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by qtplatypus 6y ago
The awards where always about political points. It’s just a way for the MPAA to look legitimate. Further more it has never been about the merits of their art. Otherwise Boss Baby would never have got a nomination.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
Because we haven’t gotten to being a colour blind world yet. The Oscars have a long history of being biased towards white people. What is worse since winning a Oscar allows you to vote on the Oscars that bias has been perpetrated.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
Because it creates a positive feedback loop. More police means more incidences of law breaking get detected as crimes, which results in more police enforcement. Imagine a road network and police with a limited number of speed traps. If you
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
This is not unique to Twitch. https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3050211... All entertainment is selling an illusion.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
So basically what Kizuna Ai pretends to be but for real?
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
The accessed names, addresses and medical status. These are all PII and medical information has even higher level of privacy. You want people to use medical services in confidential, it is safer for everyone that if someone suspects that th
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
Which is why you shouldn’t assume people are going to act in good faith. If acting in good faith was universal then we wouldn’t need any form os]f security at all. This is why you have to build systems that assume that there will be bad act
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
I am pretty sure that ATC is trained to sound calm. I’ve been listening to ATC recordings at the worse the emergency is the more calm the controller is. I think it is deliberate to help the pilot concentrate and not panic.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
Also this file (if it existed) was used to justify a business critical decision. Why wasn’t there a paper trail for this file. Why wasn’t this data archived?
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
They couldn’t bring a copyright claim because they don’t own an exclusive license.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
The problem is because the form of unfair competition is copying the copyright act takes charge and the claim must be made under copyright law.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
Also Australia has large amounts of unpopulated flat land. Something that Malaysia doesn’t have.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
Household power prices are not the same as the wholesale rate. Indeed sometimes the wholesale rate is negative. South Australia is $73.25/MWh
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
I would argue that it is censoring. By being more lenient to right wing sources compared to other sources who carry out the same infraction you create a bias and are censoring in favour of those right wing sources.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
YouTube runs at a loss. If it was spun off from google it would not be viable.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
My understanding is that expate communication with the judge or a judges staff in a court case is not legal (unless allowed under very specific situations).
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
Yeah. You can;t just say “no one complained so there wasn’t a problem” licensing radio spectrum is a very expensive.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
Looking for errors in the paper is exactly what peer review and retraction is for. Even if it mimics the form of an academic paper it doesn’t progress the debate if all it is using is already discredited or unsupported. As other commentator
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
So what if the tone is good. The arguments that he made are not supported by the evidence.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
Is zero a number isn’t just a semantic splitting of hairs but has an important outcome. If zero is a number then you can do arithmetic to it. In particular having the concept of zero as a number that you can do maths with is a prerequisite
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
What happens in places that have no sunrise. For example northern Canada during the winter?
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
Can I say “Good”.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
I am going by Blackless‘s research. Even if that figure is wrong Klinefelter syndrome occurs at rate 1-2 per thousand which means that your estimate of one in ten thousand is way out.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
And in the Dominican Republic intersex people are common. It still misses the point though. You can’t dismiss people because they are a minority.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
Yes. We already have lots of problem with invasive species.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
What dragonwriter is writing isn't Critical Gender Theory. In critical gender theory the idea that there exists a gender identity that is independent of society does not exist. See https://heinonline.org/HOL/Landi
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
1.7% of the population are intersex. 2% of the population are blond. Are blonds genetic abnormalities? Can I say “No people have blonde hair” and dismiss all the blonds?
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
This is speculation but if the boy had higher levels of T his body could have already been producing a higher then average amount of estrogen.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
Trans men are not offered estrogen. Which is what the parent is saying.
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by qtplatypus 6y ago
And a child born without hips? Are they genderless?

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