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by chuckee 5y ago
> massive shortages of workers in developed countries There is no such thing as a shortage of workers, only misallocation of labor. Ultimately people have to support themselves - trying to solve it by importing more workers makes as much
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by chuckee 5y ago
> North Ayrshire Council said 97 per cent of children or their parents had consented to the new system So the opinion of the North Ayrshire Council is that children can consent?
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by chuckee 5y ago
> A working group in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland has proposed a series of steps to "decolonize" the Informatics curriculum I was not aware that computer science was developed by some oth
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by chuckee 5y ago
The Bertelsmann Foundation wants to promote social integration and diversity. It advocates for creating a "comprehensive and long-term migration architecture" for Germany. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ber
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by chuckee 5y ago
> If you don't like the company's decisions, you should stop working for the company - easy enough. While I don't agree with the aims of the employees in question, I should point out that unions came about because your adv
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Main site, first element lists "Independent." > One Director always appointed and controlled by Microsoft > Microsoft appointed Director can effectively override "any vote to materially change the Foundation’s Memb
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by chuckee 5y ago
> But he wasn’t foreign, is my whole point. He was born in Britain. Or if not, passed the whole naturalisation process. Apparently he’s indistinguishable from other British people. Naturalisation process as it currently stands. I believe
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by chuckee 5y ago
> what other primates do may not translate to good public policy. True, but we weren't talking about whether it's good public policy, but about what the cause is. That chimpanzees exhibit bullying does not mean we should acce
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by chuckee 5y ago
I have a question: Librarians are fiercely protective of reading privacy, and don't want to hand the information on who borrowed which book to the police. Yet they still record that information. Why? Wouldn't it be better to, for
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Lawsuit over mural showing city's first Black female firefighter depicted White(cnn.com)
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by chuckee 5y ago
And Apple prevents their users from getting the app elsewhere. They don't get to build a cage, then plead innocence when others abuse the cage.
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by chuckee 5y ago
Can someone explain which information Apple is using to target ads? And that's a great trick - calling it "privacy" without reducing your own data collection/telemetry/spying, only your competitors. If I want privac
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by chuckee 5y ago
Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/xeMGm > Such is the starkness of deepening poverty in Afghanistan, a humanitarian crisis that is worsening fast after the Taliban seized power on Aug. 15, prompting the U.S. to freeze $9 b
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by chuckee 5y ago
No mention of UK laws that prescribe 10-15 year jail sentences for "repeated viewing of terrorist content" [1], or the German NetzDG [2] that gives companies 24 hours to delete "obviously illegal" content upon receiving
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by chuckee 5y ago
> we are about to enter an era where our personal devices not only don't work exclusively for us but instead work explicitly against us. About to? LG smart TVs send filenames on connected storage devices back to LG, Google's
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by chuckee 5y ago
> the presence of hardware backdoors in the Chinese-made transformer at Sandia was confirmed by Latham Saddler ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0EawFC18MI ) who was the Director of Intelligence Programs at the National S
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by chuckee 5y ago
Permission? He had authorization to receive the code to his PC. After that, he requires no further permission to examine it however he pleases. Once you communicate some information, your rights to restrict how that information is used are
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by chuckee 5y ago
> By default, AOSP itself also sends personally identifying info to Google servers through low level system calls. Can you explain more about this? What kind of information is sent? And does LineageOS not disable this?
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by chuckee 5y ago
I have no idea what "culturally appropriate food" has to do with this. Food sovereignty means a nation is not dependent on foreign entities for their food supply (or if they are for some elements, e.g. tractors, they can easily fi
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by chuckee 5y ago
Per the article, the funds spent weren't on ads, but on funding until-now exclusively government-funded election infrastructure and workers. And that this private funding favored Democrat counties in an attempt to skew the vote, by mak
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by chuckee 5y ago
So why bring up rights?
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by chuckee 5y ago
> there is no rights that suggest you can force them to sell your product. I must have missed where the poster said what Steam did was illegal - could you point it out to me?
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by chuckee 5y ago
Your initial claim was that people would be asked to have no family. At least acknowledge that the choice is "large family" vs. "medium/small family", and not "family" vs. "no family", instead
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by chuckee 5y ago
> But it definitely feels like Youtube just wants dump its entire garbage all over you (via algorithm suggestions) even if you have premium paid accounts. Reminds me of danegeld. Don't feed the beast.
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by chuckee 5y ago
Becoming dependent on a foreign corporation for your food supply will cost you far more in the long run.
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Why ask/force people not to have a family where we could have happy family living responsibly? I'm sorry, but you know that people can still have families (up to 2.1 children/woman on average) while staying below the r
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by chuckee 5y ago
> No one is out there forcing people to switch to GM crops when those seeds become available. Just like if steroids became legal in sports, no-one would be forcing top athletes to take them. If you want to maintain food sovereignty, you
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by chuckee 5y ago
> I found this [0] article explaining what this is about That's being very generous to the article, which is long on what she's accused of, and very short on what she actually said. While her accusers are quoted numerous time
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by chuckee 5y ago
Cancel culture usually refers to calls for someone to be fired or deplatformed, i.e. to harm their livelihood and prevent others from hearing what they have to say. Applying it to mere disagreement would be abusing the term, in my opinion
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by chuckee 5y ago
Remember when players would host their own servers, and decide on their own what is allowed? I suppose we're to think centralizing this control in the hands of some multinational corporation is an improvement. It's certainly not b

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