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by lowkey_ 5y ago
While you may disagree with the parent comment's assessment, I don't see a logic where you can agree with Americans on their 1776-era negative rights and argue that human rights should include a lot of positive rights. If you&#x27
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> based on the simple premise that the human condition continues to evolve The human condition under government continues to involve, but we as humans are largely the same. These positive rights, such as entitlement to x provided by y an
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The above commenter is correct, the original question is silly, however much flak they may get as people here love IRC. Do you genuinely believe (1) IRC is anywhere near as usable as Twitter for the general population, or that (2) a real-ti
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I completely agree, a large part of the issue was the ANA's unwillingness to fight, whether out of Taliban sympathies and sabotage or a desire to just go home. The other two choices are ones I firmly believe were misguided, but it&#x27
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I believe advertising works on everyone; if it's really good, you just won't even be able to tell it's advertising or that it's 'working on you.'
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Exiting after 20 years in Afghanistan is a good choice; if we couldn't build a strong US-backed government there in two decades, we never could. The issue that everybody has is the scrambled and disorganized form of the exit, and that&
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I completely agree. For what it's worth, Apple has nothing to gain with this much of a privacy stir, especially when they're accomplishing the same level of detection that other companies accomplish with the simple cloud scanning.
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I edited the post to add images and videos statistics — it's frighteningly common. The numbers are correct and it's shocking and heart-wrenching; here's a linked study [1], but there are many. I went to college in Boston, whe
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Note: not defending Apple's implementation here. > why they enables CSAM in the first place? Apple's privacy measures, such as not scanning your Cloud photos, is what helps enable CSAM. Sexual abusers very often take photos and
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Netflix, Uber, Amazon, PayPal, etc? It's hard to exactly define "first to market." Was Google first to market because they were the first to have a search engine that functioned in the way theirs did, and should we put more p
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WhatsApp for example automatically stores images you receive in your Photos library, so that removes a step, and those will thus be automatically uploaded to iCloud. The one failsafe would be Apple's manual reviewers, but we haven&#x27
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Agree with you. If Monto only works with 'affiliated companies,' at least strike a deal with those companies to take the financial burden off of their low-wage employees. That other YC startup Payflow (that was actually ripping of
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I would mention it if they were his neighbor or a cab driver as well. It's not a matter of respect, but this person simply installed a security system for their safety. They're obviously not extremely technical. They're just
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You made a scene, while intentionally avoiding saying anything that could be construed as a threat (which is generally an attempt at subtle threatening), and you hope that you shook him up. To remove that part: you hope that you shook up a
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> Weeks later I saw him driving by and rode my bicycle next to him in traffic making a scene while saying nothing that could be construed as a threat. He was a little shaken that time I hope. You tried to subtly threaten and shake up the
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I'm unfamiliar with Volcom, but both Forever 21 and Eddie Bauer can be classified as stagnant or struggling along with the rest mentioned in the prior comment. (Additionally, both companies have also gone through bankruptcy proceedings
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> there is no good reason for the U.S. to maintain such a military so giant that it requires massive, counterproductive subsidies to maintain just in-case we need to engage in a massive war. Investing in the military is nothing like buyi
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As a Swedish citizen, I would like to note that we are not socialist — basically nobody in the country wants to be claimed as some example of socialism. The highest income tax rate is nearly equivalent to that of the US. :)
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The plan was for drivers to no longer be a part of the model. Travis's goal for Uber was to achieve self-driving at all costs, and he acknowledged that Uber would inevitably fail as a company if they could not achieve self-driving in o
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> You think inequality is bad now? Can you imagine what it will be like when people can amass power and fortunes for thousands of years? Wealth isn't zero-sum, and so it's always weird to see people arguing about how bad inequa
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I'm not the above commenter, but I imagine this take is not so tinfoil-y. It's due to the Cold War we were experiencing around that time, and the fact that U.S. hegemony was only checked by a truly evil force (in its good nature,
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I'm not an expert on Xi's policy and if there is such a light with which to view those decisions, I'm not privy to it. Kissinger was a man who made a lot of hard decisions, and that meant a lot of controversial decisions — de
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China's rise to superpower is bad. The Soviet Union surviving and spreading its influence to kill millions more is worse. If you actually want to argue that the Holocaust was the better alternative, I'd be interested to hear your
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Sorry, it's more of me being tired of hearing him dismissed as a war criminal with nothing that can be gleaned from him — the comment above claimed he had nothing to teach in geopolitics (I had quoted it). I imagine that nearly everyon
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> I wouldn't trust any of his advice on geopolitics Numerous choices of his as Secretary of State were nearly indefensible, sure, but often as a product of his involvement and meticulous work in every foreign affairs matter, where e