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by cb18 10y ago
Many large(and small) subreddits are highly censored. r/worldnews r/news r/europe to name a few. Here's a recent example, not even the most egregious, just a recent one. https://www.reddit.com/r&#
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by cb18 10y ago
France in particular routinely engages in direct military terms How much of it is of the sort described in the article, of securing safe passage for french citizens out of Cote d'Ivoire because a civil war was breaking out?
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by cb18 10y ago
Interesting video, but the two axis graph he presents is not a particularly good method for understanding the development of the world. Especially when one of those axes is average life expectancy from birth, which is mostly an illustrati
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by cb18 10y ago
That was just one striking on the ground account, the recounter didn't seem 'racist.' You can find plenty of other info from more respectable sources. Albeit more staid in presentation. http://www.dailymaverick.co.
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by cb18 10y ago
South Africa seems to be having a lot of trouble lately, of a sort that doesn't comport with most people's understanding of 'first-world' country. https://www.google.com/search?q=south+africa+trouble ht
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by cb18 10y ago
Not so long ago, Singapore was a swampy backwater with no natural resources while Zimbabwe/Rhodesia was an agricultural powerhouse rich in natural resources. Was Lee Kuan Yew just way more competent and benevolent than Robert Mugabe?
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by cb18 10y ago
Why did stable governmental structures evolve in the west that allow citizens in those countries to enjoy greater prosperity? Why is it that citizens with relatively stable but more authoritarian governments, in the far and middle east for
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by cb18 10y ago
If the officer had just said "black gangs" or "Mexican gangs" or something like that, then maybe the author read too much into it. I thought it was something exactly along those lines, not necessarily one of those t
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by cb18 10y ago
impressive
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by cb18 10y ago
So you're saying it's purpose in the comment was to accuse the officer of 'racism.' That's silly. What purpose is served by accusing the officer of racism in the comment? Is it some kind of weird virtue signalling,
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by cb18 10y ago
What's there to be worried about? And why would it be relieving that it is 'not necessarily racial'? It is 'racial' in the sense that it is a finer distinction of races. It fits in a hierarchy like -- people --&g
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by cb18 10y ago
Why are you intentionally obfuscating what you saw as relevant information with your [ethnic group] bit? If you didn't see it as relevant information, or you didn't want to relay that information to us, then why not just say &#x27
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by cb18 10y ago
Apropos of people see the world in different ways, you aren't the arbiter of what is relevant for everybody else. You're feelings have no bearing on the range of legal actions available to other people. regardless of whether or n
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Never-before-seen galaxy spotted orbiting the Milky Way(newscientist.com)
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by cb18 10y ago
I agree, in that I think there is always room for improvement. What I think needs to be criticized is a tendency to go on these wild goose chases searching for a magic factor that will explain everything, when there are other obvious factor
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by cb18 10y ago
If you've not done something similar to fizzbuzz, then you're not a programmer. Programming is all about abstraction. And fizzbuzz is an abstraction of a huge range of programming work. Namely: go through this data pull out bit
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by cb18 10y ago
> All teachers of programming find that their results display a 'double hump'. It is as if there are two populations: those who can [program], and those who cannot [program], each with its own independent bell curve. Almost all
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by cb18 10y ago
the central idea of the video isn't really supported by anything. You missed the point of the video. Thinking of encryption as a 'lock' is only a metaphor, it isn't actually a 'lock'. There aren't 2 side
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by cb18 10y ago
(Speaking not necessarily to what you said, but more generally.) This is a relatively new area, so we must careful to be precise with the terms we are working with. Like naming variables. > encrypted data should be made available in plai
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by cb18 10y ago
I've never seen a serious assessment that doubts the general idea, that there is racism in law enforcement. This is likely the result of what is known as the "filter bubble." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by cb18 10y ago
What are you talking about 'hypotheticals'? I'm asking that data be consulted to test whether the assumptions and assertions being made are accurate. As to the rest of your comment, they're words, grammatically correct.
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by cb18 10y ago
> It's sad to see people trying to rationalize denial or obstruction of this issue, for example by throwing up endless questions (I'm commenting on these issues in general, not necessarily this specific report) It's not s
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by cb18 10y ago
Ok, you're free not to read it... Edit: I don't agree with your characterization of the main post, you may also consider that for someone interested in this matter, there is additional information in the comment sections of the li
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by cb18 10y ago
What is the percentage breakdown by race in the arrests that these sweeps produced? What is the breakdown by race of the perpetrators of the crimes that these sweeps are aimed at? If blacks are the arrestees in greater than 72% of these s
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by cb18 10y ago
tysonjennings, Your past 6 comments, going back 1167 days ago, are all marked [dead]
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by cb18 10y ago
Here's some further reading on the matter making similar observations. http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-elizabeth-holmes-reality-disto... http://www.unz.com/isteve/theranos-maybe-old-white-men-do
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by cb18 10y ago
(and there are a lot of smart lawyers around filing lawsuits every day knowing they're ultimately baseless but still cheaper to settle). That seems like a rather significant "bug not a feature," of the legal system.
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by cb18 11y ago
'Seeing' the probe is like being connected to the internet. Your friend in Japan can take a picture of an apple and email it to you in the US. Your friend's camera is like the camera on the probe. You can't see the apple
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by cb18 11y ago
Africa has more than its fair share of important historical achievements Really? More than it's fair share? What are we basing the proportions of 'fair share' on? Land size? Population size? Would care to name just one or
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by cb18 11y ago
Going forward they're very well situated. The economic power of sub-saharan Africa could very well eclipse Europe if it has a chance to develop. And that's why you have the vast majority of your money invested there, right? htt

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