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by cygx 6y ago
there hasn't been a real precedent for a tech player getting booted like this on a moment's notice Gab after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting?
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by cygx 6y ago
Check excess mortality for 2020: ourworldindata.org doesn't have the figures for Dec yet, but we'll end up with something close to 440k additional deaths compared to the average 2015-19. So 0.1% probably is the correct order of
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by cygx 6y ago
Indeed. Hence, not every Social Democrat can be considered a socialist - only progressive ones that still dream of a better world instead of having made peace with the status quo.
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by cygx 6y ago
> Yes, but these parties use 'social democratic' after a split of socialist parties in 1920s Depends on the country: The parties are still called 'socialist' to this day in Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Greece,
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by cygx 6y ago
The socialst dream is the class-less, egalitarian, solidary society. The whole point of reformist socialism is that you should not try to get there in a single giant leap, but step by step, with the fully socialist society more of a Platoni
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by cygx 6y ago
A textbook reformist democratic socialist policy would be giving employees a seat on the board of directors, or allocating some company shares of publicly traded companies to them. If Bernie Sanders had his way[1] and this was implemented i
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by cygx 6y ago
But you do know that historically, 'Social Democratic' is just a name chosen by European socialist parties for themselves? The membership list[1] of the Party of European Socialists (known as Europeiska socialdemokratiska parti
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by cygx 6y ago
The move to C++ as implementation language was approved in 2010[1]. The switch got flipped in 2013 with the 4.8 series[2]. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2010-05/msg00705.html [2] https://gc
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by cygx 6y ago
Building social graphs and activity logs, for one.
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by cygx 6y ago
Sure, but isn't that happening anyway? Not necessaarily, no. The example of Vienna has already been brought up, where the city outright owns something like 1/4 of of all rented flats, and (as of 2017), about 2/3 of all citi
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by cygx 6y ago
The accompanying change in demographics (eg driving all but the most well-off families out of the city) might not be deemed acceptable.
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by cygx 6y ago
Space in cities is a limited resource, and it might not even be in the markets interest to build enough housing to let prices drop.
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by cygx 6y ago
The only way to make housing more affordable is to increase the supply. That's not necessarily sufficient. From Für eine wirklich soziale Wohnungspolitik [1], citing empirical studies of rents in Germany: Im Ergebnis muss demnach f
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by cygx 6y ago
There may be exclusions or other terms which override the 30-days There are. From what I can see, section 7.2.b.ii.A via 6.1.b and 8.2.c (violation of the Acceptable Use Policy due to harmful or offensive content) or possibly even 6.1.a.i
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by cygx 6y ago
A neutron floating about in space will remain a neutron. You won't get two neutrons suddenly turning up where you had one before. But you'll get a proton, an electron and an anti-electron-neutrino. Possibly a photon as well. Rem
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by cygx 6y ago
Essentially in MWI each neutron in each universe is a point (actually three because of the quarks), but that point is not in the same place in all universes. Note that MWI as originally formulated by Everett does not work this way. Eg quo
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by cygx 6y ago
Compared to physicists, engineers are humble. Well. Anecdotally, when there's open house at the physics department, the guys that will tell you how quantum mechanics and/or relativity are wrong tend to have a background in engin
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by cygx 6y ago
Note the last part of that article, though[1]: You're also not allowed to refer to camps like Zgoda or Jaworzno - which were labour camps operated by poles on behalf of the communist regime - as 'Polish concentration camps'.
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by cygx 6y ago
For reference, this is Parler's claim: > AWS knew its allegations contained in the letter it leaked to the press that Parler was not able to find and remove content that encouraged violence was false—because over the last few days P
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by cygx 6y ago
So are you arguing for declaring cloud computing platforms public utilities?
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by cygx 6y ago
The chart includes top sources by traffic But traffic is decided by the market. There's nothing wrong with left-leaning media being more popular.
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by cygx 6y ago
Note that the alternative would be forcing private companies to do business with a party they do not want to do business with. That has its own set of issues.
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by cygx 6y ago
The right to refuse service isn't limited to illegal activity.
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by cygx 6y ago
80 Cubans would be a better choice, but if circumstances are right, 70 people is plenty to make good on threats such as lynching the vice president. Just because they chose a bumbling buffoon as savior figure doesn't mean they can be d
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by cygx 6y ago
Viewers have various options to choose from (eg CNN, MSNBC, Fox, Newsmax, ...). The divion CNN+MSNBC vs Fox (in terms of, say, viewership or ad revenue) seems to be roughly comparable to what you'd expect from voter demographics. If,
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by cygx 6y ago
Given the heavy left leaning media bias Note that Fox News remains the most-watched cable news network - though online, it ranks after CNN and NYT (and possibly others, depending on the metric).
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by cygx 6y ago
But note that as far as the US is concerned, in the past couple of decades, right wing extremists have killed a significantly greater number of people than left-wing extremists (eg. the CSIS credits them with 90% of all extremist killings i
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by cygx 6y ago
Circumstances matter, but it can be done (eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mzPj_IaMzY made the news a while ago). Here in Germany, people wielding knives get killed from time to time as well. Pepper spray tends to get us
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by cygx 6y ago
Note that Bret is also a bit of a contrarian with a habit of 'just asking questions' ( It is not clear their was substantial fraud in the 2020 U.S. election, but it is clear there is valid reason for concern. Why is there not broa
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by cygx 6y ago
What I argued was that lockdowns don't work. Depends on which studies you trust. I've read a few, and my conclusion back then was that they do work. However, I've not kept up with the debate once I came to that conclusion,

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