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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
Nope, they're not rational actors by supporting marketing-driven limitations. These limitations are not needed to create a well-working device, they're only there to keep the profits up because heavens forbid, someone might offer
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
Yes, it seems Google has been oogling that juicy fruity profit margin thinking mine! . I recently got a new phone and given that I tend to use the things for about 8-10 years it might well be my last Android device if they make it (close t
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
Well, there's a solution to this: ditch that fruit phone until the fruit factory allows owners to use their hardware with the software they want. Let them click some boxes that yes, they understand that they'll leave the bou
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
Not just a woman from New York City but a woman from New York City who is a literary critic and biographer whose work appears in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, and elsewhere . It'd be hard to find someone mo
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
> You can request deletion of your Google user data by emailing the official support channel. Waiting for the apology Google gives for not having deleted all user data when asked to do so. An intern made a mistake, Gemini did it, "w
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
Some jazz hands 'cause I don't want to upset the sensitive Atlantic readership. No, did not read it, did read Clockwork Orange back in high school, still reading every day 42 years later but then I did not attend an Ivy League uni
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
Some of 'm have been doing things for decades now, moving to self-hosted services free from the government censors. The harder they squeeze, the more people will move to that server-under-the-stairs or hitch a ride on one hosted by a f
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
They won't scan my messages since I run my own XMPP server and clients using only free software - prosody for the server, Conversations/dino/gajim/converse.js for the clients. OMEMO (the encryption scheme used by 'm
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
Appeal to authority is your best retort? It tends to not work out that well.
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
Seeing how elevators are akin to vertical subways I think that problem goes both ways.
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
In that case the helicopters lower in the pecking order will chop off the strings for the higher ones. I thing seagulls is a better idea, if it worked for a giant peach it should work for a building. Plenty of those around and they'll
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
If you don't like that link - which is just one of the many I got when searching for 'national IQ average' there are many other similar studies to be had. Here's a few of them, again just some results from the first page
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
I did not mention the GOP, you did . Of course it is implied that it is either the D or R party since you only have two of them (that matter, anyway) which makes your accusation of it being me who mentions the D party rather pointless. S
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
Countries don't have to do tests, that is done by people who take tests organised by institutions , The results are grouped by whatever factors the test developers consider interesting and the results are published. We can quibble a
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
Yes, there does seem to be a genetic component to IQ but as I stated you don't need to include it here to explain why cultures which place emphasis on education and discipline score higher than those which don't . Even if intelli
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
Yes there are no matter whether you consider IQ a valid concept or not. In the context of the grandparent's remark about Ashkenazi Jews being 'smarter' it is relevant to compare specific group averages (e.g. Ashkenazi Jews) w
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
How about this: Ashkenazi Jewish culture with its emphasis on education and discipline stemming from studying religious texts leading to widespread literacy has led this group of people to outperform the mainline on intellectual tasks just
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by hagbard_c 3mo ago
Some barbarian without a grasp of the Dutch language knee-jerked the down-vote button so I'll add a Swedish version which adds an important attribute. Imse vimse spindel klättra upp för trå'n. Ner faller regnet, spolar spi
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by hagbard_c 4mo ago
> extremist, evil policies like remigration Explain why remigration is 'extremist' and 'evil' when applied to those who refuse to assimilate and/or integrate into their host societies, who never learned the langu
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by hagbard_c 4mo ago
I'm the one who pointed out you were comparing him to Hitler without using the name so you could claim it was me who brought up Hitler. Indeed, it is always the same playbook. Your nick (for those who don't speak Swedish: '
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by hagbard_c 4mo ago
Explain how 'your insight' into me is 'entirely accurate' in reference to my posting of another person who claimed to have insight into other people who happened to disagree with whatever was posted on this site. Before
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by hagbard_c 4mo ago
For some people any association with people like Musk explicitly discredits whatever they're being associated with. It is part of what has become known as a 'derangement syndrome', in this case that'd be Musk Derangement
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by hagbard_c 4mo ago
You're talking about him like he is comparable to the leader of the NSDAP, something known as Reductio at Hitlerum . I understand you don't like Allard for some reason but that doesn't make him a Hitlerian figure.
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by hagbard_c 4mo ago
Now please explain to all of us what made you come to that conclusion from what I just wrote. Explain in detail, referring to the actual statements I made, not just vague hand waves.
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by hagbard_c 4mo ago
> Climate science is not "woke." No, it isn't. Climate research is a real discipline. Climate catastrophism isn't "woke" either, it is just nuts. The term "woke" has been generalised far too much a
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by hagbard_c 4mo ago
You're talking about the leader of the NSDAP while I was talking about a political ideology which aims to implement socialism at a national scale. These are not the same things and the concept I describe does not have 'a leader&#x
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by hagbard_c 4mo ago
Socialism and authoritarianism go hand in glove so that is not the difficulty here. It is also not the combination of authoritarianism and nationalism which leads to crimes against humanity, for that any form of authoritarianism - nationali
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by hagbard_c 4mo ago
> Probably a lot more than just a few months Maybe, haven't tried so it is hard to say. I do have a background in Greek and Latin as well but I suspect those won't be of much help either nor does the fact that I speak Dutch, Ge
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by hagbard_c 4mo ago
IF those children live according to the laws of the land, speak the language of the land, don't espouse views which directly go against the culture of the land and ended up becoming self-supporting there certainly is a good case to be
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by hagbard_c 4mo ago
Why do 'pro-remigration opinions' make no logical sense? They very much do for those people who: - categorically refuse to assimilate or integrate into the host country's culture - refuse to learn the language(s) of the host

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