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by car_analogy 5y ago
> block Russian news sources Or phrased differently, block their users from being able to access Russian news sources.
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by car_analogy 5y ago
> A MintPress News analysis found that in a single week Fox News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC ran almost 1,300 separate stories on the Ukraine invasion, two stories on the Syria attack, one on Somalia, and no
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by car_analogy 5y ago
Yeah like you can sell your smart TV and buy one of the approximately zero remaining consumer-available non-smart TVs. Voting with your wallet didn't work so far, but stay the course! Any moment now it'll start working, I'm c
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by car_analogy 5y ago
Against government authoritarians. You have no shield against private oligopolies.
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Undocumented day laborers face harsh work prospects due to immigration spike(nbcnews.com)
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by car_analogy 5y ago
This is more than just about security - this is about the basic freedom of users choosing what kind of software they wish to run, and who they wish to trust. Looking at it from the point of view of "merely" enabling state-sponsore
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by car_analogy 5y ago
> A good rule to live by is to ask "what would happen if everyone did X?" In this case, Nintendo would cease to exist. Like PC game studios ceased to exist?
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by car_analogy 5y ago
> By definition, "correcting" observational data to make it conform to your theory (which is the effect of what they're doing) is not scientific. What about corrections to compensate for known biases? Such as moving a meas
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by car_analogy 5y ago
The fact that glaciers are shrinking seems to legitimize the temperature corrections, no?
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NBC News team kidnapping in Syria (2012)(en.wikipedia.org)
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A Letter to the Western Left from Kyiv(commons.com.ua)
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by car_analogy 5y ago
Yeah, we'd probably be trying to reinstate NATO in a hurry.
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by car_analogy 5y ago
> the certificate authorities that would issue these certificates would be decided by the EU member states, and browsers would be forced to accept those It's not a question of trusting the EU, but of user autonomy. Even if the EU we
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by car_analogy 5y ago
> Arab mujahdeen"? That word just proves you know nothing and arent interested in learning because a tiny fact check would tell you that you meant Afghan mujhadeen You got me there. I suppose that makes them white, and my point inva
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by car_analogy 5y ago
> “Amazing mainstream Western media gives glowing coverage of people resisting invasion by making molotov cocktails,” one social media user remarked. “If they were brown people in Yemen or Palestine doing the same they would be labeled t
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by car_analogy 5y ago
> And if on top of that you are immigration-averse, you're effectively dooming yourself into extinction. The great majority of countries, even those with extremely low fertility rates (e.g. South Korea), are vastly more populous tha
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by car_analogy 5y ago
I mean if, hypothetically, they had raised their price to the maximum you were willing to pay, and hadn't gone too high.
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by car_analogy 5y ago
> If you think the price of the service is too high, move on to a competitor. It's a problem because it puts consumers at an even further disadvantage in a game that's already stacked against them. That you're still willin
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by car_analogy 5y ago
> market becoming more efficient You mean a company becoming more efficient at extracting money from their un-informed customers. A company finding new ways to leverage their market power, position, and information asymmetry.
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by car_analogy 5y ago
> South Africa’s Indigenous communities were decimated over the centuries through genocide and the racist apartheid policy — so it is now often unclear who has the authority to speak for Indigenous people. Do they have a specific (unstat
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by car_analogy 5y ago
As to who, see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30458506 And "direction" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your statement about China. They were, and still are, very protectionist of their i
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by car_analogy 5y ago
> international trade is beneficial to all involved But what kind of trade? Not unrestricted - Taiwan itself used protectionism to grow its industries when they were not yet able to compete on the global market: James K. Galbraith has
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by car_analogy 5y ago
Until running into an agent that does exhibit collaboration on large-scale, long-term effects, that uses these economic principles against countries foolish enough to hold on to them.
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by car_analogy 5y ago
I can see where the disagreement stems from. What you're attributing to regulation, is more accurately attributed to who is lobbying for that regulation. You are giving up on a useful tool, because you don't like how someone els