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by baddox 6y ago
So they answer to no one?
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Is that unique to Chinese law?
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> The rise, expansion and collapse of empires is very necessary for the development and testing of human organizational models. Which attributes are being tested, other than the ability of a society to expand and conquer or destroy other
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Was the entire system of colonialism necessary in order for the British Empire to spend resources to end slavery there?
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What’s different about in-person voting? You show up, you vote, you leave. Are they going to take fingerprints and DNA samples of the polling center?
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Gatsby is another very popular SSR framework that uses React.
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As stated, all three conditions must be met for a worker to be considered a contractor.
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> And maybe if you keep signalling to a company that you want to do contract work for them but never submit any bids for what they put out as jobs, they'll start ignoring you as not serious. Okay, but none of this is about people wh
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Regarding #2, that's just generally not how the law works. There may be some cases where legal technicalities are successfully argued, but in general the legal system doesn't put up with someone sticking their finger a millimeter
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> There is a difference between a system that has been running for years and evolved to work, and one that is put together in an emergency. Some things of note. I don't really understand this argument. You list some things that we s
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> It is beyond me how the State can enforce a non-voluntary tax liability on a citizen but has no way of reliably identifying said citizen Are there tax liabilities that depend on one's citizenship?
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I think that decreasing disenfranchisement is good even if one political party might benefit from it. The other way of phrasing this looks a lot worse: that another political party benefits from policies which disenfranchise voters.
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> I don't buy the argument that it disenfranchises voters. There is already significant voter disenfranchisement in the United States. Adding an additional requirement (which likely costs money and time) surely will not reduce dis
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They could also have any number of ways of secretly associating normal in-person ballots with the voter's identity. Perhaps the most obvious would be hidden cameras in the voting booths. There's no unique threat here.
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Why is that concern unique to vote by mail?
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Our environments are very different places on Earth, but they might be very similar compared to some other sci-fi ideas about life, such as life evolving in charges particles suspended in plasma. :)
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The US should have simply interned all citizens regardless of their background to fully guarantee that no citizen could have sabotaged the war effort.
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I'm confused about your sentence parse notation. Isn't "fast" an adjective in one of the interpretations (namely the one parsed the same as "The company couldn't make the car safe enough")? Doesn't th
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And I wonder how you parse, let's say, "I dropped the pencil on the table and it smashed."
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There’s an opposite effect too, because one of the biggest urban amenities is the density of activities which are likely to be closed for some time: night life, concerts, lots of hobbies, etc.
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And I haven’t actually seen the supposed rental price decrease in SF and the peninsula, other than some 2- to 4-week free rent offers.
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Ignoring it and doing the same bad thing are not the only two options.
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This doesn’t seem like a prisoner dilemma though, because I think there’s a good argument that the US is better off cooperating (allowing Tik Tok) than defecting regardless of China’s actions .
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I think it’s not obvious that you can directly apply the logic of tariffs to (largely free) internet services provided by companies in other countries. You could make the argument that they should be treated the same, but I think the argume
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by baddox 6y ago
Is that relevant? Do you think this will make any difference in China’s internal policies?
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I don’t follow the logic of “China does something that we think is bad, therefore we must do the same thing that we think is bad.”
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If there is no effective legal or socially-accepted means to express one's interest in euthanasia, receive help and consultation about that interest, and demonstrate one's level-headedness, then is there any reliable way to know w
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I think the specific policies regulating service providers ought to be implemented on a case by case basis depending primarily on the amount of power that the service provider has in practice . There's typically only one power company
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If people are just looking at the spreadsheets then wouldn’t the cells interpreted as dates not be a problem? It seems like it would only be a problem if you’re doing computation on the cells.
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The topic to look into is dioecy. Most plants have individuals with both male and female reproductive organs, but there are exceptions. Also, it’s worth noting that the terms “male” and “female” are used differently for plants than for anim

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