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by bmmayer1 5y ago
> Of course, it's not clear how much legal force the UDHR has. I think we all know the answer to this question :)
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
Important to realize that the average taker of this survey is likely nowhere close to the average person on quite a few of these qualities, or even the average internet user. It's going to skew more tech savvy / progressive &#
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I know a little about this; it's pretty controversial, historically, whether Western sanctions, vs. decades of civil war and violent insurrection (often backed by subvert support from the Kremlin with the CIA playing defense) in SA and
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Stunny fuff.
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> "We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for other our motives," the group reportedly wrote. "Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
This title (HN) is misleading. Amazon Sidewalk is opt-in and can be configured in your Alexa App.
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The other part of the scene that doesn't make sense to me (unless I'm missing something) is when they first start shorting, it's clear that they're being mobbed by buyers, plus with the people saying "the Mortimers
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
This is still the best (Hollywood quality) depiction of what the trading pit looked like in reality. Trading Places, 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLySXTIBS3c
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
This is a good time to recommend some supplementary reading: The Coddling of the American Mind[1], a book that does a great job of outlining what has changed in the last 30 years and why there is very much a generational gap at play with ho
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
Maybe, but also maybe we shouldn't be making policy based on how many people wrote things on an internet comment forum.
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What is the BrandonM/Dropbox quip?
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Would not be complete without this fantastic article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
If you're curious about tracking the status of pg's bid (no outbidders so far): https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c2484200...
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Well, yeah, otherwise I would be a Dogecoin millionaire by now :)
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> Among the people there are non-Japanese I find it quaint the idea that where will be a concept of "Japanese" and "non-Japanese" in 1300 years from now. If you assume the rate of progress is fixed (which it isn'
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
Using loaded terms like "racism" or "white supremacy" to describe major incidents as well as minor "not even intentionally so" infractions is pretty much the definition of dilution.
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These policies are almost always celebrated on the basis of the goal of the policy but not the reality of the enforcement. What happens when someone gets busted with a menthol cigarette? Or, worse yet, selling a "loosie" menthol o
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
I'll bite. It's because the labels themselves have become diluted to have any real meaning. Yes, there are white nationalists who show up to rallies waving Nazi flags. But it's also totally normal to hear people refer to &quo
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by bmmayer1 5y ago
There's another thing that CEOs do which is provide values guidance and inspirational leadership for a company. That's not something a robot can do...yet.
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In college I took a class on Turkish / Ottoman history that was incredible, except for when we covered the genocide. The professor clearly had been thoroughly educated on the subject, but had internalized a very different understanding
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by bmmayer1 6y ago
What's incredible about this is how negative the top 5-10 replies are. For as visionary as this community is, sometimes it really does miss the future right under its nose.
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Qatar’s landmark minimum wage comes into force(aljazeera.com)
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Does anyone know if this so-called union is an actual union? As in, do they collect dues, do they represent a substantial % of artists, and do its members already collectively bargain with Spotify and similar publishers? If Spotify says n
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by bmmayer1 6y ago
I've done a fair amount of volunteering for nonprofits, one in particular[1], and I will say that nonprofits are full of the most overworked, underpaid, and passionate people you will meet anywhere. They need every penny they can get,
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by bmmayer1 6y ago
The St. Lawrence Island famine is interesting -- though a very small incident that seems more due to extreme geographical isolation than anything else. The word "famine" doesn't appear once in the 5000+ word article on the Du
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by bmmayer1 6y ago
> Where were the editors on this? Maybe the good editors at the NYT are too busy getting fired.
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Ah yes, the famous cabal of 1 percenters sitting around and committing grand larceny as they raid the bank accounts of poor people. At least that's what this headline would have you believe. The reality is much more boring. Thanks to &
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by bmmayer1 6y ago
Been a user for 8 years on this username; +1 on the old username I lost the password to. Pretty incredible that it's still something I check every day, more than even reddit. A credit to @dang and of course @pg it remains as relevant a
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Something can be a necessary condition without being a sufficient condition.
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> "But this is now the prevailing ethos in corporate journalism. They have insufficient talent or skill, and even less desire, to take on real power centers: the military-industrial complex, the CIA and FBI, the clandestine security

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