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by nhchris 4y ago
More context: The police who killed Tyre Nichols were Black. But they might still have been driven by racism - https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/27/opinions/tyre-nichols-mem...
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So long as you pretend it stops below the human neck, you can teach all the evolution you want.
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It's a lost battle. Teachers have decided what and how they want to teach, and no matter how democratic, legislation is too blunt a tool to change course. The long march through the institutions was a stunning success, and they're
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Unapproved book? You mean something like White Identity by Jared Taylor? Or do you mean "unapproved" that you can find on Amazon and every other online or offline bookstore? Everyone's against book bans, until it's a boo
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Keep in mind this is written by an immigrant to France, saying natives opposed to yet more immigration are fascists, and he will exclude them from career opportunities. I am reminded of Troy - once you let a few in, they will force the gate
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The hardest thing about hiring is avoiding the fash(wingolog.org)
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> If you make that pen available to me under these conditions? Sure. Let's leave aside whether the law (in whatever country) permits such a one-sided contract, and ask - should it permit it? There are plenty of contract terms that
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Why would you need to sign anything when you leave?
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> but then the EU came along and decided we needed to privatize There'd be a lot less anti-EU sentiment if there was a bright line against meddling with what should be internal affairs of sovereign states, instead of growing like a
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For example, as an immigrant to France, speech against immigrants in France is not simply an abstract topic to me. It means that my existence does not have the same value as someone that was born there. [..] now more than ever, when it com
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> asking them to “acknowledge” what they’ve done and “change” their ways through restorative justice-type exercises undoubtedly chills student speech. This precedes speech. This is the right to read . Stallman's essay [1] needs an
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> To date, I have not seen any positive evidence of these expensive policies and the _very expensive_ consultants who are hired to enforce them. The positive effect is reducing the firm's legal risk if they are accused of discrimina
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Future judges for the highest courts come from Yale and schools like it. With students like these, the 1st amendment won't stand for long.
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I assume that means if I resell phones after putting a privacy-first ROM on them, or make a messaging app that doesn't get preinstalled by vendors or isn't available through either Google's or Apple's walled garden store
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> I think the HN headline is misleading by omitting this distinction. You make a secure messaging service/protocol/app. It takes off, getting 100k+ users. The police send you a letter (gag order included) informing you 10 of th
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Where was this aversion to using anecdotal events to fuel a narrative when it was exploited by BLM? #SayTheirNames https://www.cbsnews.com/news/say-their-names-list-people-inj... https://www.newyorker.com&#x
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It's dangerous to assume context and intent when writing a law will limit how that law, once passed, is applied. Because they won't. And there's a lot of "not available commercially" language in there, that makes me
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> Similarly, when individuals are found in possession of such a device, it may not be possible to prove their knowledge or intent to the thresholds required to convict them, despite the difficulty of identifying legitimate uses for such
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How is this not textbook false advertising?
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I'll eat the pages of the law if anyone can find a clause that calls for quotas(latimes.com)
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The preferred term is race- conscious . But this caught my eye: > Race: non-White Usually it's not so direct, and they'll write something like "Black, indigenous [no, ethnically French people living in France don't co
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> I don't see why this deal shouldn't go ahead. Because the companies are already giant behemoths abusing market power, and further consolidation will only make it worse? Turn the question around: why should it go ahead? Will
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> Boyea-Robinson helps companies, government agencies, and other organizations meet goals for diversity and equity through her consulting firm, CapEQ. And you better hire her, or every disproportionality in your customer base, employees,
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Related, but not prosecuted: https://twitter.com/BIPOCracism Because the attacks this hate causes are "random".
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You seem to fundamentally misunderstand the grouping I used. They are countries with population crises, divided by whether they're solving them with immigration or not. That's it. So why would Japan's crisis being worse than
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China's fertility rate is at 1.7, same as the UK and Netherlands, and lower than the US's 1.8. Their annual growth rate has been <1% since 1994, and they've just had their first year of population decline . Meanwhile the
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The combined population of the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, and the EU is 916 million. Let's be generous and say they're all "solving" their population crises with immigration. The combined population of Chin
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> it's arrogant and selfish to assume that everybody has a stake in AI research I didn't assume anything, just described the likely consequence of your preferences.
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Yet another article that believes low birthrates of the Japanese nation can be solved by adding foreign people to the Japanese landmass .
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The next question is what the setting is called. If it's something like "Allow connections only from trustworthy browsers", then plenty of the guilt should still fall on MS.

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