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by beaner 5y ago
Is this really a proper analogy? Child pornography is the content and the internet is the medium. For what OP is talking about, cryptography is the medium, not the content. We're moving towards banning the medium here, and what types o
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by beaner 5y ago
> This is a good example of an irrational reason: I'm scared of a choice that has a very small chance of producing myocarditis, so instead I'll make a choice that has a greater chance of producing myocarditis. This isn't t
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by beaner 5y ago
I think assuming that it's out of "spite" is an example of not realizing how "your side" might be causing the division. There are a lot of people who have already had covid and now have antibodies, who were also nev
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by beaner 5y ago
Of all the conspiracy theories out there, this one, to me, has the highest coverage-to-interestingness ratio. It just seems like a teen hacked an AV system and did a goofy presentation. I'm surprised that type of thing isn't more
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by beaner 5y ago
I don't believe the study is comparing absolute numbers, it's talking about risk on a per-individual level.
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by beaner 5y ago
I've heard stories about the difficulty about payments at AirBnB, where the suppliers are local people across the globe in different languages with varying levels of access to financial services. It's one of the things that inspir
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by beaner 5y ago
> This will be the tipping point for many to finally question all the info they get from the corporate media. Only if they actually get to see the reality presented to them somewhere. I fear that most people still won't. If they&#x2
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by beaner 5y ago
You understand that I am not saying that black skin is the cause of the way people respond in police interactions, right? When I say "If a certain demographic were ... 4x more likely to respond to a benign pullover with violence",
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by beaner 5y ago
Hm, no, good correction. I might be thinking about a separate article from the same time period that I've lost track of.
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by beaner 5y ago
TBH I don't understand what you're saying. I'm having the same debate on 2 threads now so here's my quote to the other person who posted the same link: "I looked at it and the study doesn't account for anything
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by beaner 5y ago
I looked at it and the study doesn't account for anything. For example, if a certain demographic were 2x more likely to die in an encounter, but 4x more likely to respond to a benign pullover with violence, then they're actually 2
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by beaner 5y ago
Ok sure, but in turn your comment ignores/doesn't contain any data on the statistics of crimes committed by race or what behaviors that lead to escalation appear more among different races. The NYTimes however did research it and
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by beaner 5y ago
The NYTimes, which is a left-leaning institution to begin with, released an infamous paper on race-based police killings itself in 2015 by a black researcher and author, and found that "this data does not prove that biased police offic
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by beaner 5y ago
Sure, here's a thread with sources: https://twitter.com/leonydusjohnson/status/12674663458447400... > Time and time again we see someone get called on a welfare check only to be shot to death You really ne
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by beaner 5y ago
We care less because for the most part everyone is much better off than we used to be. Material wealth is easier to acquire and with less physical effort.
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by beaner 5y ago
"“When you call the police on a Black or Brown person, there’s a good chance you are putting their life in danger. I don’t think that is a thing one should do lightly.” Statistically this is False. It's driving a lot of current po
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by beaner 5y ago
A lot of people say things like this, but then with their actual voting power, elect to put leaders in place who pursue exactly these outcomes.
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by beaner 5y ago
> The real issue is that one company is in a skewed position of power due to a broken marketplace Nobody seems able to identify what the unfair advantage is. The truth is that this is the nature of social networks: the successful ones te
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by beaner 5y ago
Guess it depends on your own reason and interpretation then, and we all have an excuse to fall back to our existing biases and pre-chosen sides.
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by beaner 5y ago
Further, according to a DC metropolitan police report, the killing was unnecessary and unjustified: https://securitystudies.org/report-shows-babbitt-not-a-deadl...
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by beaner 5y ago
I'm just asking for a tapered edge :D The new bulbous rounded edges almost seem passive-aggressive from apple. Yes, prioritize power, and with whatever remaining ability to make things pretty that you have, utilize it. When you can but
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by beaner 5y ago
Personally I dislike this bit. Thinness isn't everything, but it's something. I don't know that the new models really needed to look as brick-ish as they do, and the previous design was certainly sexier.
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by beaner 5y ago
If it was just a setup to eventually providing an answer she already had in her pocket, is that the same thing really that's being discussed? Willingness to look stupid and earnestness to find an answer?
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by beaner 5y ago
I think by "around the same time" he probably just means "plus or minus a few hundred years, before the Europeans". Point being that native collapse happened at large scale in multiple areas prior to European settling.
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by beaner 5y ago
Yes... I understand. My questions was why this seems so desirable to have when it requires carrying more equipment, and seems like an unlikely scenario most of the time.
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by beaner 5y ago
Unpopular opinion: I am surprised by how much people like MagSafe. Charging over usb-c seems so ideal: one cable for all of my devices. And in a decade, the number of times I've tripped or banged on the cable in a way that having MagSa
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by beaner 5y ago
The whole point of the article is that there is now scarcity of what was previously bountiful.
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by beaner 5y ago
What is it , exactly?
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by beaner 5y ago
Ok sure, I don't think people are disagreeing with that, it's just not what anyone else was talking about so you seemed to be missing the point.
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by beaner 5y ago
I don't think you're understanding what the person you're replying to is saying. If the app is made by an adversary, you don't need to post it publicly for there to be a problem. The app has the ability to send it direct

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