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by arel 6y ago
Not true. All historical white supremacy movements have been built on the narrative of genetic superiority. Skull shapes, race theory etc. Although cultural superiority is entwined in this its only recently this became centre stage as a me
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by arel 6y ago
This a (frankly lazy) narrative often used to dismiss demands for equality. You might be able to point to isolated incidents but to view group advocacy as a whole as malicious power grab is simply not true and a gross misrepresentation. A b
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by arel 6y ago
What you're missing here is in reality, your life experience, outcomes and how you are treated in society can be very much a consequence of your "identity". All groups are advocating for is equality of treatment from institut
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by arel 6y ago
The cargo culting and contrarian smugness on HN can be very annoying. Not very representative of the entire real world of development.
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by arel 6y ago
There are options to target them specifically. For example we could progressively make them sterile.
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by arel 6y ago
Serious question - Why can't we put our minds to it and kill them all? Why can't we banish this mass killer and cause of immense suffering to humans and animals alike. I haven't seen any compelling evidence that they form any
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by arel 6y ago
A serious investigation based on actual real verified events. The series of secret meetings, lies and changing narrative from so many in the admin that were later exposed as false tells its own story. Whether it could be proved as collusion
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by arel 6y ago
Globalisation has many problems but _causes_ racism? I would argue it's demagogues who take advantage of societal breakdown to inflame inherent racism. More generally we also have a choice regardless of circumstances to not be racist.
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by arel 6y ago
> All of the clips cut out all of the context Categorically false There are hundreds of videos showing the police brutalising peaceful protest. Watch them. Single example - How about peaceful protestors at the Whitehouse being tear gasse
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by arel 6y ago
> With this idea in mind, I personally can't picture myself being able to remain calm and not overstep my boundaries sooner or later. It's their job to remain calm and lawful under all circumstances. They have the full force of
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by arel 6y ago
> Bill Gates knew (see ted talk), the rest of us didn't. This assertion is false. Generally speaking competent governments routinely do threat level risk assessments. For example previous UK governments produced comprehensive pandem
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by arel 6y ago
There's a painful cognitive dissonance that people seem to have about this disease - there isn't an option (unless you don't care about lots of people dying) where the economy doesn't take a big hit in order to contain t
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by arel 6y ago
The point is avoiding mass death. They care about their families lives too and not just economics. It's not a 'political' choice or about 'optics'. It's also not just 'old' people who are dying. It a
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by arel 6y ago
> for example the UK or Belgium It depends when each country locked down relative to the number of cases and deaths at the time. The UK is widely acknowledged (here anyway) to have acted too late in its lockdown as the were trying to pur
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by arel 6y ago
Your underlying assumption is a) Sweden is reporting correctly and b) won't in future find excess deaths in the community - as other countries have: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-care-h
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by arel 6y ago
Because of the huge amount of excess deaths that get assigned as probable covid cases. This is happening right now in the UK.
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by arel 6y ago
Couldn't you in fact make the opposite case? Sweden as the outlier is not reporting accurately and others are? The UK has seen huge excess mortality above the average which is being attributed to large numbers of undiagnosed deaths in
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by arel 6y ago
Big numerator / bigger denominator doesn't make the numerator go away. Are you going to atoms in the universe next? So following this logic lets shut down all hospitals and stop treating all illnesses?
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by arel 6y ago
And if we follow your premise that this is hysteria and we go back to work how many absolute numbers of people will die vs other causes of preventable death? Herd immunity would still mean millions of dead people you'd have to step ove
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by arel 6y ago
Hysteria? What negates this thinking is hard mathematics ie that all the other things don't kill at a _geometric_ rate. If left unchecked millions of people will die in a short amount of time. Yes flu also progress similarly but we hav
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by arel 7y ago
All of this has happened before (probably)
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by arel 7y ago
Very valid points! It smacks of transplanting a rose-tinted view of 1950s academia into schools. Teaching students in a modern school environment is a world apart from academia. Also, entirely predictable down-voting, I imagine from enginee
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by arel 7y ago
Great job! I'd love to hear more about the calculations involved for the sun and moon paths and the implementation of the shadow maps. If you have the time and haven't already perhaps it would be worthy of a blog?
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by arel 7y ago
It's very hard to see how you reached this conclusion, which seems to show more knee-jerk bias on your part. The article is (in the main) about our relationship to news. The ever increasing saturation of 'news' into our every
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by arel 8y ago
Its both: 1. Platforms have a civic responsibility to not promote disinformation. 2. Citizens have a responsibility to escape their bias and bubbles and reject disinformation. But in the current environment where even basic truth and source
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by arel 9y ago
There is a point that is always missed about Electron - UI. By using HTML, CSS & JS you have an extremely rich toolkit to create UI with constant improvements from browser vendors and standards bodies. If a designer can create a pattern
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by arel 9y ago
The single most annoying set of adverts on the internet. Hammy with extra ham on top.
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by arel 9y ago
> divisive social and political messages If the actor is a foreign government and the intent is to destabilize a country thats ok with you?
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by arel 10y ago
Thank you! Just to note Temple Bar was moved from its original position: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Bar,_London
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by arel 10y ago
My evaluation of Thiel's ability to think intelligently, critically, with reason, nuance and with empathy just plummeted. You want to change the world for the better Peter? Don't support a vitriolic demagogue. I hope other leaders

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