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by pannSun 4y ago
> After careful review Twitter's business is promoting their platform to users, and making money off showing ads to them. Calling whatever automated joke that took place a "careful review" is lying about their platform, ab
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> Are store brands not a think under UK law? Store brands should also be looked at critically, yes. Especially for larger store chains.
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I apologize, I should have included more context. While the quote by Gould is obviously true in a literal sense, Gould himself was in the business of debunking "biological determinism" [1]. In that light, the quote is an admission
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The Chinese can do all the research they like, because the Western political and media classes will have no trouble ignoring them. See for example the polls of anthropologists (not geneticists) limited to the US, confidently proclaiming rac
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> Is it ideal that Americans get squeamish whenever intelligence is brought up? But they don't get squeamish. They confidently claim there is no basis for intelligence (or personality in general) in genetics [1,2], then use any diff
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> There is a depressing # of voices here in this discussion which argue that ignorance is better than search for, however imperfect and fractional, knowledge You are being too generous. They argue for ignorance now , only because they a
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> You don't like it, just don't buy it? The remainder of his post explains why such an individual solution isn't enough: it doesn't stop society as a whole slipping further into total surveillance, until eventually it