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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
Your response doesn't actually address the article, which acknowledges that ADHD is a real condition, but suggests that fewer than 1 in 5 boys have it, and that a large number of misdiagnosed cases is bad, considering that they're
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
> I'm pretty sure that helping to remove a civil right from a group of people can be taken as discriminatory. Sure, he holds views that some people should be discriminated against, and contributes to political causes advocating that
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
No one, as far as I'm aware, has pointed out examples of him behaving in a discriminatory manner - just that he holds a different view than them and engages in the political process. I certainly agree that workplace discrimination is a
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
If my boss paid money to a political cause against mix-marriages, but inside of work took no action to discriminate against people who were in mixed marriages, I'd think he was an asshat, and express such opinion, but not tie it to wor
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
Yes, the solution to all the ills of the world is to censor people who (society|the majority|intortus) decides are purely "prejudicial and hateful", because that will clearly make politics better and less oppressive! I don't
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
You're wrong on two points: a) Contributing financially to many religious institutions is explicitly financing groups who opposed gay marriage, and is an activity than many religious people undertake. b) Advocating for something that i
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
Do you support employees being fired for supporting gay marriage then? I don't see any difference in the two positions (both are using their paychecks to advanced a political cause), except that you personally agree with one position a
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
Groups of people are capable of collectively "good" or "evil" choices, and we often regard collective decisions in moral terms. I'd argue that Facebook has made a lot of decisions that exploit users in pursuit of ma
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
The numbers are not illegal to have for other purpose, but only if you're using them to construct (or act as) the actual work of art, or to break other rules. In all the cases that were presented, there was malice in the actions involv
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
There's a major distinction in kind between the two examples you give: one of them is conducted in the open and involves input from society at large - ie, acting through the government. If the execs didn't think what they were doi
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
One thing to think about is that it lowers the cost of a defense if you're relatively sure you'll win. Under the current system, a plea bargain is something like "Take 2 years in jail and pay $50-100k less or face 10 years in
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I mean, it creates some perverse incentives, such as giving a financial reason to withhold evidence from the defense. Of course, you could require that a) there's a fine for being caught at that and b) the department also has to pay fo
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
Why not make the jurisdiction that the prosecutor works for responsible for paying attorney fees if the person is acquitted? They were sure enough to seriously upset and damage a person's life when they pressed charges, and they better
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
Isn't spying on the Chinese government and Huawei exactly what we pay them to do?
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I believe that we'll see a prohibition on government non-targeted surveillance in the United States, and a rise in ZipCar and Car2Go style services (effectively, short term rentals) by people who are concerned by this kind of tracking
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I disagree with you. The likely outcome of this kind of openness law is that powerful and wealthy people use a car service, making them untrackable, while poor people are stuck being tracked not only by the currently powerful, but anyone th
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
It doesn't end asymmetry when politicians can use a car service, but most people can't afford to. It's creates a new and unstoppable asymmetry where wealthy people can avoid this tracking mechanism, but the poorer people cann
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
It's also possible that there is a legitimate reason (from a business perspective) they'd preferentially hired white tech workers, such as socioeconomic class leading to better training. (We see this effect in other places.) I hig
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
Especially, when taken as the starting point, an income distribution for candidates that is biased along racial lines? (Income of family is known to be linked to educational quality.)
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
And maybe we could do something about our policing problem at the same time... What, with using national (military) spying apparatus to go after drug dealers, police seizing assets from private citizens who they often don't accuse of a
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I'd say a university should support students learning to pick locks by ignoring (as long as no particular damage was caused) them using campus locks for practice.
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I doubt that most users of a service are in any position to audit complex crypto code.
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I agree with your point about functions versus algorithms (or computation if you prefer that term), but I disagree that your definition of functions isn't useful for computing. It's precisely that sense of function that things lik
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I've just given up listening to large commercial music, and only listen to music that's uploaded to YouTube by smaller artists (often with free downloads). I still have more to choose from than I could ever listen to, and haven&#x
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I believe politicians will claim that unfavorable facts are lies, placing the burden of proofs and costs of defense on me, even though they're the ones lying.
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But in high demand, the start is copied many times by peers, who can reupload the start of the movie to each other.
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I wish there was a way to hobby distill without it being super illegal.
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
Most street level drug dealers were operating under the assumption that the government could track cellphones. Osama bin Laden apparently went to great lengths to avoid being associated with phones used in communicating details. I would cal
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
I really have trouble with the national security argument: can you think of a case where we'd have a secret that admitting the existence of something would seriously harm the nation (ie, talking about the fact we have nuclear missiles,
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by DerpDerpDerp 13y ago
You realize that there are fairly standard single letter variables in programming, for which people are supposed to understand the type of the object, right? I see a lot of 'n' for a number, 'i', 'j', 'k&#

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