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by rbecker 6y ago
Related: After the invasion of Iraq, the US occupying force issued 100 orders as to how the new state is to be run. Among them is order 81, which prohibits saving and planting of patented seeds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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Sounds like you could mean the Microsoft Android patent licensing deal: https://www.theregister.com/2014/04/08/microsoft_holds_200_a... We don't know the exact specifics of any of the patent deals, thou
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> we're taught in schools the results of something like Nazi Germany, 6 million died in camps You're taught poorly. 11 million died: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust#cite_note-USHMMf...
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> has taken far stricter steps against #DDoSecrets journalism than they have against QAnon misinformation. "Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown" -- https://www.nbcnews.
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I thought predictive policing was generally taboo?
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I thought we wanted companies to be politically active? Wasn't there a big controversy just recently when Coinbase tried to remain apolitical?
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> sparse and strained examples "A man who said he was fed up with racism against black people was convicted of killing four white men in a race-related rampage in California's Central Valley" -- https://abcnews.
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Somehow the article is entirely free of statistics. According to http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/diversity/pdf/bame-career-progres... In 1971 only 2% of the UK was made up of non-white people, today it’s around 14% [.
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Not exactly equivalents, but there have been casualties that definitely seem incited by the rhetoric. This 24-year old mother was killed for arguing with BLM supporters: https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-woman-shot-kil
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> but it also provides information about their business that they may prefer to not share On the other hand, it's probably not a good idea to be kept in the dark regarding how major sectors of the economy function, with only the wor
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What you have to tolerate in non-free societies can be far worse. It's just not called "crime". History is full of examples.
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> If you do develop on mobile you probably already know all of it way better than I do. I don't, that's why I ask. And are these conditions only for being placed in Apple's/Google's app stores? > You are free
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> I did entertain the idea of porting some of my products to mobile but after reading their terms and conditions I decided not to get involved Could you elaborate? Which mobile platforms demanded what sorts of conditions?
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And that two-week window is from very near the start of schools opening.
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LCPS proposal would punish teachers who criticize critical theory(westnovanews.com)
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> I'm pretty sure such nonsense would never happen in a place with strong privacy protections like Germany. German government ministers announced plans to require companies like Facebook and YouTube to report certain forms of hate
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Cult Programming in Seattle(city-journal.org)
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Changing voter demographics will alter future elections(sctimes.com)
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Odd he would pick specifically white guys. Whites (61% of US) are underrepresented at Twitter (42%) [1], Facebook (41%) [2], and in tech overall (~55%) [3]. Meanwhile Asians are greatly over-represented - why isn't he excluding them,
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> individual judgements There's a difference between an individual making a judgement, a payment processor making a judgement, and a communications platform with over 2 billion users making a judgement. Perhaps not (yet) legally, bu
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I thought we were discussing what the law should be , not what it is . Or more broadly, how companies and people should act , not what they can get away with under the law. As for the murderer bit... well, if we already know it was murde
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And if you're accused of murder, Facebook can use their free speech to censor anyone fundraising money for your defense, and crowdfunding sites and payment processors can use their free speech and freedom of association, and refuse t
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Funny what gets categorized as strange. On the Witcher show, medieval villages as diverse as San Francisco were portrayed as the norm: https://avatars.mds.yandex.net/get-zen_doc/1587012/pub_5e283...
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Of course. If even a single foreigner mixes with a population, that populations genetic, ethnic identity becomes entirely invalid, and using it as something to unite around becomes illegitimate. After all, if a thing has fuzzy edges, that&#
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> You wiped them out. Sorry, "we" didn't have time to get any colonies - go find a Spaniard to blame. We were too busy getting raided by Ottomans, having our children kidnapped, trained as slave soldiers, and then used for
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So you audit the software. Then you enter the voting booth, and there's a voting machine in front of you. Bet your democracy it's running the same software?
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Talking about "blame" unnecessarily and counter-productively moves the conversation into a moral perspective. Replace "blame" with "finding defects", and the articles absurdity becomes obvious. Do spreadsheet p
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Notably, we know about the Polish falsification. Electronic systems have the potential to be subverted far more covertly.
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So, for example, before exposure to the West, Japan was mostly egalitarian? Or China? Or India? Or the Aztecs? No significant oppression was going on there?
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> the liberation of social discourse and media from establishment institutions. Liberation? Establishment institutions drive social discourse, there's no need to be "liberated" from them. From the New York Times 1619 pro

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