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by hkt 3y ago
Regardless of what you think of this, there is a related idea worth considering: hegemony. Whether it is organic or confected, the idea that powerful groups within societies create and export ideas to other groups in society in a way that c
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by hkt 3y ago
> Free speech and freedom in general were, not more than 7 years ago, the highest principles of democratic societies. Not really. Post 9/11 brought new forms of surveillance which were declared to be legal en-masse. Invasive searche
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by hkt 3y ago
The main point these people are making is that if we don't stop using fossil fuels pretty much _right now_, then it is too late. We already have the tech to do it, by and large. The questions are: * Do we have the political will to mak
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by hkt 3y ago
That is interesting - as you can tell I only had a shallow knowledge of it. I'll read more about how it works. Thanks!
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by hkt 3y ago
100% with the author here: the number of times I've worked with clever, talented people who make things as complicated as possible is too damn high. The usual result is that they leave, somebody thinks "jesus I don't want to
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by hkt 3y ago
My father was a fluoride ion and was added to a city water supply! Are you telling me his sacrifice was in vain?! >:(
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by hkt 3y ago
Don't get me wrong, I love the Swiss model of lots of referenda, very strong regional (canton) govt and a seven person executive, but also.. Swiss women didn't get the vote at federal level until 1991. Some changes are hard to p
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by hkt 3y ago
Streisand moment: neat, I didn't know that there was a Wii/GC emulator!
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by hkt 3y ago
Good question. In the UK (and probably most common law systems) I guess it'd be treated as any vexatious application would be. As far as the judge is concerned there's no legal ground for distinguishing between a regular bit of co
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by hkt 3y ago
Non-accredited legal counsel varies from place to place. In the UK there are "Mackenzie friends" who can't speak but can advise in court. As for filings, paralegals don't tend to need qualifications either, though most s
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by hkt 3y ago
My partner and I have also explored chatGPT for recommending cases and books. It produces more garbage than not. The dream of it being a handy librarian died pretty quickly. Uncanny and compelling as it is conversationally, it really isn&#x
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by hkt 3y ago
It depends on whether or not they consume more as a result really - think about it, is the number of joules to transmit down a wire different at different speeds? I'd guess probably not
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by hkt 3y ago
It might explain it if herpes is implicated..
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by hkt 3y ago
> why would one consider 10 gig for home? For the sheer crazy joy of it!
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by hkt 3y ago
It is deeply authoritarian from Labour and the Conservatives. During the Troubles (eg, the Irish Republican Army bombing the UK and their opposite numbers in Northern Ireland doing the same) we practiced internment - eg mass incarceration w
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by hkt 3y ago
As far as I can infer I think they might be referring to NATO?
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by hkt 3y ago
For the elites who backed it - as opposed to the people who voted for it - Brexit was always a project about Americanising the UK. They're the same people forcing mayors on us, the same ones who wanted chlorinated chicken, the same one
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by hkt 3y ago
The end result is that it isn't economical or practical to do it. Which is a resoundingly good thing.
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by hkt 3y ago
Because terrorism! As I understand it the basis legally is about Guantanamo bay not being formally part of the US, and therefore not subject to the constitution or regular law. Military law probably applies, although I'm not 100% on th
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by hkt 3y ago
I suspect for clarity of communication we'd need to start with clarity of thought - the reason legalise doesn't eliminate ambiguity is because people aren't effectively omniscient, regardless of the level of their training. A
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by hkt 3y ago
If all the money that was ploughed into car manufacture each year went into public transport (and active travel infrastructure) life would be highly convenient and traffic would cease to be a problem. As for bulky things, shopping, and taki
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by hkt 3y ago
It has much to do with culture though - which is transmitted via language.
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by hkt 3y ago
Or end capitalism! One or the other!
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by hkt 3y ago
> atoms matter, information isn’t Algorithmic discrimination already exists, so um, yes, information matters. Add to that the fact that you're posting on a largely American forum where access to healthcare is largely predicated on i
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by hkt 3y ago
To the best of my knowledge this doesn't happen so much in more functional democracies. It seems to be more of an anglophone thing.
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by hkt 3y ago
Whenever rich people with a stake in something propose regulation for it, it is probably better that it be banned. I say this because the practice has a number of names: intellectual monopoly capitalism, and regulatory capture. There are le
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by hkt 3y ago
This - the immune system is fiercely complex, and as I understand it there's reason to believe we don't yet know all the types of cell that are in it. I could be wrong about that - I'm not an immunologist - but seem to reca
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by hkt 3y ago
It'd be pretty amazing to have something like the optical storage jukeboxes but for SD cards. Expensive, but amazing.
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by hkt 3y ago
That sounds lovely and idyllic - things like that rock and there should be more of them.
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by hkt 3y ago
In terms of Google holding up their end of the bargain, the reason you shouldn't trust them is simple: it is the CEO and board's fiduciary duty to the shareholders to make the most of Google's immense market power. The legal

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