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by AinderS 4y ago
If only an incestuous relationship with Western intelligence agencies also made a source "shady"..
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Don't worry everyone. Wikipedia says MintPress is a conspiratorial website spreading Syrian and Russian disinformation [1]. So even though all the claims in the article can be independently verified (through wikipedia itself [2], or if
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Not mandatory by law perhaps, but how much power did e.g. a single teacher that wanted to teach Blender have to go around this policy? If almost every school uses the same firewall, and only software with lobbyists behind it gets whiteliste
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> Cheating was rampant in those games? But what kind of cheats? Aimbotting and seeing through walls don't apply to VR chat. And no matter how modded your client was, you couldn't spam endless grenades in Counter Strike - the
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How is "don't trust the client" an arms race? But now we're moving past the simple empirical fact that for countless games it worked , and still works . > They are complaining how much time they wasted on mods You m
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> never seen that work in practice. Except in every competitive online game that predates EAC. Rule #1 in networked games is "don't trust the client".
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The Fakest Journalist(mtracey.substack.com)
7 points by AinderS 4y ago|0 comments
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But I was told homeowners love seeing their "assets" (American for "home") appreciate in value, and that this was the cause of NIMBY-ism?
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> they should be able to obtain some sort of "reverse mortgage" that pays the taxes in exchange for partial ownership of the home Homes aren't just another asset and financial vehicle. They are, well, homes . Your link to
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> the EU was very adamant on tying trade liberalization to immigration liberalization. Why was this the case? Do you have more background information on it? I've heard little about this, except the end result of free movement within
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by AinderS 4y ago
You think better market segmentation will be to your benefit?
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by AinderS 4y ago
So like public transport, except vertically integrated to funnel money towards automakers?
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So a loan you can never repay?
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It's a simple statement of fact, disproving by example the parent's claim that France's growing diversity is caused by having had colonies. But that didn't need unpacking - it is simply a summary of the conversation. So
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Is this why African countries were so prosperous before the scramble for Africa kicked off in the 1870s? And why today, the countries in Africa least touched by colonialism are the most well off? Or are they, actually. The human development
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No, it is a direct consequence of their recent immigration policy. How else do you explain that the Muslim population in France started growing [1] only after their colonial empire had almost vanished [2]? This is a logic only ever applie
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> If all mobile carriers start enforcing predatory contracts then I don’t know if GDPR will be very effective here. I thought the GDPR didn't allow signing away of privacy? Because if it does, then it's utterly useless - every
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by AinderS 4y ago
I can't say I agree with the banning of modest clothing (nor, for that matter, with calling all clothing that does not abide by Sharia rules "immodest"), but mandating mixed sex bathing seems very reasonable. You just have to
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by AinderS 4y ago
What you're doing may be considered "structuring" [1], which under the demented laws of the US can land you in jail. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring
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I can only imagine that this comment was written in total ignorance of the CIA's storied history. Suffice it to say that it is not a government agency like any other [1]. If "former" FSB agents held key positions controlling
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Your initial claim is that it is not an invasion of privacy, but your argument is only that it is legal . And is it also not an invasion of privacy in China, where facial recognition cameras log everywhere you go in public? Any protest you
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by AinderS 4y ago
Don't be overconfident. They can make the use or possession of encrypted apps a crime. Then being able to hide your communications or data won't matter - the hiding itself will be criminal.
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by AinderS 4y ago
It's never "all these automated license plate readers, phone and internet metadata harvesting, countless surveillance cameras on public property, surveillance drones [1], and facial, voice, and gait recognition are making our job
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Jews and the Jewish Birthrate – Can a demographic disaster be halted?(commentary.org)
1 points by AinderS 4y ago|1 comments
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But I don't want private companies having this data either (on me, or others). Since we're barrelling full-speed towards corporate feudalism, I see this act as deflating the motivation to fix the root cause of the issue, and ultim
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I don't know, but I don't see this as a problem that is specific to Google or abortion. China can serve as a cautionary example of where surveillance leads.
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Since there's zero chance that websites and ad companies will stop their spying and manipulation (let's call it "webpage neutrality"), what you're proposing is unilateral disarmament. To require a lot of know-how an
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You're already divided - the team that hired you told you so to your face.
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> I couldn’t care less on race / sex whatever. [..] they hated hiring me because of my race [..] constantly ranted on how much they despised white males. How long do you think your enlightened post-racial individualism will remain t
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> It's just as unsustainable as fossil fuels, it's just on a much longer timeframe What good is solving nuclear waste storage that might become a problem in a thousand years, if we are done in by global warming (which nuclear c

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