we have had that discussion here before, it's not that people from country X are worse than people from other countries, it's economic fact that many countries X have large populations who have no honest means to earn a living
and if country X produces a large number of spam posts, you have to weigh that against non-spam from country X, not from non-spam posts overall
chances are you don't see country X in the posts which aren't spam because you aren't looking for it (confirmation bias)
A couple of months ago, we had a heated debate in the Netherlands about 'ethnic profiling'. The police, when conducting a general traffic control, would be inclined to pull out ethnic minorities in big cars, because they were more likely to be obtained via illegal means.
Once that was known, everybody went crazy about it.
I told some of my friends, who are cops, that they should call it 'statistically selecting' instead.
@Glorfindel I don't see how that helps, whether discriminatory behavior is based on science or not doesn't change the fact that it's discriminatory behavior
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@tripleee totally agree. No race is any different from another. Cultures and societies are different, as are economic circumstances for people. This can cause what is perceived to be racial differences, when it's in fact a circumstance of a group of people, who could have been any race had they been subjected to the same conditions. I'm wary of ethnic profiling. I hope that came out as I intended
@Mithrandir you're here; that's already pretty good signal that you'd make a good mod. Some people here would make better mods than others, but nobody here would be a bad mod.
@Mithrandir usually a good thing. The only question about that is whether the people in those chats are going to respect your authority when you're blue?
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@Mithrandir It was a tough race for me in Chem's previous mod election, and I lost by a narrow margin. You can never tell, but you usually have a high chance if you have good rep
Ideally Moderators are elected by the community, but until the community is large enough to hold a proper election, we will be appointing three provisional Moderators to fill those roles.
We need your help. Please nominate folks you would like to see become provisional moderators for this site. ...
@Magisch Yeah, I kinda went on a mini tirade about this on Tumblr last night, blah. (That's my political crazyness bit for the day, time to switch into developer/sysadmin modes)
nor did my neighbors being noisy as all hell between 2AM and 8AM
the cops didn't show up either when I called
@Magisch Uhm, the 'ban' was stayed by a federal court, that hasn't been overruled yet IIRC, and only SCOTUS or a higher appeals court between the district court and SCOTUS could overturn - nobody's doing that
I'm notionally nominating Mithrandir (don't want to post as a nomination yet as I don't know if he wants to be punished... errr... nominated). — DVK13 mins ago
@Mithrandir TL;DR, Smokey picked up the use of certain swear words in a block-quote from a link to try and explain things. Quoted, so not really an 'offensive' post per se.
I have seen a non-rude rant as well yesterday. It was still a rant, nevertheless.
@Magisch and angussidney: This is the first I've heard of 'Smoke Detector' and 'Charcoal'. I'll definitely have to chat with you guys in the near future. I don't see diamonds next to your names, so I guess you're not SE Community Managers, and yet it sounds like you have knowledge of certain powers that would definitely be useful to us here. — Todd Trimble ♦3 mins ago
@Undo a /128 for the 'router' address, but they're supposed to send me a /64 or smaller (but still a LARGE number of v6) if the system is configured to request the prefix
when I move back to Pittsburgh, I'm getting business class
contract guarantees symmetric speeds, static v4s (a /25), and IPv6 prefixes.
more expensive, but i'd gladly shell that out for USEFUL THINGS I SHOULD ALREADY HAVE
@Magisch well, I am too, but Amazon's rate they gave me is, what, 11% interest per year? And that helps because it's not like I'm borrowing thousands, I'm borrowing a hundred in a credit line with a max. limit of 2k that i am nowhere near.
and i pay it off fairly quickly
totally paid off once my refund check comes in, estimating $1.2k refund
