JamisonM

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by JamisonM 8y ago
I reject that anyone else gets to tell them where that line is on their own platform.
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by JamisonM 8y ago
Facebook has an obligation to define disinformation in the same way an unregulated food processing plant would have an obligation to define sanitary. These should be just basic moral standards that any participant in society should be held
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by JamisonM 8y ago
But in this case you would also have to be imagining the world where you were donating to progressive causes that were also committed to disinformation campaigns and dishonest behaviour. Unethical behaviour is unethical, even if it at its c
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by JamisonM 8y ago
Counter-counter point: Apple would probably not exist without an investment by Microsoft essentially forced by the US government. And would Google have ever emerged as a dominant player if Microsoft were free to compete with them by restric
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by JamisonM 8y ago
The law says that it is "sexist" (i.e. discrimination) to target advertising in a way that denies qualified women the opportunity to apply for a particular job. In the end the net result of targeting only men is the same as refusi
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by JamisonM 8y ago
In this case who are the smaller companies you are referring to specifically? If the small companies in question are gaining competitive advantage through non-compliance that makes them viable enterprises then it is good and correct that th
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by JamisonM 8y ago
I think that if it were the consensus view of Americans that dispensaries should not be permitted to advertise then such a regulation is ok. I think that if corporation wants to engage in a form of civil disobedience then that act should be
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by JamisonM 8y ago
I also doubt that it is a majority of their business, but I think it would be interesting to find out just how much of their revenue is represented by discriminatory advertising across many domains (housing, hiring, for example), political
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by JamisonM 8y ago
I think that the public and the courts are correctly recognizing that the excuse that a human never sees something doesn't exempt an organization of the regulatory burden borne by companies where the work is done proportionally more by
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by JamisonM 8y ago
Why would one acknowledge that population density has a "negative causal impact" without evidence of such? You can argue that density and fertility are correlated, sure, but causation is a much higher bar. Why would you restrict t
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by JamisonM 8y ago
I am interested in what the data does say, but we should articulate what this discussion is about. I take your post to mean that: - access to affordable childcare increases fertility rates - inflows of lower-skilled workers to an area
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by JamisonM 8y ago
Your model strongly predicts that fertility of preexisting natives would be higher in areas with more unskilled immigrants. The opposite is true, and the effect is not small. It seems like you have a lot of confounding variables to work
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by JamisonM 8y ago
I am perfectly comfortable saying that there are groups that don't deserve a specific type of representation in parliament because of ideological differences between them and the mainstream of the Canadian public. They are welcome to p
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by JamisonM 8y ago
My opinion regarding the Republican party is consistent with the above statement and gerrymandering was a key part of building a party system that incentivized the same sort of bad behaviour that an MPP system incentivizes just within the R
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by JamisonM 8y ago
I don't think it would be much of a challenge to get a party committed to explicit racism to 8 or 10 percent in Canada with a charismatic leader and decent organizing. If lightning strikes once and you get an MP into parliament after t
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by JamisonM 8y ago
Like "Golden Dawn" & Jobbik - are we going to pretend that the good that the "Pirate Party" is doing is outweighed by literal fascists with seats in government? Sometimes these fringe parties represent things best no
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by JamisonM 8y ago
I think that political calculations regarding proportional representation were a factor in the Liberal decision to scrap reform but the stated reason for not wanting a MMP system is a pretty good one. In Europe MMP has supported a lot of fr
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by JamisonM 8y ago
A link to the "DENY OXYGEN" image: http://www.radiohead.com/rh0021.html
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by JamisonM 8y ago
I wouldn't be fussy about the rebate mechanism but funding a government based on energy prices can also be a tricky business - but even a poorly managed local government subsidised by energy exports is far better than local energy cons
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by JamisonM 8y ago
Low-cosumption residents are then forced to live with the externalities of the generation infrastructure as well as the externalities of the behaviour induced by the electricity subsidy while benefiting the least from the subsidy - it seems
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by JamisonM 8y ago
Subsidising energy prices for local consumers based on export revenues is widely practiced but is bad policy. The utilities should charge market rates for consumption and cut local rate-payers a cheque annually using a scheme that encourage
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by JamisonM 9y ago
We're going to need to see some evidence that the CWA is taking 20% of your net pay in dues.
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by JamisonM 9y ago
I agree with the "weird gaps in knowledge" part, but I would want a school covering leap years. Leap years are an excellent introduction to astronomy and our solar system.
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by JamisonM 10y ago
If some large number of those peer-reviewed journal articles' conclusions are (or appear to be) undermined by future discoveries having the raw data to confirm or refute such a development taking into consideration assumptions about th
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by JamisonM 10y ago
The trade off that made the ACA possible was clear to everyone at the beginning: The mandate will bring the insurance companies more customers and that will help pay for the sicker customers they will have to cover. If it doesn't work
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by JamisonM 10y ago
Enforcable labour standards and the requirement that member countries allow workers to organize will be good for "working people" in the United States.
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by JamisonM 10y ago
I wouldn't overestimate government authorities either. A report on a person of interest crosses the desk of a deputy minister that says the person uses Signal could be enough to get the application blocked in the country. Elected off
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by JamisonM 10y ago
I think there is merit to the argument that the government should do its best to not compete with private industry unless that competition is "fair" and warranted. Given that ad space is currently abundant and declining in value t
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by JamisonM 10y ago
Sorry I do not understand what you are trying to say. Twitter is awash with garbage information and offers far more opportunities to indulge your biases than to acquire useful facts about the world. Most "primary sources" are wort
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by JamisonM 10y ago
If you think trustworthiness is important then I would suggest that Trump's election should be particularly worrisome.

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