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by rbecker 6y ago
> The initial motivation in changing the school was (at least partially) to increase specific nonwhite minority student representation. I.e. even though white students were under-represented, improving their representation was never a go
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Your first “scenario” completely ignored what happens after a resold device’s life ends. Why would anything different happen to a "resold" than a "sold" device? Is there any market that Apple doesn't sell to be
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Isn't it possible that actively recycling those devices is far better for the environment than allowing them to be resold to China and/or end up in landfill? In one scenario, a device keeps being used, it just changes hands.
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by rbecker 6y ago
And why shouldn't the media widely publicize how Apple goes the extra mile to ruin the environment?
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by rbecker 6y ago
Isn't reuse the best version of recycling? Who could have thought Apple was so anti-environmental.
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by rbecker 6y ago
> The bar owners were arrested under a 2006 law that technically classifies WiFi hotspot providing establishments as ISPs, and requires them to store one year’s worth of logs or connection records for anti-terrorism purposes. I was under
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by rbecker 6y ago
Yet somehow Japan and Korea, despite their developed economies, manage to find native workers for nearly all jobs. But I guess if a TV show says so, it must be true.
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by rbecker 6y ago
That can't be it. As we all know, diversity is strength, so it follows the US is harmed , not helped, by having a single language.
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by rbecker 6y ago
I didn't mean to imply I agreed with that. I'm sure there's plenty on the left that would like more open borders, plenty on the right that want them closed, and plenty in the middle that are fine with them as they are - I gue
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by rbecker 6y ago
> "Europe’s spectacularly swift and successful response to the migration crisis demonstrates that mass migration can be controlled." > More white supremacist neo-colonial nonsense. No one [1] in Europe is happy with how this
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by rbecker 6y ago
So the logic is, because some incidents were far-right PR moves, therefore all incidents are? This article says some incidents are antifa PR - shall we apply the same logic, and dismiss anything that makes the right look bad as antifa
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> Yes. It's very tricky to react to because people get angry. If you just go in public and pick someone and start pushing them, if you keep pushing them, they're going to slug you; it's just how it's going to work, at
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California governor vetoes high school ethnic studies bill(latimes.com)
2 points by rbecker 6y ago|0 comments
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> He got them [old exams] through his campus Indian student group. Only shared with fellow Indians?
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by rbecker 6y ago
> The debate is worth having. But in the place of that debate, there have only been pious paeans to diversity. Whatever could have made people unwilling to publicly debate these issues?
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by rbecker 6y ago
> sold illegal devices that hacked popular videogame consoles so they could be used to play unauthorized, or pirated, copies of videogames How long until that turns into "sold illegal devices that hacked popular smartphones so they
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by rbecker 6y ago
I don't understand. It sounds like they're drawing useful work (I think?) from a system that's already at thermodynamic equilibrium. Doesn't that violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics?
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South Africa: Hatred of migrants reaches new heights(dw.com)
3 points by rbecker 6y ago|0 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
> I keep seeing people who argue that TVs would be notably "more expensive" if they didn't come with ads. Even if that were true, it ignores a very important question - where does that ad money come from? Companies buy ads
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Center for Strategic and International Studies found that anti-fascist groups have not been involved in a single murder in the United States in the past 25 years. Of course. When Micah Xavier Johnson killed five police officers because
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by rbecker 6y ago
> the way world drug companies make up for low profitability in those markets is in gouging in the US where it's a free-for-all and one should grab for as much as one can get. It's much simpler. They don't "make up&qu
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by rbecker 6y ago
> The view you just described is active support for the status quo. [..] fossil fuels and co2 emissions to keep our economy running. So there's really no difference between doing nothing, and donating to FUD campaigns against climat
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OSU students furious after university reports Black-on-White 'hate crime'(campusreform.org)
3 points by rbecker 6y ago|0 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
> charging what everyone else is charging? "Everyone else" being other middle-men with enormous market power? > higher prices for consumers. Monopoly and market power can also kill companies that "should have" pros
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by rbecker 6y ago
> the judge pointed out that the 30 percent rate that Apple collects is the "industry rate" collected by PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Google, and more. "It's all 30 percent and you just want
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by rbecker 6y ago
Not much. Both behaviors are anti-competitive and should probably be restricted.
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> Big tech is still dominated by white males at all levels of power. Whites (61% of US) are underrepresented at Twitter (42%) [1], Facebook (41%) [2], and in tech overall (~55%) [3]. Would you like to revise that statement? Note the &quo
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by rbecker 6y ago
> the society “will not be moving ahead with his address as we value our members comfort above all else”. 'I want viewers to feel uncomfortable': why race drama Noughts + Crosses is must-see TV -- https://www.thegu
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> This data can track drug transporting and child trafficking, a letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) to transport body Transport for London (TfL) said. Note the use of 'can' instead of 'does'
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Thinking about it, the idea that familiarity with mirrors would affect the results really throws into question that what the test measures is "self-awareness". It would imply that self-awareness can be increased by exposure to mir

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