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by jevoten 5y ago
> the center begins to shred the papers. No, not "the center", but people with names and addresses that can be served legal papers.
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> Despite this, almost all the company that I worked for in France had non-applicable non-competes agreement in their contract. Legal intimidation. There should be a law against this, like "If a company is notified that part of the
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But ads in real life do mar the landscape, the real world, with their presence. You can drive through the countryside, and have the idyllic rolling hills scarred by a giant poster for the nearest McDonald's. Even in cities, they'r
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That the precise cutoffs are socially constructed does not imply the categorization itself is not biological. It's simply a coarse clustering based on kinship, that can be reproduced without reference to any society. Edit: To the repli
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by jevoten 5y ago
Is this effort shared by, for example, Chinese and Russian geneticists, or is it purely a Western endeavor? Edit: It seems my suspicion was correct, and at least Chinese anthropology does not share the Western aversion to 'race':
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> That doesn't sound all that unreasonable, at first. Selling an item, then selling the repair manual to that item, isn't unreasonable - it's an insult to your customers, and only a few steps removed from extortion. It&#x2
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> If the platform picks and chooses what goes on its platform then it's a publisher, not a platform. As far as I'm aware, picking and choosing, moderation, and editorial decisions, don't waive section 230 immunity. Althoug
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The ones where kids chat about or search for non-school-related, very delicate and private topics, with their teacher digitally looking over their shoulder (to which the stalking software you implied they use would have alerted the students
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I don't take issue with reprimands. I take issue with their conversations being recorded. Which absolutely is different than before, when whispering to a classmate, even during class, would remain reasonably private. Unless a microphon
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Monitoring student-to-student chat and e-mail, even during school hours*, is several steps too far, in my opinion. Like placing microphones at every desk. Such measures may be justifiable only during tests. *Do e-mails or chat messages sent
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When we were doing our virtual learning – we totally stalked what they were doing on Google, when they weren’t doing school work. One of them was googling ‘Trans Day of Visibility.’ And we’re like, ‘Check.’ We’re going to invite that kid w
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> these types of thefts with multiple people running into a store and grabbing items are not new [..] Nor are they isolated to the Bay Area or even to progressive cities But have they become more common recently/in San Francisco?
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Is it an edge case? Thanks to copyright's assault on the public domain, almost everything is copyrighted. Is making a backup of your movies, music, and e-books unusual?
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Dimitry Kochenov: Why we shall abolish citizenship(revdem.ceu.edu)
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My apologies. I had only Microsoft's and Google's browsers in mind.
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Discounting a different product to kill competition? I'm no antitrust expert, but isn't that illegal? If not, it should be.
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Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Especially since the alternatives are openly hostile to FOSS.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images > It goes on to detail the graphic images, which included what appeared to be sexually explicit cartoons of underage boys. As per its legal requirements, Google
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Which domain do you mean? https://snowflake.torproject.org/ ?
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The conspiratorial tone may be because planned obsolescence is literally a conspiracy - a secret plan by the manufacturer (composed of multiple people) for a harmful purpose - causing the early breakdown of a useful good. Unfortunately I do
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> They've traded repairability for cost, which was a good trade. Such a good trade that they publish mean time before breakdown figures, right? And please don't pretend that the only alternative to a fridge with a more durable
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So it's not technological or economical progress, nor economies of scale, that are to be credited with cheap appliances today? It's cost-cutting that we should thank? What if, instead of comparing it to prices from 70 years ago wh
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This article is based on a Reuters report it links to: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/amazon-partnered-with-ch...
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It's unclear from the feature list - could this be used for offline message delivery in group chat? E.g. in a chatroom with 10 participants, when you connect, you receive the messages you missed while you were offline (provided someone
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> But even using only good-faith articles as sources, you can still make your propaganda, it will just be harder. That's what, at their best, most of the media are doing. Presenting well-researched, balanced, truthful stories, caref
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It would help to explain in the readme that VK stands for Vkontakte.
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> pot calling the kettle black Think of it more as Google defending its turf. They want to be the only ones with access to data in bulk, so that if you want to find something, you have to go through them.
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All the options you list seem reasonable to me. The effective differences are subtle, and it's hard to say which is better. C might seem the most permissive, and is the one I'd personally lean towards, but it also forces student
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In this case, 'allow' is in the context of speeches on universities, where of course the universities get to decide who is allowed on their property. It is not a country-wide government restriction, or even censorship by a quasi-m
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Maybe the rules should be seen more as guidelines. Something to aim for to allow a broader range of opinions, but not blindly follow to allow literally everything . In that sense, they're not much different from any other rules about

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