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by chlodwig 6y ago
It is not at all a solved problem. Fact-checking has the ancient "who watches the watchers" problem. Who facts checks the fact-checkers? And more broadly, censoring harassing tweets has the problem that a lot of activism looks a l
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Toyota reportedly plans long-range, fast-charging solid-state EV by 2022(autoblog.com)
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Half of Western European men descended from one Bronze Age ‘king’(telegraph.co.uk)
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Senate encryption bill draft mandates 'technical assistance'(thehill.com)
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How to Swallow $200M Accidentally(medium.com)
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by chlodwig 11y ago
If you have an audible subscription (which I highly recommend), you can get a course on the Greek classics, and then you can read along if you wish: http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/Masterpieces-of-Ancient-G...
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by chlodwig 11y ago
They missed a theory: fudging the stats and failing to report crimes. Excerpt from an interview with David Simon: ----- They [the police department in Baltimore] cooked their own books in remarkable ways. Guns disappeared from reports and a
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by chlodwig 11y ago
There are really three types of colonialism. Type 1 is where is the colonizers set up new outposts in more-or-less unoccupied land. This happened in Hong Kong and Calcutta. This is usually benign for the host country. Type 2 is where the co
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by chlodwig 11y ago
What are three positive aspects of modern British culture that were imported from India (besides food and tea)?
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by chlodwig 11y ago
Virtually all governments are extractive. Governments are simply property owners that happen to own an entire country. If you are lucky, you get a stationary bandit that extracts, but does not want to kill the golden goose. The stationary b
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by chlodwig 11y ago
There is no reason the number shouldn't be near 50%...What other conclusion can you draw? No reason? No other possible conclusion? You should argue the opposite position and try to pass an ideological turing test http://en
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by chlodwig 11y ago
' A women-in-business non-profit found that Fortune 500 companies with most women board members consistently outperformed those with fewest...Market forces should therefore cause the numbers of women board members to increase according