MikeUt

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Findings by professor suggest UCLA Admissions may be violating Prop 209 (2012)(dailybruin.com)
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Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran(en.wikipedia.org)
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> It's the 3rd smallest number of the most recent 15 years. Smaller also than 1906, 1907, 1910, 1913 and 1914. And the 3 largest were 1.27M, 1.18M, and 1.13M. For the last 20 years legal immigration was at an average of 1.06M/y
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There are three factors at play: population size, population lifestyle, and efficiency of resource use. It is customary to completely ignore population size as a factor, as long as lifestyles or resource use could be more eco-friendly (comm
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Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Billion_Americans I don't know why ecological stress is so rarely traced back to population size, outside of "debunkings" of Malthusianism. Edit due to rate lim
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It's certainly not the way disfavored movements or ideas are handled.
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> "Private security has zero authority on a public space," he later laments. An excellent argument against the privatization of public space, such as those privately-owned parks publicized during the Wall Street protests.
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Channel 4 pulls abuse film after police fears (2004)(theguardian.com)
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> to support the tiny fraction of people who can do repairs. And the massive fraction of people who can now choose who to hire for repairs. It is a lie to claim only repairmen are affected.
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Biden unveils unprecedented government-wide strategy to encourage US citizenship(edition.cnn.com)
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> a reasonable step for Microsoft to protect and improve their brand. That MS chose to mandate cameras instead of hardware off-switches or disabled Management Engine backdoors to "protect their brand" should tell you everything
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But better not let consumers decide whether they want to "match Apple" and still access the Windows ecosystem, just in case.
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Their skill at writing misleading headlines?
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Comparative advantage theory also ignores that efficiency increases as you invest in an industry, and the acquired expertise helps related industries. It especially ignores how another country can also buy/"partner" with your
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Book of Gates(en.wikipedia.org)
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> it seems as the intent of Muse Group was to be as legally compliant as possible. They deliberately and unnecessarily put themselves in a position where legal compliance could mean betrayal of their users.
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Census: All recent US population growth comes from people of color(brookings.edu)
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So to tie this back to the examples he gives, you think mentioning that "black men are much more likely to commit crimes that might bring a call to the police" as a possible explanation for the disproportionate police killings, is
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> devices that cant have rootkits installed And jail cells are just very secure apartments. There's always going to be a guard around to let you out, why is everyone freaking out?
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They could even charge different customers different rates, partnering with advertising firms to provide customer identification and segmentation.
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So did Instagram employ these fuck-you patterns from the start, or did they pretend to be friendly until they'd gotten enough market share and network effects? That's called bait & switch, and is (if not legally in this case,
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Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy(en.wikipedia.org)
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But it is hypocritical to invoke the first amendment as a defense of private censorship when "bad" things are removed, then completely forget that defense when complaining about "good" things being removed.
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It only shows up when the bad guys get censored.
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So Apple's choice of no-sideloading has, through network effects, placed them in the role of arbiter of which messengers are viable, restricting choice for even non-Apple users.
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Unanimous Vote Is Final Step Toward Removing Roosevelt Statue(nytimes.com)
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The dip in the US birthrate isn’t a crisis, but the fall in immigration may be(theconversation.com)
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Related: Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Specific Plans To Advance Diversity - https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver... (So they more than just ask)
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It's interesting how > their data showed investors spent 20% longer on the business model section of decks from all-female teams at the pre-seed stage than all-male teams. becomes > Men are allowed to have a vision or an idea on
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It's easy to make someone look reasonable if you ignore their unreasonable statements. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/aboli... "to put an end to something, such as an organiz

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