benwad

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by benwad 4y ago
US/NATO have military all over Europe, and that hasn't prevented this either. The reason the threat doesn't work is because Ukraine isn't a NATO member.
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by benwad 4y ago
When the Queen died, she managed to avoid £200m in inheritance taxes. That's another right nobody else in the country has.
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by benwad 4y ago
Remember that English wasn't quite as dominant in Tolkien's day as it is today. In the 50s most people in e.g. France wouldn't speak English.
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by benwad 4y ago
Causing two global conflicts isn't what I'd call 'sustainably successful'. Since those, I'd agree with you, but definitely not hundreds of years.
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by benwad 4y ago
But the issue here isn't just the actions of individuals - without a community like Kiwifarms to coordinate and plan these attacks then these individuals might not have the motivation or organisation to do them. While I don't thin
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by benwad 4y ago
...and when you don't 'control' for an irrelevant number, it's the other way around.
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by benwad 4y ago
I'd agree if we were talking about low-skill work where people are just scraping by. Programmers have the luxury of choosing from a wide range of places to work. We're all in a position where we can refuse work we find unethical,
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by benwad 4y ago
I once interviewed for a startup during its "hyperspeed growth" period (can't remember what specific jargon they used but it was something like that). Got a good offer, handed in my notice, then the recruiter called again and
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by benwad 4y ago
I feel like this has been said many times, but I'll say it again: there's a difference between sex and gender. Sex refers to the genitals you're born with, so you're correct when you say there are only two sexes (ignorin
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by benwad 4y ago
Did FB ever take any legal action against Cambridge Analytica? I can't remember anything about it and this sounds very similar to that (although back in those days FB's tools made this incredibly easy).
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by benwad 4y ago
> What's the alternative? Just show the navigation stuff. The driver should be able to see other cars with their eyes. The car clearly isn't good enough at spotting them itself, so why further distract the driver by trying to g
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by benwad 5y ago
Wow I hadn't heard that before! Why would that be in the Treaty of Versailles?
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by benwad 5y ago
So... someone wrote an article criticising it? That's not the same as banning it.
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by benwad 5y ago
Half of those companies you listed are owned by the same guy, who has a significant interest in pumping the price of BTC. When was the last time you made an everyday purchase like food with BTC?
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by benwad 5y ago
Does anyone have a mirror of this announcement that doesn't require me to log in to FB?
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by benwad 5y ago
I don't think anyone is taking issue with the Blockchain technology itself, it's about what cryptocurrency manifests in the real world. That's an argument about economics, not technology.
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by benwad 5y ago
But you see why hiring people of colour is different from hiring toddlers right? In one case you're expanding your talent pool to a group who haven't had the same chance to contribute as other groups, and in the other case you&#x2
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by benwad 5y ago
> I felt completely safe to make the trip > I had assumed that they were allowed entry So instead of waiting a few weeks until international travel is allowed again, the author just went ahead and booked a non-essential flight and the
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by benwad 5y ago
Transferring publicly-owned assets to privately-owned companies is exactly what Friedman proposed to the various South American dictators he advised.
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by benwad 5y ago
I think "trickle-down economics" is usually a synonym for the Chicago School, promoted by Milton Friedman and exported (often forcefully) by the US government. As for who's responsible for 'debunking' it, Thomas Pik
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by benwad 6y ago
This is just anecdotal, but one of my professors at university said that the name was intentional, as a joke to make English speakers feel uncomfortable. I've not idea if this is true but it would make sense that the creators of Coq wo
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by benwad 6y ago
I just went on the site. The 'top' profiles include usernames like `elonmusk`, `loganpaul` and `arianagrande`, next to an icon saying they're "waiting to join". This sounds like a lie right? Unless there's such
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by benwad 6y ago
Lowering taxes, lowering regulatory and environmental standards, and undoing workers' rights legislation can all increase the wealth of those who are already wealthy. I'm not saying all of those things are in the pipeline, but the
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by benwad 6y ago
I'll throw a theory out there - less recreational drug use due to lockdown (especially cocaine). What was a massive industry last year is now orders of magnitude smaller, with the same violent groups fighting over this much-reduced pie
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by benwad 6y ago
What happens with these loans if the recipient defaults on repayment?
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by benwad 6y ago
IMO Facebook should be able to police its own platform, so if it has a large presence in Ethiopia then it needs to police that part of its platform (ideally using employees based in Ethiopia). If it feels it can't effectively police Et
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by benwad 6y ago
Because coming up with a legal definition of a 'gang' is tricky without criminalising a lot of innocent people.
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by benwad 6y ago
I wonder what Karl Marx would think of this.
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by benwad 7y ago
Is Cuba still sanctioned? I thought the main embargo was lifted a few years ago.
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by benwad 7y ago
Indeed, apparently the real reason they switched was so that they can have conversations bigger than WhatsApp's limit of 256 people. Good luck preventing leaks from a group that size!

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