AinderS

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by AinderS 4y ago
> in reality, Asians have the largest income gap with one of the highest poverty rates The Asian poverty rate has been virtually the same as the white one since 23 years ago [1], and is currently the lowest of all racial groups, by a sli
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by AinderS 4y ago
> What if Sally lives close to a grocery store and Dave does not. Sally could walk to get her groceries on her lunch break, but Dave has to drive or take public transit, which is an additional expense. But how does this play out in pract
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by AinderS 4y ago
Creating devices that deliberately betray or disobey their owners is a dangerous line to cross. With the proliferation of internet and phone metadata surveillance, license-plate readers, cameras and facial and gait recognition, we already h
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by AinderS 4y ago
> Publicly traded companies only have one allegiance. Shareholders. We have to either change this, or rely on a different kind of entity for economic activity. Because abandoning companies to be cannibalized by the financial class, or co
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by AinderS 4y ago
If Americans considered Intel an ally when passing the CHIPS Act.. with allies like these, who needs enemies?
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by AinderS 4y ago
Expulsion seems like a high price to pay for being tactless. And isn't what she said exactly equivalent to what is being preached en masse under the umbrella of "privilege", only aimed at a different group?
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by AinderS 4y ago
I submit this because I see no substantive difference between this, and book or teaching bans (such as the widely publicized CRT bans and don't say gay bills). Both seek to censor a topic. Yet this provokes hardly any outrage, or even
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by AinderS 4y ago
The article's main point seems to be: The bad news is that American Jews--as a people--have never been in greater danger of disappearing through assimilation, intermarriage, and low birthrates.
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by AinderS 4y ago
> Also, this shows that no matter if you pay for the product or not, you become the product for squeezing the data anyway. Because it's not due to money, but power . They have the power to put spy devices in so many cars it becomes
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The Vanishing American Jew(archive.nytimes.com)
2 points by AinderS 4y ago|2 comments
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by AinderS 4y ago
The article is not complaining that they refuse to connect it to the gay community, but that they refuse to connect it even to certain behavior within that community . This would be like refusing to admit large maskless gatherings help spr
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Rare wild ancestors of pigeons could help prevent 'extinction by hybridization'(jpost.com)
2 points by AinderS 4y ago|0 comments
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by AinderS 4y ago
Are you seriously going to pretend that these suspected graves aren't being used to allege that the treatment of natives in Canada was worse than previously believed?
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by AinderS 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamloops_Indian_Residential_Sc... contains no tables, and under the heading " Possible unmarked graves", it says "As of January 2022, no remains had been excavated, leaving
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by AinderS 4y ago
The contradiction in what? Wanting proof that the death rate was higher (and how much higher) than in any other school?
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by AinderS 4y ago
Maintaining security is impossible if it requires millions of lines of driver code from countless vendors to be correct. Which is why Redox has drivers in user-space: https://www.redox-os.org/
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Hollywood's Missing Movies (2000)(reason.com)
5 points by AinderS 4y ago|0 comments
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by AinderS 4y ago
It's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I am skeptical, you are mistrustful, he is a denialist.
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by AinderS 4y ago
> scans only detected masses of individual graves. Possible graves. How many were unambiguously confirmed? And how many would we expect from normal high-at-the-time child mortality?
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by AinderS 4y ago
> the articles’ basic assumptions have a rather loose association with facts Could you be more specific?
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by AinderS 4y ago
The author is looking at it wrong. The person that prefers Joe Rogan may not be consciously aware of it, but he does so out of simple us vs. them logic. They've intuited that the Times is hostile to them, and so they quite reasonably r
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by AinderS 4y ago
And now they turn to Raytheon board members and lobbyists for "independent analysis" of Afghanistan (without mentioning their affiliation): https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/on-afghanistan-withdrawal-n...
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by AinderS 4y ago
And yet, use any Google property with Tor (or any website using their captcha service), and half the time you are presented with a slow captcha, and the other half with an endless captcha, while numerous common firewalls outright block al
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by AinderS 4y ago
But even in that case, the restriction comes from law, not an arbitrary decision made by a private company.
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by AinderS 4y ago
By not specifying a limit, not even in the warning letter, buyers are encouraged (or threatened) to overprovision, and then not use the excess capacity they paid for, lining Hetzner's pockets with the difference.
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by AinderS 4y ago
You are talking about something subtly but crucially different. Replacing your headlights is not illegal, only the type of headlight you use is legally restricted. Modification itself is not legally restricted, only the end result.
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by AinderS 4y ago
I wanted to clear up any misunderstanding with superchroma. I agree that the dead comment itself is not worth discussing.
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by AinderS 4y ago
I agree that comment was bizarre. Outsourcing and disregard of human rights abuses in supply chains are not remotely limited to the US Democratic party. Especially since the article itself talks about China.
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by AinderS 4y ago
Contracts and DRM are two sides of the same coin when it comes to chipping away at ownership. They want to segment the market as finely as possible, to capture all of the excess value of their product. E.g. they don't want to sell you
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by AinderS 4y ago
Software locks themselves are nefarious. Is it the owner's car, or Tesla's?

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