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by drak0n1c 6y ago
It seems that way, but it could be an improvement for all parties. If police can avoid putting themselves into high stakes face-to-face situations, the less civilians and police will die from misunderstanding or ambush. Non-lethal robots ar
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Governments at a certain point aren't trying to protect us from ourselves. They're trying to protect themselves from us.
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A WSJ reader letter welcomed a fleeing VC but stated, "I would only ask Mr. Lonsdale and his fellow economic migrants to carefully consider that they are arriving as refugees, not as missionaries." https://www.wsj.com&#
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I've heard sincere leftist advocates for universal healthcare and universal basic income argue that it should be truly universal and they said yes, neo-nazis should get it too. Means-testing and adding criteria is starting to become an
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The Golden Age by John C. Wright is the start of a trilogy that deep dives into a post-scarcity solar system. It doesn't directly analyze the economy, but a big theme is what happens when someone is outcast from society, and has to sta
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Seeing the current state of Detroit, you have a point that such practices may not have been sustainable.
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Man was the original gender-neutral word while wereman and woman referred to the sexes. Were-wolf was a literal combination of the words male-human + wolf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Were
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Rare Pepes built on Bitcoin had some popularity in Venezuela. Besides ETH there isn’t widespread usage for collectibles. There is an assumption that eventually more performant technologies like Cardano or Hashgraph may prove themselves and
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The respect, if not endorsement, for their uniquely ruthless ethos accomplished a lot over the centuries. Morale might not be quantified in the records, but it certainly had effects in the rise and fall of civilizations. https://
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There's a historically accurate novel about a Spartan boy's coming-of-age. "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield - a very good read and widely celebrated classic.
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The point stands though - projects and ideas that may deserve to be laughed given current knowledge can still be the impetus for unintentional paradigm shifts. Whether it be Columbus' voyage, or early forms of blockchain.
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Imagine a likely future of technological ease (but not post-scarcity) led by a gerontocracy imperiled by rapid depopulation and austerity. There will be immense pressure both from secular and religious sides to develop new childcare assista
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"Words matter" is also the reason the other side of the debate fights so vociferously. Perhaps this is the fault of our educational system, but many cases for renaming would lose much of their steam if the involved and onlookers k
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In the beginnings and first few years the revolution was supported, but relations cooled by 1984. https://eng.globalaffairs.ru/articles/the-soviet-union-and-t...
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Something similar happened with the US and Iran. The Shah paid for military fighter jets, but then the Islamist theocracy took over. So the US froze the money and obviously wasn't going to deliver the jets to a USSR supported regime. T
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Voting systems often amplify propaganda spam. Every day r/science has multiple posts upvoted to the top with titles exaggerating findings, and/or linking to shoddy studies. Upvote/Downvote is very susceptible to headlines tha
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There's a project inspired by nyt diff and NewsDiffs and working on improving the algorithm and supporting many more news outlets: https://github.com/DocNow/diffengine
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NewsDiffs is a scraper that did this kind of automatic headline change tracking, but it hasn't been updated in a while. https://github.com/ecprice/newsdiffs This alternative looks more recent https://gi
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Nursery rhyme to learn the days of the week: Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Grew worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday. That was the end, Of Solomon Grundy.
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The single state solution is idyllic, but disfavored by both sides because there is shared fear of the country going the way of Lebanon afterwards - devolved into factionalism with zero sense of shared nationality.
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The bulk of Jewish and Palestinian people in Israel during the founding were similarly recent turn-of-the-century migrants from elsewhere in the Middle East to relatively low-population areas previously lived in by Bedouins and Druze. The s
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The phenomenon has a nickname - Anarcho-Tyranny, or the "Managerial State". 1994 Essay: https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/anarcho-tyranny-u-s-a-5/
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MSNBC has a history of misinformation contributing to the highly polarized environment today. Here is a video showing how MSNBC purposefully cropped footage of an armed protester at an Obama townhall to hide his race (he was black), and use
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The market is heavily subsidized, to the tune of the annual $120+ billion in Federally guaranteed grants and loans that the DOE boasts of being provided every year in its public letters. The loaning of such large sums to teenagers who don&#
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Nearly all the outrage over word use and six-figure tax bills for rewording city and federal documents is the result of ignorance of etymology, homonyms, and homophones.
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Advertisers, youtubers, users, brands - everyone was happy prior to the era of demonetization. What killed the golden goose was an extremely small set of activists and journalists (specifically Media Matters and Vox) methodically threatenin
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Is it true that everyone who browses Tor needs 100% privacy to maintain safety? I'm not very aware, but I've heard that a good part of Tor consists of regular boring pages and blogs that don't involve transactions and aren&#x
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Federal Reserve Banks (including the US) often have no FOI responsibilities either, the reasoning being that it prevents politicization and popular pressure from influencing monetary policy.
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The Federal Reserve Bank in the US is exempt from Freedom of Information laws, and the reasoning is to prevent social pressure and politicization from influencing monetary policy. Perhaps that is the UK's reason, besides wanting to kee
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NHK World is a similar website and app for phones and TV, but for Japan (and occasionally other Asian countries). An immense variety of culture, tourism, history, and food content. I believe BBC and RT also have cultural documentaries (you

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