MikeUt

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The difference is disclosing information voluntarily, versus being forced.
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It sheds light on how warrants are insufficient protection. Very relevant to the debate around mandating encryption backdoors.
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> The time where it's inappropriate is when used as a deflection from discussing one's own current situation and its historical roots. One man's deflection is another man's context.
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But not everyone gets equally favorable bargains.
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> If falling birth rate upsets you, what are your concerns? The US has had below-replacement (2.1) birthrates for at least 50 years [1], yet its population keeps increasing. A low fertility rate by itself does not seem to solve the &quot
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> Kids don't see skin color the way these ideologues do. Infants show racial bias toward members of own race and against those of other races : https://phys.org/news/2017-04-infants-racial-bias-members.ht...
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Odd. You never hear about people fired/removed for anti-white statements. Nick Cannon was an interesting example, where his anti-white remarks went completely ignored: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ni
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> Culture, however, [helps people adjust to their environment] more effectively than genes because the transfer of knowledge is faster and more flexible than the inheritance of genes, according to Waring and Wood. But genes are the hardw
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The included financial report says profit, not revenue.
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Respect copyright and patents as much as Microsoft respects taxation.
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> File system access How about just subfolder access? Limit facebook.com's permissions to only the user/facebook/ folder.
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Dara of Jasenovac(en.wikipedia.org)
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> Washington developed some well-founded complaints about Chinese economic behaviour — and launched a trade war. The trade war started by China with the basis for those "well-founded complaints". But it was only called a trade
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I won't dwell on the many arguable statements in this post, such as "Most of the forces in the world are willing to be our friends and partners because it is in their interest to do so." I think the more interesting aspect is
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> the sole other example in the article wouldn't be someone from 2004 who built a career in media thanks to the supposed cancellation - exactly the kind of thing the press would point to as proof "cancel culture" isn&#x27
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> Google viewed the large increase [of disabled location tracking] as a problem to be solved, so it removed this setting from the Quick Settings pane of devices it manufactured, and it sought - successfully - to convince other manufactur
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Not surprising, but not guaranteed either. It did overturn the previous ruling, and was itself only 2-1, not unanimous. The article mentions that: a Mexican-American resident of Oregon who sued the state over the state's black-only re
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> select instead for ideology and party loyalty. Already being done, but not yet at the student level: https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver... Not officially , at least. The kind o
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Of course the approach is misguided. They should instead address the systemic discrimination against boys that is causing them to score lower. Isn't that how it goes?
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You're comparing coaching to not preparing at all. The question is how much more effective is preparation with a coach, versus the same amount of preparation without one.
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> allowing law enforcement to do their thing when necessary "their thing" being pointing a telescopic lens at a suspect as they enter their password, or planting a hardware keylogger when they leave their computer unattended? O
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They're trying to convince others of what they believe is true. Calling that 'supremacist' is quite a stretch.
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Or your smart TV will detect what you're watching and add product placement from its library (using an offline cache if necessary). https://www.vice.com/en/article/mg7ek8/youre-going-to-need-a... https:
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Now do it with books.
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> “Do you know why a news organization like AP would choose to fire people like that?” a young woman wrote to me after Wilder’s firing. “Why are they so beholden to conservative Twitter?“ In which other instances has the AP submitted to
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Disney Pressed American Magazine to Delete Director’s Quote Criticizing China(nationalreview.com)
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I was able to view it when I posted it. Now I get the same message that it's blocked.
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An Asian Uber Driver Was Attacked by a Mob. Then YouTube Took Down His Video(inquiremore.com)
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> Perhaps surprisingly, the least sympathetic characters post-independence in In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz might be the World Bank and IMF employees. Could you elaborate?
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The dark side of economic interdependence.

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