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No, I want specific laws or policies from government. I'm not denying that there is racism in the US, but the government does not encourage or implement racism to my knowledge. Most of what you describe is illegal in the US.

> No its not. They are not comparable and shouldn't be.

Why can you not compare two countries' human rights?

> But in practise, they are not and the situation is much more nuanced.

It is more nuanced as you suggest, the difference is that the government of China is busy locking up muslims, and the US is busy passing anti discrimination laws.

I do this occasionally too, not sure where I picked it up at, but half the word is silent, how stupid is that!

How does the US institutionalize racism? If anything we implement tons of policies with the opposite goal.

The article is about tariffs on China, this is thread is all about China, you responded to a post about human rights violations in China.

I'm not saying the US is perfect, but compared to China right now the US is .

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia#China

"Since June 2015, all Wikipedias redirect HTTP requests to the corresponding HTTPS addresses, thereby making encryption mandatory for all users. As a result, Chinese censors cannot see which specific pages an individual is viewing, and therefore cannot block a specific subset of pages (such as Ai Weiwei or Tiananmen Square) as they did in past years. As a result, Beijing chose to block the whole Chinese Wikipedia"

China may have up to 1 million muslims in concentration camps, what has the US done in the last 50 years that is even comparable? I'm reading so many people defending China, I have to think it's because they haven't done any research, and assume China's not that bad.

The US tortures its enemies, China its enemies and citizens.

Not sure why you're being downvoted, you can argue to what degree Mao was responsible, but in the end China's authoritarian government was at least partially responsible.

They estimate 20 and 43 million died, if not caused by, then exacerbated by policies implemented under Mao.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign

You can't even compare the two, the US is still dealing with systemic racism, but we are dealing with it, China is institutionalizing it. For example, Chinese citizens can be _tortured_ for political views, protesting or religious beliefs, real torture, they apparently use electrocution.

China is not allowed to do what it wants to its citizens, that is the load of crap.

Read the wikipedia article and then tell me how ignorant I am: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China

Or this one if you need more: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34592336

China is a human rights nightmare, they literally have concentration camps. I think ethically the US shouldn't even do trade with China.

> From a scientific perspective, we’re still looking into this. Do I think this will get people off murder? Probably not. I don’t think we’ll ever be able to say, “His hormones made him do it.” But from a scientific perspective, it’s fascinating to look at how hormones shape our behavior.

At best there's a small amount of this sentiment, but the title really doesn't match.

Perhaps, but that is the 5T one, the "one fresnel lens" option or "one diffraction grating" option are cheaper and seem more feasible.

That said, if scientists believe that all they lack is money, who are you to tell them otherwise.

Your point of reference includes 2 ground control centers, and 30 satellites. To suggest that launching a single satellite would cost the same is to me, laughable.

This if anything proves my point, nothing seems insane about launching a lens into space. We have satellites now, this is essentially one with a lens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)...

I'm not discounting anything, just assuming scientists and engineers involved have done their job.

Which numbers in particular do you have problems with?

A recentish one places an estimate at 10B initial costs, and 10B maintenance. 20B is doable by the US alone, yes.

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, it's why you must research. In this case the truth may well be that humans have an easier time making the sun shine less rather than lowering our carbon footprint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade

They already have estimates for the sun shade idea, so probably the engineers are capable of doing what they say.

It's interesting how you cling to doom and gloom, and don't even bother researching alternatives.

There's a huge list of explanations on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Hypothetical_exp...

Not necessarily, humans are pretty derivative in general.

Weddings are inherently a party, so it's not surprising that some are extravagant. What world do you want to live in where there is no extravagance or anything extra?

A backup of humanity.

How could time not exist?

Always keep an offsite backup.

To be fair you are sort of assuming their troll detection is very accurate, however these users have apparently not said enough to get banned, which makes it seem like an error on Twitter's behalf.

For those curious the original was a triumphant: "Facebook is invincible, tops Q2 estimate despite controversy".

I think the question in that case is what existed before the Big Bang, has a vacuum always existed before? Or are we on a constant loop of universes forming and disintegrating.

Astroturfing is meant to look like a grassroots movement, a key difference seems to be actively concealing the source of funding or influencing group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

Any data/citations on this? I feel like myself and most people would not change their views(especially on abortion) based on a few seconds looking at an ad on facebook.

I have no experience in this area, but. Once you get the molecules and their interactions down wouldn't that make all other types of cells easier to produce?

And at a certain point couldn't you just feed the simulation DNA and watch it grow?

Really curious how far are we from being able to simulate the human body's response to drugs/modification.

Crypto-currencies.

It seems more culture impacts language, you don't have social structures that are created in language and implemented in culture later. I agree it's a construct of culture though, but I don't know that adding words is necessarily bad.

Why would actors learn a language when they can just learn their lines? If you're already borrowing concepts from other languages why not the whole thing. I don't know if conlangs are better, but I don't think it would be unethical to use an existing ancient language for a movie or TV show.