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by dbspin 7y ago
Want to second this. There's been a lot of criticism of the Irish commissioner's approach, both from Data Privacy advocates here in Ireland (e.g.: Digital Rights Ireland), and at the EU level.
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by dbspin 7y ago
BitChute is a cesspit of genuinely hateful and extremist content. That alone keeps away a majority of creators and viewers. It's like a silo school for kids who've been expelled from all the other schools in the area. Only in this
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by dbspin 7y ago
They have atrocious support. Bricked a whole bunch of Moto G phones a couple of years ago - by breaking the charging functionality with a firmware update. Just straight up didn't fix it. Thousands of people affected. I'd never con
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by dbspin 7y ago
While it's true that social problems are complex and multivariate, what gets missed in the American context is the importance of virtuous and viscous circles. So for example the net cost of normalising college debt, and the regulatory
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by dbspin 7y ago
Hypergamy isn't culturally mediated. Women marry 'up' cross culturally, irrespective of their income. In fact, a lack of higher income male partners is associated with later marriage / reluctance to marry, among highly e
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by dbspin 7y ago
It's difficult if not impossible to quantify, but I'd suggest that google has lost an enormous amount of goodwill through their departure from 'don't be evil'. It's up there with the goodwill they've lost
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by dbspin 7y ago
The world is vastly improved as all search results are now 'organic', and people find the products they need without being bombarded with advertising and cheap behavioral economic manipulations to encourage them to purchase produc
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by dbspin 7y ago
Ireland is also a solution, with several excellent universities.
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by dbspin 7y ago
Startups aren't remotely transgressive. They're heavily promoted, financed and supported by virtually every state government and have been for decades (centuries if you count the startups behind colonial enterprises). Settling the
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by dbspin 7y ago
Not surprising that suggesting social inequality might play a part gets you instantly downvoted. Despite being as plausible an explanation as other (more right wing) possibilities - 'diversity', 'women working' that prol
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by dbspin 7y ago
How on earth can regulating American companies in Europe make it hard for European companies to compete 'at the same level as US companies'. Either way, surely citizen rights trump companies rights to compete every time, especiall
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by dbspin 7y ago
Have you somehow missed the fact that the reason we're discussing the beats at all is that they collectively produced some of the most influential works of 20th century literature? The point of the beat movement, if it's reducible
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by dbspin 7y ago
Interesting. Absolutely not needed in Ireland.
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by dbspin 7y ago
Yeah, far better to insure children are poisoned to encourage their parents are properly punished for their lack of political commitment...
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by dbspin 7y ago
Online 'culture' is not the world. It doesn't represent anything like a majority of human culture, and it's been demonstrated time and time again the even those who heavily participate in online communities have radicall
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by dbspin 7y ago
Paywall.
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by dbspin 7y ago
China is not in any sense socialist or even communist. It lacks free health care, public housing, and state service provision. It is neither internationalist nor collectivist. It's a hybrid single party ethno-nationalist capitalist sta
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by dbspin 7y ago
This is the definition of whataboutery. 'America is bad to', is not an argument against any critique of China. Any US or European citizen can travel freely throughout their country or to most countries in the world. While the US c
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by dbspin 7y ago
I wonder about this. By all accounts construction of homes in China is so haphazard buildings frequently become uninhabitable, and occasionally literally collapse within a few years. Clearly China has a lot of money and has exhibited the ca
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by dbspin 7y ago
Not sure what your point is? India too has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, while remaining federated and to some extent democratic. The elevation of China's billions out of poverty has come through it's invol
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by dbspin 7y ago
Hard to say. The mission statement seems to be an attempt to create a 'post liberal synthesis', which sounds like Tony Gidden's neoliberal 'third way', but is so no specific it could mean just about anything. https
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by dbspin 7y ago
This is a bizarrely rose tinted view of China, which not only completely ignores mistreatment of ethnic, religious and sexual minorities - from imprisonment and 'reeducation to literal organ legging; but also the everyday horrors of li
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by dbspin 7y ago
The 'traditional' length of a fiction novel is 60k words. Although I believe 90k is a more common expected length today (looking at publisher submission requirements). Obviously non-fiction is much more variable, both in length an
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by dbspin 7y ago
Thats completely fine, since there are a endless number of critics who fill in the gaps in Bloom's preferences. Few take seriously his canonical approach to literature anymore, but that doesn't make his critical approach to given
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by dbspin 7y ago
This is what I'd describe as a 'narrowly rational view'. All other things being equal, x leads to y. In this case - political, economic and social conditions remaining in roughly the same range as they have since the post war
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by dbspin 7y ago
This is a weak argument. Copyright collection agencies don't represent artists. Occasionally they have a few extremely high earning media personalities (notably Metalica back in the Napster days), but these kind of organisations don&#x
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by dbspin 7y ago
>We can address the homeless problem pretty easily if we could decrease the minimum wage for them... Jobs that would pay very low wage wouldn't be difficult jobs, but they also wouldn't care if the person is only half mentally
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by dbspin 7y ago
Gonna go out on a limb and guess that Firefox isn't that interesting in funding holocaust denial.
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by dbspin 7y ago
Define 'pro'. My Sony A7iii uses SD cards. My Blackmagic pocket cinema writes to USB-C. If anything C-Fast is a dying medium. SD cards are tremendously cheaper, and at this point likely as fast.
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by dbspin 7y ago
This seems significantly laborious. Not sure that the utility of this kind of network recommendation scales to incentivise participation beyond a few people. i.e.: We already have user groups on sites like reddit, FB etc, where experts or e

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