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by nhchris 4y ago
Legal clarity and strict limits are not mutually exclusive. Nor do many European politicians pepper their speeches with "nation of immigrants" and "diversity is our strength", and when a mere million refugees came from t
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Unless "plenty" is ~100 million, then yes, they are. E.g. Italy has only 4.6% immigrants from outside Europe, and Ukraine has only 1.7% of non-European-origin ethnic groups. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
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Even supposing children are raised communally by the tribe, female fertility rapidly declines post-30, and falls off a cliff post-35: https://www.britishfertilitysociety.org.uk/fei/at-what-age-d... So you have very few
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> I guess in europe, Chat GPT is just center of the political map. Depends on the question. Most countries in Europe are a lot more restrictive on immigration than the US, but socialized healthcare is common.
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> Journalism is largely what makes people distrust the news. Omitting, minimizing, or highlighting a fact are all ways journalists and editors play to the narratives. Even your definition of 'reporting' can be (and is) easily a
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> I think that a revolution—a socialist revolution—will break down the family structure as we know it now. The woman, being freed from her menial position, either as the lowest-paid worker or as household slave, will be out of the home m
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> The phenomenon of regulatory capture is a problem, but to those who think non-specialist judges are a problem I'm not sure if there could ever be a coherent solution. Researchers, academics, or even ex-employees in a field are bet
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The countries, or their representatives in the EU parliament? Because local elections are separate from the EU ones, so it's entirely possible for their opinions on legislation to diverge.
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"Google creates a new Privacy Sandbox feature for Android" deceptively implies it improves privacy, when it does just the opposite. Journalists should pick apart lies, not parrot them.
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Yes, they can always stuff you into a cage when they catch you. That doesn't mean we should live in a cage full-time. As I and the sibling comment said, let's not make it easy for them. The USSR did break up, and tyrannical govern
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> This is not a matter of ideology but of pragmatics. Ideology is just long-term pragmatics. "Just use Chrome it's the better browser, Firefox is slow -> Oh no Chrome is crippling ad-blockers!"
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It's more than just fees and surveillance. It means you need permission for each transaction. Permission to buy a loaf of bread, a taxi ride, a train ticket. And even Canada does things such as freeze protester's bank accounts wit
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So how are those underwater pyramids formed naturally?
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Something to keep in mind when accusing people of overreacting to "minor" data leaks, such as a little extra metadata here, some telemetry there... they add up. And one day, you might have to do something actually important, and t
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There's a big difference between "the US government likes to do this sort of thing" and "here's evidence of something specific they did recently, that Twitter had publicly denied". If you're already starti
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> We learned nothing The following came to light as a result of Musk's release of the Twitter files: Covid-19 Drugmakers Pressured Twitter to Censor Activists Pushing for Generic Vaccine - https://theintercept.com/2
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Banned by Amazon, and now from school library shelves too? And that's on top of their foundation being deplatformed by all credit cards. They really don't want us reading White Identity by Jared Taylor. Oh, it's about Handmai
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> Most people commenting here haven’t lived in a pre-globalized world. You're probably using "globalization" as "trade, communication, and, to a lesser extent, travel, on a global scale". They're using &quot
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In addition to the sibling comment, there's also the question of whether it's only a free trade agreement, or if it also makes other demands. For example, NAFTA allows corporations to sue governments, expanded copyright, cancell
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Yes it is: Voice Tech's patents, according to their abstract, involve "receiving audio data from [a] mobile device at the computer. The audio data is decoded into a command. A software program that the command was provided for is
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DMCA and copyright are by far not the only reasons Youtube bans accounts and videos.
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> I was astonished a foreign entity can stop the world watching something While I'm just as displeased with India censoring stuff for the rest of us, keep in mind that for most of the world, Google/YouTube is that censorious
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If one filter (not enrolled->enrolled) brings them from 2% to 10%*, it's not beyond possibility that another filter (graduate->undergraduate) would bring another 5x increase. But I'd guess 53% is probably at least a slight o
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> Same reason people aren't interested in objectively discussing the 'harms and benefits' the USSR brought to Poland Because it's politically useful to demonize their enemies, got it. In any case, if someone openly
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Am I reading that correctly, that you're required to submit to a corporate guilty-until-proven innocent court, for vital payment network access?
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> Nearly half of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were recruited athletes, legacy students, children of faculty and staff, or on the dean’s interest list—applicants whose parents or relatives have donated to Harva
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One more nail in the West's fertility crisis coffin.
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Imagine someone saying the objective truth, regardless of what tortured implications someone wrings from it. For example, the Wikipedia article on a different colonial empire, the Umayyad caliphate, is positively aglow with all the good it
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"Pride as well as shame" is not "ends as well as means", it is "it caused good as well as bad".
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> Everything to do with colonialism = bad European colonialism. Take a look at Wikipedia's article on Muslim-colonized Spain, and it's almost nothing but praise. The entire opening section doesn't even mention the slave

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