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by tarakat 4y ago
"They warned me to wear a seatbelt but I didn't and was fine"
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by tarakat 4y ago
> We don’t know how many of those children were subsequently rescued, but a question worth posing to anyone unilaterally opposed to Google’s approach is how big that number would have to be to have made it worthwhile? [..] how big the nu
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by tarakat 4y ago
Yes but at least that episode of Peep Show was clearly marked and advertised as censored, right? They didn't try to pass it off as unaltered, right?
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You speak as if China and the West are hermetically sealed-off from each other. The West is worried because, just like every other strategic industry, China will try to take over the global market. Yes, that's exactly what the West als
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by tarakat 4y ago
As the sibling replies illustrates, this is now more akin to paying the Danegeld, than paying for a service.
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"Europe"? Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't more than half of Europe fight, kill, and die to stop the dictator that was killing Jews? But you'd rather the whole continent feels guilty, instead of proud of their
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by tarakat 4y ago
Given the significant financial and military aid the US provides Israel, this video illustrates who a US voter can pick if they are concerned about Israeli human rights violations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KY2_qaROFY
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by tarakat 4y ago
Are there any prospect of continuing such protests? There are still apartheid states companies do business with, to say nothing of other corporate misdeeds.
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I assume next in this article series, NPR will pick some element of European culture that is not treated with sufficient reverence or authenticity by others, and expound how terribly this makes Europeans suffer.
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And now that "legitimate government" is collaborating with a foreign invasion, and owes a huge debt to the foreigners who put it in power for the explicit purpose of exploiting the country's natural resources. Will it still b
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I think of it as art itself being the goal. While artists may hope their art will also fulfill other goals, I wouldn't want to live in a world without art, where those goals are instead fulfilled by expending equivalent effort to turn
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by tarakat 4y ago
Are the higher educated from Brazil, Russia, China, Egypt, Japan, Poland, and Algeria also aligned in this same direction? And do you know what happens to the higher educated that don't toe the line? Here's a hint: James Watson&#
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by tarakat 4y ago
Isn't plausible deniability great? They get the benefit of the doubt, while at the same time jealously guarding their secrets.
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Seife was seeking to obtain documents from the FDA related to its approval of a controversial drug – Exondys 51 – created by pharmaceutical company Sarepta. The FDA largely rejected Seife’s request for information pertaining to the drug’s
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by tarakat 4y ago
Being able to look things up, even in seconds, is not equivalent to knowing them. When someone suggests "let's do X", you cannot reply with "but that would cause Y", if Y is buried in some pdf file on your compute
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> I am comfortable with a criminal plea deal not allowing someone to say they are innocent. I am not. How are we then to learn about corrupt prosecutors?
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32591912
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Good thing this practice has since ceased, and is entirely absent from movies and news reporting, where care is taken that even the most maligned groups are represented by, well, representative individuals, instead of cherry-picking the mos
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by tarakat 4y ago
Okay. Then let's censor science, and put an asterisk next to every published study: "If the results had been different, they would not have been published." And when someone claims "research shows your prejudice is unfou
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by tarakat 4y ago
Yet, people can be harmed indirectly. For example, research may — inadvertently — stigmatize individuals or human groups. It may be discriminatory, racist, sexist, ableist or homophobic. It may provide justification for undermining the hum
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by tarakat 4y ago
So, AI-powered cultural appropriation? Literally tricking people into thinking they are dealing with someone from their culture. Ethnic fraud. But the Guardian predictably frames it as if the people being tricked are at fault, instead of th
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by tarakat 4y ago
> SEC doesn't have the power to unilaterally silence someone No, but it does have all the power of the State to legally threaten and prosecute people. Do we want state agencies using their power to threaten people into silence? How
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by tarakat 4y ago
Your examples are contracts between private parties, entered freely. This is a contract with the government, signed under threat of prosecution.
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by tarakat 4y ago
Since the SEC is the government, doesn't this practice run afoul of the 1st Amendment? Taking away rights may be an essential part of punishment, but the rights taken should be only in pursuit of that punishment (e.g. imprisonment take
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by tarakat 4y ago
Google's 2022 US workforce is 48.3% white [1]. The US is 57% white [2]. Why is Google setting caps on an already underrepresented group? [1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/about.google/en/&#x2
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by tarakat 4y ago
Extremist populists that want to have a say in their children's educations. They should have employed some clever sophistry to defend their censorship, like the "paradox of tolerance", and be applauded for their nuanced and p
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by tarakat 4y ago
Meanwhile Twitter seemingly voluntarily put a British psyops officer in charge of the Middle East [1]. And for all their hand-wringing about state-backed social media disinformation campaigns, no western mainstream media have reported on
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Meanwhile if Youtube/Google decide to downrank something into oblivion, nobody will know, and proving it is near-impossible. A foreign corporation has more control over speech in Pakistan than Pakistan itself.

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