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by ardy42 6y ago
> In the US, it seems these 13% receive outsize political attention as well. I recall at the run up to the 2016 election, one of the main issues was gender and public bathroom usage. I couldn't help wondering at the time why that is
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> Why you assume that non-capitalism is the same as communism? Free market propaganda often sets up a black/white dichotomy between capitalism and communism/central planning, then uses the failures of regimes like the Soviet Un
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> I don't see it. I recently bought a System76 laptop, in honest competition with a comparable (and comparably priced) machine from a huge corporation. I ended up going for S76 based on better battery life and better design, plus th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant
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> "which should be illegal" - is exactly an example of the coastal attitudes that are disrupting a very well ordered, high trust society. Consider that this state basically solved the homeless problem by violating a sacred prin
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> Some analysts think China's population is too old and that youth will peter out, whereas others think that all the CCP has to do is ask its millennials to have more babies. I'm not sure how well "asking" will work.
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> I can't think of any way to give people more say based on how long they've been invested in a place that couldn't also be trivially used for voter suppression. I don't think something like that necessarily needs to
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>> I'm not sure how new teams can be formed and new staff onboarded with zero human contact or office interaction > It isn't a problem. Takes a little longer to build trust with people, that's about it. It is a probl
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> The sense of entitlement in statements like 'there first', 'previously normal behavior', 'co-opt locals', and 'bury their heads in the sand because the newcomers are spending' is palpable. Sorry
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> A large part of it is failing to adapt to the local culture.[0] Did you mean to link an example of that with the [0]? I'm curious to read about that.
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> It puts into context why the UK have been funding Atomic Interferometry research recently. If AI works, the likes of GPS, GNSS, Galileo etc. become obsolete because then we have GPS level accurate accelerometers which don't rely o
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>> Under US pressure the EU has agreed to use transmission frequencies that could be easily disturbed or completely jammed by the US military. [0] It appears "easily disturbed" means "on a different frequency."
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> Possibly for what HN calls "middlebrow dismissal" - wandering in and dismissing the article with blindingly obvious issues ("probably caused by the sedatives, immobilization" etc) as if professional medical research
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> where getting fired without a personal support net means homelessness I think you're spot on, but I want to point out the above situation was created by design . IIRC, part of the creation of a modern market system was the demol
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> My understanding is the concern would be that closed source applications would use a hardcoded DoH resolver and pinned certs to bypass any unwanted blocks of ads/telemetry which could only be resolved with decompilation and patchi
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> reconnecting peripherals while slapping the BT keyboard endlessly so it doesn't go back to sleep after login. https://www.cru-inc.com/products/wiebetech/mouse_jiggler_mj-...
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> Apple seems to do all kinds of weird networking _stuff_. For instance, during wakeup, your T2 equipped Macbook will wait for a DNS response and then use said DNS response to synchronize time via NTP before letting the user use the keyb
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> Apparently when war starts iPhones will be more important than oil, steel, jets, and ships. Or does China build those for the US military as well? Sure, the US military has maintained low-volume domestic manufacturing capability in tho
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> America is the world power least worried about physical geography and locations if and when the shooting starts. 2 oceans as moats, plenty of oil and natural resources on its home turf, and all potential flashpoints on the other side o
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>> Recognize that gig jobs are going to become more of a thing in various ways > Is that a law of nature or something? An interesting way seeing ideology at work is when people start framing policy choice as the natural state of th
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> I can’t think of any purpose of a VPN except to obfuscate your internet history. What are you trying to hide? Money laundering (obfuscating the source of money) is actually a crime and for good reason . Obfuscating your internet his
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> That sounds like a kind of "everybody is a criminal unless proved otherwise" argument? How about arguing, bitcoin makes simple privacy the default? You don't have to be a drug dealer, to want to keep everybody else'
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> That sounds to me as if going after the maker of a knife that was used in a murder if they can't find the killer. ...or the maker of a pipe bomb if they can't find the bomber (or even if they can, since there aren't a l
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> I feel like people complaining about this didn't grow up in the IRC/IM era. At one time most written language didn't put spaces between words (some still do), and many languages don't write vowels. That's not
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> We do have these. Scientists and journalists. As we know, they aren’t perfect, but they do pretty well. Exactly, and it's a good thing if the social media networks (for instance) follow their lead when it comes to handling disin
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> They crossed a long time ago! They should have worked like phone lines, just a medium Yes, they should have just been private point-to-point communication mechanisms. Unfortunately, they decided to be broadcasters instead.
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> Not saying it's not accurate, but if you want to debunk a news publication, I think a more reliable source is needed than some guy on Twitter... It really depends on the news publication's reputation. The New York Post (the
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>> Lies can be carefully crafted to exploit the way human brains work, > Well, sure. But the problem is the censors are also human. If crafty lies can deceive the average person, why do we believe that the authorities are any less
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> Not if you have a 6-3 majority on the court... 1A is whatever SCOTUS says it is. That's true. Like much of the Constitution, the text is pithy and doesn't specify its definitions. The current legal interpretation of the Fir
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> How do you know who is actually lying if half the information is removed from the sources that you usually read? As far as I know, they're not broadly removing "half the information" (which I'm taking to refer to c

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