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Someone really needs to do a write up looking at all the times race has altered the public discourse.

Theres a consistent theme here in portraying culprits who are white as victims or sympathetic. Whether its contrasting breivik to jihadists, or incels to african american victims of police shootings or white nationalists to BLM protesters.

I think a bit more intellectual honesty might have a dramatic effect on the level of social engagement.

It would be an act of war.

>an extremely powerful stabilizing force

For the American empire. Less so for the rest of the world.

Climate change can't be fixed by small changes on an individual level. It requires sweeping regulations from nation states and in particular, the military (which accounts for huge quantities of carbon emissions).

>1. The Harvard part of the degree is completely irrelevant

Except It's a pretty good indicator of his socioeconomic background and the numerous opportunities that were made available to him in his life that others didn't have. Apart from that yeah..

Oh and also the copious networking opportunities it gave him and access to circles that others don't have. yeah.....

Considering the growth in renewable technology I'd like to see an updated graph of build times. I doubt building Nuclear energy is anywhere near as fast as renewable energy today.

One can always find exceptions to the rule.

Why are they compared to each other? Completely different people operating completely different systems with completely different goals.

>Tweeting itself probably generates more waste (CPU cycles, network traffic, phone battery consumption, etc) than will be "wasted" by sending this roadster into space. But at least they'll get to feel smug.

What a bizarre and highly inaccurate thing to say.

Disgusting development and a horrible example of how destructive technology can be.

This reinforces my belief that engineers and scientist need to go through mandatory ethics classes throughout their education.

>I'm Australian.

Probably explains why you have a disparaging attitude towards indigenous knowledge.

Probably not point 2. Lab grown meat would probably still need antibiotics.

>Today in the America of 2017 it is very difficult to argue with the fact that we live in a police state.

You must be a white male. Minorities have known America was a police state since conception.

The US has a long history of employing former Nazi and fascist officials post WW2.

>finding real solutions for the tendency to see Blacks gunned down by the police

Stop hiring racist police. Stop aquiting police of murder. Stop using tax payers dollars to pay for compensation claims.

IU/d International Units per day

nmol/L Nano Mols per liter.

The abstract is basically saying previous work was mistaken and we need to take a lot more vitamin D than we've been suggesting, and calling on regulatory authorities to change their guidelines.

1st point: Private companies can already ban hate speech so net neutrality won't change anything.

2nd point: An ISP failed to invest in the infrastructure it needed to provide the service it promised but something something net neutrality.

3rd point: Companies should be regulated, but not by the government. They should be sued, by the people.

Honestly.. this kind of drivel is so tiring. Can libertarians please go away, or at least stop using resources and infrastructure that only exists because of public funding and government intervention.

The writing has been on the wall for a long time in Australia but vested interests and the status quo means no meaningful change is actually going to happen.

Take Australia National Broadband Network (NBN) strategy as an example. Connecting every house and business to a fibre optic line would have "future-proofed" the nation for generations. Instead it was destroyed by the conservative government, along with investments in renewable energy, a resources super tax and a range of other progressive ideas.

This country is run by dinosaurs. While there are intellectuals, theres also a proud culture of ignorance and weird working class arrogance. Instead of having pride in working class jobs and pride in working class people who put food on their families tables and support their community it seems theres been a concerted effort to warp it into and "us vs them" attitude of "true blue" working class Australians against white collar "know it alls". This is plain to see when the current Prime Minister and former investment banker goes into rural towns wearing his untarnished Akubra and adopts his fake working class accent to stoke tension between rural and city people.

Australia often has bushfires every 7 years or so that have historically cleared out a lot of dead wood and given the bushland an opportunity to breath and grow again. New policies to prevent bushfires meant woodlands accumulated fuel which led to cataclysmic-ally large bushfires like black saturday, ash wednesday etc.

Its hard not to think that Australias approach towards governance is similiar and that the only way for us to re-set the agenda is through a huge depression.

I think its hard to morally justify consuming animal products in this day and age, under a capitalist system where animal welfare is not recognised.

For people that want to eat or use animal products you should consider hunting for your own food, rearing your own chickens or just cutting back.

The ecological problems and the blatant disregard for animals rights are too much and a top down approach doesn't seem possible considering the power these big agricorps have.

It's time for individuals to make the conscious decision to opt out.

I'm guessing theyre sad because they don't value desert habitats highly nor appreciate them and are probably raised to think deserts are "empty" when thats far from the truth.

- Does the CIA provide a net positive or negative effect on the globe? - There are alternative political systems available - I'd be surprised if the CIA didn't exert influence over Harvard - Borders are a modern development.

From my experience HN (and reddit) is surprisingly anti-union. Thats probably got more to do with the vehement anti-union streak in America and capitalist trends though.

More proof that it takes a white victim for the general public to start noticing abuses that have been standard for minorities.

Lets say this fails and a bunch of kids are blown up, who will be held responsible?

Importantly, how will we ensure an individual is accountable rather than the corporation being at fault.

Should all forms of speech be defended and accessible in a public domain?

Should instructions on how to make explosives be accessible and defended?

As a customer I definitely prefer giving my money to a business that refuses to profit off the back of NAZIs

Irans managed to hold its own very successfully despite being embargoed and boycotted by the wider international community.

If you're comfortable enough marching in public then I would have assume you'd have no issue with people knowing you were at that event.

"The witches, the commies, the nazis, the apostates etc"

Surely you can pick the odd one out here.

>His quiet support of King literally enabled King's actions in more ways than I can relate.

He genuinely just said a policemans actions during the Civil Rights era enabled MLK. You can't make this up.

And then to talk about respect in the context of race, when black people are routinely disrespected by individuals, institutions and the state in America.