aramanto

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by aramanto 7y ago
"Cyprus, which asks for an investment of at least €2m, gave citizenship to Jho Low, the fugitive Malaysian businessman at the centre of the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund scandal." ... "Cyprus has made about €6bn issuing about 4,
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London event details how super-rich can buy EU citizenship(theguardian.com)
4 points by aramanto 7y ago|1 comments
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Facebook accused of 'empowering' a racist company culture(engadget.com)
7 points by aramanto 7y ago|0 comments
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by aramanto 7y ago
From the article: "Rather than being ranked with other major western democracies, the US falls lower down the list alongside countries like Kosovo and Romania." https://www.electoralintegrityproject.com
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Is America a democracy? If so, why does it deny millions the vote?(theguardian.com)
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by aramanto 7y ago
Interesting! Is there any way to automatically track the changes in position of a post to HN and check that afterwards?
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by aramanto 7y ago
I haven't been precise enough, sorry. They deny that drastic carbon reductions are needed as a result of climate change. In other words, they deny that climate change is the cause of carbon emissions, which to me is denying climate cha
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by aramanto 7y ago
There is no other side in this case in my humble opinion. What we have is overwhelming scientific evidence supporting climate change, and some made-up research paid by carbon industry lobbies, like some of the organizations funded by google
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by aramanto 7y ago
So in this case, by non-mainstream views you mean lobbying based on made-up research and plain lies I assume (it is what climate change denial lobbies use most of the time)
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by aramanto 7y ago
Totally agree, however the crude reality is that they are directly helping the cause of climate change denial with their funding.
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Google made large contributions to climate change deniers(theguardian.com)
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Virtual visits: how Finland is coping with an ageing population(theguardian.com)
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One corporation to pollute them all(transportenvironment.org)
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Food in the Anthropocene: Healthy diets from sustainable food systems(thelancet.com)
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First They Came for Assange(project-syndicate.org)
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Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks in Caffe(software.intel.com)
1 points by aramanto 8y ago|0 comments
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In Searching the Web, Google Finds Riches (2003)(nytimes.com)
2 points by aramanto 9y ago|0 comments