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by frabbit 6y ago
Not to mention the Malheur Refuge standoff where heavily armed protestors were handled with kid gloves. Maybe it's to do with having guns?
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by frabbit 6y ago
Probably a mix of different people with different motives: agent provocateurs, looters, politically motivated property destroyers, struggling business owners seeking to cash in on the insurance, thrill-seekers.
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PNAS: Sixth Mass Extinction Underway(pnas.org)
3 points by frabbit 6y ago|0 comments
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by frabbit 6y ago
Do you not understand that these non-approved views, for the most part, come from actual nazis? Facebook has been more than happy to censor Palestinian activists at the behest of the Israeli government. https://theintercept.com
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by frabbit 6y ago
That they stood up for something and paid a high price for it which made their protest more potent to many people?
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by frabbit 6y ago
Labelling them as 'activists' is imprecise. I agree that this particular activism is counter-productive, hypocritical and pro-censorship though.
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by frabbit 6y ago
So, then you agree with the proposition that in general society has advanced, life is better and that most intelligent and reasonable people share that unarguable view? And yet you wonder why people who are seeing declining life expectancy,
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Linux-friendly tablet with replaceable RAM, storage, battery in 2021?(liliputing.com)
4 points by frabbit 6y ago|0 comments
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by frabbit 6y ago
Has society advanced? By what metric?
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by frabbit 6y ago
Do you think that your introduction of the word 'universally' accurately reflected the ideas expressed by the person to whom you were responding?
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by frabbit 6y ago
From what I have read they are concerned about it being a complete lie made up by others in order to facilitate their oppression. That makes it a huge problem for anyone that believes that climate destruction is something that needs to be s
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by frabbit 6y ago
Just out of interest: you posed the question 'who is claiming that things are universally better?' and you are now acknowledging that you are aware of the arguments of a very mainstream (TED Talks, etc) source. Why did you pose th
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by frabbit 6y ago
I have no measurements to share with you on that question, but I think Pinker is mainstream, NPR, NYT background thought.
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by frabbit 6y ago
About 10 years now before irreversible climate change. After that any of the gains of the last 50 years will be eliminated. The (grudging and pitiably disproportionately small) increases in supply of food and medical support to the develo
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by frabbit 6y ago
Stephen Pinker. Hans Rosling.
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by frabbit 6y ago
Generally treaties occur after interested parties have realized their interests and undertaken discussions for a great deal of time prior to the signing of anything.
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by frabbit 6y ago
on all platforms of consequence Those are quite the weasel words. Stay within the narrowly-defined targets for any language or ecosystem and you'll be happy. Once you start trying to do something interesting and supporting multiple
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by frabbit 6y ago
The significance of the Moore incident is that it shows that a long-developing pattern of deletions and removals is expanding. The early purges were mainly of small/fringe voices on either the far right or far left, or infamously fact
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by frabbit 6y ago
The origins of the EEC were a French(agriculture + coal) and German (manufacturing) alliance. The other countries were just added on as export markets.
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by frabbit 6y ago
I think that's simultaneously the most depressing and hilarious thing I have read on HN.
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by frabbit 6y ago
That is particularly galling. It is interesting that the story was challenged in its totality when (ex) president Mary Robinson mentioned it during a visit to Turkey (she incorrectly stated that the heraldic coat of arms of Drogheda town c
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by frabbit 6y ago
Are you then reading the primary sources in Latin or are you being nudged by the translator?
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by frabbit 6y ago
Good technical specialist discussions of science from an explicitly left-wing perspective http://www.scienceforthepeople.ca/ Light and amusing handling of a wide variety of moral/ethical issues https://www.y
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by frabbit 6y ago
I don't understand the conjunction of the following two phrases in the article: > * Nix goes a step further by disallowing package* > * builds to access the internet. This allows Nix* > * packages to be a lot more reproducible
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by frabbit 6y ago
because code is no longer represented visually as blocks, you'll find you're building an increasingly detailed memory model of your code. Sighted people do this, too, but they tend to visualize in their mind. When you abandon thi
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by frabbit 7y ago
People are dying due to lack of investment of corporate profits in health care. I cannot believe you need this pointed out to you right now. In other shocking news today's capitalists don't wear top-hats and drive around in Rolls
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by frabbit 7y ago
Essentially yes. Unions have varying levels of active members which sometimes leads to a self-interested bureaucracy acting against the wishes of the membership. See for instance this recent well-known example: https://www.buz
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by frabbit 7y ago
Like democracies, unions will exploit the people in them if the people in them do not organize and agitate actively for their own interests. Like democracies, unions suck, but they are not as bad as the alternative -- unless you're the
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by frabbit 7y ago
Absolutely. Had exactly this issue with wanting to move monitors just 3 weeks ago in a company where a previous union drive failed and had a lot of people spouting this sort of hoary, old cliche.
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by frabbit 7y ago
Completely agree. As a stylist he is crude and clunky. But his plots and ideas are transcendental and have been mined by others for decades since he developed them.

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