deogeo

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by deogeo 7y ago
> This headline is dishonest. All part of the push to make class-action lawsuits economically unviable. When it's not worth it for any lawyer, the corporations will be free to defraud everyone for small amounts.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> No. The pencil is built because of the incentives (read: potential for profits) for each of the people involved. I never claimed otherwise, so that 'no' is unnecessary. > I, Pencil is a story that shows government interven
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by deogeo 7y ago
Truly puzzling how that letter neglects to mention none of a scientific journal's income goes to the researchers, but instead tries to blur the line between research and publishing, making it seem like research will suffer, despite der
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by deogeo 7y ago
I, Pencil isn't even an argument that needs rebuttal. It lulls the mind to sleep with a pleasant story of cooperation, hoping the reader will forget that government intervention didn't happen because supply chains are too comple
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by deogeo 7y ago
> To further protect immigrants from ICE’s abuses It's starting to look like any enforcement of immigration law/border security at all is labeled 'abuse'.
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by deogeo 7y ago
These 'more encompassing identities' have limited applicability. For example, Polish-, English-, and German-Americans no longer view themselves as separate from each-other, but they still see themselves as separate from African- a
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by deogeo 7y ago
"Winston Smith crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames. Then he took a refreshing drink of Coca-Cola, to reward himself for a job well
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by deogeo 7y ago
If DRM infringes consumer rights, well that's just technology for you. But if technology erodes corporate profits - surely the law didn't mean to allow this! Quick, reinterpret it!
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by deogeo 7y ago
Which is irrelevant to the policies I mentioned that started this subthread.
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by deogeo 7y ago
So your thesis is ~100 years ago was some freak historical period when countries were mostly homogeneous (compared to current day. Please don't cite e.g. Czechs and Slovaks living in the same country as diversity comparable to current
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by deogeo 7y ago
The key difference is the existing constitution doesn't say those without citizenship must be allowed to enter or stay.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Look at the "Population by country of birth 1900-2016" graph for Sweden [1]. It is at ~100% in 1900, and ~82% in 2016. The US went from 87.9% white in 1900, to 72.4% in 2010 [2]. Unfortunately, I couldn't find such demographi
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by deogeo 7y ago
Imprisoned? Not just a fine for the company and settlement requiring them to promise to follow the law gong forward, without admitting wrongdoing? Inconceivable!
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by deogeo 7y ago
What else would you call DACA, sanctuary cities, or the proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants, then? Eventually, they or their children become citizens, which is little different from the policy you claim literally no one is proposing.
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by deogeo 7y ago
The present state of migration is also a modern phenomenon - otherwise, countries wouldn't be trending from more towards less homogeneous, but would already be in a 'steady state'.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> It's striking to consider the self-delusion that must have been necessary for people at the time to believe in such wildly inconsistent notions as "inalienable rights" and slavery. Perhaps they simply viewed one as the g
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by deogeo 7y ago
> we need to work with the world the way it is, not the way we wish it was If you buy the logic behind the "resource curse", then reducing trade in such morally questionable resources could indirectly improve the state of the w
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by deogeo 7y ago
A modified client could simply claim to be official.
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by deogeo 7y ago
That's exactly it, isn't it? Thanks to such restrictive contracts, you need Google's permission .
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by deogeo 7y ago
Of the cases I heard where people did try to shop around, simply getting price information was nearly if not completely impossible.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Good thing he only got banned from LEGO and not, lets say, automated grocery stores all owned by the same company and associated with your Amazon account... Well, no need to worry ahead of time!
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by deogeo 7y ago
How does "option to make messages automatically disappear after a set period of time" and "open source" fit together?
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by deogeo 7y ago
They expect us to believe the current insurance system is any good, but not allow us to check for ourselves.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I'm sure they'll try to convince us that it does, so that we don't resist the tracking too much.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> but it could be argued that the latter makes a bit more sense given that most of their customers, statistically speaking, are not necessarily tech enthusiasts And I'm not a car enthusiast, yet I can take my car to any mechanic I c
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by deogeo 7y ago
I don't think the poster was implying the shelters shouldn't be allowed to eject people. Merely that it would, hypothetically, be very unfortunate if someone were compelled to agree to a shelter's demands, because being eject
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by deogeo 7y ago
And voting machines made by domestic suppliers have also had suspicious malfunctions. If only there was a way to vote without machines...
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by deogeo 7y ago
Or the history of Android itself - Google forbade manufacturers from making competing alternatives as part of its confidential licensing agreements: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-antitrust/googl...
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by deogeo 7y ago
> That would assume that there are two equally valid opposing views here, and yet there is nothing here to back that up. So why does the opening of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ say "Twin stu
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by deogeo 7y ago
Yet most (western) countries immigration policy is set on the opposite assumption - that personality traits (of which IQ is only one) are not heritable. The caution and "well it's complicated" shouldn't run in only one d

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