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by deogeo 7y ago
> You're basically ranting about reality having a left wing bias. How is a mountain of circumstantial evidence linking heredity and intelligence "reality having a left wing bias"? Isn't it the exact opposite? As for t
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by deogeo 7y ago
> He is still wrong about that claim Do you have a source for this? I've yet to see a convincing debunking ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence included), and https://en.wikipedia.org
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by deogeo 7y ago
Not exactly. First, the corporate shield is not absolute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil Second, for this issue, I don't think it even applies - their complaint isn't about WeWork,
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by deogeo 7y ago
While the parent poster presented the issue as one of morality, it's more honest to frame it as self-preservation. It's rarely wise to allow another country too much influence over you - even rarer when it's as openly hostile
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by deogeo 7y ago
> prevents This word is not present in the post you replied to. I said more difficult - and forbidding some cross-platform libraries certainly has that effect.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Harvard professor fired over factually correct claim about IQ variance: https://mjperry.blogspot.com/2008/07/larry-summers-vindicate... Nobel winning co-discoverer of DNA stripped of honors and removed from functi
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by deogeo 7y ago
Doesn't this confirm the parent's point? You like the ecosystem, so Apple makes sure it's the only one with such an ecosystem - part of which is making cross-platform apps more difficult.
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“It's OK to Be White” Flyers Lead to Promise of “Severest Disciplinary Action”(reason.com)
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It would be nice if they were up-front about it, asking for e-mail and phone upon creation, instead of intentionally misleading users an e-mail is all they need.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Some high points of the admittedly not very concise post: > The [US show] Patriot Act included the footage in such a way as to make it appears I was a willing participant in a video attacking Chinese leadership. [..] Unsurprisingly, some
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by deogeo 7y ago
[1] strongly implies that Gfycat has no legal leg to stand on, that scraping is legal, and that the ridiculous "you specifically are forbidden from accessing things we make publicly available to everyone else" is not binding. And
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> The law imposes so-called intermediary liability for social media networks with over 2 million registered users. Any content, which is “manifestly unlawful” must be removed in a time frame of 24 hours. For all other “unlawful” content,
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by deogeo 7y ago
> “Do we make the majority of our content available to China’s 1.3 billion citizens or do we take away their ability to access it entirely? We ultimately believe, consistent with our brand promise, it is more valuable for storytellers to
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by deogeo 7y ago
That's not the formula used when copyright violations are involved...
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What result do they expect increasing trade with China will have? Something other than China doing all they can to take over key industries, and expanding soft power? Because that is what they've done so far, and they're adamant i
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That would be easy to answer, had Sweden not stopped gathering statistics on the ethnicity and immigration background of criminals: https://www.thelocal.se/20180508/why-sweden-doesnt-keep-stat...
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Silly consumer - free trade is only for corporations!
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> While the jury is out on giftedness being innate and other factors potentially making the difference Countless studies showing the heritability of intelligence and behavioral traits means "the jury is still out", but a few ou
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by deogeo 7y ago
What the clickbait title omits: > Because the 14-year-old victim was unconscious, the five were convicted of a lesser charge of sexual abuse. [..] The Barcelona court sentenced the five men to 10 to 12 years in prison, Ten years in pri
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by deogeo 7y ago
I'd argue that despite encryption, the big shift in surveillance is how easy it's becoming. Message content may be somewhat safe (assuming neither endpoint was compromised, which has gotten easier than ever to do. Just plant a b
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Stealing oxygen does not imply life drawing was completely extinguished - but it was largely driven out of academia.
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There is, but modern art doesn't want to share. Contemporary galleries rarely display non-abstract/Modern art, and art schools are dropping classical techniques required for representational art (such as life drawing): The Slade
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by deogeo 7y ago
I'll admit, I was glib - I just couldn't resist. And you're right - modern art shares the rejection of what came before, and experimentation in new ways. But rejection for its own sake, change for the sake of change, lost its
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I imagine it's pretty easy for anyone who has spent a bit of time studying the abstract expressionist movement. Proven false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Brassau
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Modern art rejects the notion that technical difficulty can be used to judge a work (one of the few things I agree with it about) - so why should we care?
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Modern art appreciation is all about seeming thoughtful.
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> Amazon now knows which one I got and where it came from And do they share that knowledge with you? Or only after you've gone to the trouble of returning the item?
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There is no implication or distinction made. I'm merely using race as marker to gauge immigration flows. As I explained in the sentence prior to the one you quoted.
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> There are immigrants in Europe. If you look at European countries individually there is massive immigration between them, as well as immigration from outside. And yet. And yet in almost no country has the original population almost bec
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Intuit is going to try to do what benefits them. It is telling that you think this is even remotely similar to a justification. And in the case of bribery, both parties are at fault - the one giving, and the one receiving the bribe.

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