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Americans: "How could one possibly define hate speech!?"

Most countries: Has a fairly clear legal definition of hate speech, in statute or precedent.

Real race science hours on HN today, it would seem.

Isn't that exactly what most of the commenters on this post are doing?

There is no dispute about what country Guantanamo Bay is part of: both the US and Cuba agree it is part of Cuba.

The dispute is about whether the lease agreement which allowed the US to use that territory as a naval base is still in force. Early after the Cuban Revolution, one of the US's regular rent cheques was mistakenly cashed, and the US claims this is recognition on the part of Cuba that the lease remains valid.

Tibetan and French usually come up on lists of worst correspondence between orthography and pronunciation. Irish is also pretty bad. (It makes sense once you learn how it works, then stops making sense once you hear people of different dialects actually pronounce words.)

Isn't the possibility of direct rule still looming with no government formed at Stormont for two years now? Direct rule seems like it would essentially be an abandonment of the Good Friday Agreement.

Wales is a constituent country of the UK but not a kingdom.

You can still do it at the library, and for free!

During the Vietnam war, you could "go to Canada" basically only because Pierre Trudeau instructed the border guard to allow Americans who seemed like they might be draft dodgers to immigrate illegally. No guarantees there will be another arrangement like that next time.

All currently nuclear armed nations are in violation of the NPT, so...

> Life's rough. Hopefully I solve this problem with a better job in the near future.

A nation of temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

I worked on a Bitcoin sports betting site. Been there, done that.

The US experiment with social democracy in the 1940s, which was not terribly comprehensive in the first place, has been slowly dismantled as the employer and political class continues to concentrate as much wealth and power for themselves as possible. Key to this has been to weaken and villainize labour unions at every opportunity.

The sentence is a train wreck to begin with. "Conspiracy theory" isn't a potential cause of death, and these things do not really form a coherent range. Presumably the conspiracy theories allege murder? In that case, I might write something like: "Turing's death is still an openly debated topic, with purported causes of death including simple accident, suicide resulting from bullying by the state, and even murder at the hands of a conspiracy."

The legendary Delta blues musician Son House is usually regarded to have been born in 1902, but comments he made about his own age would imply that he was born around 1886.

It has been suggested that he lied about his age when he moved up north in order to avoid being discriminated against when applying for jobs. Or he may have been born in 1902 and simply lying about, or genuinely mistaken about, his age.

> Hayek, Mises, Friedman

What a diversity of thinkers!

I live in Ontario where prices for medical care are negotiated by the provincial government, which you might regard to be a price control. The result is excellent, and one of several reasons I would never consider living in the United States.

Even Taiwan does not recognize Taiwan as a separate nation. Its position is that the Republic of China still exists, is the only legitimate state in all of China, and that its seat of government in Taiwan.

There is a growing movement in Taiwan to give up on this claim and instead pursue an existence as a de jure, rather than merely de facto independent nation.

W. V. O. Quine was one of the most prominent American philosophers of the 20th century. There are several collections of his essays; I recommend "From a Logical Point of View".

Still matters because some places want to make sure it's the same day (according to their local reckoning) as it is somewhere else in particular (usually a major trading partner).

In Canada, white collar jobs often come with some extra supplemental health insurance, but it's not a huge deal for most people. I think I get half of dental costs covered, for instance. It's not literally life or death the way it is in the US's evil system.

"Normal country", as they say. Gotta keep the school-to-prison pipeline pumping.

The Canadian constitution (specifically the part of it called the Charter of Rights and Freedoms) guarantees the same right, however, constitutional rights in Canada are granted only up to "reasonable limits". Those limits are determined by the Supreme Court.

"Grab" only in the sense of "not leaving" when it would have been appropriate to do so.

Here's a good one: All phone numbers can be reached using tone dialing. (I know of at least one phone number to which one can connect only using pulse dialing.)

Sci-fi author China Mieville recently wrote "October: The Story of the Russian Revolution".

It's pretty telling then you went for male pronouns to describe your hypothetical doctor.

This is not what anyone has meant by the term "democracy" for a thousand years.

If this happened in France (or many other places) there would be strikes, barricades, burning towers of tires, the whole works. American workers are incredibly timid.

My reaction Gettier cases as a philosophy minor was that J is the only philosophically interesting part of JTB.