Bran_son

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by Bran_son 3y ago
A different perspective: This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every state house, e
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Of course of course. Now let's look at what happens to researchers who claim otherwise, to see if there might be publication bias...
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The video is about Amazon Ring cameras taking away promised functionality post-purchase, and demanding a subscription fee to enable it. You also cannot tell the cameras to connect to your own server to self-host that functionality.
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> I have a hard time believing that genetics being a dominating factor for outcome would not be an obvious/major/easily discovered and proven finding. IQ is 57-80% heritable [1]. It's not the same as probability of gettin
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by Bran_son 3y ago
The USA has 15.4% foreign-born population. Compared to Asian tech powerhouses, Japan has 2%, South Korea 2.3%, and China 0.1%. And they don't grant citizenship to children of immigrants. And just eyeballing it, you'll notice most
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by Bran_son 3y ago
They did not "fall" for the sham - they were willing participants, and are only upset because their collaboration via negligence was exposed. How many stories did the NY Times, WaPo, NPR, CNN and other "venerable" media
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DEI Captures the University of Florida(city-journal.org)
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A better example are people that do have something to hide - whistleblowers, union organizers, political activists, journalists, upstart politicians... How does the nature of their work change, if the current government in power knows all
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Bait and switch: get popular with user-friendly terms, then pull the rug from under your users and use your conned popularity to serve advertisers.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
I have read the article. I was not criticizing Sveriges Radio's decision, but the AP's reporting.
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> Their contemporary cultural touchstones are much the same ones around the world. I find this homogenization of culture incredibly sad.
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We would be so culturally richer on a Hollywood monoculture.
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They still would dismiss them if they could. But since the internet destroyed their media gatekeeping power and anime became too popular, they're now trying to control and put their own spin on it.
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> SR Ekot, which has been labeled “publicly funded media,” [..] CBC said Monday that it would pause its activities on Twitter after it was labeled as “government-funded” because it “undermines the accuracy and professionalism” of its jou
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Unfortunately, that "government-funded media" tag implies a lack of editorial independence Yes, Twitter should do away with mere implication and clarify that not only is it government funded, the president of the CBC is also
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> That CBC is funded by the government is true according to the article itself It's called the "celebration parallax" - https://americanmind.org/salvo/thats-not-happening-and-its-g... If you celebrate
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> The corporation is governed by the Broadcasting Act of 1991, under a board of directors and is directly responsible to Parliament through the Department of Canadian Heritage. General management of the organization is in the hands of a
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by Bran_son 3y ago
Self-defense (which is what maintaining sovereignty within one's borders is) does not require moral high ground.
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> Patents protect the little guy from the manufacturers. As long as the little guy's patent can improve the process without stepping on any of the countless pre-existing patents manufacturers have accumulated. Now how often is that
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Do you own a TV? Did you buy a Sceptre? Why not? I do, I did not, because my TV is old enough to not yet be "smart", and because Sceptres are literally not available anywhere in my country. Am I now virtuous enough by your
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> But almost 225 million TVs sell annually. People buy smart TVs. There's literally nothing else on the consumer market. Edit: There may be a dumb Sceptre TV hidden in a Walmart warehouse somewhere, but I checked and there are none
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by Bran_son 3y ago
I could easily believe that <10% of drivers are so terrible, that they drag the mean so far below the median that 90% of drivers are above the mean.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> lesser evil compared to having dozens of stores Realistically, the alternative without Steam would not be dozens of stores, but (eventually) 2-3 stores, that would all behave much worse than Steam.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> IME exists because Intel’s big customers want it and the people who don’t want it don’t have enough money for a custom SKU I addressed this - systems without IME exist, but are not available for purchase, for any price, except for go
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by Bran_son 3y ago
> Ultimately it's rooted in economics. People like free stuff, and the only way to give it to them is to monetize it indirectly via ads and surveillance. It's more than economics - they actively attack privacy and user control.
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by Bran_son 3y ago
But such laws make things worse . Now, when doctors claim something is safe, they can be dismissed with "they'd go to jail if they claimed otherwise".
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Ask them how many native Americans there are in the US, and you'll see how shallow this belief is.
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If I made any factual errors, corrections are welcome.
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You didn't, but warent's comment I replied to did: "their government strikes me as rather xenophobic and terrified of change" In general, "xenophobia" is a frequent accusation against those that don't want
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by Bran_son 3y ago
That's assuming religious nuttery is an unavoidable prerequisite for whatever is lifting their birth rate. I don't think this assumption is merited - according to Pew surveys, Serbia has a similar rate of irreligion (3.3%) as Isra

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