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by pnako 6y ago
Right now you have the two political parties and virtually all the S&P 500 corporations, all the universities, and most of the media (including social media) actively supporting BLM and being against "systemic racism". I know
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by pnako 6y ago
Do we know that there is actually less concern? I think two "issues" are the relatively better protection against surveillance US citizens have (I wouldn't think it's an issue at all, hence the quotes) and the fact that
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by pnako 6y ago
Note that he did not snub the language but its toolchain. I think they already have enough trouble with Rust in the ports tree that they don't want the same thing in base.
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by pnako 6y ago
It does look like separation is back on the menu in America, so I would not be too quick to claim victory. Look around the world and you will mostly see ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods. It's not by random occurrence.
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by pnako 6y ago
>The facade was a gift from the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II to Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany Should we return all such gifts? Why? Should France claim back the statue of liberty?
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by pnako 6y ago
Yes, the Egyptian collection, including the Rosetta stone, should be returned to France. (Under no circumstance should it be returned to modern Egypt, which doesn't care about ancient Egypt and used the Rosetta stone as construction ma
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by pnako 6y ago
There is an issue with 'diversity in tech' and, among other things, under-representation of African-Americans in STEM. So why are the big tech corporations that are constantly virtue signalling about Black Lives Matter and social
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by pnako 6y ago
France is an administrative concept, Europe a geographic one.
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by pnako 6y ago
In practice, what is done is that big corporations have their headquarters in a few well-developed jurisdictions that have very strong laws to protect their shit (London, New York, etc.) but use shell companies in offshore locations that ju
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by pnako 6y ago
That's not the point. On this particular sub-thread we're discussing his research. You said he has fringe views. I'm just saying that it does not disqualify his research per se. Otherwise, I have no background or in fact inte
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by pnako 6y ago
Your position on this issue is not based on reason or science, but on dogma. Nothing is ever really settled. And certainly not that topic in particular. How could it be, considering how controversial it is? (This very topic is another proof
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by pnako 6y ago
Most great scientists initially have fringe views that eventually become undergraduate textbook stuff. That doesn't mean that everyone with fringe views is a great scientist, of course. But I don't see why that would disqualify hi
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by pnako 6y ago
Differences at the top (and indeed bottom) end of the curve are important, because they might explain differences in achievement in certain professions. There was a recent case with an Italian physicist from CERN getting in trouble for usin
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by pnako 6y ago
So you want to reject someone's will to collect more empirical observations and data on a certain issue... based on empirical observations and data you already have? This makes absolutely no sense. Either we can investigate some issues
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by pnako 6y ago
It makes sense. North Face executives are probably wondering why Facebook allows comments around their beautiful ads in the first place.
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by pnako 6y ago
Paleolithic Europeans, or West-Europeans, would have been fine.
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by pnako 6y ago
A similar new anti hate speech law has just been invalidated in France by the constitutional council (supreme court). The wise men indeed recognized that judging whether or not content is illegal and thus censored should be left to judges,
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by pnako 6y ago
That particular evidence leads to a very small number of individuals. From there it's probably trivial to figure out from other records (phone, credit card, etc.) and testimonies if the person they have was the one shown on one of the
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by pnako 6y ago
A person setting a police car on fire might not be the best judge of character and who best contributes to society. "Keep the immigrants, deport the arsonists"
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by pnako 6y ago
A professional will eventually wear even the best tools. And since they use those tools every day, they can keep an eye on wear. So it's not that crazy for them to use relatively cheap stuff. Plus, a tradesman will also sometimes lose
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by pnako 6y ago
In the west we're still primitives, using infrastructure like roads and supply chain logistics to achieve the same thing.
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by pnako 6y ago
"Xenophobes of all countries, unite!"
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by pnako 6y ago
They don't openly carry handguns.
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by pnako 6y ago
Right now the French police is protesting against their own boss (minister of the interior, Castaner) because he went with the BLM narrative and basically called them racist. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-530220
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by pnako 6y ago
Do you really think we can apply the policing methods of Iceland or Japan to the areas of Mexico where you have cartels chopping up people? Crime and violence are not homogeneous around the world, so I don't think police can be either.
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by pnako 6y ago
Maybe this can set an example for the rest of the nation, then. There have been calls to abolish the police. If Seattle can do it, maybe Atlanta and Minneapolis too. I think that's the right answer: this should be a local decision and
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by pnako 6y ago
Generally their parents are generals or kings, according to my mailbox.
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by pnako 6y ago
I don't see much discussion of root causes here. But a lot of "police ought to be this or that". Perhaps the best solution is to have more democracy or community input into policing. It seems like it's happening now in t
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by pnako 6y ago
It's trivial to lose money by trading outside of the efficient frontier.
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by pnako 6y ago
Nowadays when I connect to Google using the Googlebrowser powered by the Googleprotocols to access the Googlecontent I don't care about weird symbols like 'https', arcane concepts like URLs, etc.

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