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"Bring race into it", e.g. acknowledging there is a concept called "race" and that it affects many people's opportunities and potential wealth is not "race-baiting". You would know…

It would take someone more skilled than I, or with better tools, to check current in a fuse box without removing fuses. Maybe I should watch that guy and get better...

Pulling fuses is a pretty reliable way to find the relevant fuse in the first place. If the battery doesn't run down while a particular group of fuses is pulled, the one you want t…

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If you find such an article post it; I'd like to read something about that. Maybe it could also address the idea that economies based on exploitation are inherently unstable...

Full text 1A: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or …

If he had just said the widely-known-outside-USA truth, that there is no "genocide" of Uighurs, lots of people would have gotten upset. He doesn't care one way or the other about o…

A long time ago I worked in an office like that. I usually biked to commute, so when we had one more person going than cars going to lunch, I just biked to the restaurant as well. …

Don't expect rational history on HN. We regularly see e.g. comparisons of Putin to Hitler.

All day long, every day, the news media attempts to gin up more wars. They foster ignorance, fear, and hatred. Foreign leaders who haven't been in the news for years are made the p…

...I wouldn't choose that car to drive 4 adults daily. Is this a typical thing that cars do? I'm not sure if I've seen 4 adults in a car in the last month.

No one who has read your link would then question whether the chief executive is a principal: of course not. In polities who aspire to representative government, agents are anyone …

Yes, that exists, obviously. However, it's perfectly valid for someone to prefer a particular site to override an OS or browser setting.

Cookies are used for things as simple as nighttime color theme preference. Someone more knowledgeable than either of us will probably point out that GDPR doesn't care about cookies…

This crap does not benefit any defensible purpose of government. Probably it does benefit certain government employees. The principal-agent problem appears again.

You want USA to look worse ? If so, by all means, emphasize our racial disparities.

...for South China Sea dominance... Try as I might, I can't escape the conclusion that it is totally valid for China to "dominate" a body of water called the South China Sea. In si…

As is commonly the case, Caitlin Johnstone has the most insightful analysis: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/03/27/the-new-york-times-i...

None of this may be enough to match China. Its own surging arsenal now includes “monster” coast guard cutters...

Suggestions about how Canada could improve really ought to be directed to the Canadians. They might be amenable to different policies in sparsely populated regions like Hudson Bay.…