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by 394549 8y ago
> Sounds very close to ex post facto I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about. If a democracy can't repeal a law that's proven to be an error, you'll have quote a dysfunctional system. Ex post f
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> Would you support a bill forcing owners of large houses to set aside some of their space for the homeless? Would you give your squatter a vote equal to your own in matters of deciding how to arrange the furniture and paint the walls? Q
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> Why not set it to $X of profit? Probably because management can deliberately reduce profit, and realize shareholder gains in other ways. Amazon famously had very small profits over a long period of time because it reinvested all of it
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Didn't Facebook recently pull the rug out from under media organizations that worked with them, when they updated their feed algorithm to deprioritize news articles?
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>>> to ensure that the benefits of that are fairly spread throughout humanity. >> What about Uighur internment camps YC money will finance through taxes? > yeah what about US corporations exploiting cheap Chinese child lab
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>> California should exercise their eminent domain powers and purchase it for what it's worth. > Don’t encourage heavy handedness by the government, instead push for a better system of checks and balances. That's not heav
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It's at #110 for me now. There's a similarly-aged post with only a third of the votes that's on the front page at #16, though.
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> I think the most contentious point is that "prejudice without power" has become a socially acceptable phenomenon while a decade or two ago people were campaigning for no prejudice of any kind. That's really insightful po
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FYI, this post hit the front page, but looks like it's been deliberately buried. I can't find it at all in the first few pages of front page results. That's probably for the best, even though this seems to be the kind of &qu
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Good. Serves them right for making the layman more likely to associate "crpyto" with get-rich-quick schemes rather than important privacy-protecting technology.
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I kinda feel like a best-effort attempt to minimize data-leakage + some kind of noise injection might be the best approach right now. Ultimately though, I think we'll need legislative and platform solutions if we want to keep a good am
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> Their HR website was all flash, around the time when it was obvious to any competent engineer that flash was going the way the dodo I wouldn't judge a company by its HR website. It's likely a relatively turn-key product that
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> However it is another thing to claim 1m Uighurs are being forcibly detained somewhere. That is a lot of people. There were a lot of Jews in Europe, once upon a time. Vast numbers of them were detained. What's so unbelievable abo
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> Go on youtube and instagram and check out all of the normal white dudes posting content from Xinjiang. Are they poking around, looking for evidence of mass detentions? Or are they complaining about how they "spent more time being
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> I was in Tibet in 2007 and a lot of locals came up and talked to me, asking America to do something about the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Our hired driver had no problem showing us his picture of the Dalai Lama(which was(still is?) il
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> That's what I was thinking too. Westerners visit Xinjiang province with cameras. If 1m people disappeared, I'm sure someone would come up to a Westerner to tell their story. China isn't a western country, and I don'
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> A million people probably have at least 10x more relatives and friends on the outside. Ways of breaching the great firewall are well known even within China. Shouldn't there be...numerous reports of missing persons if this is the
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> A U.N. human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy”. > Gay McDougall, a member
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That's too bad. Whenever I unfollowed someone, I'd add their account to a Friend List so I could occasionally take a look at accounts I'd unfollowed. Sometimes people would get annoying over something but eventually calm
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> The solution is to require all hosting and domain companies to act as utilities, and require neutrality in regards to any content that's legal. They're not private forums or homes, they're the internet equivalent to the
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> Are you going to pay for him to do that? I donated some money to them a while back. How hard could it be to push the binaries out to a second app store?
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> Slightly off topic, but I read somewhere that some online video games censor anything that has the word "Xi" in it. Not sure if that is to prevent badmouthing him or to prevent Chinese political discussion altogether. They ca
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> The US and others had looked the other way on China’s mercantilist actions in the past on a strategic gamble that China would slowly evolve into a more democratic state, with open markets, freedoms and rule of the law. This strategy ha
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> The squabble is about them being caught in the crossfire. Their message: "make peace with USA for as long as we make money." Now the talk is over them being thrown under the train. Naturally, they are frustrated by that. The
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> A backlash is being felt at the highest levels of the government, possibly hitting a close aide to Xi, his ideology chief and strategist Wang Huning, according to two sources familiar with discussions in leadership circles. > A prom
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Paywall bypass: http://archive.is/MXQ4k
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> I used to ride on the crypto hype train. What crypto hype train? Most crypto, such as AES, RSA, Mersenne Twister and the SHA series of hashing algorithms were very carefully designed and vetted over a long period by professionals. Th
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> You mean China's current aging population with a reverse pyramid demography due to one child policy is where global growth is at? Given we're talking about the CCP, I suppose they could right their reverse pyramid using the s
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> It intuitively feels, to me, "more bad" for a country to torture its own citizens than for a country to torture citizens of its enemies (although both are still bad). I agree with you. The citizen scenario includes extra imm
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> There is no western trade alliance because Trump is challenging the multi-lateral trade institutions such as the WTO which the US created. The WTO is ineffective and broken. Based on prior precedent, if the US raised objections to the

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