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Is that the point? Seems to me that if US citizens abroad pay taxes, they should be entitled to US government protection from censorship.

> displacing any local population

Why displacing? Greenland is 3x the size of Texas and only 60k people, mostly concentrated around a single village.

My most recent Deutsche Bahn train was announced as being 3 hours late. I watched a few passengers leave the station to grab coffee nearby. The train arrived 10 minutes later, and left 5 minutes after that. The whole system seems broken.

>But the same will inevitably make you hating the capitalism

If anything, reading has made me recognize the cultural and historic universality of the problems folks attribute to capitalism.

> You're arguing that "Black" is an identity in the US because the people thus identified share a common history within the US, even though their ancestors originated from different regions and cultures before they were enslaved and shipped to North America. Yet in the next paragraph you argue that "White" is not a valid identity, because their ancestors originated from different regions and cultures, even though they share a common history within the US. How do you reconcile this double standard?

The ethnic, cultural, linguistic, familial, etc., identities of enslaved people in America were systematically and deliberately erased. When you strip away those pre-American identities you land on the experience of slavery as your common denominator and root of history. This is fundamentally distinct from, for example, Irish immigration, who kept their community, religion, and family ties both within the US and over the pond. There’s a lot written about this that you can explore independently.

I’m not actually a fan of “Black” in writing like this, mostly because it’s sloppily applied in a ctrl+f for lower case “black”, even at major institutions who should know better, but the case for it is a fairly strong one.

The absolute mess that is US privacy legislation is going to undermine the US single market advantage. Truth is the big players don’t sell your data, they use it. Only small companies are hurt by this.

> Neither of these games are online, neither allow me to interact with other users in any way.

Beatsaber has a multiplayer mode, so if your opinion is contingent on online play you should reconsider.

> I suspect the subtle difference was not understood by the Koreans.

Why would you suspect that a company flying in hundreds of laborers can’t afford a lawyer to give the same guidance your HR company gave? It’s tax evasion and cost cutting.

Seems short-sighted by the investment firms. They aren’t just competing with other Florida firms, they are competing with NYC and London and Hong Kong. Why would top talent move there?

> It was also the result of Europe (now the EU) choosing not to oppose the US (at least mostly - they did in small areas). The EU has more people and combined could - if they wanted - be more powerful than the US.

Europe was destroyed by war, and then occupied by the US and USSR. The US liberated Western Europe and backstopped their independence. The Europeans didn’t choose to be on the American side, they were forced to by circumstance of their own making.

Assuming you’re not a haywire LLM, if you’re alive and posting here, you eat. If you eat, you’ve already internalized and practiced the notion that it’s acceptable to kill other life forms to stay alive.

The study of biology also serves to keep people alive; our modern practice of medicine evolved from the understanding gained by scientists, studying in the name of science.

If you are wealthy, perhaps set up a donor advised fund in their name. Let them do more good in the world, give to causes they contribute. Especially as folks age this is a way to get meaning.

Based on a list of (in part) profane words which includes:

addict africa amateur american angry arab

I came up with a (lambda? Triangle?) loop a few days ago.

Read until sleepy. Sleep until ready.

It's just a tradeoff. ~20 hours of low wage employment is more than enough to cover a car. Instead they choose to spend those ~20 hours walking/waiting for the bus. Certainly not a trade I would make.

>Oh, and also not factored in: almost every aspect of rural life is heavily subsidized, and I don't just mean direct assistance. I mean literally everything you stare at when you roll through a rural town was subsidized in some way by the federal government, and most of them either don't know or will never admit it.

This is pretty naive. Farmers aren’t subsidized so that farmers have cheap food, they are subsidized so that the city you’re hyping doesn’t riot because they run out of food. Farm subsidies exist for everyone who’s not a farmer.

I'll go against the grain and say that microservices have advantages for small dev teams embedded in non-tech orgs.

1. You get to minimize devops/security/admin work. Really a consequences of using serverless tooling, but you land on a something like a microservices architecture if you do.

2. You get can break out work temporally. This is the big one - when you're a small team supporting multiple products, you often don't have continuity of work. You have one project for a few months, completely unrelated product for another few months. Microservice architectures are easier to build and maintain in that environment.

Why do you think the plan is to export every single good? The calculation is clearly on the total import/export balance.

>While there are complicating factors, in general, probabilities add linearly. So for the average woman in the US, who lives for 77 years, she therefore has a 1% chance of being sexually harassed during any 1 year of her life.

Obviously the average survey respondent was not 77 years old, so the math here is wrong. Other assumptions we could make: prepubescent and post-menopausal women are not being sexually harassed at the same rate as women of reproductive age.

I think your point would stand with steelman math, so why strawman it?

Another way to see that geography is as approaches into Russia. Gdansk borders Kaliningrad, Helsinki and Tallinn straddle St Petersburg.

If your "energy security" is dependent on a belligerent state, you don't have energy security. This was something Trump himself has repeatedly criticized the Europeans for, so if you lead with "Trump was right" follow that thread.

One more prediction: a number of our allies will test domestically built nuclear weapons, including Germany, Poland, and South Korea.

Are you suggesting the earth flips around like the tennis racket?

In this very post, the EFF premise is that you are upset about Meta’s shift to less censorship. Meta’s new policies are a win for free speech.

I feel like only a few years ago the EFF was a non-partisan organization but for the last year every article of theirs I read has a distinctly American progressive perspective. Anyone know what’s behind the change?

I’m struck by the complaint about loosening moderation, right next to a complaint about censorship. It’s a very unprincipled take from an org I used to respect.

Some ways one could approach it:

Religious: the body is connected to a spirit and should be protected.

Familial: the body is scared to individuals who knew the person.

Cultural:; the body represents a current people, and to exhume it makes them feel dehumanized.

Legal: the body is property and property rights are to be respected.

Seems like with ancient Egyptian mummies none of those are relevant. The modern Egyptians have moved on from the old faiths, none trace their lineage to those mummies, culturally they are proud of them, legally there has been too much churn for the old claims to be relevant.

I actually was under the impression that Lyme disease was a new world disease introduced to Europe after contact, but it seems it was endemic to both continents for thousands of years prior, not clear where it originated as the sources contradict each other. Seems like Europe is more likely.

>In all, 33 different combinations of the housekeeping genes were found. The study's findings appear to show that Borrelia burgdorferi originated in Europe but that the species has been present in North America for a long time. The researchers suggest its re-emergence there in the 1970s occurred after the geographic territory of the tick that carries the bacteria expanded, for example through the restoration of woodland.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080629142805.h...

>A team of researchers led by the Yale School of Public Health has found that the Lyme disease bacterium is ancient in North America, circulating silently in forests for at least 60,000 years—long before the disease was first described in Lyme, Connecticut, in 1976 and long before the arrival of humans.

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/ancient-history-of-ly...

AIPAC is an organization made up of American Jews, not Israelis.

The United States, through its influence over Facebook, instagram, and twitter, facilitated the Arab Spring. Of course we don’t want an adversary to have the same influence over our domestic political conversation.

> To some extent this has helped with health insurance. Each year I get a check back from my insurer saying they didn't spend enough on my care vs my premiums.

This has baffled me ever since Obamacare was first passed - it seems that each year the insurance companies have an incentive to drive up the cost of healthcare, since that’s how they earn more money in absolute terms. Is it not so?