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> Honestly is it any less "baked in" than the pre-eminent Western powers?

Because it's _less_ "baked-in". Germany just recognized their part in a genocide, China has yet to acknowledge the Tiananmen massacre.

So don't have those fraudulent solutions?
As someone who doesn't work in advertising but is insterested in the space, I find your comment interesting but it doesn't help you are not providing much data for your hot take either. You mention Kickstarter, but looking at the list of crowdfunded projects, most of the successful ones were quite a while ago, if anything the most recent ones looks like scammy crypto coins, which would suggest advertising works rather for bad projects, a net negative.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-funded_crowd...

> Just off the top of my head: - 2001 raid on Armando Diaz.

That's 20 years ago, if there is widespread abuse, you'd have something in mind more recent.

> Personally I don’t understand why violent horror as a genre exists, and literally cannot empathise with people who enjoy it.

What's wrong with it as entertainment?

Re:I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:56PM (#26043994)
> How do you understand something like 'withdraw, with conversion' or 'withdraw, let your bank handle the conversion', without language? Is there an obvious image or button shape that'd signify this without prior knowledge?

Let's say you're in Europe and and have a card in dollars:

[] 1000€

[] 1000€ (1€/1.2$ -> 1200$)

So we should throw away public spending because people can't be bothered to check on their politicians once in a while?
But what if something important but unseen is broken? You can't look for that and it's dangerous
Re:My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveillants on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:19AM (#25289623)
> As far as I know, I can't personally sue these companies for this, and if the ICO does nothing then what's the law is meaningless.

Couldn't you sue ICO then?

Re:How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (2013) on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:20AM (#25057421)
I think the OP is referring to negative studies involving cannabis that receives funding from opposing groups. Alternatively, you have all the suspect studies describing miraculous plant properties paid by food company that put them in yogurt or health supplements.
> The reason it's important is because it would be the end of the gaming console model if they were forced to accept anything onto their app stores. Which would have pretty broad implications.

Which implications precisely? Because consoles not being sold at a loss seem like a positive outcome.

Re:Complete BBC Micro Games Archive on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:22AM (#24737920)
Thank you for your work, some of those are amazing!
Re:DigitalOcean App Platform on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @01:17AM (#24705509)
> It tends to show up the least in WEIRD places

What do you mean by that?

Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @09:26AM (#24566776)
What a surprise they share board members!
Re:FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:06PM (#24411794)
What's the point of your belief if you know it can't happen?
Re:Show HN: Computer Music with Python on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:41AM (#24290732)
This is amazing, it looks really useful to easily code new sounds, but it seems not in real time?

I would change the name though, with pypy, pypi and pip it seems it will lead to confusion.

It sounds really deep, but there doesn't seem to be any truth to it? Wikipedia mentions internal problems and conquest by a neighboring kingdom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush

I don't understand why make up stories when there are more than enough material with the colonial history.

Unlike other people I find the portraits surprisingly diverse, I expected to see very white faces considering most "realistic" representations are from white actors and white statues erase features. Not a perfect project but interesting.
Re:How to Start A Niche Content Site on Monday August 10, 2020 @07:24AM (#24108036)
That just sounds like work, you write and get money for it ... like a writer.

On top of that those websites are almost always terrible, full of long article saying nothing.

Considering they were only lending to one person at a time, it does seem like the lawsuit is uncalled for.
Re:Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:16AM (#23649834)
Couldn't a gambler say exactly the same thing?
As someone without a bone in the fight, I find your language quite inflammatory, it's a bit excessive to use "backstab" and "gaslighting" IMO.
Re:The 5th-generation Waymo Driver on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:33AM (#22492187)
A few people died following that bet though
Re:Federal safety agency launches probe of Tesla battery fires on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @11:40AM (#21649382)
In case of accident, those two things would happen much frequently.
Re:Microsoft Comic Chat on Thursday November 14, 2019 @02:28AM (#21533510)
I laughed at the example comic, deadpan is always great
Re:Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia on Thursday November 07, 2019 @08:12AM (#21472831)
..yes? What's the problem with that?
Re:Glasgow is trying to make urban living less miserable on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @02:15PM (#21273542)
Surely after 4 or 5 your kid can look for traffic no?
Re:Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency on Saturday October 05, 2019 @03:07AM (#21164198)
That makes no sense, cryptocurrencies are already being used for illegal purposes.

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