Udik

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by Udik 6y ago
It's a pity you just made this "rule" up, because the delivery was very convincing. No, such a rule doesn't exist. Seems more like "an eye for an eye" than any form of civilized law.
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by Udik 6y ago
> Currently it is under military occupation. Israel is settling civilian population there in large amounts, this is forbidden by international law and goes against the claim of "military occupation" (which must be temporary in
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by Udik 6y ago
> Many Israelis that I know are thrilled about the trend towards stronger diplomatic ties (and with that, peace) And how do they feel about returning the territories they have illegally annexed or occupied- the Golan heights, East Jerusa
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Unraveling the Mindset of Victimhood(scientificamerican.com)
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by Udik 6y ago
> a disadvantage compared to an authoritarian regime when it comes to allocating large sums of money to arbitrary things Please. The US has never had an issue allocating arbitrarily large amounts of money to random things- either as mili
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by Udik 6y ago
The article mentions "Two Chinese government-backed chip projects". Of course there's nothing wrong with it, if the US government is messing with the market for geopolitical reasons, the Chinese government has all the interes
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by Udik 6y ago
Great time for those engineers!
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by Udik 6y ago
So are you fine with a service that charges black people more? Or a private company that decides not to hire gays? They're both not public squares or services, right?
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by Udik 6y ago
I know it's common, but shouldn't it be illegal?
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by Udik 6y ago
They look nothing alike because they're not plotting the same data? In the links you posted, the graph for France shows new deaths per million, the one for Brasil shows new cases . This is a graph for deaths comparing France (total
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by Udik 6y ago
Easy. After carefully creating the enemy in the past four years (the relationship with China was then much better and people weren't using "CCP" as a stand-in for "China"), Trump will just need to stress that he&#x2
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by Udik 6y ago
> I believe that is the figure for prisoners The text says very clearly: "32.6% of people convicted , 36.7% of prisoners in jails ". The graph is about prisoners, with a break down by area. In my area, foreigners are almost 6
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by Udik 6y ago
Slightly skewed. According to ISTAT, Italy's official statistics agency, foreigners are 32.6% of people convicted for any crime and almost 37% of the inmates population. https://www.istat.it/it/immigrati/prodo
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by Udik 6y ago
> Both illegal and legal immigrant groups have lower incarceration rates than native born Americans. So, whenever a right-wing pundit says that immigration is to blame for crime rising, there likely is statistical fuckery or outright lie
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by Udik 6y ago
> Yet the closest I can find to Politico fact checking that line,[0] is merely a reference to the Doctors Without Borders report https://twitter.com/politico/status/1093001428900237312?lang...
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by Udik 6y ago
tl;dr: My impression is that if we checked the narrative of the left with the same rigor we use for that of the right, a lot of news would disappear from social media. This WP title and article: http://archive.is/GvfHd It p
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by Udik 6y ago
I don't agree. The headline contains valuable information. It says that, whatever you might think is the risk of dying once you got covid-19, on average those who died have their life shortened by about ten years. Which is not the same
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by Udik 6y ago
350k deaths sounds like a huge number, but it's important to take in account how many of those would have died anyway in the next two or three years. Dying at 80 is not the same as dying at 20.
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by Udik 6y ago
This is not the equivalent of weakening the US's stature among allies. And even if that were the only possible outcome of that policy, it still wouldn't be the administration's goal , only an unintended side effect.
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by Udik 6y ago
> One of the trump administration’s goals is to isolate America and weaken its stature among its allies Why?
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by Udik 6y ago
True, but what I meant to say is that there is nothing revolutionary. It's not providing capabilities that we didn't have before. It's simply establishing a standard for a tiny subset of what a modern web framework does- roug
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by Udik 6y ago
> but using only standard HTML and JavaScript (no frameworks). Sounds like they ship a framework with the browser and call it "standard". Given that the size of a UI components framework is tiny anyway (3kb for preact) I'm
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by Udik 6y ago
> they are 100% lip service Do you have first hand knowledge of this or are you just repeating what you think you know?
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by Udik 6y ago
Ah, you're referring to that time when 100 idiots out of a country of 320 million people dressed up like nazis three years ago?
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by Udik 6y ago
Unfortunately, everyone seems to be keen on justifying their own intolerance with the supposed intolerance of the other. If all it takes people to be freely intolerant is to convince themselves that the object of their intolerance is into
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by Udik 6y ago
This. I also am old enough to remember when people were upset at the web giants replacing the old decentralized internet- "what will happen if one day they'll start censoring stuff?". And now all you hear is people getting ma
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by Udik 6y ago
> leaving aside that the CCP doesn't consider ethnic minorities in China to be full citizens Is that actually true? China seems to be even using affirmative action to benefit its minorities: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by Udik 6y ago
> There is no evidence of IP theft being established against TikTok and ByteDance Actually, the forced acquisition of TikTok by MS and its Instagram copy are instances of the US copying from the Chinese.
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by Udik 6y ago
> First, he offered to take wagers from other scientists on whether the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, destroying New Mexico or even the entire world. Of course if you bet on the bomb not causing the end of the world, you can only win
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by Udik 6y ago
Not sure what the publishing houses would think about this, but how's the collaboration needed? You can create the service and distribute the widget; and if at first it will be used only by independent bloggers I don't see the iss

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