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In Argentina, by law, the candidates for all national elections for all parties are selected by las PASO (mandatory simultaneous open primaries), which are national simultaneous el…

I don't think that's what's happening. In your example with the generator expression, you're calling each lambda as you iterate through the generator, which due to the lazy evaluat…

>Why doesn't it? Is there some evidence that it does or doesn't.... or is this more of a claim? For the difference to be explained solely by there being more old people because old…

> So while you're right...by not using per Capita numbers... you're presenting your data in a very disengenuous and truth distorting way. GP actually did speak in terms of per capi…

You're welcome, but I don't think the information/citations I provided do substantiate your point at all. They show that Epik did market itself to right wing sites and individuals …

Epik started hosting Gab in 2018 (introducing "free speech" as a part of their marketing allegedly following the Gab move [1][2]) and BitChute and 8chan in 2019 [3] (although they …

The "A personal story of Tanya Khovanova" section at the start of the article itself describes the method more explicity: "One of the methods they used for doing this was to give t…

to claim he absolutely assisted, you actually just need to presume that he did something that helped. You can argue with those other points to try to argue about whether or to what…

Rayiner's own positive examples did not fulfill that blueprint, either, with the exception, I think, of Japan.

I’m not sure if you’re speaking of the US or elsewhere, but here in the US this really is not at all how it works. When my family was on food stamps, if we mismanaged our money and…

'Cultural Marxism' is an overtly antisemitic conspiracy theory claiming a devious plot by certain Jewish academics a plot to subvert "western civilization" and attributing their in…

The comment you linked discusses the source of a different project, doesn't it?

Yes, the server can straightforwardly, any time you load the application, serve to you (including to specifically you, a single target, making it much less likely to be noticed), a…

Aren't you assuming (probably incorrectly) that all hardcore gamers rated Competition more highly than all core/casual gamers? I'm not sure how much less weird allowing for that ma…

> Yet if a business used that line to refuse service to a minority, a religious person or atheist, a pro-choice advocate, or a LGBT person (in a nation where these are not protecte…

A better approach compared to banning things currently needed by disabled people and then, once disabled people object, saying "well, we need to develop better alternatives for dis…

> How hard is it to carry a metal straw with you? You hear news about the ban, and you put a couple plastic ones in your bag until the metal one from amazon arrives. Metal straws a…

> Reusable straws (both plastic and metal) are available, as are paper and non-paper compostable straws. I don't know of any disability that requires people to use single-use-but-s…

> Referring to somebody by the wrong pronoun is a criminal offence in Canada. Please cite the text of a law which actually says this or any case where someone has been convicted fo…

> The only thing mildly surprising to me here is that it took them ~10 years to get the house to do it. Some of the non-profits dedicated to fighting this opposed the bill!

So, it's similar to Facebook Messenger rather than to Signal? (Actually I think Messenger might support E2EE group chats, but I'm not sure.)

Clinton was described as overprepared for the debate the night of the first debate. There was some amount of controversy over one such comment, by Chuck Todd (of NBC).

> Total Tether issued as of the end of 2017. Total Tether issued as of the end of January 2018 is about 2.3 billion.

That TechCrunch article cites BuzzFeed as its source for the claim that YC said that they kicked him out particularly for that comment, but I don't see that in the linked BuzzFeed …

> When mormons/christian groups/conservatives/etc organize and start flagging atheist/lgbt youtubers/content and getting them taken down, are you going to celebrate censorship? Giv…