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by deepdriver 4y ago
I see this as a good thing. If you can self-learn remotely at your own pace and then show up once for a brief proctored (and by extension trusted) exam, it’s still far cheaper and much more accessible than the traditional college or high sc
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Fastmail offers this feature as well, for less technical users.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
I think I have a good idea of what you mean, but for those who don't, could you elaborate on the benefits?
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by deepdriver 4y ago
"Become the Taliban" is not a great solution.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
That's where I heard of it too. Apparently this view is shared by others in government as well, as revealed in the Wikileaks diplomatic cable dump.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Allegedly France is also big on industrial espionage, but this doesn’t get as much press since they’re a key NATO ally: https://www.france24.com/en/20110104-france-industrial-espio...
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by deepdriver 4y ago
It's trivially enforceable. Academic institutions have been absolutely ideologically and politically captured. The long march through not only the institutions, but especially the HR departments has achieved total victory.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Studies on heritable differences in intelligence are effectively banned in the West due to the overlap with genetics of ancestral continental populations, or what’s approximately known as race. Everyone who looks at the well-developed, cons
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by deepdriver 4y ago
As usual, trans activists have co-opted language of the gay rights movement (conversion therapy) to describe an altogether different situation: https://segm.org/danger_of_conflation If you care about kids, don’t ignore the
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by deepdriver 4y ago
He did journalism at one time. He’s a been a violent partisan activist for a while now. I see he’s still making the podcast. If you agree with Evans that burning police stations, courthouses, and condos with people inside is cool, as he and
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by deepdriver 4y ago
This "care" is unnecessary and harmful for most children. Puberty is the cure for most children with body dysphoria; up to 90% of kids who identify as transgender desist from this identity post-puberty. However, effects from &quot
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by deepdriver 4y ago
This article was extremely worth reading, thank you for posting.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Telling confused children how to buy hormones with Bitcoin, inject themselves without medical supervision, and hide it all from parents isn't praiseworthy.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
That isn't how free speech or net neutrality works. Intimidating websites you don't like off the Internet, which is what Keffals et al are doing by trying to remove this site's DDoS protection so they can illegally force them
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by deepdriver 4y ago
The implication is that Keffals and friends will DDoS the site out of existence, as they have apparently tried to do numerous times. This is of course criminal but goes unmentioned.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Not at all contradictory. Opioid addicts need higher and higher doses for their fix. In the worst case they too drop out of society, committing crimes such as theft and prostitution to service their addiction.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
As an American from a non-immigrant family, I think stamping visas is easier than fixing a broken education system, so that’s what corporate leaders would rather do to fill seats. We have over 330 million Americans in this country, many see
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by deepdriver 4y ago
> Scott Cummings uses terms like "black invasion" to describe demographic changes in the neighborhood. So what? That’s how the elderly people getting robbed, raped and murdered saw it. Does their suffering count for nothing? El
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by deepdriver 4y ago
To how many parents has this already happened? I get the feeling "Mark" who lives in SF probably knows folks in media or tech. How many nameless, powerless people in Middle America or the Global South had their digital lives nuked
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by deepdriver 4y ago
The parent comment was highlighting anti-Asian hate attacks in the US. These attacks are overwhelmingly committed by Afro-American men. If you'd rather talk about ethnically-motivated mob attacks in Germany, there's no need to loo
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by deepdriver 4y ago
The primary historical sources contradict your opinion. Racism was a part of it, certainly. The other part and the reason for much of the racism was excessive violence and crime. Here’s another book from the era which documents this, note t
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by deepdriver 4y ago
>It'll be fun and games until you're the elderly Asian person whose skull has been bashed in. German and European descendants have essentially nothing to do with this phenomenon. In fact, white elders were the primary targets o
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by deepdriver 4y ago
This is a tall pile of claims without citations.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
>So perhaps fascism doesn't fit perfectly, but it's pretty damn close in my opinion (especially if you use definition 3 by Wordnik "Oppressive, dictatorial control") Few to none of the loudest users of “fascist” descr
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by deepdriver 4y ago
"The word fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signals 'something not desirable.'" --George Orwell
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by deepdriver 4y ago
They didn't, though. They had a bunch of telex machines that were old even at the time. The title of this link is hyperbole to serve an ideological agenda. It's Teen Vogue tech history.
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by deepdriver 4y ago
Yes, and telex machines were nothing new in 1972. They were invented in Germany in the 1930s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex#Development When you boil it down to the details, Project Cybersyn really wasn't mu
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by deepdriver 4y ago
My understanding is that the "network" was a manually-staffed telex operations room: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290742382_Cyberneti... >Serendipitously, we found a large number of spare telex
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by deepdriver 4y ago
This isn’t about unfortunate people’s access to transportation, it’s about unsanitary and unsafe abuse of the public transportation system, including public substance abuse and sleeping on the bus overnight. >I think there are a lot of p
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by deepdriver 4y ago
I wouldn’t. PTO is precious to me and planes are many times faster than trains.

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