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by chuckee 5y ago
Or why not comply with the license and open-source it? It's not like their social network is popular due to their technological edge, and if someone else copies that, their users would leave..
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Simon Mol(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by chuckee 5y ago|0 comments
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by chuckee 5y ago
Because Apple could launch a competing search service, that would potentially be competitive, thanks to how many users and data Apple would get through it. That search service could then spread beyond the iPhone, into Google's territor
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Archaeologists find the world’s largest ‘mass child sacrifice’ site(foxnews.com)
5 points by chuckee 5y ago|0 comments
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by chuckee 5y ago
> The jokes referenced Mr Gabriel's disability and mocked his appearance. I am ever so grateful to the BBC for not including any examples of the jokes at the center of the case. My delicate sensibilities simply couldn't withsta
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by chuckee 5y ago
> people care more about price than anything else, so businesses are incentivized to produce cheaper, ad supported lineups, and inevitably nobody buys a more expensive, ad-free version We know this because "contains large ads and sp
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by chuckee 5y ago
I was very disappointed to find no parallels to the Name of the Rose novel.
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Can Skeletons Have a Racial Identity?(nytimes.com)
2 points by chuckee 5y ago|0 comments
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Epic Games is a privately held company, and not traded on established securities markets or readily available on secondary markets. But suppose it were publicly held, with Sweeney holding majority ownership. Why would that distinction
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The Myth of Racial Disparities in Public School Funding (2011)(heritage.org)
2 points by chuckee 5y ago|0 comments
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by chuckee 5y ago
That they have to tell the truth in the ingredients list does not give them a license to lie everywhere else. How could a competitor benefit from using an honest quantity of real strawberries, if the only place they can effectively advertis
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by chuckee 5y ago
Thank you for the fast catch. Since it was still within the edit window, I've tagged the story as likely fake.
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by chuckee 5y ago
While I believe white privilege is overstated, the sibling comment is correct that these are not mutually exclusive. https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/23/can-things-be-both-pop... makes an analogous point.
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Many white students lied about their race to improve chances of admission(intelligent.com)
90 points by chuckee 5y ago|191 comments
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by chuckee 5y ago
> European inhabitants fled the various forms of intolerance at home, and then declared and fought for their independence when the rulers tried to extend their intolerance into the new lands. So what exactly was this "intolerance&qu
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by chuckee 5y ago
How does that paradox square with the transition of intolerant societies into tolerant ones? Where intolerant attitudes were not only tolerated, but the norm? If this was really a paradox, such a transition should be impossible. But since s
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by chuckee 5y ago
> advocating for the precise same set of values The problem isn't advocacy, but quoting . They did use [brackets], so I hesitate to call the quote outright falsified, but since brackets are intended only for clarification, their us
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by chuckee 5y ago
I prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test#Inkblots myself, for how much meaning they evoke with such a restrained use of ink and color. The mark of a truly adept artist.
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by chuckee 5y ago
Facebook won't need to resort to such crude methods. They can algorithmically suppress positive stories about a candidate, boost negative stories, and do the opposite for his opponent. Without a leak from Facebook, you wouldn't ev
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by chuckee 5y ago
If the media were inclined to, they could report on a new hate crime nearly every hour. As population grows, anecdotes become increasingly meaningless, yet the general public still treats them as meaningful. Very useful if you own the press
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by chuckee 5y ago
..for the conservative views they allow on twitter.
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by chuckee 5y ago
Pretending local or user-controlled solutions don't or can't exist is a big tech favorite.
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by chuckee 5y ago
> French oversight within the Antiquities Service in Egypt did not end until 1952, after almost a century of colonial control. Century? "Ottoman Egypt (1517–1867): Egypt was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1517, after which it bec
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by chuckee 5y ago
> By 2017, when Trump claimed that “crime in Germany is way up” because it had taken in “all of those illegals”, the number of overall recorded crimes was decreasing. Last year, crime in Germany sank to an 18-year low. The Guardian would
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by chuckee 5y ago
But how often is it well publicized?
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by chuckee 5y ago
The car is already spying on you. I think the question is: It shouldn't be spying on you. The data belongs to the car owner. If the owner wants to disable data collection, so be it. If anyone else wants that data, they can ask the owne
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I Found a Creepy List on My Son’s Laptop(slate.com)
6 points by chuckee 5y ago|6 comments
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by chuckee 5y ago
Now what makes you think I'm miserable? Because white advocates in movies are portrayed as irrational and violent, filled with hate for everyone that's different, like in American History X? Have you ever considered that movies an
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by chuckee 5y ago
> the idea of a white ethnostate is a hateful, racist one. Surely you mean any ethnostate is hateful and racist, not just a white one? Such as the hateful, racist states of Algeria, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Finlan
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by chuckee 5y ago
> I definitely winced a few times on re-reading it a few years ago. You expected the insane AI bent on torturing the last five humans forever, to be more respectful of present-day sensibilities?

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