MikeUt

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by MikeUt 6y ago
> arguing that they have a license to lie with impunity on the front page. The NYT did in fact argue that they have a license to lie, and won: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan
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> you view them as too weak to handle corrective feedback The article says they don't get corrective feedback not because they're seen as too weak, but because it's too risky to give criticism, since it can be misinterpret
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> This is the same city council that deliberately plans to have half the housing units they actually need Should cities be compelled to keep growing as long as there is demand? Are they not allowed to say "this much is enough - ther
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It's good for owners of defense industry companies. For the average citizen it's probably a net loss. The Iraq War alone cost about $6,300 per US citizen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Ir
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> Hillhouse Capital is paying 3.7 billion euros for the branch itself, and another around 700 million to be able to continue putting the Philips name on the products for the next 15 years. At what point does this become deceiving consume
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I added "(re. RMS)" to the title, as it's otherwise uselessly vague. Did it get reverted automatically?
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I'm sure GitHub's ToS state they may use the trending list to deceive you.
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Should being a delivery driver be as difficult as a trip to the moon?
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One battle at a time.
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Could you be more specific? "Open bigotry" is very vague.
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Context?
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> Does anyone argue that a grocery store is using, much less abusing, its monopolistic power by doing that? No. I do. Especially with how common it is for a single chain to have over 30% market share in some area. Often the chain's
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> One of the perpetrators in these Bay Area attacks was caught on video, and was Black, and reporter after reporter was asking me—are Black people going after Asians? These were Asian American reporters I was talking with. And I kept ask
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> never used It was used in the beta: When a user ran Windows 3.1 Beta on his computer using DR-DOS he was horrified when the system informed him of a "non-fatal error".
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> Unfortunately for a company like Amazon there’s little choice here. They built a brand based on their reliability and customer service. Thousands of unmonitored truck drivers are something that could damage that trust. Every smallest r
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But many 1st world populations continue to increase, despite (for some time now) sub-replacement fertility.
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> Non-negotiated contracts should be unenforceable. I in many jurisdictions, including the EU [1], they are. Perhaps the CEOs should be handcuffed and arrested when their plane makes a stop in one of them? That's how other criminals
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If I hack a printer to have it add an invisible code to documents, that I then use to track down its owner, that would be a criminal act. Except if I built the printer and added the backdoor in the factory. But if the owner of the printer t
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Harassing how, exactly? How do you know this is the FBI?
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Is there any desirable practice that net neutrality would forbid? But to answer your question - yes. AT&T zero-rated their own streaming service: https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/17/22336872/hbo-max-da
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> that specific detail, like all details in fiction, is intended to communicate something to the reader/viewer Except the details of being white or male - those are not intended to communicate anything?
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You may be right about Gurba, but you're dead wrong if you're trying to imply that the criticism of even just that book (to say nothing of the others mentioned in the article) was based only on the grounds of 'bad writing&#x2
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> Nobody is telling you you shouldn’t archive them. The publishers decided they weren’t comfortable selling them to be shown to children. Unless they donated the book rights to the public domain, they literally are telling you exactly th
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> Are people wrong for thinking that covering stories from a particular lens And choosing which stories to cover in the first place.
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> Some recent headlines Some more headlines and excerpts: Biden withdraws Trump rule on schools disclosing ties to Chinese state-run Confucius Institutes - https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/news/biden-trum
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Well it's only fair. After all, any time a black person murders a white person, the media also digs deep to see if this shows a larger problem of black people committing hate crimes against others, and if our society systemically enc
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> Facebook Groups that produce and share harmful, polarizing or even dangerous content. It's troubling how often "false" is left out of these descriptions. Like truthfulness is an afterthought. Will groups that produce &qu
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DNA databases are too white, so genetics doesn’t help everyone(sciencenews.org)
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We literally can't. Boycotts rarely work, because keeping up with what should be boycotted and why is a full time job, and people simply don't commit to it. Printer ink still comes with DRM, as do tractors, and smart TVs still spy
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Related, export control of key US technologies has been deliberately weakened: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campf... https://dailycaller.com/2016/09/02&#x2F

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