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by jariel 6y ago
Sure, Central American aboriginals did, but essentially none of the north American aboriginals (i.e. Cree, specific to the article) did.
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by jariel 6y ago
That they 'would have, maybe in 1000 years developed a writing system' is definitely true, but the fact is at contact they did not, and even after 100's of years of trade and interaction and availability of Western literatur
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by jariel 6y ago
This is a wayward argument. You're arguing from the quote that 'it's other than disease' and then two sentences later that it was, but due to 'persistent contact needed for conquest'. None of this adds up to a
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by jariel 6y ago
Aboriginals had no writing system so there would be no keyboards. That should be a signal as to how 'far apart' colonialists and aboriginals were with respect to development of cultural institutions. The writing you see in this po
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by jariel 6y ago
Pro monopolist app store people are like Chinese citizens so happy with the CCP 'because stability'. It's bizarre. Android, Mac, Windows, Linux are reasonably safe platforms, there's zero reason why people can't cho
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by jariel 6y ago
Apps are not a risk to your health.
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by jariel 6y ago
There were curfews all over Quebec, and Quebec's Jan 1. policies had the most precipitous drop in cases in any province in Canada at any time except the 'shelter in place' orders. Your '1 and 2' points are not relev
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by jariel 6y ago
"Quebec having some of the worst outcomes in the world" This is completely false, Quebec actually has some of the better outcomes in the civilized world. [1] Better than US, France, UK, Poland, Spain, Sweden - it's about the
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by jariel 6y ago
"I pay Apple to uphold this bar by any means necessary. " I pay the electric company to have a store where only approved toasters and microwaves are sold so as to keep quality high! I pay my car company to ensure that only appr
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by jariel 6y ago
I live in Quebec and would summarily disagree with this assessment. Your statement about the failure curfew policy and closures is definitely not true. Have a look at the data [1] (Select: Quebec and change the timeframe to include 'al
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by jariel 6y ago
It's partly a social signal. I live in Quebec and the notion of 'curfew' has a very eerie and ominous 'feel' like nothing ever in my life. I feel it's more powerful than the time we were seeing NYC hospitals bl
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by jariel 6y ago
Does interpreting the descriptions '1-dimensional engineers' or 'it's common in tech' to imply 'an entire job family' suggest low or high reading comprehension? This thread is littered with examples lack o
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by jariel 6y ago
PM is the 'centre of the product' : all the responsibility, but none of the direct power. It's an important job and when done well makes a huge difference. PM's have to have incredibly good 'EI' as they like to
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by jariel 6y ago
People were told by other people in positions of legitimate authority that the election was literally stolen. Effectively meaning that the Republic has been usurped and democracy trampled. Imagine, wherever you live, if some 'bad guys&
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Eric Weinstein's Error(otherlife.co)
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by jariel 6y ago
It's unbelievable that a woman would marry into a 1000 year old family institution an head of state without taking a moment to grasp what that meant. It's so shockingly naive I can hardly believe it. A 'curtsy' for your
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by jariel 6y ago
You can think anything you want. The man had a very difficult upbringing, risked his life fighting Nazis and then did his family duty for the rest of his life. He was witty and funny until the end. Gandhi was a pedophile who slept with youn
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by jariel 6y ago
He was funnier than most comedians.
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by jariel 6y ago
"her actual job should be to bring left and right together in the very controversial, almost unsolvable issues, and get them sorted out." No, definitely not 'bring together'. It's 'stay above'. Even '
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by jariel 6y ago
You're misrepresenting the data, and also it's not refuting my point which is: 'children get COVID and spread it' - which they do, unambiguously. The data was 5 months, starting in January , long before COVID started. T
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by jariel 6y ago
COVID is not a random disease, it's a pandemic infecting many millions of people. The rate of infection is highest among 'younger people' and though their rates of hospitalization are lower, there's still quite a few pe
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by jariel 6y ago
No, kids are 100% a vector of COVID, almost much as any other group. That some cases go without symptoms is besides the point. Kids are almost as likely to get COVID as any other group [1], they are just a lot less likely to die. The epidem
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by jariel 6y ago
"I'm sorry as this does sound like a dismissal, but if there are suggestions about what the system should do differently in this case, I'" Yes, it's completely inappropriate to say 'just take these weird, possi
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by jariel 6y ago
The assertion that 'it spreads among teens who don't get long-COVID' is 'unscientific' on the obvious basis that they become major vectors of spread and infect other people who will get it, some will die. This: &#
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by jariel 6y ago
"Unions can only raise wages by constricting the supply of labor." SAG doesn't make it's 'wage' because production companies are forced to hire from a smaller pool of SAG workers. SAG sets prices. There are act
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by jariel 6y ago
Unions have no value for 'actors making millions'. The union is basically irrelevant to them. The various unions and guilds in film/tv production are there to protect the regular workers who operate in often very irregular an
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by jariel 6y ago
Anyone should be able to lobby. There's nothing overtly nefarious about lobbying. Lobbying is 'telling government about something specific'. Usually in your own interests, but the interests of the people should interest the g
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by jariel 6y ago
In the fight between Athlete's and Team Owner's 'it doesn't matter' to any of us. It's a zero-sum game, they're rich people arguing over surpluses. For commodity workers in industry, without unions it&#x27
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by jariel 6y ago
"Entertainers and sports professionals have unions which do not seem have this problem. " Entertainment and Sports unions exist for completely different reasons. Traditional unions exist because of an asymmetric power dynamic betw
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by jariel 6y ago
This doesn't bode well for Google, but rather, is damming for what is supposed to be one of the richest places on Earth. Just image trying to live on less than $15/hour. The story is full of the standard paradoxes: a) She's b

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