MikeUt

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> Black people are more than 250% more likely to be killed by the police than white people. Is that compared to their share of the population, or their share of violent crime? If you compare only to population, apply that same logic to g
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> we have to ask whether black victims tend to be proportionately more violent or threatening than white victims ... another hard statistic to gather. A closely related statistic has been gathered, on violent crime perpetrators. By the
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> Find your pride in your accomplishments, not in a property like skin color or nationality. And if I don't care about pride, but preserving my kin? Should I keep my mouth shut while the media claims my country was always diverse*,
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The Streisand effect only happens if you find out about the censorship. There's a million ways to reduce the reach of a story covertly.
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That Creative Diversity Report the Guardian quotes also found that BAME (Black and Minority Ethnic) on-screen representation is at 23%, which is 164% of their share of the British population (14%). Surprisingly, the Guardian chose to omit t
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> a Black family Right, it's just that one Black family. It's not that the Creative Diversity Network found that BAME (Black and Minority Ethnic) on-screen representation is at 23%, which is 164% of their share of the British p
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That's true, but the statement I was addressing was wether the party controlling the senate will grant the president his constitutional right to appoint a judge Not granting someone their constitutional right can only be interpreted
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So the senate didn't give their consent, as is their right. But you think the reasoning (or, lets face it, excuse) behind withholding that consent was somehow unconstitutional?
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> They are the only organization that routinely breaks news against 'both sides' of the aisle. Both sides indeed. They report on news of national importance, such as a playground scuffle: A Black Virginia Girl Says White Cl
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How is a 'smart' elevator better than a regular one? What does it need connectivity for?
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> wether the party controlling the senate will grant the president his constitutional right to appoint a judge The president only has a right to nominate a judge. He needs the consent of the senate to appoint one. If the senate does no
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> the first legislation in recent years designed to add seats to the high court The article bizarrely does not qualify "recent", but that's an understatement, to say the least. The court has been at 9 justices since 1869,
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> Mastercard has long prohibited merchants from engaging in unlawful activity on its network. I'm glad to see more corporations stepping up and enforcing laws and morals. In today's fast moving world, courts and due process are
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> I disagree that blasphemy was to serve the greater good. It was justified on that ground. That doesn't mean there was no ulterior motive.
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Ideologically, I agree with you, and passionately agree with that statement on the "sexual assault" term. > and even when he does say things I think are upsetting, how is that related to him promoting free software? The sad fac
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My opinion is the opposite of yours - I like RMS immensely, but believe he's no longer fit to represent free software. The article that changed my mind [1] stated that, in short, making public statements on controversial topics unrelat
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How horrible it would be if commercials had to be truthful.
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> shut the fuck up and get through with it. Silence is suspicious: Teachers praise insights when they articulate the existing framework or expand it to apply to novel domains. Meantime, it is common for teachers to exhort students who r
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You can't invest a family farm, or a painting. I will repeat myself a 3rd time - if the goal is to slow the growth of wealth, the right course of action is to raise the tax rate on the returns to that wealth. If you tax wealth itself,
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> attempts to prevent [prejudice] is a pretty major change from protecting the official state religion Blasphemy laws weren't justified on the basis of protecting a religion, but to safeguard souls from being led astray into eternal
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> The morally compromised status of “oppressor” is assigned to one group of students based on their immutable characteristics. In the meantime, dependency, resentment and moral superiority are cultivated in students considered “oppressed
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But as I pointed out in my other comment, those returns are already taxed . If you think those returns are excessive, the solution is to raise the tax on them, not introduce an entirely different type of tax, with plenty of collateral dama
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> Most people's income increases as their wealth increases. That's part of the problem. But that's already solved by taxing income .
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That's buying a new house every 50 years. That's re-building all of the wealth your family spent generations accumulating, every 50 years. That's a direct disincentive to saving money and frugality - the more you save, the
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> Most people don't have the safety net or mental bandwidth to even consider entrepreneurship. It is not a panacea for the masses. Even if they did have the resources to go into entrepreneurship, if most people did so, they would
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You completely missed my point. I'm not equating it to censorship, nor do I even think statutory rape laws are unjust. My point was we should describe crimes accurately , regardless of what the law calls them. If an act is wrong, it s
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> It is fundamentally dangerous to offer abusers the opportunity to claim it was all willing, which is why the law makes it always rape. If you choose to break that law, that's on you and you deserve to be treated as an abuser. How
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> LotusEaters is ran by Carl Benjamin[1] -- and so it's most definitely not a balanced take. Thank you for catching that. The law was also covered by the more trusted BBC [1]. A quick skim did not find any conflicting information be
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26783624 got flagged, so perhaps a report from a more trusted source, such as the BBC, will fare better, even though a quick skim found no conflicting information between the two reports

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