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by mxxc 5y ago
or, worse, someone who is a fellow at the "victims of communism memorial foundation", like it's not a completely bogus entity. literally any article on the topic this week (and plenty before) has him as the only source.
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by mxxc 5y ago
the "uyghur problem" for china is that there is an ethnic minority that is substantially poorer than the average, worse educated, less integrated and some of which has been involved in terrorist attacks. this is the same thing tha
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by mxxc 5y ago
let's first address the heart of the matter, as i've said in a few comments: i think it would be great to have an explanation from china on what the hell is actually going on in xinjiang, and if those claims are correct, i obvious
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by mxxc 5y ago
there are a few rhetorical tricks here. what am i denying exactly? the genocide? yes i am. it's not a genocide. there isn't a planned extermination of uyghurs going on. there have been planned exterminations of armenians from anat
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by mxxc 5y ago
this is the same question that china asks when confronted with the uyghur problem. they believe they are fighting terrorism and extremism and those camps are (part of) the solution. we can disagree with them – and if the extreme claims abou
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by mxxc 5y ago
they're not ignoring it, plenty of countries have been recognising it. the issue is that much of the available information isn't exactly reliable, a lot of the research comes from one single person (an ultra-christian extremist),
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by mxxc 5y ago
the best cities in the world by work life balance are always the ones where you can happily spend your non-working time freezing to death :)
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by mxxc 5y ago
i think once most PGP implementations rely on public key servers + key signing a "global web of trust" is a first principle, while the "small web of trust" really isn't
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by mxxc 5y ago
doesn't that apply to PGP too? you could still have a key logger or malicious kernel modules or whatever.
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by mxxc 5y ago
i don't think the web of trust as a "first principle" is necessarily a good thing. it made sense a while ago perhaps, but nowadays it's just overkill. there are several use cases where either you want to keep a closed lo
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by mxxc 5y ago
i think the main problem with PGP has to do with its general usability, and often wrappers, GUIs etc. are mere workarounds to its UX flaws. like the article says, it's not much more than a swiss army knife and for many of the uses that
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by mxxc 5y ago
the literal meaning of that sentence is "i am a roman citizen", i.e. today's transposition would be "i am a norwegian national". nothing to do with the colour of his skin or latinx or whatever. edit: worth noting th
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by mxxc 5y ago
it's several people's perspective. labelling authors and personalities according to 2021 america's standard of race is a bit ephemeral, as it assumes that a. everybody agrees with america's definitions b. those definitio
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by mxxc 5y ago
i agree with all of the above. i learned that alexandre dumas had caribbean ancestry in this article. would have been more interesting to add more details, like the fact that his "caribbean ancestry" was due to a nobleman marrying
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by mxxc 5y ago
in most recorded history people have been writing things the way they wanted to, which is why we encounter a lot of different spellings of the same names, and in several languages occasionally we'd get this or that corruption. it could
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by mxxc 5y ago
tomato tomato. "identifying as" is also a modern mostly anglo-saxon concept. the world is much more complex than individual egos.
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by mxxc 5y ago
i find it interesting that these days many articles emphasise (lack of) diversity within a given topic and then introduce some biases themselves that will inevitably skew their results, e.g. in this case focusing the bulk of the work on eng
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by mxxc 5y ago
the parnasses?
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by mxxc 5y ago
the funny thing is that many jobs that aren't particularly real-life-interaction-demanding were never considered as potentially remote and still have people getting infected in their offices. at least for those that were open to the po
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by mxxc 5y ago
not sure if you're italian but to add insult to injury italians themselves complain about EU fund usage in the south :) it is true however that between arrest and initial prosecution the justice system in italy is very trigger happy (w
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by mxxc 5y ago
no not really. the study says that one of the two groups was instructed to wear masks. it's the people outside that were only recommended to do so. half of them reported always wearing them and only a small minority reported never doin
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by mxxc 5y ago
no idea where you live but since masks have been enforced everywhere here (including: the beach, hiking trails, walking alone at night), with the police actually checking people, we've had 3 subsequent waves of covid. i'm only tal
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by mxxc 5y ago
> They studied the efficacy of "wear a mask" recommendations. Not mask wearing itself. as far as policy is concerned, these two are equivalent
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by mxxc 6y ago
i've heard that before ;)
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by mxxc 6y ago
>Funny timing, as it seems the local government is starting to crack down on dumpster divers in the name of "collecting recycling data": https://www.ccma.cat/324/barcelona-estrenara-contenidors-int ... iron
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by mxxc 6y ago
what's with the matplotlib hate on this post? it's an extremely mature piece of technology, but maturity itself isn't the only reason why libraries like ggplot and altair aren't the default choice for python plots. as pe