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by factsaresacred 9y ago
> Everything about Musk's idea seems absolutely terrible. Depends what his goal is. Currently getting from A to B in a car at a certain time involves traffic jams. If his goal is to get from A to B most efficiently in a car then i
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by factsaresacred 9y ago
> I bet you save heaps of time by not having food with you and having to go buy it. Making a sandwich involves sourcing the ingredients - time. Then making and packing the sandwich - time. It makes more sense to pay someone to do that fo
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by factsaresacred 9y ago
I agree, extortion is not OK. Simply saying that this could have been mitigated and if there's someone's job to mitigate things like this, it's on them.
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by factsaresacred 9y ago
> You are aware of views in all majority Muslim cultures or just feel like you know how all Muslims think? Dated a Chinese-Indonesian girl, so have a view on this: There is ongoing discrimination against Chinese people who wish to expres
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by factsaresacred 9y ago
> But the police had investigated Fry under the law, which, far from being a relic, was enacted in 2009. Equating Ireland and Indonesia is quite the stretch. The 'law' was enacted in 2009 but here's the full story (yoinked
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by factsaresacred 9y ago
And there's an even bigger difference between 'just not wanting someone to speak on your campus' and physically obstructing the ability of someone to speak on your campus. The rise of the latter is why this matters.
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by factsaresacred 9y ago
They're not the same but when you can't control the cause what's the difference? Due to the nature of the web, unless you unplug from the Internet, the risk is persistent. So although a cybercrime-free world would be swell, u
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by factsaresacred 9y ago
> In the real world we don't accept the argument that the victim is primarily at fault. If you're worried about X, and Y promises to prevent X for a cost, you seek recourse against Y. X: I can't miss this flight. Y: Pay th
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by factsaresacred 9y ago
Seems like non-targeted ransomware - https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/863032223469056004 - based on the modest $300 request. Note: I've zero idea if that screenshot is legit but it's posted on The
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by factsaresacred 9y ago
Trep-a-na-tion, eh? That's new. Let's have a look at the Wikipedia page then..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning#/media/File:Peter_T... Nope.
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by factsaresacred 9y ago
We're playing one right now. Kills you if you succeed, too. Must be a bug.
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by factsaresacred 10y ago
> Pre-existing ethnic tensions increased, creating fertile grounds for violence and conflict. Indeed. We have no shortage of reasons to bash one another over the head, but this one is surely one of the most prevalent. Diversity (of funda
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by factsaresacred 10y ago
> we need to study what happens when people have no jobs. Take a look at Europe, with it's high youth unemployment and generous social system. Without a job people are the same, they just have more time in the day. Much of this time
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by factsaresacred 10y ago
> It may take proactive behavior, like choosing a women over a man when growing your team, just because, or promoting women more freely. 'Just because' what? You're asking for 'more women excelling in the field'
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by factsaresacred 10y ago
I think the premise leading to the sentence is absurd: "And, if I pretended not to notice these slights, wasn’t I proving that I really was a disengaged, privileged oppressor?" . But the author is trying to reason with her anger
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by factsaresacred 10y ago
‘For such a small price, I buy tranquillity.’ Beautifully put. The Penguin edition of fellow stoic Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is free on Amazon kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Marcus-Aurelius-Wisehouse...
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by factsaresacred 10y ago
> is there a link to an actual government site instead of pictures of a book in Swedish that was published decades ago? That book was published by the goverment of Sweden. Does the host matter? In 2005 BRA (Swedish Criminal statistics)
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by factsaresacred 10y ago
> are there reports which are not 20+ years old? I asked the same question. In 2005 Bra released a report saying "Immigrants’ risk of being registered for crime has not changed in any pronounced way since the previous study conducte
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by factsaresacred 10y ago
> OK, so you have statistics that show that you are right. What you going to do with them? Use them to guide immigration policy in order to protect your citizens. Facts matter.
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by factsaresacred 10y ago
> What are your sources that try to prove that socioeconomic factors are not 'the major ones'? How about the Swedish government themselves? - A 1996 BRA (Swedish Criminal statistics) study found that "there any indication
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by factsaresacred 10y ago
OK, I'm going to address two claims together: > "The number of reported rapes in Sweden has risen. But the definition of rape has broadened over time, which makes it difficult to compare the figures. It is also misleading to co