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Comment #37928175
It’s not like there’s no precedent for this. Look at all the rules WeChat was able to ignore due to their size and influence. I assume Elon expected a similar treatment for Twitter…
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Comment #33110202
There’s actually a very interesting 1995 research paper that studied the relationship between SAT scores and race and family income. In every single money bracket white and Asian s…
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Comment #33110021
At the end of the day the only real solution to the problem of inequity/representation will end up being hard quotas that roughly maintain a demographic balance at top institutions…
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Comment #32706808
Cloudflare can do whatever it wants but I wish they were honest about it. The claim that there has been some “dangerous escalation” in the past 2 weeks is nonsense. If anything the…
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Comment #32589192
It also helps that Qatar (along with the UAE and Kuwait) provide hefty benefits to married couples for marriage and childbirth. Emirati and Qatari women have almost 50% more childr…
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Comment #32069263
This definition is so broad you can basically classify anything you don’t like as “cultural appropriation” depending on how loosely you define “minority”, “majority” and “context”.…
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Comment #31486764
Was Hindu (I assume that’s the original language for which Indo-Arabic numerals were made for) written right to left ? I know Arabic was but I don’t think Indian languages ever hav…
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Comment #31030249
In some left-wing circles anti-Americanism and anti-imperialism are indistinguishable. People like Max Blumenthal are the perfect representatives of this ideology.
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Comment #31030103
I mean his is the quintessential “both-sides” take that pushes (younger) people to be “unsure” about who they support, no? Russia is bad, but so is Ukraine and NATO, too. Russia is…
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Comment #31030004
Most younger people are quite skeptic of mainstream media so they don’t trust the narrative CNN and Fox News are trying to sell them.With the elderly it’s the opposite. Further, mo…
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Comment #30736593
Thats a feature, not a bug. Israel will probably become the first democratic country were “outbreed them” was a successful political strategy. The ultra orthodox are a solid voting…
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Comment #30736498
Ultra orthodox women in Israel have the highest life expectancy and a negligible child mortality rate but they’re having more kids than any African country. Oman is a fairly develo…
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Comment #30736450
In homogenous societies like japan, Sweden, and Denmark it usually leads to a lot of ethnic contradictions once the immigrant population passes a certain threshold. Once has to won…
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Comment #30726017
Isn’t luxury the only thing that’s even allowed to be built in most NIMBY cities? Try building large “market-rate” housing in Palo Alto and see what happens (even within the confin…
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Comment #30703827
A certain Middle Eastern nation has infiltrated the US government far more successfully than China could ever dream of, and they barely hide it.
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Comment #30689190
Was he really that popular ? There’s very little about him online.
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Comment #30525521
Race can and is absolutely gamed all the time. Case in point: Senator Elizabeth Warren. Just because it can be gamed doesn’t mean it’s not a good metric
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Comment #30308629
Econjobrumors.com
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Comment #30152063
This is 100% the case when I was looking for a VPN recommendation. So many of the Reddit threads were blatantly astroturfed.
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Comment #30054874
It’s also at the center of Jihadi activity in Africa and the situation is only getting worse every year.
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Comment #30031911
It really is a Talibanesque situation unfolding in Yemen. It’s interesting because by all accounts they (Houthis) control most of the population centers of the country despite oste…
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Comment #29998585
This is mostly true if you come from certain nationalities and/or places. Arabs and people from the Balkans have a bad reputation because they are seen as sources of crime and or v…
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Comment #29976831
Interesting that it’s the opposite in Judaism. A child of a Jewish mother and a Zoroastrian father would belong to both religions.
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Comment #29962413
It’s interesting because “destroy whiteness” was and is a popular talking point in certain circles or the left. Obviously they don’t literally mean destroy white people but as alwa…