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by chuckee 5y ago
> I’m not sure I can do anything about it. Make sure every single parent and child knows about this paragraph. And the name of every individual that put it there. At every school meeting, ask them why that paragraph is buried, instead of
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> In emails and chat messages, students discussed violent impulses, eating disorders, abuse at home, bouts of depression and, as one student put it, “ending my life.” Of course the email and chat apps had prominent "Your messages ma
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> In this piece I explore how the history of the subculture left it open to fascist infiltration [..] This was not just what Black Sabbath were about, but also the blueprint for what heavy metal was supposed to be about. Right. Every ele
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by chuckee 5y ago
> This experiment presented journalists with a potential news story (a candidate running for the state legislature) that varied only in its ideological content (i.e., the ideology of the candidate). That is about the least ideologically
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by chuckee 5y ago
As a matter of principle, I'm opposed to attaching even more computers outside the user's control to supposedly "personal" computers. In the pursuit of security (or just the excuse of it), more functionality is being giv
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Absent from that article is any kind of graph or straight-forward comparison. I could only find one for all ages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States#/... (note that the x-axis does not star
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Book burning at Ontario schools as 'gesture of reconciliation' denounced(nationalpost.com)
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> they were subject to an infinite copyright term! If so, that law was unconstitutional: "[the United States Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors a
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by chuckee 5y ago
> unless I'm also signing that they can use it for other stuff. I find your trust in the strength of a terms of service agreement baffling. If they get a court order it doesn't matter what you allowed them to do with it. And ev
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> This will very likely be overturned on 1A grounds. On the other hand, freedom of association didn't stop the civil rights act. But freedom of association is less clearly defined in the constitution. Maybe a better example are the
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> is a nationalist just concerned with whites becoming a minority? why, if not the assumption of superiority? So you think minorities tend to be treated fairly, and complaints about racism and prejudice are mostly without merit? Not just
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The common theme in these stories is that China presents a mostly united front (enforced by the CCP when necessary), while Western companies remain divided, even pitted against each-other [1], and are turned into beachheads for CCP influenc
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by chuckee 5y ago
> need to see that you use it You mean "want". I'm sure if we let them, they'd try to convince us they also "need" to monitor our diet and exercise (and whatever else would incidentally be recorded) to mak
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by chuckee 5y ago
Firstly, the device was apparently made to be adjusted. A single set of settings is not comfortable for all users, and the manufacturer recognized this. Secondly, that's the wrong question entirely. People have a right to decide thei
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I think that's on purpose from the side of hardware manufacturers - newer systems make it impossible to use your own boot firmware. But I'm not sure - could someone confirm?
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> Which is more likely to affect any given individual? That metric is hilariously wrong. Consider a country with universal healthcare, but where only a single political party is allowed. You're much more likely to face medical issue
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> Our technology is created to secure documents with sensitive information that has value only when you have real evidence in the format of this document (its photo, screenshot, scan, hard copy). A business competitor wouldn't care
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by chuckee 5y ago
Because you will harm not only Apple, but also their users, who Apple has misled into thinking they are the secure choice.
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> Considering that American-owned slaves were treated much crueler on average than Ancient slave populations Not as cruelly as Arab-owned slaves (the trans-Saharan slave trade started in 650 AD, which is pretty close to ancient). Despite
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by chuckee 5y ago
Insiders such as Edward Snowden? Or Chelsea Manning, sentenced to 35 years in prison for revealing US military's human rights abuses? The leaker of the Panama Papers, revealing how the wealthy dodge taxes? Maybe the world would be bett
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by chuckee 5y ago
Historically, what kind of leakers tend to be prosecuted? And by whom? Do you have any reason to believe your tool will buck these trends?
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It's about time. Governments and corporations are getting a bit too transparent, and this is exactly the tool we need to keep what they do out of the public eye.
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> Google has launched an "antiracism" initiative claiming that America is a "system of white supremacy" A system of white supremacy would not have instituted and kept (for decades, uninterrupted, regardless of the pa
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Sounds like internal sabotage.
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It does not need to be majority female - I'd say 30% female is more than enough to consider a job being accepting of women. But okay: "The average Plumber salary in the United States is $58,659" - https://www.salar
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by chuckee 5y ago
That's not really rebutting the original claim, is it? If, due to genetics, they need a different environment, resources, more time and patience.. how is that not agreeing with the premise that genetics matter?
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I see. And there's no non-college educated professions where women are prevalent? It's plumbing or bust? Of course clearly when women were under-represented in college, that was due to misogyny. And now that they are over-represen
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by chuckee 5y ago
> https://github.com/search?q=boilingfrog&type=code Visiting this link sends me to the log-in page.
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Seems less like a weapon, and more like a tool for covert character assassination. E.g. to make the opposing candidate fumble a speech or debate.
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> The video, dated June 27, 2020, was by The Daily Mail and featured clips of Black men in altercations with white civilians and police officers. It had no connection to monkeys or primates. Huh. All the other incidents the NY Times arti

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