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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> you think they are trying to feed you some bullshit She was asking his personal political opinions. Her only indication that it was bullshit is that he didn't say what she wanted to hear, or rather, print. Selective skepticism.
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> Schaeffer told the Guardian that she “didn’t end up using anything” from “multiple interviews” with Polignano as she came to think that his answers were in part a performance. “He wanted to present himself as a complex character and I
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
Your answer amounts to "Yes, both those things exist to the detriment of the user, but they were requested for the benefit of corporate app writers, so it's okay that the device the user supposedly owns obeys someone else."
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> Ubuntu is now Microsoft's lapdog. Could you elaborate?
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> Your links don't support your claims. Adrian Hastings has claimed that England's Anglo-Saxon kings mobilized mass nationalism in their struggle to repel Norse invasions. He argues that Alfred the Great, in particular, drew o
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
A modern falsehood. The concept of a nation is far older - it really should not come as a surprise that defining the in-group based on kinship is an ancient practice. That's what the word itself is derived from - the Latin word for b
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> In any case, we can definitely say that the map is skewed towards the cultural understanding at the time, mostly Euro-centric Amusingly, this line commits the same "sin" of Euro-centrism. There was (nor is) no "the"
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> free access to higher education should be a cornerstone of a democracy How much do the more affordable community colleges in the US cost?
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
In the US, the police kill 25 white people per 10 million white people per year: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ (the graphic shows per 1 million, but over 10 years) In France, the police kill 5.5 people per 10 million p
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
Odd. The wanton stabbing of multiple children in a park in Annecy [1] didn't trigger any sort of us-vs-them reaction. Meanwhile this case, where the officer responsible has already been charged with homicide [2] (and the victim had bef
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
They are useful for comparing the ratio of Ivy League vs. nationwide populations. E.g. if a group had SAT scores 300 points higher than the national average, we would expect to see them overrepresented in prestigious academic positions.
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
It seems to have the highest predictive power regarding chance of admittance (a randomly chosen White is 11.2x more likely to be admitted if they're Jewish vs. if they're not). Though for the record, those polls considered anyone
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
Let's further break-up the white student category, if any interesting correlations come up. For undergraduates specifically: Ivy League US Ratio Mean nationwide SAT score [1] Jewish
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
Interesting presentation about the inadequacy of current optimizing compilers. It offers a solution in its conclusion (spoiler): For some reason we all (especially me) had a mental block about optimization, namely that we always regarded i
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> they wanted economic opportunities, and they weren't getting that in Pakistan. An uptick in aid wouldn't change that either! I did not say aid/ investment by accident. It could well be charitable investment, i.e. into f
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> I feel like this debate only ever gets two sorts of representation, the people who think every migrant is a desperate refugee in need of rescue, and the "fortress Europe, it's an invasion" people. If we can just convince
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Memri – Middle East Media Research Institute(en.wikipedia.org)
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
Summary of the video by Louis Rossmann: A Massachusetts ballot initiative, that passed with a landslide 75-25, despite $26 million in ads that automakers spent fighting it (claiming it would help racism, redlining, and stalkers), mandated t
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> I believe the market would sort that out. "The market" will consolidate grocery stores until only 3-4 nationwide chains remain, whose policies and prices will be suspiciously similar. Almost every market is moving in that dir
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> They're killing themselves because they cannot make a living anymore, and this is due to the perpetuated belief that money is central to your worthiness. Something plenty of groups have been trying to fight against, what do we cal
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
Or a genetics lab hooked up to a computer...
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
You don't think Americans losing their participation refusal veto on military action (if they won't do it, the government will hire foreigners for it - whatever "it" may be, foreign invasion or domestic suppression) is d
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> Piece of paper that would be worth less than a piece of toilet paper, if not for the US military. After WWII, only a tiny minority of wars fought by the US were in self-defense. Most of the time the military was on foreign soil of coun
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
They've already found a solution: If your own citizens refuse to serve the military-industrial complex, then simply use foreigners: Join the military, become a US citizen - https://apnews.com/article/army-air-for
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> Germany uses the term "Positive Action" Interesting how they never call it "racial discrimination" when it's something they like. I guess they had to come up with a euphemism to avoid the Pavlovian response the
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> Harvard, and many other colleges, has a big base of "legacy" admissions, as well as a certain amount of generational knowledge and connections - you're more likely to get into Harvard if your parents went to Harvard, ove
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> Many universities have for too long wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin. This conflates whether racial discrimination
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
He didn't petition congress because congress already legislated on this issue: neither the 14th amendment nor the civil rights act contain exceptions allowing racial discrimination, as long as it's for the right cause (and the cou
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The cure for Canada’s housing crisis? Boost immigration(theglobeandmail.com)
3 points by NoRelToEmber 3y ago|0 comments
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by NoRelToEmber 3y ago
> Not to mention that the people ruled by the Visigoths invited Tariq bin zayed when he invaded across Gibraltar, so that he would remove king Rodrick. Per wikipedia [1], it was rival factions of Visigoths, that the Moors expertly divide

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