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White Americans are beginning to realise that they too belong to a race(economist.com)
18 points by tarakat 4y ago|34 comments
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by tarakat 4y ago
British colonisers used Shakespeare’s works as an example of how people should act, Hyland said. “It would be a massive, awesome act of decolonisation if we discovered our own stories first and discovered Shakespeare afterwards. While Hyl
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by tarakat 4y ago
> economic justice* has to come first So shall we put the ongoing ecological and climate catastrophes on hold while we take 200 years to reach an egalitarian utopia? On the other hand, we're told that these catastrophes affect the p
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by tarakat 4y ago
Where they burn books, they will too in the end burn people. But these are paintings, not books, so no worries.
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by tarakat 4y ago
> we recently shared an update on how our External Data Misuse (EDM) team works to safeguard people against clone sites Is this what they're calling interoperable competitors now?
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by tarakat 4y ago
Your examples are all less scalable and easier to detect that hacking. > That is a great step forward, compared to the closed black boxes, e-voting systems I have heard of before. It's still a black box. You have only their word to
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by tarakat 4y ago
How many nation-states burned their best zero-days on this public intrusion test?
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by tarakat 4y ago
A related question: How secure is an Android phone that does receive security updates from its vendor? I vaguely recall hearing that it can take months before a security patch makes it from mainline Android to consumer devices.
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by tarakat 4y ago
> is it the motel's responsibility or the police's to deal with them Moving past how KiwiFarms hadn't actually broken any laws, let's say for the sake of argument that they had. And that this motel chain owned 40% of
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by tarakat 4y ago
Try applying this to any other group. Truth is no defense for "bias".
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by tarakat 4y ago
Having corporations directly enforce each-other's terms & conditions is so much more efficient than the slow process of going through the courts.
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by tarakat 4y ago
> for 75 years A sure sign of corruption. An honest lease would be short, so that it can simply not be renewed if problems arise.
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by tarakat 4y ago
Conduct the observations at night? ;)
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by tarakat 4y ago
A common argument is that, because only a small fraction of US prisons are private [1], it means private prison lobbying is a negligible problem. But this is a fallacy! The fraction doesn't matter, only the absolute amount of funds flo
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by tarakat 4y ago
Even taking the cherry-picked history [1] and denial of Uyghur genocide at face value, this is simply yet another in a long line of articles that boil down to: Your history is evil, therefore you do not have a right to self-defense [2]. [1]
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by tarakat 4y ago
> free speech is meant to protect you from government censorship to ensure the balance of powers That's the 1st amendment of the US constitution, not "free speech". Since this is a United Nations report, the context is wid
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by tarakat 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#Causes regions with higher Ukrainian population shares were struck harder with centrally planned policies corresponding to famine, and Ukrainian populated areas were given lower
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by tarakat 4y ago
One difference is intent. The computer logging was somewhat incidental (but not entirely benign, so we shouldn't give it a pass without thinking), while the heat sensors are there very deliberately. The other difference is territoriali
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by tarakat 4y ago
That can't be it - Google's autocomplete works fine for Putin.
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It’s only a ‘conspiracy theory’ when it accuses the US Government(caitlinjohnstone.com)
14 points by tarakat 4y ago|1 comments
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by tarakat 4y ago
> "They are proposing that grad students share desks, taking turns with a scheduling web-app, so administrators can take over some of the space currently used by grad students." Give them an inch, and they take a mile - adminis
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by tarakat 4y ago
> Here he goes after the "interventionistas" (foreign policy theorists with no "skin in the game,") who have repeatedly urged us to intervene in foreign countries -- Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria -- whose government
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by tarakat 4y ago
A brilliant way to let off some steam, while making it impossible to build any sort of business around circumvention (and hence funneling enough resources into circumvention to make it viable and widespread), because there's a ~50% cha
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by tarakat 4y ago
The anti-circumvention provision is one of the worst laws out there. It elevates manufacturers into law-makers. Anything that was legal can be made illegal by virtue of a lock. Even a lock placed on our own property by someone else. How lon
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U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry (2009)(reuters.com)
123 points by tarakat 4y ago|307 comments
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by tarakat 4y ago
I think we can all agree that they should be de-orbited onto whoever commissioned them.
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by tarakat 4y ago
Is "divisive" really the most specific term, when only one group is targeted this way?
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DC Council advances bill that would let noncitizens vote(wtop.com)
10 points by tarakat 4y ago|13 comments
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by tarakat 4y ago
> You made a site complaining about the subpoena [..] I'm guessing you haven't seen a subpoena before - they are all like this If everyone kept their mouths shut as you suggest, we wouldn't know about how rotten the legal
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by tarakat 4y ago
The parallel is to all outcomes, not just health.

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