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by jevoten 5y ago
> What steps have you taken to reduce your wages towards the median? The way to reign in employer exploitation is by improving the bargaining position and political power of workers (via laws and unions). Taking a voluntary pay cut is as
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That's the privilege of teachers and school administrations. They get to select which books are taught and available. And if they exclude a book, it isn't "banned", they merely didn't choose it. It's only when
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The point of democracy is to try to make it represent the people. Often, it fails.
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> A nation does this, refuses to reign in the perpetrators, and really believes itself to be the good guy? A government . Large parts of the left and the right are no fans of the CIA. But it's one of those things voters have lost a
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To see the absurd legal overreach of these laws, write "examining how it works" instead of "reverse engineering".
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What about axes other than economic and foreign policy? There are many government policies in effect that large parts of the right strenuously object to. In fact, even on foreign policy, I'd be surprised if the forever wars in the midd
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I don't think such pretty statements count for much, or that users ever put much weight in them. On the other hand, their behavior certainly posed them as a public space.
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Just like when a farmer decides to slaughter a pig for meat, it's because his "priorities changed" after he fattened it up.
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You're assuming that people with accounts don't care if people without accounts can't read their tweets (and can't read them anonymously), and that for some reason reading Twitter doesn't count as "using"
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> The leaked personal information included telephone numbers, dates of birth and, voting intentions and party leanings of over 330,000 individuals affected. Any clue where this data originates? It mentions a client, but what sort of clie
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> Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think any company is obligated to provide unlimited access for free without an account. If you’re trying to scroll deep into conversations or someone’s Tweets, it’s reasonable to expect that yo
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> men are dictating rules on women to help them control their own urges. Which is why movements to ban porn enjoy wide support among Western men...
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> For any Westerners here who seem to have a hard time understanding why this is wrong As opposed to the sexually liberated cultures of Asia, India, or the Middle East? > The point is that those restrictions on women shouldn't be
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As the article states, Neil Young asked his music to be removed, in protest of Joe Rogan being on Spotify. But his music was removed chronologically after his objection, so just like NYT's title [1], it's not technically a lie,
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By 2050, 1/4 of the world’s people will be African – this will shape our future(theguardian.com)
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Germany Needs Immigration of 400k Workers per Year, FDP Says(bloomberg.com)
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As a free speech advocate, I'm opposed to this ridiculous banning* from a school library (Correction: curriculum. It remains available in the library, I believe) (even if it is for puritanical, not anti-semitic, reasons, as the minutes
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Is the title deliberately trying to mislead? It's written to make it sound like he was punished for complaining, instead of leaving voluntarily in protest.
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I attempted to read it, but wasn't able to figure out what analysis exactly was missing or faulty. But I did give up at around page 3. On the face of it, the case couldn't be simpler: Intel had >50% of the market, and paid to e
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What a farce. I can't think of anything more nakedly and obviously anti-competitive than literally paying suppliers not to use your competitor's products. Which raises the question - if that's not enough, then what would be
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> Now suppose FOX says that police have apprehended a suspect, a Saudi immigrant named Abdullah Abdul. They show footage from a press conference where the police are talking about this. Do you believe them? [..] It doesn't matter at
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That's still a war on ownership, just using the law itself as a weapon. But the law is ours to change, and we can withdraw its support of such restrictions, or even forbid them.
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Our own copy of the software, running on our own computer, yet they presume the right to tell us how we may use our property. Another attack in the war on ownership.
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> You want your unpopular ideas to be promoted She didn't say "unpopular". She said those that go against the official narrative , regardless of popularity. > and you think that it's your right. She didn't sa
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It also doesn't reveal the size of the effect, or their sample size. It keeps its cards very close to the chest.
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> Yes it means Volvo now knows all of my travel history. No it doesn't. The features you listed could be implemented without the data reaching Volvo's servers at all, or reaching them in only an encrypted form, to which only
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by jevoten 5y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30047131
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> Drought, Covid-19 and the economic sanctions imposed after the Taliban seized power in August 2021 have had catastrophic consequences on the economy. More on these rarely mentioned US-imposed sanctions: https://theintercept.
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> Chat messages, images, and videos leaked from the server of a white supremacist group called the Patriot Front purport to show its leader and rank-and-file members conspiring in hate crimes, despite their claims that they were a legiti
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by jevoten 5y ago
'Principled' and 'non-partisan' described them better.

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