nhchris

33 ms·

331.
Why Israel Became a Safe Haven for Russian Billionaires(forbes.com)
3 points by nhchris 4y ago|0 comments
332.
by nhchris 4y ago
That's blank-slatist pseudoscience that has been repeatedly and thoroughly debunked. What makes a German 'German' is as much, if not more so, about ancestry as it is about culture. After all, their culture has changed dramat
333.
by nhchris 4y ago
> There are ways to support immigration without ceding one's country to foreigners. I am not suggesting they import 50 million people overnight. You're just suggesting they do it slowly. Salami slicing to the same conclusion.
334.
by nhchris 4y ago
> countries like Japan have bad immigration policies Bad in the sense that they can have a shrinking population without ceding their country to foreigners, without sacrificing their nationhood on the altar of economy? As you say, we are
335.
by nhchris 4y ago
There's a saying they like to throw around: When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
336.
by nhchris 4y ago
> How does a woman not know this? How often is this issue even hinted at in popular culture?
337.
by nhchris 4y ago
Fertility rate in: Yemen 3.5, Iraq 3.5, Afghanistan 3.9 Fertility rate in: Sweden 1.8, Norway 1.7, Denmark 1.8, United Kingdom 1.7
338.
by nhchris 4y ago
This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_environmen...
339.
Arnon Milchan(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nhchris 4y ago|0 comments
340.
by nhchris 4y ago
Somehow, as soon as you connect environmental strain to population size, not just lifestyle, ecological problems disappear and Earth is doing just fine.
341.
by nhchris 4y ago
10 minutes in and the video is yet to explain how a large population doesn't burden the environment more than a small one. Instead, all that time was spent explaining how racist it is to worry about overpopulation. I did not watch any
342.
by nhchris 4y ago
I don't know how much weight courts currently place on click-through contracts, but given how many such contracts we "agree" to in modern life, how impenetrable their jargon is, and how often they change, we should be extreme
343.
by nhchris 4y ago
On the other hand, obesity is far less a problem in some countries, e.g. Japan, and they didn't get to where they are with drugs.
344.
by nhchris 4y ago
> Far from taking anything away, Congress was proposing protecting children from harmful content (the Kids Online Safety Act) [KOSA] I haven't looked into the other legislation mentioned, but it sounds reasonable, and shouldn't
345.
by nhchris 4y ago
It's hard to argue something isn't public if the only barrier is making a free account. But whether a court will be sensible about it is a different question, I agree.
346.
by nhchris 4y ago
> “Predatory apps that expose users to financial fraud, data theft and a number of other dangers abound on the internet, both from India and other countries. While Google holds itself accountable for the apps on Play Store and scans for
347.
by nhchris 4y ago
Wasn't there a recent court decision* that explicitly ruled scraping to be legal? In any case, anti-scraping feels like a form of DRM - a company wants to make some data effectively public (in this case requiring only a free account),
348.
by nhchris 4y ago
> Shein has repeatedly come under fire for just about everything you can do wrong with a company, including [..] high levels of toxic chemicals in its clothing Comparative advantage: outsource your industry to someone that can do it chea
349.
by nhchris 4y ago
> As part of our commitment to data security and privacy If they had any commitment to privacy, the plates would come with an owner-adjustable password, so that, if desired, owners could stop the manufacturer from reading their GPS. Bu
350.
by nhchris 4y ago
> Nothing new here, of course. Giving software to everyone has long meant giving it also to the Kims of North Korea, the Al-Assads of Syria, and, in an earlier era of software history, to the Apartheid regime of South Africa. Couldn&#x27
351.
by nhchris 4y ago
Does that mean employees can sue their ex employers for wage-theft if they can plausibly show they e.g. worked extra hours without compensation? Or is this one of those cases where it only works one-way?
352.
by nhchris 4y ago
As employers have the option to learn more about us through various data brokers, salary could be adjusted to all sorts of factors. Do you spend less on heating due to a small or well-insulated home? Salary cut. Save on gas by biking to wor
353.
by nhchris 4y ago
It's okay for private companies to spy on us and restrict our activities, in pursuit of their own profit, so long as it's to fight piracy... or for security. Or telemetry so they may better serve the consumer. Or really any excuse
354.
by nhchris 4y ago
Could you elaborate? Facebook won't show the video without logging in.
355.
by nhchris 4y ago
> There's a difference between funding research and funding development and manufacturing. The 97% figure from the study is for research and development. As for manufacturing, they would recoup that from selling the vaccine at&#x2
356.
by nhchris 4y ago
Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine research ‘was 97% publicly funded’ - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/15/oxfordastraz... It would be nice to see a similar analysis for Moderna's
357.
by nhchris 4y ago
Wealth already compounds forever due to inheritance.
358.
by nhchris 4y ago
[2] wasn't meant as a question, but as a demonstration that who is tolerant or intolerant can be, in some cases, entirely subjective. Apply some clever rhetoric to make your opponent the intolerant one, and you not only win the debate,
359.
by nhchris 4y ago
That would explain taxes, and to some degree regulations, not taking away control entirely.
360.
by nhchris 4y ago
Is it really a paradox? If intolerant [1] societies become tolerant despite not only letting the intolerant speak, but with intolerance the dominant ideology, then surely a tolerant society can remain tolerant while allowing intolerant spee

More ›