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by tarakat 4y ago
I can confirm I get the same results. Testing for other leaders, I get plenty of results for e.g. Emanuel Macron. Ironically, the first result is a speech of Meloni addressing Macron. By the time they fix the "accidental bug triggered
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Trans-men asked to stop testosterone during pregnancy – but evidence is murky(theconversation.com)
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> Alright, it's a censorship issue. Censorship on one side; genocide on the other. Ideology or pragmatism. Should we abandon honesty and accuracy if one side of an issue is genocide? Let me rephrase that: should I assume anyone spea
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Please don’t let ads on transparent OLED ‘windows’ ruin train journeys(theverge.com)
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The kind that realizes that government is not the only threat to a functional free market, that does not devolve into feudalism. I am pointing out the failure of lack of antitrust enforcement, not claiming that an unrestricted free market
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> I agree it’s petty The pettiness isn't the problem, the extra-legal power that consolidation of capital and media enables is. Competition in the market ceases to be about the best product at the best price, and becomes a game of s
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by tarakat 4y ago
The company retaliated against their employees through unrelated services it happens to also own? Is this the kind of free market we want? Turf wars?
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by tarakat 4y ago
I'm not saying it doesn't have effects, or that it was good. But calling it "violence" dilutes the meaning of that word into nothing, as the threshold is so low almost anything qualifies as "violent".
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And there's no difference between this 2nd order effect that may harm porn producers (or maybe consumers will find other channels besides Instagram to get porn, and overall porn consumption won't decrease), and hiring goons with
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by tarakat 4y ago
> It's customers who have shown they prefer those cheaper on the face of it options rather than those with much bigger up-front cost I question the "much" - I'm sure the price difference isn't as big as those who
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It's astonishing a party wants to increase immigration to get more voters for its side. I thought parties should win by having better policies that win over existing voters, not by abandoning them and diluting them with new voters.
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Yes, the software (at least the not Play-store parts, into which more and more functionality is moving) is nominally open-source. The restriction is on hardware - phone manufacturers that wish to sell phones with Google's software prei
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by tarakat 4y ago
In the video, Louis Rossmann's complaint is about Google's anticompetitive practice of In particular, Google has prevented manufacturers wishing to pre-install Google apps from selling even a single smart mobile device running on
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No matter what your opinion on economic equality, letting fraudsters profit at the expense of their more honest counterparts harms the economic health of a country. Eventually workers will feel it too.
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Archive: https://archive.ph/zQdix
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Where online hate speech can bring the police to your door(nytimes.com)
6 points by tarakat 4y ago|5 comments
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Germany: Migration background abolished in police database(bild.de)
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The System’s Neatest Trick – Ted Kaczynski(theanarchistlibrary.org)
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Which policy that Meloni promised do you think could lead to war?
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by tarakat 4y ago
Tangential to the article, I urge the reader to read Andersen's original Little Mermaid, and not settle for Disney's beautifully animated, but watered-down (heh), bowdlerized version. And I don't mean the remake. The same cou
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by tarakat 4y ago
> The video says it, but it’s all more important to emphasize that Palestinians including women & children were killed at this checkpoint by Israeli forces. That's odd. I don't recall seeing anything on the news about this.
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They are in public, and if an expert in body language and facial expressions were sitting next to them paying close attention, he could monitor those emotions just as well. So one cannot say they have a "reasonable expectation of priva
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> Your statement in italics is new to me and quite insightful, I think. You can credit Frank Herbert for it.
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> Surprisingly Nothing about this is surprising. When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my princi
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Maybe something like... More Indians own property in London than the English - https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/more-indians-own-p...
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> Ironically, Dahomey’s rehabilitation is undercut by the demonization of Oyo, a fascinating society in its own right. How naive of me to think the article might also lament the demonization of Europeans, whose role in this conflict was
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> let's talk about it in realistic terms and figure out how to make it go faster instead of focusing on the outliers The media's power lies in focusing on (emotionally charged) outliers. That and wordplay (e.g. a NYT article sa
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by tarakat 4y ago
Something similar to your suggestion is in fact an (albeit rare) legal possibility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
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The persistent denial of the intelligence meritocracy: Gary Marks(emilkirkegaard.dk)
3 points by tarakat 4y ago|3 comments
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Von der Leyen’s warning message to Italy irks election candidates(politico.eu)
3 points by tarakat 4y ago|1 comments

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