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by deogeo 7y ago
> It’s either incompetence or maliciousness. If it was incompetence, they'd occasionally err in his favor.
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American Movie Studios Are Wrong to Appease Chinese Censors(nationalreview.com)
14 points by deogeo 7y ago|0 comments
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by deogeo 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if their supply or natural diamonds was contingent on them not selling artificial ones.
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by deogeo 7y ago
The large quantity of plastic waste in the first place is due to plastic industry lobbying: https://theintercept.com/2019/07/20/plastics-industry-plasti...
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by deogeo 7y ago
It's not the best example, I agree. But it is a somewhat common argument, and enough to make some people re-examine their beliefs.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I'd like to highlight this quote from the article: "fear that white people would become a minority and thus be treated poorly, because that’s how you treat minorities" It then goes on to mention ways, derived from literary an
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“Whites as Minority”: The Racialized Narratives of Demographic Change (2018)(nonprofitquarterly.org)
3 points by deogeo 7y ago|1 comments
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The left and right exist because they summarise deeply held intuitions about human nature. The positions held by each side do follow logically from those intuitions I really don't think so. For example (all of these apply to the s
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Motive attribution asymmetry makes us unwilling to cooperate. When we hate our neighbors, we lower our defenses against the virtual invaders who detest the United States’ pluralist and classically liberal values. Mentioning motive attr
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by deogeo 7y ago
> If Republican voters actually have a moderate view of immigration To me it looks like they're actually extremely pro-immigration - despite the awful actions of ICE, it's continuing at a near-record pace of over 1 million per
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by deogeo 7y ago
> illegal I thought these companies/programs include disclaimers buried in the ToS, which makes this not illegal? At least in the case of this Comscore company, I'm assuming that disclaimer is the only reason they're not i
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by deogeo 7y ago
Jews are one of the historically most oppressed minorities. So if they were able to succeed so much, does that mean latinos or blacks are just too dumb to do the same? Once you accept success as proof of intelligence, there's no end to
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by deogeo 7y ago
Is that really due to intelligence, and not systemic bias/a 'pipeline problem'? 25% of Harvard students are Jewish [1,2], and "all eight major film studios are run by men who happen to be Jewish." [3]. So of course
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by deogeo 7y ago
> It'd be nice if these extra steps weren't in place but I see this atm as a minor inconvenience more than anything. Maybe my opinion would change at a later point. The same thing was said about horse armor DLC. Now microtransa
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by deogeo 7y ago
I see the focus on practicality as a bit misguided. Even if it could be done, giving the government (and its friends) covert access to all information is dystopian. Looking at the recent history of pretty much any country (including the US,
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by deogeo 7y ago
They could easily accept a cash deposit, and let you borrow books up to the value of that deposit. Perfectly anonymous.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Moody's does have a reasonable defense against being called a failure. "the subjects of their analysis are also their clients." sounds less like failure and more like fraud. 'Failure' is what they hope it'
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by deogeo 7y ago
> a bunch of people in a geographic region You make it sound as if they just happened to wind up there at random, and have nothing else in common. Geographic proximity is incidental to belonging to a group. The land they live on is mer
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by deogeo 7y ago
Democracy is also an expression of self-determination of a people. Meaning they don't have to let anyone who visits their country sway their decisions.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Wikipedia seems to confirm this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#African_p...
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by deogeo 7y ago
So when talking about 'fed interest rates', what is meant is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate ?
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by deogeo 7y ago
How are 0% interest rates 'handing out cash'? I thought bonds worked in the following way: Buy bond at N% interest. When it matures, government pays you original price + N%. So 0% would be bond buyers handing cash to the governm
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by deogeo 7y ago
So literally pay investors so they can get richer without risk? "A legal mandate requires these funds to generate 7.5% returns, and when they fail to do so, taxpayers foot the bill." - it sounds like it would be much cheaper for t
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by deogeo 7y ago
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” -- John 14:6 (emphasis mine) Once you throw eternal heaven or oblivion/hell into the equation, then no matter how terrible the method, if you
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by deogeo 7y ago
Could you explain this a bit more, or link to something that does? I'm don't know much about the Fed or the effect of bond interest rates. In particular: 1. The idea that interest rates should be high to prevent other, riskier inv
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by deogeo 7y ago
This reads like a dismissal, yet refutes none of my observations.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Why attach all of developing and marketing, when it's only the advertising that's in question? Doctors/hospitals can learn about new drugs through dry, informative leaflets - TV ads or salesmen talking directly to doctors dis
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by deogeo 7y ago
> advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free Ring products [..] keep the terms of this program confidential. So bribery and undisclosed advertising.
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by deogeo 7y ago
The very article linked in the post I replied to: "Soros had conceived the school during the dying days of communism to train a generation of technocrats who would write new constitutions, privatize state enterprises, and lead the post
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by deogeo 7y ago
> It makes me really sad never to have been there in its prime. Narrowly missed it by ~six centuries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople :)

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