ReticentVole

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by ReticentVole 6y ago
The distinctions between African-Americans and African Migrants are interesting. The migrant groups have higher incomes, lower use of welfare, better academic performance. There are some Black STEM programs in the US that are entirely fille
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Aus and NZ are still in futile COVID suppression mode, so they are unlikely to be taking in a million Hongkies any time soon. I'm sure they'll get around to it though - it will reinflate their property markets which have sagged a
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Supreme Court says generic domains like booking.com can be trademarked(arstechnica.com)
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
African Americans and Hispanics are hired at lower rates into the IT sector because they have poorer outcomes in school, particularly for mathematics. How does racially-biased hiring address that other than just placing unproductive workers
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
68,000 victims of FGM in Germany: https://www.dw.com/en/female-genital-mutilation-report-shows... First-generation South Asian mothers in Canada give birth to 142 boys for every 100 girls: https://www.ncbi.n
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
The ultimate aim of these diversity projects is to lower labor costs - either by psychologically manipulating people into accepting lower wages, by focusing on conflict and alignment along racial lines instead of class lines, or simply to e
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
There are a minimal number of excess deaths now associated with COVID, so what is the problem? Allowing the community to acquire immunity naturally during Summer is a good way to minimise the spread of the virus come Winter. COVID severity
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Mao Zedong, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Mohammed, Nelson Mandela, all responsible for varying amounts of human death and suffering - yet revered or worshiped today.
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
The video game industry is just like any other industry - sex, violence, corruption, success, failure. But because its so consumer-oriented, and probably because everyone who works within it is relatively young, everything receives excrucia
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
An iPhone is a general purpose device compared to an iPod. But maybe Apple has lost the willingness to cannibalise its own sales for the sake of creating stunning new product categories.
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Elon Musk is there too and he was never on a H1B. This title is misleading and it should be renamed.
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
African Americans are killed by police at the same or lesser rates than other races. However, they are killed at much higher absolute rates because they commit a significantly greater amount of crime. It doesn't take a PHD in mathemati
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Why do we need to buy so many devices anyway? Why can't I just plug my iPad or iPhone into a dumb dock with a laptop screen and its own storage and battery, and use the CPU and GPU from the phone/ipad?
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
COVID-19 is endemic. Even if first-world countries like the ones you mention can control it, it just takes one infected traveller from a 2nd/3rd world country to restart the whole thing. The reality is that COVID is a relatively minor
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
The H1B is also not designed to support diversity or equality, which is crucial if we consider it a stepping-stone to long-term immigration (which many people want). It would seem reasonable to place an intake limit of 10% from any one coun
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
The willpower and genetic heritage of the poor and homeless isn't there. Most people at the very bottom are in that position because of mental or genetic problems. You cannot continue to throw money at it - you will end up with an endl
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
No excess deaths anymore from COVID-19 in the USA: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm The excess deaths from COVID can be mostly explained by us having no flu season in 2019 or
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
We need a grand strategy. Our first order of business should be to end the burning of fossil fuels, second order being to establish permanent presence beyond Earth. Otherwise it feels like we are just twiddling our thumbs, redistributing we
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
1440p, 75hz display is perfectly acceptable. If you game, the quality difference between 1440p and 4k is pretty much indistinguishable, but 1440p is much less performance intensive to render. I upgraded from a 32" 1080p display to a 32
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Preparation for a male-only ethnic bioweapon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
The single best move Europe could make would be to limit any digital stores to maximum 12% commission. That would truly reign in the monopoly power of these platforms (typically American) and dramatically boost the revenues of content creat
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
That doesn't seem to be the case if you look at places like Egypt, where birthrates are not falling despite the country being relatively developed. A lot more of it is cultural and social, and whether people care about their overall im
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Which will have the effect of depressing wages, increasing housing prices, and increasing social tension since the majority of those immigrants will be culturally alien. Canada is a high-CO2 nation, more people = more emissions. It should b
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
“You know, I have often thought that at the end of the day, we would have saved more wildlife if we had spent all WWF's money on buying condoms.” - Sir Peter Scott, Founder, WWF (1909-1989)
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
CDC estimated it at 0.26%: https://in.dental-tribune.com/news/new-estimate-by-the-cdc-b...
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
If this cuts deaths by 1/3rd, isn't that totally sufficient to end all lockdowns and border restrictions immediately? The death rate looks basically like the annual flu with this drug, particularly when we consider that it will ju
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Infosys is in court again for racist discrimination against non-Indian applicants: https://www.deccanherald.com/business/business-news/another-... Black unemployment hit an all-time low this year: https:/&#x
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
End the drug war, legalise marijuana and decriminalise everything else, send Black men to get married and raise their kids instead of sitting in Jail. Only 36% of Black kids live with married parents: https://www.pewresearch.org&
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Microfibers usually use plastic bottles and other containers sent for recycling. We need to simply eliminate that stream of waste. Banning single-use plastic is an absolutely necessary step - but the effort needs to be global, or at least r
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by ReticentVole 6y ago
Intel's problem is that they fired expensive, older American workers and replaced them with H1B contractors. There's a video on AdoredTV about the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agxSclh27uo

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