steffandroid

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by steffandroid 1y ago
Hey, I'm one of the app developers at VanMoof – what's not working exactly?
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by steffandroid 3y ago
Not irrelevant at all, military technology is a large part of the UK's tech sector, and arms exports to countries with poor human rights records are in the billions.
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by steffandroid 3y ago
Not just a higher fine, wealthy offenders should also have their driving licenses revoked and their vehicles seized.
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by steffandroid 4y ago
"4.5 million UK tourists" is not the same as total passengers. Individual tourists can make multiple journeys, and overseas tourists are excluded from this figure. Over 20 million passengers use the tunnel annually.
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by steffandroid 5y ago
The same is true for Android development - we saw build times cut in half after upgrading to M1 machines. Another advantage is that there is no noticeable slowdown while Gradle does its thing, so multitasking is now significantly easier.
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by steffandroid 5y ago
You know unions also operate in the public and non-profit sectors, right?
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by steffandroid 6y ago
Rocky Horror Picture Show was remade in 2016 and premiered on Fox.
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by steffandroid 6y ago
On the contrary, television advertisements have (rightly) always been viewed as inextricably linked to the content they appear between. As such, advertiser boycotts have been a favoured tactic of conservative organisations throughout the pa
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by steffandroid 6y ago
Might want to read up on Comrade Delta.
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by steffandroid 6y ago
Github is hardly a bastion of free flowing information. Back in 2018 they removed a repository which listed names of ICE agents, based on data from LinkedIn - https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/ice-employee-lis
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by steffandroid 6y ago
Please read this piece that Graeber wrote in defence of Corbyn: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/first-time-...
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by steffandroid 6y ago
This is a pointless thought experiment that has practically no basis in reality.
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by steffandroid 6y ago
Andreessen is a billionaire, so it's in his interest to try and obscure class divisions with some smart-sounding tech bullshit.
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by steffandroid 6y ago
> A wealthy black person can easily start their own business. Certainly, but black people are disproportionately less wealthy than white people, so are far less likely to be in that position. > A poor white person cannot use their whi
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by steffandroid 6y ago
The problem with "rich people" as a phrase is that most rich people don't think of themselves as rich - for example, only 13% of millionaires do [1]. As "white dudes" are disproportionately represented within this d
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by steffandroid 6y ago
The US has 2.2 million people in prison, more than any other country in the world.
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by steffandroid 6y ago
The Trump campaign said they used it because it's a "symbol widely used by Antifa" - which is a lie, it's not.
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by steffandroid 6y ago
> It seems many students have been denied their college admissions due to stuff they tweeted as a teenager. How many of them have still been denied after showing genuine remorse for their views? Nobody is owed a college admission. > a
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by steffandroid 6y ago
Yes, an ideology which is already vastly overrepresented in the media. I'm sure we'll soon find out exactly how necessary this particular venture is.
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by steffandroid 6y ago
There's hardly a shortage of liberal media outlets, does the world really need another one?
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by steffandroid 6y ago
> an independent tribunal Funded by whom?
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by steffandroid 6y ago
Their website. https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/voc-news/2020/4/5/blame-t... https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/press-releases/2020/4/10/... > While the pandemic
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by steffandroid 6y ago
The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation counts all COVID-19 deaths worldwide as victims of communism, in case anyone was wondering how credible this organisation is.
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by steffandroid 6y ago
> On average, out of 88 claims that pass the credible fear screening, fewer than 13 will ultimately result in a grant of asylum. Why use 88 rather than 100 to illustrate this statistic?
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by steffandroid 6y ago
> I also don't think equating yourself and antifa to the struggle of the holocaust and slavery is going to win any minds over. Thousands of anti-fascists were badged with the red triangle and subsequently slaughtered in the holocaus
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by steffandroid 6y ago
> The more outlandish claim is that he was trying to demean the Jewish population with a symbol used during the holocaust. The upside down red triangle wasn't used as a symbol for Jews in the camps, it was specifically used for soci
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by steffandroid 6y ago
I've never seen AFA Amsterdam or AFA Nederland use a red triangle with the exception of that one conference, and in that instance the triangle isn't even upside down.
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by steffandroid 6y ago
It's not so much the profession that's being condemned, more the institution.
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by steffandroid 6y ago
I don't know how you could look at the events of the past week and come to any other conclusion.
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by steffandroid 6y ago
> I hope, that both sides, the protesters and police force will find a way, to exit that spiral of violence. The two sides are massively unequal in terms of power, the onus is on the police to stop the violence.

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