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by xtian 6y ago
> When is the last time CCP acknowledged wrongdoing? I don’t know what the last time was, but I know Deng Xiaoping famously described Mao as “70% good, 30% wrong”. For me, a small payoff a decade later to the family of a victim of a poli
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> And we DEFINITELY do not do forced sterilization rofl. No? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_Board_of_North_Caro... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
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by xtian 6y ago
In the US you have freedom of speech until you start to impact the status quo. See: McCarthyism, Fred Hampton, etc.
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Chinese “atrocities” against Uighurs are talked about every week because it’s a story invented and pushed by the US state department. It’s the WMDs in Iraq of this decade. My understanding is that the Rohingyan genocide in Myanmar is legiti
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Why are these blocks getting more attention than Uganda’s? Is it because Myanmar is less friendly to the West or what?
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What is the cost of an unhealthy population that defers or forgoes medical treatment? Where is that price exacted? In a 2019 Gallup poll, 25% of US adults said they or a family member had delayed treatment for a serious medical condition th
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by xtian 6y ago
The Zig site has an answer: https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/
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The US defense and intelligence apparatuses have been deeply intertwined with private enterprise for many decades. This is a matter of historical fact. But I totally understand if it's more comfortable for you to believe that now thing
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How about this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
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Do you think the results of the Harvard Kennedy School's study were fraudulent? https://ash.harvard.edu/publications/understanding-ccp-resil...
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Do you apply the same level of concern to the US military? It produces a lot more CO2 emissions than Bitcoin. I don’t think it produces more benefits for normal people either.
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Who's left if you remove corporations? It's individuals, and more and more over time it's the middle strata of earners.
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> Given this fact alone it's hard to see cryptocurrency as anything but a selfish crackpot scheme to generate a few dollars at the expense of humanity and our planet. You could say the same thing about the US military, which is the
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The reasons you list are absolutely some of the reasons why police are not effective at addressing these forms of crime. And statistically they are not much better at addressing other forms of crime either. The point is that we should take
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> That's an.. ahem.. interesting way to look at it. So if the city wastes twice as much money elsewhere, policing becomes a better deal? "Effective" to me means "achieves desired outcome". You seem to be using a
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I'm sure there's a better source, but this site has a list of police budget figures for the 300 largest US cities with links to the budget reports: https://costofpolice.org According to that list police budgets make up
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They are saying that in evaluating police effectiveness it's important to not only consider the empirical data of case clearance rates but also to imagine how many people might have committed crimes but were deterred. Until experiments
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> We tend to have punishments that are large multiples of the benefits of committing the crime This is another fantasy. It's only true for certain types of people. Are the punishments for crimes committed by police officers scaled b
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Those are the FBI's categories, not mine.
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This is a convenient self-justifying fantasy. You're straight up saying that police could fail to do anything about 97% of crimes and it would still be worth it for cities to dump 30-50% of their yearly budgets into them because "
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According to the FBI, the national case clearance rate was 13.9% for burglary and 30.4% for robbery in 2018. That means that for the average US citizen who reports one of the crimes you mention there is a ~70-85% chance that the police will
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I don’t think Democrats represent workers’ issues any more than Republicans if that’s what you’re asking. The point of labor organization is to enable workers to leverage their fundamental role in the mechanism of capitalism in order to mak
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Yeah, they got a small slap on the wrist for that one. My point is the presence of snacks and perks does not preclude the exploitation of labor.
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“Politics” is simply the means by which we distribute power and resources. There is no division between labor organizing and politics. We just think there is in the US because worker movements have been systematically dismantled for decades
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Google was one of the participants in a corporate wage-fixing scandal. Do snacks and foosball tables justify that?
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That’s not sufficient evidence for the scale of the claim you’re making about basic human nature. Many other factors can explain China’s success much less the demographic composition of Math Olympiad participants.
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https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/crash_cours...
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Taft-Hartley was a decisive stroke in the effort to defang and depoliticize labor unions in the US (e.g., outlawing solidarity strikes and political strikes, expulsion of communists). Should we be surprised that kneecapping the militant lab
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Are these negative characteristics you’re describing from before or after Taft-Hartley?

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