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by pannSun 4y ago
> It’s safe to say the investment was amply repaid: by the end of 2021, the EU had signed €71 billion worth of confidential contracts, securing up to 4.6 billion doses of vaccines (more than ten doses for each European citizen).
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by pannSun 4y ago
By now it should be obvious. Boomers are acceptable targets, so they don't get protection.
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by pannSun 4y ago
Oh it's useful - it's just that the stated purpose doesn't match the intended purpose.
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by pannSun 4y ago
> Why not take it on good faith that this work was guided by research that asked more blind people than you have? Since they propose to replace Hispanic with Latinx, a term that most Hispanics reject [1], such faith is unwarranted. >
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by pannSun 4y ago
> Committed to a cause, lives up to one's commitments, committed a patch, etc. It's so easy. Almost every word has positive and negative connotations. Find such a word in your opponent's vocabulary, claim they intended the
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by pannSun 4y ago
> I would not have survived the last few years if I had characterized my impairments as being abnormal and negative. [..] Happy to answer any questions if you have ‘em! Why not? I have several traits I consider abnormal, and some I consi
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by pannSun 4y ago
> Instead of "blind review", consider using "anonymous review". Context: Unintentionally perpetuates that disability is somehow abnormal or negative, furthering an ableist culture. But.. disability is abnormal and n
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by pannSun 4y ago
From that thread: Some were domestic takedowns of, say, QAnon accounts So it was not limited to foreign government operations (or to QAnon, since it is phrased as a mere example).
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by pannSun 4y ago
I will take a guess: German man raided by police after calling politician a “dick” on Twitter - https://reclaimthenet.org/german-man-raided-by-police-after-... German prosecutors raid far-right AfD's headquarters -
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by pannSun 4y ago
With the recent exception of COVID, there has not been a significant reduction of even legal immigration during the periods when the supposedly "anti-immigration" party was in power.
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by pannSun 4y ago
I wonder if the realization that control over the media is a non-benign power will remain limited to TikTok/China. Are people willing to admit that the media they were immersed in could also not have had their best interests in mind?
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by pannSun 4y ago
> if this is such a clear ToS violation then maybe it shouldn’t have been approved? Maybe user software shouldn't be enforcing arbitrary ToS, but should instead obey the user? Do we really want corporations colluding with each-other
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by pannSun 4y ago
> HOAs are great and necessary for maintaining common property There is a fundamental, qualitative difference between rules and obligations for maintaining common areas, versus private ones. That for some reason both fall under the &quot
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by pannSun 4y ago
The US constitution requires that treaties be kept secret, even from congress, during negotiations? I'd like a citation on that, and an explanation on why wikipedia implies the secrecy around TPP as unusual - if such secrecy were so st
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by pannSun 4y ago
But the new house that you will have to buy will also be cheaper. On average, you are no worse off.
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by pannSun 4y ago
> “But our work shows that before success comes connection between the student and others in her peer community. From high-quality peer relationships within the academic environment, especially relationships with peers who share a commo
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by pannSun 4y ago
So it should be 16, not 15 or 14? And should the age of consent match it? Since kids are so mature and responsible by that age. Edit: Oh, and they should be able to sign up for the Army at that age, too? The voting age was lowered from 21 t
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by pannSun 4y ago
> You seem to be hinting that [..] younger voters have worse decision making abilities I'm not hinting at it - I'm saying so outright. Have your decision-making abilities not progressed since you were 16? > How do you get
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by pannSun 4y ago
It's so strange. If it was food or clothes or medicine, cheaper prices would be obviously good. Who can we thank that shelter getting more affordable has become a bad thing? I'm guessing here, but probably the same people reaping
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by pannSun 4y ago
The text of the treaty was kept secret even from congress [0], and to read it, they had to request the exact (single) chapter ahead of time, and were not allowed to bring any means of copying into the room where they read it in solitude. If
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by pannSun 4y ago
> It's why we don't let them vote (or don't seriously talk about it). How I wish that were true: Dems in several states push measures to lower voting age to 16 - https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems
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by pannSun 4y ago
There's a step between making untamperable black-boxes, and designing for repairability: don't use anti-tampering measures, and make available the code, schematics, and documentation the company itself uses for repairs.
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by pannSun 4y ago
> End users are free to remove them. Let's not pretend we don't know the power of defaults, or that we expect users to learn about and modify the obscure and technical innards of their browsers. Even expert users can be fooled,
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by pannSun 4y ago
> the fact that, 150+ years after 1868, a reputable source is can bin by {Black, Hispanic, White} and get a distinct signal is mind-boggling Is it really? Compared to how long people have been competing along tribal lines, 150 years is l
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by pannSun 4y ago
> The most obvious change in American politics this century is the sorting of voters along educational lines. [..] Voters with impressive educational credentials tend to be Democrats, and those without them lean strongly Republican. This
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by pannSun 4y ago
CAs that you choose to trust are more trustworthy than those you are compelled to trust. See RobotToaster's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33967192
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by pannSun 4y ago
While 'bricked' is inaccurate (they are merely unsupported, with no way of fixing them when they fail), think of this case when someone says insisting on free software and the right to repair is merely "ideological".
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by pannSun 4y ago
They're mandating who your privately-owned computer must trust. That is a severe overstepping of boundaries, and the concern shown is, if anything, too small.
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by pannSun 4y ago
> What do you expect the AI to answer with when you give it a loaded question that only really asked on a site like "stormfront.com"? Are such questions asked only on stormfront? The wiki article [1] cites quite a few studies
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by pannSun 4y ago
Interesting. I did a few web searches, but they failed to find something as basic a the average IQ by race. The wikipedia article [1] admits differences were found (including by the APA), yet doesn't show the results, except for A 200

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