anandrew

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School pulls event with former Islamic State sex slave, fearing 'Islamophobia'(telegraph.co.uk)
17 points by anandrew 5y ago|1 comments
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by anandrew 5y ago
> For instance, if you have the belief that men and women should not be educated in the same classroom together, or that women should not be educated at all, that's a political opinion. If you want to be a teacher, that opinion turn
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by anandrew 5y ago
> It is to filter out people who haven't put sufficient thought into incorporating diversity into their teaching practice, no matter who they are. This is important to universities because professors necessarily encounter a diverse
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by anandrew 5y ago
> India’s copyright law is more progressive than many developed countries In developed countries, each update to copyright makes it more restrictive, not less. So maybe the right word isn't progressive, but regressive.
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by anandrew 5y ago
And how would they collectively decide whether to fire the police or not? Maybe via.. voting?
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by anandrew 5y ago
Can it save to local disk? How does it differ from the browser's built-in "save page as"? Does it work on video?
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by anandrew 5y ago
The list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#In_popular_culture is shockingly short.
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by anandrew 5y ago
> credentials which we liberals have been making steadily more stringent by doing our best to excommunicate racists, male chauvinists, homophobes, and the like. They're excommunicating a lot more than just those: Diversity Statemen
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by anandrew 5y ago
Can you elaborate, for those unfamiliar with Office 365?
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by anandrew 5y ago
> It's unjust to discriminate against a young graduate today, and have them pay the price for bygone injustice. That implies the price will ever be paid (and perish the thought that you get a discount if your ancestors fought or die
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by anandrew 5y ago
Even before clicking on the story, I knew there would be a "gun-related homicide" vs. "gun ownership" graph, and not an "all homicide" vs. "gun ownership" graph. Do we want to minimize all homicide, o
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by anandrew 5y ago
> Is this true in most European countries? Sort of. For an example that's not exactly worker rights, Hungary has a fertility rate of 1.52 births/woman, far below the replacement rate of 2.1. Yet when the right-wing government e
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by anandrew 5y ago
Would equal representation achieve a 50/50 split? The article doesn't say, but I am skeptical that the part of southern Ontario covered by this union is 50% "Indigenous, Black or racialized".
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by anandrew 5y ago
> aimed at improving the representation of Indigenous, Black and racialized teachers Globally, whites are a minority. But since that's becoming true of more and more places locally in the US and Canada as well, the term "mino
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by anandrew 5y ago
> Your job is gone due to automation, immigration, or globalization? It's entirely reasonable to reach for the conservative button to make things go back. Populists promising your job back is an appealing message. Much like the left
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by anandrew 5y ago
> Well, 1. and 2. is about contracts between McDonalds and their franchisees, so if a franchise owner feels unfairly harmed by this restriction, then they can sue McDonalds, it's not something about which Kytch should be able to sue
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by anandrew 5y ago
Could you explain more? Because this sounds like it should be very illegal. My understand is that shares represent partial ownership of the company. So what gives one set of shareholders the right to reduce others' ownership share? In
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by anandrew 5y ago
> but the person(s) who caused offence probably have no bad intentions I'd give the mod team the benefit of the doubt that the offense they've all resigned over is not so mild that it could be committed unintentionally.
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Cardiologists and Chinese Robbers(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by anandrew 5y ago|0 comments