hangphyr

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by hangphyr 6y ago
Entirely true. I'm a Canadian who now lives in the US working in tech, working in Canada again just isn't on the table since I'd be slicing my pay in half. For the big cities in Canada such as Vancouver and Toronto, you&#x2
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by hangphyr 6y ago
I've always been puzzled by accredited investor regulations. For an over-simplified explanation for most countries such as the US and Canada it means one has at least $1,000,000 of investable assets. Accredited investors can invest i
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by hangphyr 6y ago
The timing of the release of this tool seems a bit innapropriate, given the state of rioting in a few US cities now. It's going to be incredibly draining on law enforcement in the US for a few years to identify and prosecute criminals
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by hangphyr 6y ago
Depends on how it's used. For example it could be useful for people protesting authoritarian governments, such as in Hong Kong. For blurring rioters during a crime spree, I don't think there's anything moral to be gained fr
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by hangphyr 6y ago
Another one: "I hate onions". Now, replace onions with a derogatory name for another group. We can't prohibit negative words on account they can be used to express negative opinions about other groups of humans. In the case
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by hangphyr 6y ago
That's one of the many core dangers of disrespecting free speech for the sake of prohibiting "hate speech". It's a very, very short step for a government to persecute criticism of themselves on the basis of "hate s
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by hangphyr 6y ago
It could be an action from a rogue employee. Possibly not a management decision or specific company policy, just a filter added by an employee with access to it. There might be some 'lively' discussion internally in Google right
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by hangphyr 6y ago
This is a bit of a tangent, but one should be careful with that path. Not all employers are 'evil' and have negative intentions for their employees. Think of an example such as the independently owned restaurant that cannot affo
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by hangphyr 6y ago
I'd say it's not really their responsibility to do that, and could lead to something dangerous. Universality is important, so if they did that, the door would be wide open to them adding annotations to everyone's posts with
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by hangphyr 6y ago
Probably this. No atrocities committed by any government were done because the government viewed itself as 'evil' so it must do evil things, the perpetrators always view their crimes as justified for some form of greater good. I
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by hangphyr 6y ago
Many news media companies have been engaging in just that, trying to point out (hypocritically) where their competitors attempted to downplay the threat of the virus. It's not so much a problem with news media being wrong, it's a
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by hangphyr 7y ago
That's true. While yes the WHO is following regulations, they're following regulations that were created to exclude the Republic of China from it in order to entice the PRC to join it. The PRC gave multinational organizations su
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by hangphyr 7y ago
Countries are finding out that most government institutions for viral disaster preparedness were completely unprepared for this pandemic. Little to supplies stored, no plans ready before it hit, extremely slow responses.
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by hangphyr 7y ago
I think Twitter's motivation isn't to reduce the impact of the virus, or that their management trusts governments this much. They're anticipating politicians looking for scapegoats, they're ensuring they can't take
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by hangphyr 7y ago
From what I've observed in the US, both major political parties are advocates of socializing the downside. The current Canadian federal government, though very left-leaning, is also a strong advocate of this policy. I think often peop
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by hangphyr 7y ago
Are you requesting people confirm that Spiked is approved by a specific orthodoxy before reading the article and judging for themselves?
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by hangphyr 7y ago
Youtube has been doing that for a long time now, manually adjusting specific search results, basing it sometimes on geography. I don't know if they are still manually adjusting results in this example, but one example a couple months
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by hangphyr 7y ago
If you speak to anyone who works in supply chain, they're all experiencing massive disruptions. Traffic from Chinese ports has slowed significantly, these things take some time before they start affecting our store shelves. Some peop
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by hangphyr 7y ago
China's social credit score system would be an easy place for them to look for "undesirables" to use for livestock, create an ever shifting minimal level of political servitude to avoid execution.