deogeo

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by deogeo 7y ago
> I have never felt targetted or fear because of [..] gender You should have - 77.8% of murder victims in the US are male: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gender
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by deogeo 7y ago
They can compete in offering a better product/service, instead of with a secret client list. Advertising itself is about connecting buyers and sellers - so making that information public would make the market all the more efficient! Wh
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by deogeo 7y ago
> someone who belongs to a group that is never targetted. Never targeted? What about routinely being accused of evil (racist, privileged, fragile...), and of having too much power and wealth, in most media? What usually happens to grou
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by deogeo 7y ago
There's a problem in how do you classify ads into political and non-political. But then, why not make all ad spending public? What benefit is there to society in keeping the source of ads secret?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Consider a day in the life of a fairly ordinary person in a large city in a stable, democratically governed country. You might think, as long as you're in a (currently!) stable, democratically governed country (so not North Korea,
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by deogeo 7y ago
How Biden's son got on the board of directors of that company is fishy, at best: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maxseddon/bidens-son-po... He just happens to have received $1 billion in Chinese investme
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by deogeo 7y ago
It's unclear from the article and SPLC's own website, but it certainly looks like they label every group that wants to reduce immigration as a hate group. That's a very broad definition of 'hate'.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Home-country medical records indicating the need for a transplant, travel records, financial records, signs of surgery, and finally, biopsy of organ in question.
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China killing religious, ethnic minorities, harvesting their organs, UN is told(independent.co.uk)
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by deogeo 7y ago
If they're not willing to disclose information, we should simply assume the least favorable interpretation to them, and act and legislate accordingly.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Analogous to how the Hippocratic Oath forbids doctors from treating soldiers and border guards.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Yes.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The special investigations team inside Uber [..] is not allowed to [..] file official police reports “even when they get confessions of felonies,” One step above "snitches get stitches". Are such contracts/instructions e
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by deogeo 7y ago
Or a scientist that claims all objects are pulled with equal acceleration by gravity, yet when he drops a pillow and a brick from a balcony, the brick hits the ground first.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Dig up the personal information of their owners, board members, and major shareholders, and publish or sell it - an eye for an eye.
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by deogeo 7y ago
No, it's because they believe that, if the changes brought on by some left-wing policies were faster, voters would reject them. E.g. the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was promised to not significantly change US demographics [
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by deogeo 7y ago
South Korea did it (yes, South Korea) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_South_K... : > In 2007, numerous bloggers were censored and their posts deleted by police for expressing criticism of, or e
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by deogeo 7y ago
> For one thing, it’s illegal in France to gather data about ethnicity. Well that was unexpected. Good way to deny ammunition to xenophobes, I guess. > Probably in an an effort to divide to conquer, the numerous (Arabic speaking) Alge
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by deogeo 7y ago
Problems sure are easy to solve when you look at them through a toilet-paper tube, in isolation from everything else the solution might affect. If they can be stripped of anonymity, they did not have anonymity in the first place. But it is
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by deogeo 7y ago
They cut down a few trees near where I live to put up billboards. Your woodland escape won't last.
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by deogeo 7y ago
You underestimate how poisonous this is. Humans (and especially children) learn through imitation. This includes imitating characters on TV/shows, which form a big part of the 'society' they live in (that its fictional makes
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by deogeo 7y ago
Thanks - I was not aware how unreliable Hillel's figures were (but their estimate is for 2015, so I don't know if they can blame it on outdated data?). In any case, your first link appears much more authoritative - even Hillel upd
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The most shocking number in the paper is this: Of the white students admitted to Harvard, more than 43% are in the so-called ALDC category For perspective, the demographics of all Harvard students, not just ALDC [1,2]: Asian Amer
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by deogeo 7y ago
Don't you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entish ?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> she's an immigrant from Russia. Most Russians were literally owned by their landlords until 1861 [1]. After that, they suffered the most deaths of any country in both world wars, and many famines and purges under Stalin, and extre
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by deogeo 7y ago
Focus on the worst mistakes of your opponents, and ignore their stronger arguments. Notably absent from that page is http://berkeleyearth.org/global-temperatures-2017/ and especially this graph: http://berke
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by deogeo 7y ago
Let God sort them out.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Because 'demanding answers', instead of leading by example or agreement, will only create conflict, and those countries will refuse to lower carbon emissions out of spite/to not appear weak/score points with voters. Acco
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Science has found repeatedly that using outward characteristics does not work as a good classification measure. Science has found that, on average , it works [1]. Of course there will be many cases where it fails - that's how sta
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by deogeo 7y ago
But you can make a pretty good guess: http://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/stereotype-accuracy-res...

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