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eehee
9y ago
Sorry, it's probably a bad culture fit. I'll leave.
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eehee
9y ago
Oh, I don't really think so, no, but it is conceivable. And I'd actually rather have people communicate what they believe to be true rather than what they think they can get away with.
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eehee
9y ago
When BLM is mentioned, I often see people criticize their methods, the underlying ideology of some members and their claims to truth. I have never seen anyone not care about black people being killed. There is, of course, a possibility that
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eehee
9y ago
What if it's true?
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eehee
9y ago
Thank you for actually replying instead of downvoting...and I'll admit, the scare quotes may have been a bit too much! That said, the open letter plainly states "WhatsApp effectively protects people against mass surveillance."
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eehee
9y ago
This entire conflict just seems completely absurd to me - why on earth are the 72 "experts" who signed the open letter so quick to trust WhatsApp without access to the source code?
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eehee
9y ago
It can even be solved without any extra UI elements - just have clicking the drag & drop element act as a regular file input.
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eehee
9y ago
Anecdotal experience with twitter's timeline suggests it's viewing time - and that they haven't considered that people are just spending more time finding the tweets they're looking for...
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eehee
9y ago
This isn't surprising at all. IQ is highly correlated with genetics (especially for older teens and adults), and the correlation between IQ and income is similarly strong.
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eehee
9y ago
There are also no places (at least not to my knowledge) where social status is completely decoupled from intelligence.
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eehee
9y ago
If intelligence matters at all to making money, the wealth + intelligence combo probably beats wealth on its own. Unless, of course, intelligence is "bad" for the wealthy and "good" for the poor, but I doubt that's
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eehee
9y ago
You don't really need socialism for proper health care. Almost all of the countries you're referring to are solidly capitalist economies.
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eehee
9y ago
Social democracy is not socialism.
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eehee
9y ago
Could you point me towards any examples of "good" socialism?
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eehee
9y ago
I played around with this, but had some trouble removing the audio stream from the MOV file using ffmpeg. There's a third data stream in the file, and ffmpeg doesn't know how to handle it, so it either gets removed or replaced wit