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by _iyig 8y ago
Serious question: was liberating Auschwitz a misuse of the military?
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by _iyig 8y ago
Typo in title. “Holtz” should be “Hotz”
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by _iyig 8y ago
There’s an easy way for Bloomberg to prove, or least provide a great deal of support for, their story. Show us an affected motherboard. If this problem was so widespread and they have so many well-informed sources, surely that shouldn’t be
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by _iyig 8y ago
These were not leakers, but employees internally sharing a memo which described Google’s plans for China. It’s unclear whether the memo’s contents were (originally, explicitly, and/or retroactively) labeled need-to-know.
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by _iyig 8y ago
I did this too (with a Goldtouch instead of the Freestyle), and it worked... for a couple years. Then I get RSI so severe that it took me off work for 12 months. In my case, I think it was the bad posture, smartphone use, and laptop use in
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by _iyig 8y ago
I'm done talking with someone who out-and-out lies. "I later saw the Islamic Shari’a Council of Leyton. This community has religious, educational, business and legal institutions to maintain a separate identity."
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by _iyig 8y ago
You are clearly arguing in bad faith, as the "various services" on that website clearly include divorce as adjudicated by Sharia law. If you don't believe me, take it from Trevor Phillips, the former UK minister who coined th
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by _iyig 8y ago
Also, new WSJ piece out today with a travelogue through a Islamicized UK town, including Sharia courts and ubiquitous face veiling: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-visit-to-islamic-england-1535...
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by _iyig 8y ago
Five seconds in Google Maps: Islamic Sharia Council 34 Francis Rd, London E10 6PW, UK +44 20 8558 0581 https://goo.gl/maps/uVXqgkMMTYx
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by _iyig 8y ago
I’ve been happy with M-Disk DVDs for durable, disaster-proof, write-once backups. Gets a little pricey when you start talking about TB, but for family photos and important documents it more than meets my needs.
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by _iyig 8y ago
I know a fair bit about Islam, but I'm always ready with an open mind to hear out different points of view, which is the ultimate topic of this submission. I'm also not even able to downvote, so take that as you will.
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by _iyig 8y ago
That's a great question. I would hope that if it ever came up in a work context, one hypothesis would not automatically be assumed without an open and honest and conversation.
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by _iyig 8y ago
Sure. Pew Research, a widely-respected nonpartisan fact tank, has conducted several studies in this area. They found that roughly 70% of Muslims worldwide support Sharia as the law of the land, coming out to just over 1.2 billion people. I
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by _iyig 8y ago
I think we both agree that's a ridiculous and unrealistic example. I'm not the type to raise political or religious issues at work, unless it relates to the decision or task at hand. If my company were to consider donating to a co
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by _iyig 8y ago
There are 13 Muslim-majority countries where apostasy is punishable by death, including Malaysia, Iran, Nigeria, the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Pakistan only imposes the death sentence for blasphemy. The UK has many sharia courts which a
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by _iyig 8y ago
If you feel I’ve misunderstood your comment, or that you did not fully articulate your point, please feel free to elaborate. I’m not overly swayed or impressed by drive-by disparagement.
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by _iyig 8y ago
The original point of argument was “Criticism of Islam's human rights record.“ Not “railing against Islam.” Was anything unclear about this?
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At a company like Facebook, I could imagine how politics enter into work discussions about trending story ranking or news site bias warnings, for example.
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by _iyig 8y ago
I don’t agree that all criticism of misogynistic divorce laws, violence against “immodest” women, and application of the death penalty for homosexuality or apostasy is driven by “deeply-rooted white supremacy.” I would fire anyone who held
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by _iyig 8y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I would agree that OP's comment did not seem likely to engender thoughtful discussion. Taking a lot at some other comments, I also understand where you're coming from as a moderator. Keep fighti
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by _iyig 8y ago
Is the OP wrong? Is the point irrelevant to the discussion? In what way is the observation of an admittedly uncomfortable fact "ideological rhetoric"?
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by _iyig 8y ago
Why? The singular leverage of China’s massive, unified market and labor force is what so many pro-liberty commentators find particularly troubling.
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by _iyig 8y ago
The CIA has a long and storied history of arrogance, incompetence, and letting down sources. The book, “Legacy of Ashes” provides an excellent readable, detailed history of the Agency since its creation, with tons of primary-source intervie
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by _iyig 8y ago
I've been nervous about "owning" cloud-based media since Amazon deleted Kindle-purchased copies of 1984 [0]. Even today, media you "own" on services like Amazon can disappear when the cloud provider's license f
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by _iyig 8y ago
>The campaign against Jeong is some bs about old tweets where she mimicked the racism she gets back, recast as racism against white people. Having read all of Sarah Jeong’s tweets as they pertain to this controversy, I find it hard to be
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by _iyig 8y ago
tl;dr: No specs, no demos, no video or images of what is seen through the glasses. The only functionality demonstrated live was a green LED on the glasses. Even in a world where the glasses work 100% as advertised, I’m still skeptical that
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by _iyig 9y ago
I worked at Nest. This blog post is full of BS. For example: "For the record, I read several stories about the Nest Protect going into permanent alarm, and you know what my hunch is? The same thing I always assume: "Dumb Linux cra