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Is this why China's economy is in shambles?
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One would be tempted to extrapolate from the article title that it's disproportionately used against blacks. Since otherwise it wouldn't specifically point out the victim was black, just as stories of police shootings rarely point
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South Africans Protest, Demand Deportation of Nigerian Illegal Immigrants(investorsking.com)
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And I'm sure there's many people that haven't encountered a single BLM protest - that doesn't mean BLM isn't a trend. Does it have to be on every street and in every town to count? I didn't think it necessary a
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They also cite a different study: In contrast, research with humans suggests that children’s relative familiarity with mirrors, which greatly varies across contexts, does not correlate with the age at which the mark test is passed (Priel &
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The mirror test also gives widely different results in humans. Canadian children pass it at 2 years old, while Kenyans fail at 5: https://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdfs/Journal%20of%20Cross... Would you conclude
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If people aren't interested, submissions slowly slide down the rankings - they don't suddenly disappear.
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Ask HN: Greek Genocide Discussion Shadowbanned?
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Greek Genocide(en.wikipedia.org)
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> Since 1980, real estate prices have risen far faster than inflation, incomes and prices of consumer goods like food or clothing. As a result, housing costs now make up a larger proportion of residents’ expenses. So... wouldn't tha
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America's national parks face existential crisis over race(abcnews.go.com)
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Beethoven’s 5th Symphony put the classism in classical music(vox.com)
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Even that politico article is missing pertinent details: "Judges cannot—nor should they try to—align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should, however, conform their own behavior to
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Somewhat tangential, but that trend isn't limited to South Africa. "White silence = violence", for example.
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Black families purchase Georgia land for Black-centric community fresh start(insider.com)
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Remember when apps couldn't be "shut down"? At worst they wouldn't get updates, and as long as you had the installer or executable, you could still run it, even without the continuous support of a giant multinational cor
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> The difference there is about institutional power... Doesn't that effectively mean only groups without the ability to stop immigration, can have legitimate reasons to stop it? As soon as you have institutional power (i.e. power to
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It'll stay "open" until they gain a strong enough position to get away with closing it again, just like they did with bootloaders: https://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-bootloader-unlocking... Don't mi
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'China is not an immigrant country': Draft law sparks online racism(japantimes.co.jp)
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> That is not a conclusion of intersectionality. Could you explain more? Because it seems to me that's how it's used in practice. See for example the sympathy shown to Kashmir's fears of demographic change [1,2,3], and the
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Do you mean understanding intersectionality, or agreeing with its conclusions? It effectively tells one set of people they are justified in organizing together and lobbying for their group self-interests, while denying that justification to
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> Only the profoundly ignorant are supporting these wannabe autocrats. Passing and extending the Patriot Act was bipartisan.
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Same story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24566871
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It sounds like we agree on the problem. If you require backdoors on devices/software, that can circumvent encryption in bulk, without the relatively expensive and time-consuming steps of physically planting bugs or similar on specific
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1) It wouldn't, I agree. 2) Agreed. 3) "never been any evidence of any malware insertion at Thinkpad" - Why are you treating Lenovo and Thinkpad separately? They're the same company, even if there's some internal se
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> Why are you assuming that policing is a video game where difficulty needs to be balanced? But that's their argument. "Give up your rights because policing is getting harder", while staying quiet when policing gets easi
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The Twitter tech lead is Asian, Asians are over-represented (27% vs US 5.4%) and whites under-represented (42% vs US 61%) at Twitter, yet they didn't even bother checking for Asian-Black or Asian-White bias, only White-Black?
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> This makes the work of law enforcement and the judiciary more challenging, as they seek to obtain lawful access to evidence. And the ever growing surveillance permeating our society makes it less challenging, but they're not ask
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The same Lenovo that, after being caught bundling malware [1] with their laptops, promised not to do it again, and was then caught bundling a rootkit [2]? [1] https://thehackernews.com/2015/02/lenovo-superfish-malw
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> Instead they are disproportionately black and other minorities. Disproportionate to what? Their share of the population, or their share of homicides committed? (Using homicide because, unlike other crimes, it's hard to bias the nu

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