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by ardy42 6y ago
> assuming they have a large database of application binary and hashes A database like an "app store"?
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> The first is: "You will own nothing. And you'll be happy"[1]. My questions - who does the "owning" and does this apply to the "elites" that attend Davos? Well, I suppose that could work out if we have
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> Wow, the front page of bitchute is 100% conspiracy. Is that... umm... what it's known for? When your main differentiator is "free speech" and your competitors don't actually restrict the speech they carry that much,
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> YouTube has only existed for fifteen years, but it might continue to exist for centuries. Is YouTube profitable yet? I really doubt YouTube will last for centuries, or even twenty or thirty more years. There was a point where it seeme
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> What do you think brought on the scourge of ISIS? US policies. What US policies, exactly? TIL ISIS was founded in 1999 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_... : > ISIL was founded by t
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> ...or Syria for that matter. Conflicts the US triggered... Wasn't the Syria conflict actually triggered by the Assad regime's behavior? https://www.history.com/news/syria-civil-war-assad-rebels : > H
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The Japanese Concentration Camps are not a point of national shame. Instead, they are a point of American pride. > Case in point: One of Trump’s goons, Carl Higbie, referred to the Japanese Concentration Camps as “precedent”. [1] It
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> The American government is putting ethnic minorities in camps right now too. That's a false equivalence. While I do not endorse the treatment of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers at the US border, it's quite different fr
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> There’s a lot more to becoming a naval power than just building ships. Though building ships is an important prerequisite.
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> Pakistan and India only care about each other. I don't think that's true. India's recently had border skirmishes with China, for instance.
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> Also Do you believe COVID concerns should out weigh all other things including Economics, and even other health conditions (for example people stopped getting screenings for almost all other health conditions during this time. Cardiolo
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> I think the true evil here is the two party system, where people have no outlet to express and advance anything more nuanced than us vs them mentality. But I don’t think that will change any time soon, if ever... I don't think tha
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by ardy42 6y ago
> One of those isn't a talent, but yes. I know. I was making a bit of joke there. > Although he also married wealth, so that might be a talent of sorts. He did? I was under the impression he just married models, who I assumed wh
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> It was both the sample (read actual reports from pollsters on how hard it is to get a sample these days... people DO NOT want to participate in polls) and an underestimate of the number of voters the Republicans would get to the polls.
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> Seems like a lot of these problems stem from a failing education system. Teach kids critical thinking and scientific literacy and media bias. Seems more important ever to teach kids that they shouldn't believe everything the see a
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> The COVID response by the government further illiterates why libertarianism is correct. The US COVID response doesn't illustrate that any more than Soviet elections [1] illustrated that voting is a sham, which is to say it doesn&#
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> I always hope that some moderate politician will come along in deemphasize the power of the bases. A strongly pro environment Republican, or a true honest pro life Democrat. Unfortunately what we’ve seen, and continue to see in this el
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> But then COVID hit, and I’m fairly certain that having coordinated, science-based leadership in the highest levels of government would have spared us from quite a lot of suffering. So much for rooting for ineffectual. Yeah, COVID has r
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> He wasn't slandered. It is an objective fact that he's racist and a person without moral compass or character. Also grossly incompetent, ignorant, and incurious. It seems the only talents he ever had were inherited wealth a
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> I'm not from the US, nor do I live there. As an outsider looking in I felt Trump and all his crazy ramblings to be a real fall from grace for America. I felt very much like "wow, America has really lost its way electing this
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> Had the Democrats put up anyone who was less divisive than Hillary Clinton then we are not where we are today. > Likewise this time around, nobody I have talked to seriously voted for Joe Biden on his own merits. They voted for him
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> Could you give some examples of societies that are more equal and how they are? Why? That has nothing to do with my point. Even if the US was in fact the most equal society to ever exist, it's indisputable that it still has s
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> The valuable version that you're talking about would have to include things like polls or something, saying "20% of people agree with this idea, 5% agree with this other idea, etc." I disagree that would be "the val
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> I encourage you to dig deeper into the background of the Walter Duranty and Judith Miller cases, in both cases the individuals were lying and their colleagues and coworkers knew they were lying or had good reason to suspect it. In the
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> But you cannot count on them to not tell lies, I think that's the wrong framing, at least for an organization like the NY Times. For one, there's a difference between "a lie" and "an inaccuracy" even thoug
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> Twitter shouldn't decide for me what I may or may not read. Of course, but Twitter doesn't do that and never has . You are still very able to read what the New York Post writes by typing https://nypost.com/
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Being reputable and being perfectly accurate all the time are different things. Listing a handful of cases where a reputable source was not accurate does not prove the source is not reputable. It's like trying to prove science is a s
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> Is bathroom choice a problem of the relatively wealthy? Your rephrase lost an important nuance. I said "problems the relatively wealthy face." Bathroom choice is a problem wealth can't really solve or mitigate, so it&#
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> One of the absolute laziest ways to write a "news" article is the "here are a list of things people tweeted about this topic" compilation. It's definitely less work that investigative journalism, but to the ext
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> The Google trends for "black lives matter" searches peak in 2016 and 2020. The media only brings it up in election years, even though police brutality happens every year. That's correlation, not causation. Even if there

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