When democracies stop being democracies or attack minorities, it's usually in a series of steps. Pretty much every country has a constitution that recognizes this: Any individual government could go … (View Post)

I don't think it needs any of those things. All it needs is for someone to run a single line of code matching the words "run this code" and running the code that comes afterwards. Once it's… (View Post)

It depends how you use them. Identifying which ads to show to which people is already just probabilistic, it doesn't matter if you get it a little bit wrong. Direct contacts are riskier but political… (View Post)

OT I'm still a member of the Labour Party despite previously announcing my intention to flounce over something and they just demanded that I commit to treating all those I encounter with respect and … (View Post)

The right to refuge isn't dependent on you stopping in the first safe country you can get to. This is a good thing, as a refugee crisis often causes serious problems for the country immediately adjac… (View Post)