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Fontana pays $900k for 'psychological torture' by police to get false confession(sbsun.com)
4 points by anon1385 2y ago|0 comments
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by anon1385 4y ago
>they're mainly complaining about proprietary OS vendors restricting users' choice in browsers I guess they think everybody forgot about the many years and hundreds of millions of dollars that Mozilla spent trying to get people
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by anon1385 5y ago
I would have agreed with you in the past. And I still do when it comes to defending a lot of the BBC content that doesn't come from the news department. But BBC News is just so bad and utterly corrosive that I'd abolish the entire
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by anon1385 5y ago
I think experience will differ a lot based on when you were vaccinated. Earlier on (Feb/March last year) it sounds like the waiting time wasn't being strictly enforced - you were advised to wait especially if you were driving but
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Israeli Diplomat Pressured UNC to Remove Teacher Who Criticized Israel(theintercept.com)
58 points by anon1385 5y ago|17 comments
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by anon1385 5y ago
>The defining characteristic of cancel culture has always been using collective online action to have someone ostracized from social or political circles, removed from their job or professional relationships, etc. That's because the
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by anon1385 5y ago
The defining characteristic of cancel culture is people with massive platforms who spend a lot of time trying to get people fired for saying then they disagree with complaining when people are rude to them on twitter (at best, much the time
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In hunt for Covid’s origin, new studies point away from lab leak theory(theguardian.com)
6 points by anon1385 5y ago|4 comments
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UK children a week hospitalised with rare post-Covid disease(theguardian.com)
3 points by anon1385 6y ago|1 comments
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by anon1385 6y ago
'Today' is tabloid bilge and has played a big part in the dumbing down of political discourse in the UK. It's hard to take any of the rest of your recommendations seriously when they start with Today. Certainly there are othe
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Coronavirus-related condition may be emerging in children(hsj.co.uk)
2 points by anon1385 6y ago|0 comments
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by anon1385 6y ago
The most important counterpoint is that the Stanford study cited there is really bad: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw... The more recent numbers from New York put the IFR at 0.5 t
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'Woke' social media network is a covert UK counterterror programme(middleeasteye.net)
2 points by anon1385 7y ago|1 comments
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by anon1385 7y ago
Maybe you aren't old enough to remember but plenty of people were up in arms in 2000 as well. I can't comment on what popular sentiment was in 1888.
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WhatsApp bans Podemos channel days before Spanish general election(twitter.com)
29 points by anon1385 7y ago|1 comments
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by anon1385 7y ago
You're getting downvoted because you're dangerously wrong. Yes some anti-vaxers send threats, but the idea that they have managed to silence the mainstream scientific opinion on vaccines is ludicrous. That information is widely av
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by anon1385 8y ago
>It is an uninformed choice if you want to run wayland Creating a product that only works for people who already a) know about it and b) buy their hardware specifically to support it doesn't seem like a good strategy to achieve wide
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Foxconn reconsidering plans to make LCD panels at Wisconsin plant(reuters.com)
4 points by anon1385 8y ago|0 comments
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by anon1385 8y ago
Well you can read the thread on the mailing list but to put it bluntly - because they wanted to stop ZoL from working. They view non-GPL kernel modules as a violation of the GPL. "My tolerance for ZFS is pretty non-existant" Gre
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Gatwick drones pair 'no longer suspects'(bbc.co.uk)
109 points by anon1385 8y ago|97 comments
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by anon1385 8y ago
The UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Medical_Association Here's them going on strike the other year: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/31/bma-announce...
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by anon1385 8y ago
>I invite the reader to search for any serious discourse on problems within "sex work" at Current Affairs or The Intercept, The Guardian It's always dangerous to make generalisations about feminism, especially across diffe
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by anon1385 8y ago
I think we have very different definitions of 'respectable'. Maybe it's an American thing where absolutist free speech is worshipped as part of the cult of civic religion, but where I live Holocaust denial[1] isn't consi
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by anon1385 8y ago
Even the Financial Times, notoriously partisan backers of privatisation and markets, struggles to make the case for rail privatisation these days (although they do try, bless them). https://www.ft.com/content/d82848ca-f
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by anon1385 8y ago
Use of SharedArrayBuffer in timing attacks was widely predicted and there were working examples showing how it could be used to extract information from browsers long before vendors enabled it by default. It's hard to have faith that t
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by anon1385 8y ago
>You misunderstood. The Uber software had sole control of the brakes (plus the human of course). The Volvo factory system was disabled so that it didn’t have negative interaction with the Uber system. That's not how I read it, or ho
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by anon1385 8y ago
The MMR scare, which is the origin of a lot of the modern antivax movement, was something that was largely created by (UK) newspapers[1]. This was back in the 90s before the subsequent decline in revenue from advertising and competition fro
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by anon1385 8y ago
>And doctors make most of their revenue from sick people! Which is one of the reasons health care isn't charged for at the point of use in developed countries.
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by anon1385 8y ago
Keep in mind that a lot of high profile security people on HN and elsewhere have spent many years now telling everybody that the linux urandom man page is wrong, so don't be surprised when people ignore it. https://hn.algoli
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The world doesn't need more Elon Musks(ftalphaville.ft.com)
1 points by anon1385 8y ago|0 comments

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