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by at-w 4y ago
> The government is basically outsourcing social programs by forcing businesses to hire people Is the (US) government pushing this directly through financial incentives?
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by at-w 4y ago
According to Zuckerberg himself the story was censored for a week ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532 ). Meanwhile, Twitter banned any sharing of the article and the entire New York Post's account fo
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by at-w 4y ago
It seems another issue is simply the politicization of American media in general which Wikipedia relies on by design. Even if Wikipedia's editors were totally neutral, their reliance on mainstream media coverage to dictate what is wort
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by at-w 4y ago
>Sources? Wasn’t the crack epidemic more related to Contra and the breaking of the family unit due to disproportionate incarceration of black males by the government in attempt to break their political power via the selective targeting o
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by at-w 4y ago
Can you see how '60s establishment types might think the same about people "hiding behind" peace and love gibberish to remain a cesspool of drug pushing, adulterous freeloaders, whose success in mainstreaming drugs and hostil
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by at-w 4y ago
Or more objectively, they see murder rates literally doubling from 1964-1974, a rise never before seen in American history. They see a massive drug epidemic and an entirely unprecedented breakdown in the family unit that results in literall
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by at-w 4y ago
"I don't think anyone will look back with fondness or positivity towards a bunch of drug-pushing, mentally stunted adulterous freeloaders that disrespect hard working people, people putting their lives on the line for their countr
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by at-w 4y ago
Are you okay with retail store workers asking you for a tip for pointing you to the right aisle? What about your doctor asking for a tip after a checkup? What about a relative that asks you for money every time they see you, and decides to
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by at-w 4y ago
The third person that came to your mind alongside Alexander Dugin and Mussolini was a Canadian professor and his fad diet promoting daughter?
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by at-w 4y ago
To be fair our ideas of normal are extremely skewed. If you look at photos from say 1962, you'd consider most people "skinny" (even photos of places like the US). Yet even then, 23% of American adults were obese according to
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by at-w 4y ago
With flight risk being accounted for in his bail being set at $250 million , surrendering his passport, and agreeing to remain confined in his parents' home. Those are incredibly strict bail terms for any crime, and clearly factor in
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by at-w 4y ago
Off the top of my head I'd look at who their crime affected and to what degree, why the perpetrator did it, whether it was premeditated or done in the spur of the moment, what other options the perpetrator had, etc. Someone who is inte
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by at-w 4y ago
>They also are objectively more likely to have the means to flee out of jurisdiction. That is explicitly factored into the decision of whether to grant bail and determining flight risk. It's probably not going out on a limb to say S
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by at-w 4y ago
It's hard to believe that the likelihood of a criminal reoffending in the period awaiting trial (what bail relates to) is higher for someone who depends on committing violent crimes to support themselves than someone that's follow
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by at-w 4y ago
I base that estimation on his offense being entirely reliant on a corporation (whose assets are now frozen), his own personal reputation (which is now destroyed), and his crime not alleged to involve violence in any form. Morally, I think p
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by at-w 4y ago
To play devil's advocate, extremely high profile white collar criminals like SBF are objectively less likely to reoffend while on bail in a way that would harm regular citizens than someone arrested for any violent or gang-related cr
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by at-w 4y ago
This is misleading in the same way as saying "marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug, the same group as heroin!" Class 1 just means it is a known carcinogen in humans, and says nothing about the degree to which it is carcinogenic, what ca
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by at-w 4y ago
How would having additional content above the recipe change the copyright status of the recipe itself, divorced from the additional content? It prevents directly copying the entire article, but not the actual recipe (and Google already heav
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by at-w 4y ago
Just like fentanyl doesn't "kill" anyone either, respiratory arrest does.
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by at-w 4y ago
Like Comcast deciding they don't want workers discussing unionizing using the internet infrastructure that they privately own. Or financial institutions like PayPal freezing and seizing your money on their "private property"
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by at-w 4y ago
Most things we eat are chosen because they taste good in combination with other things, and better than the sum of the individual ingredients eaten separately. Eating a stick of butter probably isn't appetizing, but neither would your
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by at-w 4y ago
Doesn't the upvote system used by HN/Reddit/etc. accomplish the same thing? Outright spam of the kind detectable by a basic filter would presumably be detected by other users who vote on that content. It also has the added be
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by at-w 4y ago
Did it go "terribly wrong"/do we know how large his position actually was?
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by at-w 4y ago
>Of course, there are arguments around the externalities of all of these things. I view most of those arguments as society contextual (people don't like others smoking, so it is an externality) as opposed to something like carbon wh
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by at-w 4y ago
Historically college applications have gone up during recessions as the opportunity cost of college drops due to worse job prospects ( https://www.communitycollegereview.com/blog/why-student-enro... ). With that said, si
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by at-w 4y ago
I'm curious about your experience as I had a similar impression before dealing with disputes on a large scale, but since actually fighting them with detailed evidence have won ~80% of them. This is true of order not received, claiming
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by at-w 4y ago
>No person who did not wish to dominate others would choose to use advertising This sounds like a very weird interpretation of the word "dominate," at best. Emailing someone to introduce yourself, your product, or your services
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by at-w 4y ago
China has been below 2.2 in 1990 and has remained well below that since, while continuing to have a growing population. If you're looking even three or four decades ahead it's not a huge problem for India.