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by walkhour 5y ago
Without more context this means nothing, Uighurs are also a minority in China.
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by walkhour 5y ago
I agree with you these arguments can be used to justify atrocities. Actually they can be used to justify atrocities arbitrarily large as long as you find enough people that you think are being benefitted. However I don't think they sho
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by walkhour 5y ago
The justification will be a consequentialist argument, we sacrificed/tortured animals and in exchange we gave this to humanity; the overall calculus is a net positive. This post shows the very worst of the equation, and they will bring
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by walkhour 5y ago
They must either be shorting it (in which case please show me your portfolio) or think that the market will be irrational and the prize won't go down (in which case please define what "fair value" means in this case and why I
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by walkhour 5y ago
> Ongoing controversies [...] occurs at scale for comparable child separation and cultural erasure Native American population jumps to largest size in modern history [0] Tribal sovereignty in the United States [1] Native American Day –
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by walkhour 5y ago
Thank you for the link. I agree there are similarities in so far both countries committed heinous crimes. However that 150 year hindsight China has is not something that should be overlooked, in fact, given identical crimes, I can't th
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by walkhour 5y ago
I think the author actually does a good job summing up the usual arguments given to dismiss Bitcoin not being environment friendly but I don't think they are refuted. Bitcoin uses less energy than completely useless things (like Christ
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by walkhour 5y ago
> But they say the worst punishment was being sent to the school's basement. Lütfullah says the teachers told him ghosts lived there, and children including him were locked there in the dark, alone, for hours at a time. I wasn'
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by walkhour 5y ago
> it is forbidden to smoke in most places. I've always felt Europeans had no trouble throwing the cigarette smoke to your face, and that Americans were conscious this is extremely rude and went out of their way to prevent it
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by walkhour 5y ago
> Spotify has chosen a podcast over this Spotify simply hasn't given in to blackmail. If Joe Rogan said he'd leave Spotify if they don't kick Neil Young out and then Neil Young was kicked out they would've chosen a po
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by walkhour 5y ago
> If the market reacts by making it harder to steal, then presumably this will increase the cost of goods which will, presumably, increase the value of stealing them. The market doesn't have a lot of options that I can see. These in
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by walkhour 5y ago
This was done for orchestra auditions with awesome results [1], unfortunately seems like it could end now [2] due to diversity concerns. Although not impossible to do in the tech world it would involve a big change in current interview prac
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by walkhour 5y ago
> it involves simply interviewing more minorities Is this really possible? If some company with resources over-interviews and over-hires some minority, then necessarily won't there be other companies that would be forced to under-hi
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by walkhour 5y ago
Democracies can be authoritarian: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_democracy . I'm not saying this has happened in Australia but there can be authoritarian democratic measures. USA attacked seven diffe
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by walkhour 5y ago
Birth rates in Sweden aren't just fine. Birth rates have plummeted consistently everywhere women have entered the workforce and discovered birth control. After this no country has found a solution to the below replacement birth rate, d
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by walkhour 5y ago
Given the WSJ article from yesterday ( https://archive.fo/4pSSU ), that says vaccines make no difference when it comes to spreading omicron, it seems indeed the time for buffoonery has passed. > Australia has all the right
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by walkhour 5y ago
> to quit when behind As you mention, he's recognized for his refusal to give up on trying to win even in apparently dead draw positions, usually endgames, but I'd say other players (e.g. Karjakin) are considered better at defe
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by walkhour 5y ago
Around half a million cases of child abuse are reported in USA [0]. It hard/impossible to find data post 2019 (if you have it, please share), but there are estimates that the number of reported cases lowered by between 20 to 40%, mainl
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by walkhour 5y ago
Prediction markets estimate at around 15% the chance that Bitcoin will adopt PoS. If you think this will never happen you can make money at https://www.metaculus.com/questions/7109/bitcoin-consensus-m... .
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by walkhour 5y ago
According to this prediction market( https://www.metaculus.com/questions/5205/bitcoins-market-dom... ) Bitcoin will lose its dominant position on Feb 13, 2025.
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by walkhour 5y ago
Bitcoin is more successful mainly due to network effects and proven security, Bitcoin has withstood more attacks than any other cryptocurrency.
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by walkhour 5y ago
I'm assuming we'll be able to produce gold in a thousand years with a children's chemistry set. It won't be more valuable than sand. That on its own makes the value of gold 0.
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by walkhour 5y ago
> kindergartens, schools and medical offices. Where exactly do you think schooling and medical practices happen or children are taken care of? >Public transport How hard is to coordinate to double the number of trains or buses? > S
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by walkhour 5y ago
Could you elaborate? Why is the interest rate cycle good?
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In favor of business and also government who has a great degree of control over inflation. The government also benefits a lot from inflation of course, the tax brackets don't change and they have trillions of dollars to spend. Labor do
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by walkhour 5y ago
Crypto could crash tomorrow but the value won't be zero, similar to gold it has intrinsic value. Some people value it because they think it's cool, because they think they're fighting the government, because it would've
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by walkhour 5y ago
The fundamental problem of any such criticism of crypto is explaining then how crypto is different from gold besides "some people value gold also because of intrinsic value". Why is gold not exactly like having stock in a long ban
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by walkhour 5y ago
> Narratives about racism in America are about the systemic, structural What the author experienced happened in a structured institution. > our country disadvantages black people You need to add black to your definition of racism so t
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by walkhour 5y ago
> How would you get citation on something many people don't and won't want to admit to? That's upon who makes the claims you make. You should have clarified you didn't have a source and you were guessing, other people
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by walkhour 5y ago
> but half of America is still super racist Citation needed. Also, can you name other countries as diverse as America which are less racist?

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