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by rbecker 6y ago
Now do one for consumers, where they can: 1) See when a price is localized, and how it differs in each region, and 2) Choose to pay in whichever region they prefer. If the seller can hop between regions, it's only fair the buyer is abl
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by rbecker 6y ago
Perhaps more relevant than overall US demographics, would be ones for Rhode Island specifically: in 1950, it was 98.1% white, and 1.8% black: https://web.archive.org/web/20100327163842/http://www.census..
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Were they? The wikipedia page is full of [citation needed] around the numbers, so I'm having trouble confirming this.
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The US was also 90% white at the time [1], so one shouldn't be surprised murals would be "predominantly white", even if it wasn't for segregation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_th
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University to remove murals commemorating WWII veterans for lack of diversity(campusreform.org)
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Take a look at the following artists: Zdzislaw Beksinski: https://culture.pl/en/gallery/selected-paintings-by-zdzislaw... Frederic Edwin Church: http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=421
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Both kinds of art can coexist. But do they? In your typical museum, what kind of art do you find in the post-WWII section? I've been to a few, and to say it doesn't compare to what came before doesn't even begin to descr
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by rbecker 6y ago
That's not being fair to Banksy, as his work, whatever you might think of it, is at least an improvement from the likes of Mark Rothko.
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You try to paint this as some ridiculous hypothetical proposition, but it's the status quo in most of the world. What are you even trying to say? Because there are ambiguous edge cases, countries shouldn't look after their own cit
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by rbecker 6y ago
So should we just do away with trials in cases of homicide? Discard any outdated ideas about reasonable doubt or self-defense? Did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Frank_Garrett , executed for a crime that DNA evide
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by rbecker 6y ago
Strange they would bring up Kyle Rittenhouse, but not mention that Facebook is blocking links to donate to his legal defense, effectively impeding him in getting a fair trial (and censoring support pages, so his public perception is likewis
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by rbecker 6y ago
That's because "Protests have been called ‘dangerous’ by chief medical officer, but research shows racism can be as deadly as coronavirus": https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/12
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Key characters must be from under-represented groups They use the movie Parasite as an example, but wouldn't it be disqualified under this standard? It was made in South Korea, and has zero non-ethnically-Korean characters, key
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by rbecker 6y ago
Even if true, Epic does not owe it to Apple to take care that they don't disturb their business. They are, after all, competing companies, and I haven't heard any compelling reason why a court should protect Apple's business.
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by rbecker 6y ago
I was surprised he did not address the issues of loyalty and betrayal. To whom does the state owe its loyalty? To its own citizens first, or to everyone (i.e. no-one)? It's no surprise people feel betrayed when the countries they and t
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by rbecker 6y ago
What do you mean? Can I tell it not to send Tesla any logs? While still getting updates? Can I delete the logs? Can I see what's in the logs? Can I tell it not to create logs in the first place?
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by rbecker 6y ago
One shouldn't need a court order to get data logged by one's own car.
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If the logs were in a nice, user-readable form, tamper-evident, and the user was in control of if the car connected remotely to Tesla, and could examine what is sent, or was at least informed of it, you might have a point.
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by rbecker 6y ago
> your connected car knows when you've hacked it, and it might be logging that data to use against you in a future warranty claim. [..] Nobody except Tesla really knows the answer to this right now, but knowing that my car could pot
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by rbecker 6y ago
Could you explain how that quote was arrived at, specifically the "do not misbehave more than their White peers" part? The article attributes it to https://web.archive.org/web/20200202151016/https:/&
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by rbecker 6y ago
From the letter: Any regulation needs to encourage comprehensive content responsibility, meaning companies are accountable for ensuring their practices and processes do not give undue amplification to harmful and illegal content. Does the
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Facebook blocks links to fundraising for Kyle Rittenhouse legal defense(reclaimthenet.org)
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"It comes very close a lot of the time" doesn't imply the fit is perfect , so minorities are to be expected. And your implication that before WWI, different ethnic groups coexisting peacefully in shared states was the norm,
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*In the US. You won't find quite as much multiculturalism in the cities of India, China, Japan, Turkey, or most of Africa (including North Africa).
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> The nation state does not exist because it describes the places where different ethnic groups live. It comes very close a lot of the time, or decays to that. See the 92% Han China, or the split of Czecho-Slovakia and Yugoslavia along e
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by rbecker 6y ago
Here are two: https://twitter.com/AlphaNewsMN/status/1298352487603286016 https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2020/08/20/black-li...
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by rbecker 6y ago
What a fascinating report. It takes time to name the people wrongly killed by police, detail their deaths, but doesn't mention anyone killed by people who might be associated with BLM. It doesn't bother to so much as give a number
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> It’s a little bit cliche, but also true: to judge a protest by its most violent elements but to decline to do the same of the police is the language of the oppressor. Then lucky us to have the news correct our judgement by withholding
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That makes it no less important to be aware of any bias in reporting. If only journalists that show the protests in a flattering light are allowed to film, then this should be mentioned every time footage from the protests is shown, and a
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by rbecker 6y ago
Open source is not enough, since you have to trust the compiler and hardware the system is running on as well [1,2]. But from the page you linked, the key benefit of that system isn't that it's open source, but that the results ar

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