MikeUt

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by MikeUt 5y ago
> a bunch of projects so stupid and far from their mission/audience that they literally can and did shock a theater full of people into silence. I didn't hear about this. Care to explain?
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Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act#Amendment
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> European museum directors aren’t so sure they want their precious masterpieces to be exploited as such, especially when they can charge more noble entities thousands to license the artwork. Both the Louvre and Uffizi say they are suing
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Certainly it was not a good thing for anyone non-white that wanted to immigrate or was already a resident - I'm not sure what part of my comment implies otherwise. I am only highlighting that the oft-repeated claim that America was con
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> it did used to be illegal for non-whites to emigrate to the USA You must be mistaken. It's well known that the USA was conceived as a "melting pot nation", a nation of immigrants, and those agitating for the opposite are
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> Asian Americans represent 41.8 percent of Google’s workforce. [..] Forbes diversity writer Ruth Umoh summarized the report’s data as indicating both “modest gains in representation for women and people of color,” and “a disproportionat
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> If my students benefit from public largesse and access, it’s because they challenge public institutions, asking why they are not free (like CUNY once was), demanding access to them, and questioning the way they work. I'm not sure
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> No one may “collect, sell or publish information on network product security vulnerabilities,” So you cannot even inform the general public that, for example, a widely used consumer product has a critical vulnerability?
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It will be interesting to see how the growing Chinese influence in our media will change popular culture and attitudes.
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> As Suitt points out, about 42% of Americans are now either unaware of the fact that their country is still fighting wars in the Greater Middle East and Africa or think that the war on terror is over. Consider that for a moment. What do
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I must admit I'm not sure how one would distinguish an agenda, from simply a viewpoint that has remained unchanged. My education in history differs from most of HNs, so I find it difficult to let slide a field of study that omits half
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Like ISPs saying their mergers won't reduce competition because they stay out of each-other's territories. And if we look at the entire chip-making business, instead of the narrow foundry-for-hire category? Or consider the possibi
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Strange how such a long article about imperialism in the middle east does not mention the Ottoman empire even once. An empire that genocided 300,000-900,000 Greeks a mere 56 years before Said's book was published [1]. Surely it played
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> machines that are usually exempted from gambling laws But that's besides the point. You don't need gambling laws to see that this is fraud, deceiving customers to pay in the expectation that the game is fair.
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Fewer independent companies increase competition? Sounds like something out of a corporate press release.
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Is this what it has come to? Never knowing when items you supposedly own will refuse to work, due to court or corporate decisions you're not involved with? Amazon remotely deleted copies of 1984, Peloton bricked indoor bikes unless you
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Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genetic_Diversity:_Lewon... Witherspoon et al. attempt to answer the question, "How often is a pair of individuals from one population genetically more dissimilar than
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> while the White House deletes tweets that likely anger the CCP I haven't heard about this. Could you elaborate?
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The solution is winning hearts and minds to convince workers to organize. In the past, corporate propaganda and improving living conditions convinced many that unions were a net negative. As conditions change, so too can those convictions.
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How quickly we forget. This is not the first time workers have faced inhumane working conditions. Unions worked as a solution before - why wouldn't they work again?
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> The idea is that, under Chinese law, it is somewhere between “complicated” and “forbidden” for foreigners to own certain big important Chinese tech companies. They don't allow foreign ownership of their companies, but they do buy
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by MikeUt 5y ago
"It denotes an attitude and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda, surveillance , disinformation, denial of truth (doublethink), and manipulation of the past" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Or
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It's odd that after all that #BelieveWomen [1,2] business, Vice is able to so deftly switch to calling them liars. Not directly, of course, they merely tell how their tears were used to justify horrible things, and then give only one e
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And they would not notify me in advance, simply take it. And if it was in my garage, the repo man would use his master key to break in. And they keep a list of all items everyone has purchased, from cars to things as small and cheap as book
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I recall when I bought a book from a bookstore, but later it turned out the publisher did not have a license. So they hired private security to break into my home, steal my book, and leave money in its place. Oh sorry, "on a computer&q
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> 32. A quick way of getting rid of an opponent's assertion, or throwing suspicion on it, is by putting it into some odious category. I'm surprised such a popular tactic is so low down the list.
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> use the damn youtube-dl. [..] and Reddit "gods" can't do anything to block you. They can threaten to sue youtube-dl also. Not having a Reddit account doesn't stop a lawsuit.
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They* want to be the only record keepers, and it scares me. Now when they remove a video for "violating content guidelines" (or all the videos of a banned account), it will be as if it never existed. *Nearly every major video ho
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That's a bit reductive. All tribes may share this characteristic, but not to the same degree . The GP even says as much.
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> From the Blair-era defeat of national ID cards onwards, the British people have been wary of anything that seems like a national database. Begin tracking people in a centralised system, they fear, and it’s the first step on an inexorab

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