AinderS

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German Government Lied About Nuclear(michaelshellenberger.substack.com)
62 points by AinderS 4y ago|36 comments
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> Individual initiative is not enough to address systemic issues I couldn't agree more. But before we can have the software equivalent of a food safety agency, people have to stop shrugging off food poisoning with "they probabl
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> Let’s go to a person we’ve worked with before who is able to break this down in a way that I, and my readers, will understand. That will have an anemic opinion that is close to your own, and works for an institution that is as establis
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> blanket pardon Oh that wasn't a pardon. Maybe the fox analogy was poorly chosen, since foxes are cute and have their place in the ecosystem. I should have said Google is like cancer, and media are the negligent doctor that takes t
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> "entering a cage" is hyperbolic to say the least. Until you do something forbidden, such as get an abortion, and hyperbole becomes literal truth as you're sent to prison.
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You make a good point. I can see how my post could be interpreted as blaming regular consumers for the mess we're in. And while consumer apathy and ignorance disgust me, you are correct, journalists and media that are supposed to be gu
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> Google provides useful products, and in exchange we might be targeted with annoying ads. Big whoop. Until now. Enter a cage willingly, with barely any complaint, for minor convenience, then cry when you're taken to the slaughterho
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> Fillmore, who is part Indigenous, would recognize the tribes that lived in the Boise Valley before they were banished to reservations to make way for white settlers. It is always interesting to see when it is acknowledged that the sett
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This article is extremely confused, perhaps reflecting the judicial confusion in this matter. For example: > Chief Justice Warren Burger defined a three-prong standard: Any school law had to have a primarily secular purpose, it couldn’t
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> Might all sound a little hyperbolic and theoretic but it can't be excluded > the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) and the United States European Command (USEUCOM) already spied on
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Separating children from parents is just horrible. The US should have made sure they were kept together when deported. I don't understand why Democrats didn't push for that , instead of using it as a wedge in a false open-borders
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College Board No Longer Disclosing AP Test Results by Ethnicity, State(highereddive.com)
1 points by AinderS 4y ago|0 comments
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Youtube also does its best to prevent you from downloading videos, to leave no record of the past.
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> QoS is all about discriminating based on traffic source/dest/port "Source" as in "Netflix", not "part of network with saturated bandwidth". Though discrimination based on port is content-based di
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> Roe v Wade was the first time the question of abortion rights was put before the supreme court. If the Supreme Court does not hear a case, it is tacitly saying it agrees with the lower court's decision. If in 105 years no-one argu
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> Net Neutrality activists don't even want them to be able to do QoS. I thought net neutrality activists, myself among them, just didn't want them to discriminate based on content/source/destination? I.e. no blocking
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One could also view immigration as China, India, and Latin America expanding into the US.
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On the topic of demographics, a map showing where the next 1000 babies, on average, will be born: https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/vwixz5/100...
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> Vestager reportedly said at a news conference that "there are players who generate a lot of traffic that then enables their business but who have not been contributing actually to enable that traffic." Oh, they get bandwidth
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> I wonder if that is because being a Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher comes with handcuffs Good guess. From https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Microsoft_Refurbisher_Program 1. Only PCs that are at least six months old an
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> So what changed? Not the Constitution -- the text of the 14th Amendment has been the same since its ratification. The difference is that these particular justices believe that the text means something different than what every other se
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> These judges have ruled that privacy is not important enough to be guaranteed. You fundamentally misunderstand the role of judges. They do not rule on how important different values are - they rule on what the written law means.
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What about other browsers?
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> the thingy in the bottom of your screen when you hover over a link, this is trivial to fake Sounds like a security flaw. Why don't browsers patch it?
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What the average person is comfortable or familiar with is itself largely determined by the media.
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Images should vary in age, ability, race, nationality, gender, body types Example names should be different from the status quo Lists of people should not be homogenous Can everyone who might view this to see someone like
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> Breed introduced an ordinance to approve the police [surveillance] policy last month in response to the high-profile retail thefts that were caught on camera in Union Square last November. Isn't it strange? If crime drops, the ans
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For example, using proportional representation, in 2015 UKIP's 12.6% of the vote would have netted 82 out of the 650 seats in parliament. Instead they got only one seat [1]. But there's very little complaint about this form of g
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The video does not seem to add much to the article it covers: https://gmauthority.com/blog/2022/07/buick-and-gmc-models-ge...
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The implication was that they would be launched at an enemy without reliable missile defense.

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