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by hkai 6y ago
In the last 10-15 years ACLU has moved away from being politically neutral (and has publicly stated so), so one might easily see this action as an attempt to undermine the government's capabilities rather than to legitimately protect t
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by hkai 6y ago
Now I know why some magazines won't let you subscribe online - they take your credit card details on paper so that you can only cancel by calling them. I would rather close my credit card than call.
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by hkai 6y ago
I think the original point of the article is that plenty of adults can afford many things, yet they unnecessarily restrict themselves and inflict suffering on themselves. I know people who are not going to break their budget by spending $10
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by hkai 6y ago
I wonder why services like Uber (which rely on Google Maps for everything are still working, with things like routing being completely okay).
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by hkai 6y ago
Yes. The progressives were fighting against the mask mandate imposed by the lynching-friendly Republican mayor of SF. They were saying that mask mandates are unscientific, and turned out to be right: > A study then in 1919 concluded that
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by hkai 6y ago
You are talking about repercussions, yet clearly there is no proof that Instagram was "spying" on anyone.
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by hkai 6y ago
It looks to me like the media are still bitter about Facebook allegedly helping Russians elect Trump, and so they make up this non-news and instill panic and fear into people. Pretty sure that now most people will be convinced that Facebook
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by hkai 6y ago
45 degree angle, really.
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by hkai 6y ago
Have you read any news recently? CNN: "A whole generation wiped out" "China still vulnerable to deadly second wave" "Covid-19 tests could encourage workers to play Russian roulette" "Stories of discarded b
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by hkai 6y ago
Ah! Hence the federalism and checks and balances, the two we widely derided concepts. We already know ways to prevent the majority from imposing tyranny on the minority, we just decided that more absolute power is convenient.
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by hkai 6y ago
This is an actual privacy concern. I often see people here on HN take issue with sites recording how much you spent on the page and which products you clicked - for marketing purposes, I have nothing to hide here. But the emails and searche
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by hkai 6y ago
Unless the IFR of covid is shown to be significantly higher than other common diseases that we accept and don't fight by locking down cities, it doesn't seem that any major, world-shattering intervention is needed. Please wash you
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by hkai 6y ago
If I didn't know whether I'll be born in the bottom 1% or top 1%, I'd still choose a society that incentivizes wealth creation. Poor people in those societies are the richest poor people in the world. They have more prospects
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by hkai 6y ago
See, I always thought that socialism degenerates into tyranny. My socialist country didn't even allow people to travel - to prevent capital flight and brain drain - and now you are proposing to basically close borders to some people un
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by hkai 6y ago
Perhaps the fact that a writer doesn't share a society's dominating ideology (in this case, democratic socialism and anti-capitalism) is what makes a writer's ideas original and interesting, as opposed to rehashing what the d
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by hkai 6y ago
Not to mention that mass media is an agency nearly entirely dedicated to promoting health theater. "You and your children will die soon and there's almost no way to stop it" is the dominating message on the front page of many
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by hkai 6y ago
The federal government doesn't promote the covid fear only because of which party is in power right now. One of the presidential candidates promises a nationwide mask mandate, and, judging from the actions of authorities in NYC or othe
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by hkai 6y ago
Perhaps you are underestimating the amount of theft by employees, and the fact that hiring more security or paying for 15 mins of waiting time to each employee would cost even more.
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by hkai 6y ago
Anecdotally, it seems that most places in the world pay a fixed salary even to the lowest paid workers, instead of paying by the hour. Perhaps this could be a simpler solution to the problem instead of trying to reengineer cities.
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Chinese activist fights homophobic textbooks by pointing out typos in them(hongkongfp.com)
2 points by hkai 6y ago|0 comments
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by hkai 6y ago
This is basically the problem with jumping to conclusions based on some guy's claim, because the guy then retracts his claim but most people will still believe that covid causes myocarditis. > Key quote: "at this time, there ha
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by hkai 6y ago
Username checks out.
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by hkai 6y ago
The idea you describe sounds horrifying. It has been tried in the Soviet Union: if you deny a certain ideology, you'd be kicked out from university, from your job, from any public life. I don't see how copying suppression techniqu
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by hkai 6y ago
What happened in the last ten years?
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by hkai 6y ago
In the case of the Skripals, the effects were slower than that, seems to be around three hours, from quick googling.
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McDonald’s Sued by Black Ex-Franchise Owners for Racial Discrimination(wsj.com)
1 points by hkai 6y ago|0 comments
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by hkai 6y ago
The idea that there can be an authority that tells good people from bad people is literally Nazi playbook.
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by hkai 6y ago
Sounds legit to me, it's an extra push for app developers to be extremely vigilant about their content.
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by hkai 6y ago
Well, it's easy: just develop your own mobile phone and operating system, make it popular, and then you don't have to pay the 30%. Anti-free speech advocates use this argument when they say it's okay that Facebook, Twitter an
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by hkai 6y ago
Yeah it's pretty well known. For some larger transformers they used the world's largest plane, An 225, to transport them half way across the globe because otherwise it would be a months long delay.

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