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by like_any_other 2mo ago
If we're going to claim restricting mail-in voting is an assault on democracy, it's very relevant that the great majority of countries we call democracies also do it.
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
Having a country is now "reverse DEI". Good to know.
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
Nearly every country in the world restricts mail-in voting (context that is predictably omitted from the article [1]): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_voting [1] At least from the first six paragraphs that I was a
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
> economic efficiency can be overcome by political will It was political will that created that economic efficiency, that you're now trying to convince us is just a fact of nature. > Economic nationalism and high tech are incompa
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
"To make conversation productive, please explain how outsourcing your strategic industry and know-how to geopolitical rivals and enemies is a threat." You have a funny definition of "productive".
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
You don't consider them your adversary, while they strong-arm your corporations to invest in China [1] instead of your own country (this becomes "we have to manufacture in China, we don't have the capability here!"), des
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
3. China was not stupid enough to rely solely on the free market to develop strategic industries. A few deliberately old sources to show this is not a sudden new development: Back in 2014, the central government set up the China National I
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
Meanwhile you still can't buy most food without tons of plastic wrapping it, unless you go to a farmer's market. The only problem this regulation actually addresses is not enough paperwork being generated.
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
The article is full of guilt-by-vague-association, and never explains what exactly his antivaccine views are. > He has headed pediatric neurology divisions at Brown and Tufts University and published research on epilepsy and autism. [..]
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
> Russian misinformation that was able to capture a large part of the population, mainly older people. 'Capturing' the population is worthless. Anti-immigration sentiment has 'captured' the UK, to the point that in ev
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
If they're so pro-Russian, then they're not xenophobic enough .
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
Maybe you trust the hardware and software and firmware to not be malicious or negligent (currently such assurances are extremely rare [1], so it's hard to overstate what a step up in security just this bare minimum would be), but what
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
Oops, I just submitted this story, but linked to the substack instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406296 It should probably be merged somehow?
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China Is Building AI Models of American Voters(nataliegwinters.substack.com)
4 points by like_any_other 2mo ago|1 comments
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
There's no direct connection, only noting the spread of censorship. The more places that censor, the worse it is, since there are fewer refuges for free speech.
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
In this hypothetical, my grandpa didn't patent this way to cure diabetes (otherwise the company would owe him royalties, assuming the patent hadn't expired). So it reduces to a corporation selling services based on public-domain k
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
> As mentioned elsewhere, this is also IP theft on a massive scale. Scanning a legitimately purchased book is IP theft? How can he hold such a copyright-maximalist view, and at the same time defend the Internet Archive?
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
Getting a list of emails from a website by guessing a predictable ID gets your house raided by the FBI and a criminal conviction for accessing a computer without authorization [1]. Why isn't fingerprinting treated the same? And I mean
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No Warrant, No Reason, No Notice: Canada's New Disconnect Power(foundationforfreedomonline.com)
3 points by like_any_other 2mo ago|0 comments
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
> I mean if people want to have a distinct culture or ethnicity they will or will not as they desire. Yes, and they usually want to form a state based around this identity. I suppose you don't consider that desire legitimate. But
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
'Monopoly' is the wrong term. It's abuse of market power.
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
A good reminder that the corporate-controlled device in your home can be used to spy. Only on your behalf, of course.
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
> The internet solves every problem the nation-state purports to. Nations organize themselves into states to protect and promote their interests, including their existence as cultural and ethnic groups, from competing states (and other d
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
> This exists for a very good reason. They find a good reason for every little piece of control or privacy they take from you.
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
> Accurate as in someone said it? Centuries ago, people were worried that if the number of horses increased at the current rate.. "Someone" being a population expert. Of course, "if we do nothing about it" is implied
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
> Your framing of the stories is interesting: * "UK arrests were also for stickers" - surely there must be a point where we stop someone putting racists stickers everywhere. The post I replied to claimed "The UK wrongthink
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
Because I would rather parents make the minimal effort [1] to restrict which pages their children visit and how often, than legally require every website and game to deanonymize, surveil, and censor their users. Which includes not just Face
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
> Most of what you described is just disinformation though “We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066” is accurate: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/white-briton... Burning the Koran is
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
The UK arrests were also for stickers with: slogans such as “Reject white guilt”, “Nationalism is nurture”, “We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066” and “Diversity – designed to fail, built to replace” - https://www.theg
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by like_any_other 2mo ago
I.e. they establish the framework for censorship and deanonymization by making everyone else responsible for child-safety, except the person that should be setting up the parental controls - all they get to do is select a "child&quot

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