Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33220046

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While Hyland may be part Maori, New Zealand is majority of European descent [1]. To them, Shakespeare is "their own stories". Should they abandon their own history and culture because they changed locale?

[1] As at the 2018 census, the majority of New Zealand's population is of European descent (70 percent) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Demographics

So shall we put the ongoing ecological and climate catastrophes on hold while we take 200 years to reach an egalitarian utopia? On the other hand, we're told that these catastrophes affect the poorest countries the most. From that point of view, environmentalism is "economic justice".

*Interesting term. Does that mean the economically better off have committed a crime, and must be punished?

But these are paintings, not books, so no worries.

Is this what they're calling interoperable competitors now?

> That is a great step forward, compared to the closed black boxes, e-voting systems I have heard of before.

It's still a black box. You have only their word to go that the published source is what is actually running on the machine in front of you in the voting booth. And they have only the word of their computers.

So yes, it's a great step forward, in the same way that going up a flight of stairs is a great step towards reaching orbit.

Moving past how KiwiFarms hadn't actually broken any laws, let's say for the sake of argument that they had. And that this motel chain owned 40% of rentable rooms across the globe, and a handful of their friends owned the remaining 59%, with 1% belonging to small independent moteliers.

If you leave enforcement to them, then you've effectively privatized policing. Do you want a private police force? Wouldn't that represent a union of state and corporate power, i.e. fascism?

A sure sign of corruption. An honest lease would be short, so that it can simply not be renewed if problems arise.

[1] Twenty-six states and the federal government incarcerated 99,754 people in private prisons in 2020, representing 8% of the total state and federal prison population. - https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/private-priso...

Your history is evil, therefore you do not have a right to self-defense [2].

[1] The author never asks himself how a country the size of China came to be 91.6% Han-Chinese, nor does he mention the Taiping Rebellion, the bloodiest civil war in history at 20 million dead, that overshadows the Opium Wars and cannot be blamed on the West.

[2] Against e.g. Chinese soft power/influence and economic exploitation of various forms.

That's the 1st amendment of the US constitution, not "free speech". Since this is a United Nations report, the context is wider than just the US.

> Not everyone deserves a voice, but even if you do we don't have to listen.

Ah the old "we". Only in practice it's not "we" or "I" deciding not to listen, but some other entity deciding on our behalf what we're allowed to hear. Sometimes a government, but most often a multinational corporation. For most of the world, a foreign corporation.

regions with higher Ukrainian population shares were struck harder with centrally planned policies corresponding to famine, and Ukrainian populated areas were given lower amounts of tractors which were correlated to a reduction in famine mortality, ultimately concluding that 92% of famine deaths in Ukraine alone along with 77% of famine deaths in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus combined can be explained by systematic bias against Ukrainians

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Under the collectivism policy, for example, farmers were not only deprived of their properties but a large swath of these were also exiled in Siberia with no means of survival. Those who were left behind and attempted to escape the zones of famine were ordered to be shot.

It's also worth pointing out that your statement is "downplaying" the Holodomor. If applied to the Holocaust instead (e.g. "many died from typhus"), such a statement may be illegal in Canada:

https://www.thestar.com/politics/2022/04/08/holocaust-denial... (I assume the law, part of a budget bill, was passed, but could not find a source to confirm)

The other difference is territoriality. The students very acutely (and accurately) perceived the sensors as intruders in their space. This may be a crude animal instinct, but it's there for a reason. Permit one intrusion, and more will follow.

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