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by ABCLAW 8y ago
>But it does NOT mean less racists in the world. I don't think we have the data to make a conclusion on this point, but why is the lack of success in respect of the second point sufficient to make us want to stop the first point?
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>Suppressing Free Speech creates more radicalization. Most quantitative reviews on deplatforming and and other social moderation efforts have shown the opposite. Maybe in the long-term social view of the issue you're right but on a
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>If the government now has the right to say, "piece of content X -- not allowed" arbitrarily and with no process and rational standard, then Free Speech is simply broken. The key part of this is the word arbitrary. You can&#x27
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>I never made any claims about how US law works. Please do not misattribute such claims to me, it's not only dishonest but also quite rude. >The case against Assange appears to be very weak This is probably the easiest, most stra
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https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030#b "(b) Whoever conspires to commit or attempts to commit an offense under subsection (a) of this section shall be punished as provided in subsection (c) of
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So you're saying he... conspired to do something illegal?
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>This feels like a non-tech person has realized what tech people realized 20 years ago. It's almost like most of the tech people realized Stallman was right then went right out to build the opposite. Then they chided the luddites, n
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>Space efficient? Yes and no. It is more space efficient for people whose options are bike vs car to ride a bike Those people would be in cars or on busses if the infrastructure made the commute only feasible by vehicle. Bikes are denser
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>There is no good whatsoever in hindering people from copying, distributing, publicly performing, or creating derived works from existing laws or regulations. This isn't true. Let's say we decide that our copyright registry req
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There's a few working pieces. There's significant jurisprudence starting as early as Roman times on the idea of 'law like' instruments garnering protections by virtue of their role in public regulation. The UK has a numb
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There are two cases dealing with a directly analogous issues about to come up for argument in front of the Supreme Court of Canada. The AG of Canada has taken the position that they're immune to copyright and can do whatever they want.
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>At least here in the US, bakeries are overwhelmingly small single retail shops. How did you come to that conclusion? My reading of the market data shows the opposite. https://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Article/2018&#x2
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Blue zones are the 7 areas of the world that disproportionally produce centenarians. Studies of their diets indicate that almost all of them are primarily vegetarian and they receive the majority of their calories from carbs. Feel free to l
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>I'm never clear on why I'm supposed to be upset about model legislation. [...] Moreover, especially on technical matters, it seems likely that private-sourced model legislation would be a superior starting point than whatever
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>The only plausible explanation for Respondent's actions appears to be an intentional effort to trade upon the fame of Complainant's name and mark for commercial gain. That purpose is a violation of the Policy, as well as U.S.
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>who presumably lost a large chunk of their "wealth" after the civil war I mean, having to hire labour rather than owning slaves changes the cost structure of their businesses, but it doesn't mean their plantations suddenl
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It's not close to correct. It is wrong. The article literally links to the correct test, but the author's language cobbles together of a few sub-links worth of half-digested material that the author doesn't understand to avoi
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>In such cases, it can be valuable to shift the burden of proof back to your opponent in order to get them to at least justify their line of questioning before answering those questions. This article skates around with this idea of &#x27
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>But I would say that atheists don't have a basis for having morals. >So the atheist usually takes something non-absolute and makes it an absolute Okay, so that's a basis. The only issue here being that you don't consid
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The West isn't dismantling its collective identity. It is refactoring it. Key elements of what construe western identity are restated in more defensible, universal terms through the process of critique. Human dignity is a stronger foun
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Homer wasn't the only person writing in the classical period. His contemporary, Hesiod, depicted gods as immortal arbiters of justice in Works and Days . The Ilyad clearly has struck some narrative gold, but was in no way the only man
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>Is it bad though? Yes. Hence the 'mal' part. Investment should be going towards enterprises which produce actual value. If the only way you can produce value is by throwing away money through predatory pricing, then you aren&#
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The article is a steaming pile, written by someone who has no idea what's what. The previous case had standing as an issue because the individual in question was not hurt by the specific alleged fraud. This is not the case in the curre
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>Each property is its' own LLC to minimize potential liability/risk. The individual SVP structure for rental properties is primarily used to avoid land sale taxes. Sell the shares, not the building/land etc. to benefit fro
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>Right now it's perfect for bribery, where you only need to bribe a select few and you can destroy a whole country. There are plenty of fraud reporting (not small scale stuff, we're talking commissions, etc.) that describe how
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>why can't you appreciate that investing in "metricsecurity" is key to protecting your company from "metricsecurity" threats? Because if I'm a C-level or EVP-level person responsible for this type of decisio
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I concur with the wisdom of software engineering. How could all of those lawyers and governors of men have gotten it so wrong? Nothing is more democratic and stable than a system where bad agents only need to convince one podunk town which
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The requirements to open yourself up to a discrimination lawsuit are fairly high. Legal doesn't have 'interview experience - net promoter score' or any other interview quality metrics as one of their KPIs, so they're hap
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>I would love it if you could forward a source for this statement. You can look up any of the mortgage and housing industry financial reporting pieces. I normally use the ones produced by RBC when looking at the issue, because they'
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>Are said investors not themselves speculators who would be underwater post bubble pop? Not really? A lot of the institutional money sloshing around is being invested as a de-risked hedge against more volatile returns. They don't re

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