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‘We will prosecute’ employers who help immigration sweeps, California AG says(sacbee.com)
6 points by rbecker 6y ago|0 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
For the benefit of readers less willing to selectively ignore statistics: non-Hispanic whites are 2.4x more likely than blacks to be killed by police (2.7x more if counting only unarmed deaths), per committed homicide. Sources: https:&#x2F
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by rbecker 6y ago
Could you quantify that imbalance? How many are killed by police, compared to the number of committed homicides (used as proxy for rate of legitimate police interventions), by race?
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by rbecker 6y ago
Your peers might be wondering why the only killings that become high profile, are those of people of color.
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by rbecker 6y ago
> “warrant-proof” encryption Like “warrant-proof” rooms and houses that, even with a valid warrant, won't record conversations and send them to the police. And just like encryption, those “warrant-proof” protections can be circumven
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White America is quietly self-segregating (2017)(vox.com)
7 points by rbecker 6y ago|1 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
> not independent sources, but just different write-ups of the same person's statements As I explicitly noted. I added them because sudosysgen was complaining about i24news/Fox/Express not being good enough, and not the wh
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Olsen claimed that Miami University had accepted the company’s terms and conditions on behalf of Johnson, and that Johnson allegedly violated those terms when he tweeted about the code. Universities have authority to bind their student
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by rbecker 6y ago
> trade benefits consumers much more than producers In the short term. Long term, if you don't protect them while your trading partner does, it means your key industries will become foreign-owned, or simply bankrupt. After that, the
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by rbecker 6y ago
You should watch the accompanying (short) video. The claim is that, knowing ahead of time who will be present, China pressures the speakers into cancelling, which, it is claimed, has worked at least a few times. > Also, the two sources y
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by rbecker 6y ago
The whistleblower claims otherwise - that providing that information did endanger the speakers or their families. i24news is also not the only one reporting on this: https://twitter.com/LBC/status/132292896427334
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by rbecker 6y ago
In the video, the whistleblower also claims the UN argued in court that it has a right to lie about these activites to its member states.
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Whistleblower: UN actively passing names of Uighur dissidents to Chinese regime(i24news.tv)
73 points by rbecker 6y ago|16 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
"Keep your mouth shut if you don't want to get in trouble."
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by rbecker 6y ago
I can't tell what exactly you think the senate did or didn't do, that broke the constitution. You believe the senate is constitutionally compelled to give advice on supreme court nominations? Does every senator have to give it, or
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by rbecker 6y ago
You mean they did not give their consent for a judicial appointment? Does the constitution require them to? Because "consent" implies they can refuse.
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by rbecker 6y ago
How was it ignored?
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by rbecker 6y ago
In practice, all that accomplishes is everyone tries to cast their opponents as "intolerant" so they may be censored. And "intolerant" is such a broad term, it can be applied to nearly everything, and abuse is guaranteed
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by rbecker 6y ago
Thank you for pointing that out. Indeed, after an hour, this divisive, agenda-pushing article has rightly been flagged. As was my submission on the genocide of Greeks by the Ottoman empire [1,2] (but not enough to get the [flagged] marker).
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by rbecker 6y ago
You are comparing injury rates, while the report only compares murder rates.
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by rbecker 6y ago
Downloading copyrighted videos, just like home taping, is legal. There was a supreme court case deciding that the latter is legal. I have yet to hear any reasoning why "home taping, but on the internet" would not fall under that
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by rbecker 6y ago
We're lucky it wasn't forced off an app store on a locked platform. Then we'd be begging some corporation to be allowed to run it..
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Why it is more dangerous to be a farmer than a policeman in South Africa [pdf](africacheck.org)
43 points by rbecker 6y ago|26 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
What you're saying is that, technical details aside, Windows 10 Enterprise certification effectively requires the ability to install alternative OSes. Is that also true for non-Enterprise certification? Because the (dated) article impl
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The American Bar Association's 'Diversity' Diktat (2008)(wsj.com)
1 points by rbecker 6y ago|1 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
> I don't know why you think it would not. The percentage of unlocked computers for consumers has been falling. Consoles, tablets, smartphones (all iPhones and many Androids don't allow rooting), smart TVs... even some laptops.
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by rbecker 6y ago
No self-respecting author would write "We'll always have access to typewriters without built-in censorship. Sure, we might not be able to pay consumer prices for them, but they are not going anywhere." What makes you so sure
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by rbecker 6y ago
A requirement they later dropped: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/03/20/2039251/oems-allowe... First they require a lock, but also that the user gets the key. Next they require a lock, but the ke
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by rbecker 6y ago
> I don't see any investigation of whether IQ can be altered through nurture (which I think it can). Nurture accounts for 20-43% of the differences in adult IQ scores: "Twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritabilit
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by rbecker 6y ago
> To actually prove to me that IQ is a thing, you would have to show me that what you call IQ is innate. "Twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73% with the most recent studies showing her

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