email says "you cheated", the second email says, "you're a liar", the third says "you don't know how to read".

[andrewducker]

Yeah. If users are constantly working around your application in order to actually make it fun, then maybe it's time to lift the best bits out of their hacks and incorporate them.

[seraphicwing]

I wish cycling was done in the US more for the sake of health/being done than it is. :( It seems like it's more of a thing in other countries than it is here, especially in some places.