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by will4274 2y ago
The corporate veil can be pierced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil . From the Wikipedia page, it sounds like this is most common in the United Kingdom when a corporation "is established to
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by will4274 2y ago
During the Rwandan genocide, the radio stations played incitement to violence. While "hate speech" is inclusive of speech that incites violence, the types of hate speech which people have contemporary political disagreements about
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by will4274 2y ago
> Hyperbole. > 1. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton. > 2. A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the
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by will4274 2y ago
Well, if you read the quote in my comment (or clicked on the source link I included), you would see that the FDA evaluated it for health risks all-up, not just cancer. Your comment violates the following hacker news guideline: > Please r
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by will4274 2y ago
> The European approach is: if it doesn't look on your plate the way it looked on the hoof or on the plant, it's probably not good to consume. I mean, that's just not true. Fruit Loops are sold in Europe as well (albeit wi
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by will4274 2y ago
It's just how cereal is made. Before fruit loops are loops, they are grain mash. That grain mash is mostly uniform in color and brown-ish. In order to have a bowl filled with loops where some of the loops are yellow and others are gree
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by will4274 2y ago
We (humans) don't subsist on some Matrix-like slop that provides all of our nutrients for no pleasure. Eating is a weird combination of necessity and pleasure activity. You could ask: if there's even a slight chance it causes canc
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by will4274 2y ago
Only if they actually cause cancer. The FDA's statement ( https://www.fda.gov/food/hfp-constituent-updates/fda-revoke-... ) says: > The way that FD&C Red No. 3 causes cancer in male rats does not occur i
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by will4274 2y ago
Neither color of Fruit Loops is natural. American food is colored to look cool, because cool sells better with Americans. Canadian food is colored to look dull, because dull sells better with Canadians.
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by will4274 2y ago
> one of the most destructive advocacy organizations in the US was found to be heavily influenced by Russian spies Your links do not back up this claim. Both indicate that Butina was likely a Russian spy and desired to influence the Na
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by will4274 2y ago
It'd be a simple enough browser plugin to build - a tool that checks multiple trust stores when rendering a page. Probably it already exists. The problem is between the keyboard and the chair. Users struggle to understand SSL already.
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by will4274 2y ago
> CVE-2017-11882 and the NTLM relay attack come to mind, for example. Down the line they weren't actually fixed, and are continuously being used by a lot of ransomware / malware campaigns. Your own sources indicate CVE-2017-118
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by will4274 2y ago
You've misunderstood and misread your source. The data shared is "total deaths" and "mortality rate per 100k", not "total death and mortality rate" per 100k. It's 157 total deaths in the below 30 grou
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by will4274 3y ago
Assuming you're genuinely asking for the perspective behind this argument. I think these folks* mostly believe that cleansing is a "least bad" alternative because Palestine is a failed state with broad anti-Semitism and a Jew
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by will4274 3y ago
Not who you replied to, but for the first 15 years of my life, if I was killed in a war by any nation, it was considered a war crime, a human rights violation. The day I turned 15*, in the estimate of the United States, the leader of the fr
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by will4274 3y ago
> It's variable in my experience It shows you a code when the initiator is an unfamiliar device, but doesn't show you the code when the initiator is a familiar device. You can reproduce this fairly easily - open a private tab a
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by will4274 4y ago
Microsoft does it. It's hidden behind one click in the UX, but if you click "Sign in options" on the screen where it asks you for a username to sign into e.g. Outlook, one of the options is to sign in with a WebAuthn credenti
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by will4274 5y ago
> no body asks what people think. The level of propaganda is so strong that people would believe whatever they are told. In my experience, these statements are contradictory. When nobody asks what the people think, the people notice, bel
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by will4274 5y ago
?? The expensive part of a nuclear weapon isn't the panel you enter the codes on. It's the nuclear material. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Secur... > Ahahhahahah.... You may want t
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by will4274 5y ago
On Ukraine giving up their nuclear weapons.
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by will4274 5y ago
> we had a west-friendly Russian government at the fall of the wall - but pushing east allowed hawks/imperialists to rise to power That's not accurate at all - the arrow of cause and effect cannot point backwards in time. The c
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by will4274 5y ago
And what of Russia's promise to not invade Ukraine? You know, the one that is recorded in a treaty and ratified by the leaders of each country. Unlike the promise you refer to.
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by will4274 5y ago
No doubt. And perhaps Vietnam was a more just cause. I do get a bit sick of all this talk of "unprecedented". Of course, if you define an event precisely enough, everything is unprecedented, but a violent riot at the seat of gover
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by will4274 5y ago
I mean the anti Vietnam war movement blew up a bomb in the Senate mail room in the Capitol on two separate occasions (and got a pardon from Bill Clinton 30 years later). Is storming worse than bombing?
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by will4274 5y ago
One of the most prestigious private all boys schools in the country asked my cousin to leave because he was causing too many discipline problems. His classmates were bullying him because he's gay.
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by will4274 5y ago
:) technically correct is the best kind of correct. Microsoft allows IT admins to use security questions for their employees in the enterprise world by config if they so choose. Microsoft doesn't use security questions for its consumer
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by will4274 5y ago
Do you have an email address I can reach out to you at?
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by will4274 5y ago
Microsoft doesn't use security questions. IIUC then, your complaints are about Mojang's pre-Microsoft system. Then, would you consider this announcement a net positive, as it resolves the issues you described?
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by will4274 5y ago
Ukraine also has a Nazi problem. Putin used it as a pretext for this war inside Russia, but outside of wartime, folks in Berlin and DC consider it a real problem for closer alliance too. Ukraine also has a corruption problem. I think NATO w
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by will4274 5y ago
There are requirements for joining NATO. From https://www.rferl.org/a/1099020.html . > The first chapter -- political and economic issues -- requires candidates to have stable democratic systems, pursue the peaceful

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