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Regardless of the effects, if you are compelled to hand over your children for N hours a day to a state institution, it seems like an extremely reasonable and modest request to at least be informed of what they are taught. "If you kn
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> a man in Alberta being ordered by the court to say specific things about vaccines Could you expand on this? It sounds even more outrageous than this case.
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And it could do so while still giving the owner tamper-evident control. Yet that never seems to happen - security is too good of an excuse for expanding vendor control at the expense of consumers.
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Should we still be outraged about Harvard? What proportion of its students are Jewish, compared to the US overall? It seems the president of Harvard is Jewish*, so it can't be too antisemitic, can it? *In fact, 5 of the 8 Ivy League
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I don't consider explaining motivations as "going to bat" for someone.
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> The incident comes amid reports of an airstrike on a telecom hub It seems deliberate. Easier to wage war without atrocity videos leaking out.
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You keep repeating that, but did anyone say that?
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Most of those are "let's use a traditional style for a third of the building, but the rest remains steel and glass, to show the commoners who's in charge" Some are just... I have no words: https://media1.fdncm
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Running a red light is dangerous, therefore let's remove red lights..
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Has Google bothered giving some excuse for why they block non-signed-in people from even viewing issues?
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Racist school immigration assignment has advocates calling for curriculum change(cbc.ca)
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> At the end of the day, Company X hosts the servers and decides what they host and if Company X don’t want to host some kind of content they won’t. That's very reductive. There are many laws limiting how companies can behave, esp
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Un-paywalled: https://archive.fo/HOfWq
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A major culprit in the wage gap between Blacks and whites is immigration policy(chicagotribune.com)
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Not just intelligence - all of the Big Five personality traits are 40-60% heritable: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5068715/ > That means about 95 percent of the intelligence differences in t
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They already have the authority (if they get a warrant) to bug your home, too. Wouldn't it be so much easier if all homes came with bugs pre-installed (and illegal to remove), and the warrant would just allow the police to remotely act
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"Abstracts of all sort have room for me in them; photorealism doesn't." and the rest of your post heavily implied that the only options are abstract art or photorealism, and doesn't even mention the many different tradit
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Correct. Rejecting modern/abstract art does not limit you to photorealism. In fact, even less stylized classical works rarely strived for mere photorealism, or were judged solely on that basis. For example, I have never seen a photo th
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It's mathematically impossible to avoid infringing on software patents (2012)(techdirt.com)
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> A liquidity crisis is at the heart of the growing catastrophe in Afghanistan. Following the pullout of U.S. forces last August, the country was isolated overnight. The U.S. seized assets from the Afghan central bank and ended transfers
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> The second portion would allow police camera access in “public safety crisis areas,” which would include spaces known for open-air drug markets or where there has been a documented spike in violent crimes. The measure involves privatel
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> I think art should have to pass a test Don't fall into this trap. Art does not need any objective, universal tests or categorizations. It is by its nature subjective and impossible to precisely define or measure. Yes, it is this s
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Take your favorite digital camera, and take a picture the likes of https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdzislaw-beksinski/untitled-1976-... or https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3&#x2F
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Good luck in your campaign. I didn't mean to imply I was opposed to it - I'm well aware of how awful first-past-the-post is, and that nearly any other voting system is better. Have you encountered any organized resistance? I would
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> Jones’s opponents included three other major candidates, two of whom were Black. In the end, the only white candidate in the race, Lyda Crewson, won with just 32 percent of the vote. Far from an aberration in the city’s history, the el
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"If it's free, then you're the product" has long been obsolete. Time to replace it with "If you can't control it, then you're the product".
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You misunderstand me. I'm trying to say that not every Google Play policy is something malware or spam is interested in violating. Let me give a hypothetical example: Suppose there are color contrast requirements, to make buttons eas
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Unfortunately, the study didn't even try to answer the titular question. Instead, it looked at how to trick people to think home assistants are trustworthy. They're studying how to fool and convince people, instead of how to reg
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Why would anything have to change about this article? The developer wasn't accused of spamming or malware. You seem to be saying that if an app fails any Google policy, then that is the same as if it was spamming or malware?
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Because after you spend $N billion catching up to Deere's manufacturing and expertise, they'll suddenly realize that yes, it's essential that farmers be able to control and repair their own equipment, and will use their massi

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