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by lurk2 2y ago
> Immigration policies are way stricter now Do you have any evidence of that? Have there been changes in legislation, specific directives issued? > some countries are issuing warnings for people traveling to the US In the case of Germ
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Can you point to any specific policy changes or case studies?
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> Things are changing and they're changing fast. What has changed?
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I’ve certainly noticed this in film and interior design (most AirBnBs will have a familiar grayscale palette), but the opposite trend has occurred in software. Windows 2000 was far less colorful than Windows 10, which in turn had a more sat
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Sponsorships (unless demarcated "includes paid promotion") I believe this policy came about due to FTC legislation that came into effect some time in the late 2010s or early 2020s. There was definitely a period in the 2010s w
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> A kurgan is a type of tumulus (Burial mound) constructed over a grave, often characterized by containing a single human body along with grave vessels, weapons, and horses. Originally in use on the Pontic–Caspian steppe, kurgans spread
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They get flagged because they have nothing to do with the forum’s subject. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfall
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> and which youtube doesn't really have power over. I can’t be certain but I remember sponsorships and other monetization methods being against the rules from 2005 to around 2010. Everything had to be done through the official affil
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Interesting, I had never seen this view before. All but one of those submissions, however, appear to be off-topic; they are being flagged because they are not pertinent to the forum’s subject. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or
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> Did you stop reading at the end of that sentence you quoted? I read and ignored it because when I see people making claims like this it sounds conspiratorial. You have been here a while, though, so I’ll assume you know how the rank alg
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> You can see it on this story This story is on the front page and stories like it have been on the front page almost every day since last October.
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> But HN is an increasingly difficult place to discover such stories, what with the systematic flagging brigades. What stories are getting flagged?
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>one of the biggest factors One of the biggest factors of what?
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> This is the US health system being lead by a bunch of woo-woo people who don’t understand how research works. The majority of the developed world does not fluoridate their water supply. The US has one of the highest rates of fluoridati
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> Maybe the US should look into how other countries have solved it? How have other countries solved it?
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> Not having ledger or any complex/efficient system of writing or recording data at all did, though. Why do you consider that to be a limitation? They conquered the extent of what they could feasibly reach and then held onto it unti
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by lurk2 2y ago
> many people don't really have a grasp of the state of things at the time. > If someone is unaware that these were ubiquitous, they have no understanding of the time period. I suspect the reason you are obliquely implying I am i
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> And? And he is clearly not celebrating this violence, he’s saying he is fascinated by it. Would you feel this way about a woman telling you she watches a lot of True Crime documentaries? I consider both interests to be perverse; it jus
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> That “someone is wrong” link[3] is an introduction (nine-part series) where the introduction polemically critiques Terminal Narrative. I read these posts years ago and they are even worse than I remember them being. If these rebellions
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The comment reads differently given the context, so I’m not sure why you felt it appropriate to post it without that context. He continues: > My main takeaway from the book is that the Aztecs were a highly unique civilization that I desp
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> I'm not sure how it isn't true at all when we agree that other governments at the time had much more sophisticated administration. We don’t agree about that. I am saying that they may have lacked technical sophistication inso
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> And yet part of me thinks it was totally awesome. That portion of my brain that grew up on Total War and Civilization games thinks the concept of a small number of hyper-technologically sophisticated foreigners led by a verified psycho
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> When Florida was captured some were lucky enough to be evacuated to Cuba and other Spanish colonies Interesting. Do you have any further reading on this topic? I had never heard about it.
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> I haven't read a good explanation for why it is so. Iberians bred with the people they conquered. The Spanish in particular practiced an intentional policy of breeding a caste of illegitimate mixed-race offspring that would mediat
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> They were relatively well organized compared to neighboring people, but they weren't particularly well organized compared to many other places in the world at the time. This isn’t true at all. The Inca were not as technically soph
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> One interesting thing is how the Incan organizational capability mostly vanished. The original empire was really extremely well organized, but today's Bolivia and Peru don't show any particular aptitude in this direction. All
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> What's the "ROI" of a well rounded populus that gets along and doesn't want to kill each other? Calculable. > What's the "ROI" of creating beautiful works of art, or producing great culture? The ac
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> You definitely shouldn't go to college if you don't have the aptitude or motivation, but you should go to some sort of trade school: electrical, carpentry, plumber, etc. Why are you assuming they would fair any better in trad
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> Users of android phones have little hope to run a program from 5 years ago, or to roll back a bad update in an era full of bad updates. This is also true of iOS. What alternative would you propose?
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> Do you know why it's hard to get national student debt figures for Europe If you’re implying that student debt doesn’t exist in Europe because schooling is “free” for everyone you are wrong. Plenty of European countries don’t prov

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