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by Latty 9y ago
Exactly - and the idea this somehow stops that small favour stuff is rubbish. You can use an app like this and still buy your friend a drink - it's just it's a choice you are actively making, not one being imposed on you to save t
812.
by Latty 9y ago
I mean, plenty of software gets rewritten and sold under the same name as an old version - I'm not really sure I see the difference there.
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by Latty 9y ago
> Ok, now we're getting somewhere. Are there a significant number of such places? Yes, I'll make the same reference - the ex-mormon subreddit is an example where you will find a ton of stories of people being completely ostraci
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by Latty 9y ago
I was the one who wrote that original post. I just don't understand how "some severe discrimination exists" but that doesn't ostracise people? You don't need everyone to hate you to be ostracised - just enough peopl
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by Latty 9y ago
I was simplifying to try and make a point relevant to the topic at hand - obviously it's not literally just about complete inability to live your life - we have more rights than that.
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by Latty 9y ago
And a lot hotter and more expensive - hence why they didn't replace normal bulbs.
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by Latty 9y ago
The US is very big - a lot of the US has extremely good integration. The reality is that integration follows a similar pattern - bigger cities mean better integration. Find a vote map and you've basically got a map of how good integrat
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by Latty 9y ago
There is nothing inherently wrong with a lack of diversity, but it is almost always a symptom of an issue with society or systems limiting people. For example, I would argue that primary school teachers being almost entirely women is indeed
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by Latty 9y ago
He answered with a useful, relevant comment that provided the data point you were asking for. I'll back his experience up with another source: https://thegavoice.com/atlanta-police-release-details-12-rec... The point y
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by Latty 9y ago
> True, but socially, we've moved past that. There might be the rare individual baker who would not want to bake a cake for a gay wedding, because he's a devout Christian or Muslim or whatever and thinks homosexuality is a sin.
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by Latty 9y ago
The second isn't a process - it's an end result. That only happens where there is some pressure for that result to come to fruition. That means you need people to get pushed into situations where they interact with others to get t
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by Latty 9y ago
I mean racism. It's commonly accepted that race is a fuzzy term when it comes to this kind of thing and encompasses discrimination against people based on background, nationality and ethnic groups. However you want to define racism, th
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by Latty 9y ago
I take it you mean "I think what most feminist advocate isn't equality, but sexism against men" - that is not what the predominant message of feminism is today. As I see it, you are taking a vanishingly small minority of comm
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by Latty 9y ago
> That's a self-limiting belief that can only be fixed by the person who believes it. Telling the person who believes it is not going to work. They'll always have doubt. 100% agree. The reality is that person's belief (and
825.
by Latty 9y ago
The definition of feminism is "the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes" - that is fundamentally compatible with equality. You can claim that's not what feminism today is working towards,
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by Latty 9y ago
You are misunderstanding the quote. She's not saying that she wants there to always be nine female members of the SC like it had been with men for so long - rather, the proof of true equality would be when that happened by chance at so
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by Latty 9y ago
While there are obviously cases of unions bullying companies, there are many, many more cases of companies bullying employees - unions were originally intended (and still are, in most cases) as a defense against bullying by creating an equi
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by Latty 9y ago
Then you don't understand the core problem. You know what, I think people, in general, should be allowed to discriminate. The whole "right to refuse service" shtick - people shouldn't be forced to do things they don&#x2
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by Latty 9y ago
"Only white people" doesn't mean "no racism". As an Englishman, let me assure you my ancestors managed racism against white Irish people extremely well, and - somewhat ironically - plenty of the less educated people
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by Latty 9y ago
That seems a short-sighted way to look at it. Yes, of course in an ideal world these things would be non-issues, but they aren't. People are discriminated against, and there are barriers from culture that won't change without inte
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by Latty 9y ago
I mean, LED bulbs have made traditional ones redundant and have incredibly long lifespans, so this isn't really true any more. The article makes some good points that lifespan was controlled, but not as drastically as you imply. They w
832.
by Latty 9y ago
I'm getting a FOUC though, which is a little annoying.
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by Latty 9y ago
I mean, given enough competition (which I accept isn't a given), someone will decide getting all of the profit from a cure is worth more than competing for a slice of the treatment market.
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by Latty 9y ago
When I read the original, I thought it was pretty reasonable as apologies go - it was directly saying what he did was wrong, which is better than the non-apology "I'm sorry you were offended"s you see (low bar, but still). Of
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by Latty 9y ago
Except I didn't (and still don't, of course) hold any negative views about gay people. I'll make the same analogy as I did in my other comment - people use "dumb" to mean stupid all of the time. Do those people harb
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by Latty 9y ago
Except I didn't hold the view that being gay was a negative thing, rather I had gotten so used to the terms being thrown around that I used them in that way despite not agreeing with that. It's similar to how I can use "dumb&
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by Latty 9y ago
Or he realized he has done something wrong and wants to be clear that's not who he wants to be? I was out drinking with friends from my University course, back in the day, and made some statement like "uh, well don't be fags
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by Latty 9y ago
It wasn't though - he specifically noted his actions were wrong every time. It was very specifically an apology for his actions, not for offense caused alone.
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by Latty 9y ago
> From what I've gleaned about Palantir over the years, they supposedly have one of the hardest dev interview processes. I was working for a competitor when they tried to get me on board as one of their "forward deployed softwa
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by Latty 9y ago
I mean, it's clearly not a well designed piece, otherwise this whole discussion wouldn't be here. I could easily say "no one would ever draw an axe with a bendy handle". The intent is obviously unclear given all this dis

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