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by cat199 7y ago
that this could be used to form the basis for a social credit score, "USA Style" , much like bank accounts, SSNs, etc. are required to function in the 'free market' economy?
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by cat199 7y ago
do what, precisely?
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by cat199 7y ago
probably one of the worst days to IPO given current china/us trade spat
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by cat199 7y ago
True, and i technically don't need a social security card, bank account, and can use cash. But I'm hugely disadvantaged, blocked from certain actions, and potentially put under suspicion if I operate in this fashion..
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by cat199 7y ago
understood, and agree that this is generally the case; however, contextually, it is also presented as the only 2000 year institution of Christianity, and so its behavior can be extrapolated and viewed as representative of a 2000 year religi
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by cat199 7y ago
The extent to which this is true depends on which "Catholic Church" you mean.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodoxy htt
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by cat199 7y ago
Though you didn't explicitly say it, since all examples relate to russia and rubles.. this isn't a russia problem, it's a social media problem. Plenty of US, Chinese, Saudi, Israeli, ABC, XYZ, PQ oligarchs manipulating public
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by cat199 7y ago
not an expert, but I'd say coding in any interpreted language would be a good place to to look. emacs is pretty much jupyter notebook before jupyter notebook was jupyter notebook.
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by cat199 8y ago
.. on the same day the 'undesirables' are banned. +1 for 'social credit score', USA style.
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by cat199 8y ago
so intent is irrelevant? and misrepresentation by another group is not usurping the purpose of the original group? or is nuance also irrelevant, so one should tar-and-feather everything because making distinctions is difficult? I hear hacke
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by cat199 8y ago
To those critiquing without making counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam "Critics have described the organization as being black supremacist[4] and antisemitic.[5][6][7] The Southern Poverty
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by cat199 8y ago
nevermind the glorification of mary, spreading the practice practicing of monogamy instead of male:multi-female polygamy, being anti-prostitution, etc.. oh right, but those things are really 'supressing women'.
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by cat199 8y ago
ah yes, argumentum ad cultural relitivismus. does this actually negate my point? nevermind the fact that it is not actually true.. christanity, buddhism, sikhism, etc. among many, many, others do not have racism as part of their theologica
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by cat199 8y ago
Sure, but net effect is the same - saying something hugely biased and hiding behind a screen of humor (legitimate or not) to allow it to be said. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_within_a_story https://en
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by cat199 8y ago
> These people use the classic tactic of saying something insanely outlandish, and when they are called out on it, they just use the "I was obviously sarcastic" card. So, like, the 'Saturday Night Live Card'?
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by cat199 8y ago
NOI (and by extension Farrakhan) is not simply 'anti semitic'. They are black supremacist.
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by cat199 8y ago
> to create narratives in which blackness is not looked down upon. This is good, needed work. so like: In the Nation of Islam, both God and the devil are human beings. Elijah Muhammad identified the devil as the white man, the Caucasian
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by cat199 8y ago
as mentioned, not an expert - was the term 'socialist' used by any of the pre-internationale groups? would they identify as such? or as christian with a particular emphasis? either way, in common discourse 'socialist' is
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by cat199 8y ago
>Chrome is magnitudes better than IE in every other way Soo like - you mean: built in proprietary app stores, random DRM-enforcing blobs with camera/microphone access, phone-home tracking behavior, and gobs of memory use? side note:
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by cat199 8y ago
'socialism' as it is traditionally understood is a post-enlightenment philosophy specifically positing that the church is a tool of the ruling classes used to surpress the workers.. while there are some (many!) strands of christia
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by cat199 8y ago
"With internet sales of fakes accounting for an estimated $30.3 billion in losses to luxury brands each year," much like the music piracy debate, this presumes the purchasers of the counterfeits would actually purchase the genuine
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by cat199 8y ago
"and the groundswell of socialist rhetoric in the face of increasing urban gentrification" true medieval guilds were not socialist - they were christian - and cannot truly be recreated within a classical liberal / free-market
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by cat199 8y ago
nonono, you're simply not getting it. I don't use it for reason X, therefore I can project this reasoning onto those that disagree, and dismiss them by calling them outdated. So, obviously your use case is irrelevant.
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by cat199 8y ago
not to mention that 'poor adoptation' is much more likely driven by 'isolated single user on ubuntu laptop that doesn't know this exists' usecase dominating in sheer numbers over 'network of unix workstations o
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by cat199 8y ago
it is 'on'. And so, yes, we can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-invasive_procedure
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by cat199 8y ago
cool article! It would be great to know the SDCard speed and maybe see some comparisons based on the SDCard type since the speeds vary quite a bit see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card#Speed
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by cat199 8y ago
agree that this is a sleazy business practice, but (and not mentioned here, also, not a laywyer but), in music for example, there are typically 'artistic' rights and 'mechanical' rights - e.g. BMG can have the right to d
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by cat199 8y ago
> It can't compete with plants in the harsh natural competition for the survival of the fittest, because it hasn't been bred for that. not a biologist in any way, but i'm pretty sure an addition/modification of one tr
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by cat199 8y ago
Really looking forward to an expedia-like ad featuring charleton heston
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by cat199 8y ago
for the US student: they went to private schools or, alternatively, they went to the wealthier public schools which teach these sort of courses, although usually on a 'tracking' system which segregates the 'smart' from t

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