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by chuckee 5y ago
To deal with the inflexibility, it could be encased in a soft artificial shell.
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by chuckee 5y ago
All anti-vaccine misinformation , right? I'm starting to worry how often these kinds of announcements include misinformation as only one of the things to be censored. The article is unclear whether the content has to be false or mis
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by chuckee 5y ago
It's folly to think destroying the environment won't impact this pie. Whether this is a "game" or not that the green movements have been playing, does not mean the article isn't true. Besides, the pie size only matt
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Let him make his points, but I refuse to believe in the stereotype that ideological homogeneity is some kind of crisis in academia. I’ll pay attention when they start purging the Keynesian economics professors and disallowing Christian
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by chuckee 5y ago
> To top it all off, he has promoted or accepted strongly anti-immigrant policies, while his grandfather was an immigrant. "Because Trump's grandfather immigrated to the US, that means present-day immigration is good for the cu
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> A military investigation determined what the Canadian Forces public affairs leadership was doing was “incompatible with Government of Canada Communications Policy (and the) mission and principles of Public Affairs.” I would hope that d
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Sealioning thus works both to exhaust a target's patience, attention, and communicative effort, and to portray the target as unreasonable. I deeply apologize if providing a single, one-sentence answer has exhausted your patience a
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by chuckee 5y ago
The first link only has the abstract available, that contains no such examples. The second link gives me an endless captcha. The closest to an example that I could find in the very verbose third link was the 'okay' hand gesture. I
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by chuckee 5y ago
That's very abstract - could you give an example of harmful, true information, that you wish was banned?
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Harmful speech and misinformation should not have a platform. Interesting phrasing. By using the word "and", you are saying that those are two different categories of speech, that do not totally overlap. Meaning you believe
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by chuckee 5y ago
Paywalled.
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by chuckee 5y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28666303
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> in the context of the U.S., progressivism is small enough and has little enough political power that it can be overlooked On the other hand, Coca-Cola had training urging workers to be less white [1], the US Army lectured soldiers on
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Like many Moorish followers, Mr. John adopted an Arabic-influenced name, Jaleel Hu-El. Why he would do that is beyond me, as the Arab world was no ally to Blacks. It imported, via the trans-Saharan slave trade, more Black slaves than w
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by chuckee 5y ago
> When the Trump administration initiated the U.S.-China trade war in 2018, it used a report on China’s intellectual property theft as the initial legal justification for the tariffs. Forced technology transfers, legal barriers keeping f
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by chuckee 5y ago
Related: "The U.S. doesn't quite know how the Iron Dome system works." - https://www.wired.com/2012/08/iron-dome-america/ "But although Iron Dome enjoys wide bipartisan support in the U.S.
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Ocasio-Cortez apologizes for her ‘present’ vote on Iron Dome funding(nytimes.com)
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Universities Say They Want More Diversity. So Why Is Academia Still So White?(fivethirtyeight.com)
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While the article's claim that small-scale livestock farming is essential for poor communities is convincing, it provides no support or evidence for the claim in the title. Does it expect the reader to be so used to blaming the west fo
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by chuckee 5y ago
> I hear right-on people mouthing the claims of white supremacists, apparently in total ignorance of their origins. > We should be aware of this history, but without indulging what Simon Schama calls the “obscene syllogism”: the idea
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by chuckee 5y ago
> 1. Was the laptop/information stolen, and then "laundered" through the repair shop. The problem is that this standard is not consistently applied. If the US intelligence apparatus launders some information through "
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by chuckee 5y ago
That competitor was Google, in case this is the incident you had in mind: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/genius-uses-morse-co...
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by chuckee 5y ago
This misses possibly the most important aspect: Privacy is a shield for the powerless. In your example of reciprocal social surveillance, people had reasonably similar amounts of social and physical power, and lived next to each-other. Comp
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Richards’s latest video is about Hyperborea, a fantastical Arctic, Aryan fairyland that has emanated from esoteric Naziism, a mystical branch of the fascist, racist ideology. Hyperboreans were a mythical people who lived in the norther
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by chuckee 5y ago
Suppose Audi has a cog wheel mass produced in some factory in China. The cog wheel has to be made with very specific dimensions, or it won't fit into the Audi. Now that cog wheel in my Audi breaks, and I need a new one. What makes Audi
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> In fairness to Apple, that’s not fair at all. Does Apple hold patents that those factories are infringing by making those parts? Companies are not in general entitled to forbid manufacture of compatible (or identical!) parts. And when
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by chuckee 5y ago
You're confusing two different things: -The purchase price of an item (that happens to be paid in monthly installments) -The monthly cost of owning an item, expressed as price/lifetime (looking only at purchase price, and ignoring
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by chuckee 5y ago
Because in the USA (and the West), they use subtlety and deniability.
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> A more relevant metric to consider - monthly mortgage payment to monthly income ratio. I find this attitude baffling. If you bought a car or a phone and paid in monthly installments, you would want to know for how long you'll be p
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by chuckee 5y ago
Absolutely not. In my world, a disclaimer is the line between merely "not OK", and "criminal hacking punishable by prison time". That's how users of RAT* software are treated - what makes this different? A legal not

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