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by tarakat 4y ago
It's sad to see how the medical system fails Republicans. What can we do to address this discriminatory disparity and increase equity in medicine? Or is this one of those times when it's okay to blame behavior?
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by tarakat 4y ago
Reading that statement by Konnech, I am struck how brazen the NYT was. Given two opposing statements, they simply decided which one debunks the other, and passed it off as fact. I wonder how many other instances of this there are in their o
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by tarakat 4y ago
His twitter [0] was also banned, but rumble [1] and odysee [2] channels are still up. That said, this is the first time I'm hearing of this channel/user. Why is he notable, and any speculation on why he was banned? [0] https:&#x2
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by tarakat 4y ago
> it uses data from the internet and human experts to figure out if certain claims are harmful. (It even claims to be able to spot dog whistles, seemingly innocuous phrases that actually refer to something with a darker meaning.) How qui
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by tarakat 4y ago
Harmful and false, I assume? Surely harmful but truthful content wouldn't be censored. Conversely, will beneficial but false content also be taken down, or will that be allowed to stand? And we're all working with same definit
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by tarakat 4y ago
Archive in case of paywall: https://archive.ph/boUFQ The day after the NYT article, the baseless, unfounded conspiracy theory was confirmed, as the Konnech CEO was arrested for storing election worker data on servers in Chi
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A tiny elections company became a conspiracy theory target(nytimes.com)
6 points by tarakat 4y ago|1 comments
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by tarakat 4y ago
You are comparing the mildest version of the stated beliefs of one ideology, to the actions of another (actions that, by the way, were kept hidden from the German people, who for most of the war believed the Jews were merely being, or g
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by tarakat 4y ago
> Theo de Raadt, now there's a paranoid man Can someone elaborate what makes de Raadt so paranoid?
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by tarakat 4y ago
Of all the problems you listed, only the "colonel" is ~unique to Brazil. Every single one of the others is something a country of any size has also faced, and solved, without introducing black boxes into the system.
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by tarakat 4y ago
Can you be more specific? I know that population or geographic size alone has no effect on counting complexity - the number of people counting is proportional to the number of votes to be counted. Communicating the vote totals from electo
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by tarakat 4y ago
With DRM, you have to pay extra for what used to be your rights. There are people right now thinking of ways to further restrict what we may do, so they can sell permission to do it back to us.
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by tarakat 4y ago
VW was able to detect when an emissions test was being done, so there may be ways to detect this as well. E.g. by the unusually fast rate at which votes are being cast, or if this "seizure" involves moving the machine, reconnectin
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by tarakat 4y ago
Or the compromise (or cooperation) of a few of the software supply chain components used to program the chipset of the voting machines. Or the development machines used to write and upload the voting software. Or the foundry used to cast th
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by tarakat 4y ago
It is exactly the same. Natural selection only cares about reproduction rate. It doesn't matter if we consider a trait "bad" (such as lower education or intelligence) - if it results in more offspring, it is what evolution wi
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by tarakat 4y ago
What makes you think we don't have natural selection? Most economically advanced countries have below-replacement fertility. Being eaten by a leopard or failing to have enough children are the same from the point of view of natural sel
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by tarakat 4y ago
Sounds easy to evade. Once a machine has recorded 10+ votes since the last time it outputted a count, it could start giving a small probabilistic advantage to a preferred candidate, at the expense of other candidates. There would be no bump
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by tarakat 4y ago
> Each party has delegates present during vote counting [..] the system would be better if physical counting could be performed as well If there's no physical counting, then what are the delegates observing? If the machines were com
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by tarakat 4y ago
> Some famines are caused by misguided collectivization / socialism enforced by the state This looks deliberate, not misguided: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#Causes regions with higher Ukrainian popu
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by tarakat 4y ago
History is full of any kind of event that may be taught, so that is a fully general answer: it can explain why anything isn't taught, and applies equally to things that are taught. And the part of Andrew Tanner's Quora answer
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Why isn't the Holodomor taught in schools?(quora.com)
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by tarakat 4y ago
> Canada has an immigration rate 10x the rate of the US I assume you mean per-capita? Because legal immigration alone into the US is about 1.8 million/year and has been for almost a decade, excluding one or two pandemic years.
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Immigration accounts for over 94% of Canada’s population growth in Q2 of 2022(cicnews.com)
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The Flattening of Meaning(wokaldistance.substack.com)
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by tarakat 4y ago
I'm just repeating the words of the current President of the United States (though he was not yet President when speaking them): https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4926142/user-clip-joe-biden-u...
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by tarakat 4y ago
"Not evidence based" is the impression the motivated author aims for, but if read carefully, is not supported by the text of the article. E.g. the link in While testosterone is widely considered a “male hormone,” all people produ
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by tarakat 4y ago
And maybe von der Leyen will lobby for a stricter reading of those treaties if the wrong party gets elected, which is the subtext of her words, obvious to all but the most willfully obtuse.
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by tarakat 4y ago
Results are different between your link and https://twitter.com/search?q=Giorgia%20Meloni&src=typed_quer... (i.e. the "videos" tab, and a normal search with "filter:videos" appended) The article is r
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by tarakat 4y ago
That's the same trick used on the great replacement. Pick the most conspiratorial, unlikely version of it (evil Jews meeting in secret, plotting to cause immigration to turn whites into an oppressed minority in their own lands, and for
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by tarakat 4y ago
During a conference on Thursday at Princeton University, an attendant pointed out to von der Leyen that “figures close to Putin” were among candidates for the upcoming legislative election on Sunday. “We’ll see,” she replied. “If things go

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