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by MikeUt 5y ago
Odd. None of those details were included in the Enemy at the Gates movie, and it specifically focused on snipers.
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But is that dehumanization inaccurate? Does it give the wrong impression? The answer to both questions seems to be "no", so he does not need an excuse - his defense is truth.
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Why is there no comparison to the rate of removal of hateful posts targeting other groups? Websites that document only violence against whites, and ignoring other groups, are rightly condemned as racist. But when the Center for Countering D
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> I feel like food prices are likely lower than they should be, so I kind of view this as "the market is working"? Lucky for us supermarket chains, food companies, and agribusiness, are very transparent when it comes to their c
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Just what we want - financial institutions with full access to your social media history.
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Here is an archive link, so you can read the article without giving them views: https://web.archive.org/web/20210802152519/https://newspunch...
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by MikeUt 5y ago
It's even more amazing how she associates the evil of translating the Bible into native languages, with punishments for speaking native languages: Some of the first grammar resources for previously unwritten languages were created by
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The myth of multiculturalism in Hong Kong(tandfonline.com)
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"At least 97% of the funding for the development of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has been identified as coming from taxpayers or charitable trusts [..] Oxford University initially said any vaccine it developed would be
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by MikeUt 5y ago
The point of DRM isn't to prevent piracy, but to control manufacturers, who cannot legally break DRM, so they have to comply with whatever the DRM licensing cartel demands. Prevent screenshots, prevent skipping ads, prevent recording (
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Just recently there was a case on the front page of HN where a white boy was groomed into the drug trade by the FBI since he was 14, and served more than 32 years in prison, "the longest sentence of any nonviolent minor in Michigan his
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by MikeUt 5y ago
"even changing my user-agent to Chrome, and it works flawlessly." implies that blocking third-party cookies is not the culprit.
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"He should have shut-up when told to." I believe the outrage originates from believing that he should not have been told to shut-up in the first place.
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And when the "white entitled rich youths" had fewer cases, it was also because of their privilege [1]. It seems no matter what the outcome, racism and privilege are to blame. And when Asians had lower mortality than whites [2],
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by MikeUt 5y ago
I was stating what was probably the court's opinion, not necessarily my own. But to answer your question, consumers can be harmed through loss of choice, as Amazon forces out other businesses. I'd also caution against focusing exc
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They're not being fined for making too much money, but for the harm they've caused the market or consumers through anti-competitive practices.
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Germany had a similar situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastarbeiter#Currently "Temporary" workers tend to turn into permanent immigrants, and we should stop pretending otherwise. Either grant permanen
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by MikeUt 5y ago
"German police have been accused of using Stasi methods" I'm sure the Stasi also used fingerprints, yet no-one is asking German police to give those up. Perhaps the goals, rather than methods, are what should be under greater
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Legal immigration to the US has been at around 1.1 million/year for the last 20 years [1]. What are we to make of the fact that after 4 years of a notoriously anti-immigrant presidency, "one of the largest cuts in legal immigratio
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by MikeUt 5y ago
It's the official Microsoft stance that torrent software is considered PUA (potentially unwanted application) on Enterprise. Perhaps they're expanding that to consumer versions? They define PUA very vaguely, with rather disturbing
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> But the cost of the effort — and the identities of the influencers — remained undisclosed until now. This implies the influencers did not disclose that those messages were government-sponsored. Is secret government-funded astroturfing
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> How did HR get so much power? HR only appears to have power because they are going along with the prevailing political trends [1,2,3]. If they tried to oppose them, or go in the opposite direction, you would quickly see how empty their
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by MikeUt 5y ago
One of the comments states: "Reddit received $300 million from Tencent. Do the math, 我朋友."
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> But no minority population that has become a majority in a liberal community has ever introduced the kind of blatant discriminatory practices used by whites to consolidate their power. In how many countries* has this even happened? It&
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> The definition of democratic. If you'd continue reading, the following two sentences explain that "influence": Despite their small numbers in the population (less than 3 percent), they make large campaign donations to c
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by MikeUt 5y ago
That's stretching the meaning of "democratic". From the report: The bottom line is that AIPAC, which is a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress. Open debate about U.S. policy toward
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> already Are you sure the lobbying didn't come first? From the linked report: Second, the Lobby strives to ensure that public discourse about Israel portrays it in a positive light, by repeating myths about Israel and its founding
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> Here are some more of the fiercely held arguments for dumping the tests: Test scores don’t reflect the character-forging aspects of life as a poor teenager; the tests force students from underfunded schools to compete against “affluent
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Completely unrelated: "Decreasing precipitation and rising populations could bring a perfect storm of water shortages for the United States." https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/partner-c..
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> And before you ask “well, has there been any objectionable content?” the answer is “no”. I sure am glad we have Facebook, a foreign company in this case, setting the bounds of acceptable discussion for politicians.

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