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by deogeo 7y ago
> northerners eating more noodles, while southerners eat more rice. You don't have to look that closely to find diversity in Paris.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> 20 per cent of people living in the city of Paris are immigrants and 41.3 per cent of people under 20 have at least one immigrant parent. Wow - that's a very fast demographic change.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I grew up as a trans child reading your books as an escape. I would often pick out names from characters to give to myself, before I ever felt comfortable in who I was. This decision, to support people that hate me, and want to do me h
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by deogeo 7y ago
I've found that information on which phones have a directly connected baseband is incredibly hard to come by.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Sounds like it's time for regulation to step in and stop this practice.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Odd how birth-rates are treated as just set in stone, and we can't do anything about them. No other social problem is approached this way. > At the same time, immigration fosters diversity, which in turn makes us a better country an
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by deogeo 7y ago
> fowl play Those damn geese.
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by deogeo 7y ago
We're already there - most developed countries have negative fertility.
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by deogeo 7y ago
That's how it works here in the EU - if your job needs a record of (the lack of) any prior convictions, they can't just request/buy it from the police. You have to get the official form that lists that information, then giv
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by deogeo 7y ago
> movies like this aren't made any more because they wouldn't be original or worth making Are we thinking of the same film industry?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> British imperialists long knew that the best way to divide and conquer was by creating “countries” riven with tribal differences. But I was told that that is our strength.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The rapprochement – which also saw the purchase of a Czech brewery, television station and Slavia Prague football club by a Chinese energy company, CEFC It is so convenient that ownership can change, while viewers think they're st
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by deogeo 7y ago
> It had bought one to verify the claims and informed the company selling them, Assurance Wireless, of its findings but had not received a response, it said. Knowingly distributing malware - doesn't that carry jail time under the CF
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by deogeo 7y ago
I'm a strong proponent of both approaches. If surveillance infrastructure is in place, and all you have protecting you is law, it only takes one small change, or one warrant, to lose all your privacy (and you won't even find out a
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by deogeo 7y ago
Twitter's executive for the Middle East is a British psyop officer, so it's hard to view Twitter as anything but a state-owned tool of control: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/twitter-executive-also-pa...
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by deogeo 7y ago
By this logic, you should have no concerns with parents genetically modifying their children at conception, since it's something they've been doing already by their choice of mate. It's just a choice of tool.
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by deogeo 7y ago
You're right, I phrased myself poorly. Putting the blame also on all their subsidiaries, as you suggest, is what I meant.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Furthermore, Iranians themselves make up a large share of the casualties: "Victims of the crash included 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians, 10 Swedes, four Afghans, three Germans and three Britons" [1]. The way the article
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by deogeo 7y ago
How odd. One would think with an estimated 1.8-1.9 million civilian deaths due to German occupation [1], and the uncounted rapes during the Soviet occupation [2], Poland wouldn't need to resort to hoaxes to paint themselves as victims.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Suppose the story was marked as sponsored content - what is Facebook's motivation for publishing it in Teen Vogue? Presumably Facebook shouldn't have trouble reaching people. The only sensible explanation is that they had hope
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by deogeo 7y ago
> this was a dumb move by vogue No. This was a dumb move by Advance Publications , who owns Teen Vogue. If companies want the benefits of owning half the market, then let them share the stink of their corruption as well.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Relevant for those who think warrants adequately shield privacy: https://www.popehat.com/2014/07/15/warrants-bulwark-of-liber...
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by deogeo 7y ago
Blackmail is illegal - you may be able to have the police handle that aspect (although I would consult a lawyer, regarding what the police is able and likely to do). Assuming you can afford to let the police know about what he's blackm
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by deogeo 7y ago
Extreme hubris, like food safety regulations? Car safety regulations? Right to repair laws? Truth in advertising laws? Bans on toxic chemicals in paint and toys? Worker protection laws? All of those things, people could have simply chosen n
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by deogeo 7y ago
But it's not competing directly with solar plants, but only with the price it's able to sell electricity at. That there are some new solar plants being built that are more efficient is irrelevant, at least until there are so many
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by deogeo 7y ago
Yes, lets keep hoping the Market will solve everything, and that somehow, the trend of consolidation will magically reverse itself on its own, despite how ever fewer companies control each market. Wouldn't want to realize people have m
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by deogeo 7y ago
Most of the article is behind a paywall, so I couldn't find out: More efficient solar panels have been made since, but has the price of electricity dropped so much that this plant is now not economically viable?
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by deogeo 7y ago
You don't need to fight traditional wars if you can dominate economically. Which seems to be what China has been doing so far.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Already happened last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19703909
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by deogeo 7y ago
75 pages on how to format a date. I am shocked it doesn't see more use.

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