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by Macross8299 8y ago
I don't think it's a particularly unfair comparison. Hate groups are still hate groups, regardless of "who started it." The SPLC considers some black nationalist groups (including offshoots/successors of the Black P
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In the article you linked, Cyber Promotions v. America Online seems far more relevant given that it pertains to an individual's right to use an online, non-state-owned platform as a host for arbitrary speech. In the decision[0], they c
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by Macross8299 8y ago
>What other options do these officials have? Paper voting, for one. If no system is offered that is secure enough, then the default should be no electronic voting system at all and just paper voting. It's scaled fine for hundreds of
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Interesting that this study accounted for regional differences between prostitution legalization regimes, definitely something that needs to be considered considering these kind of markets do not exist in a borderless vacuum. Have to wonder
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Yeah, I wonder how much of the disdain for open offices is more of a company culture issue rather a problem with open offices. What causes people to whisper in libraries but talk loudly and disturb others in an open office plan? Perhaps som
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I suppose it's more politically expedient to blame the companies trying to rationally minimize cost rather than risk reprimanding and alienating state and local officials who sign contracts for voting machines without any sort of serio
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>And if you donate only a small percent of your wealth, say 1%, I don't think you deserve more credit than anybody having a net worth of $10k donating $100 That makes sense if you view charity/philanthropy as a signalling devic
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>There are many time keeping devices that are not updated as often as UTC leap seconds are introduced. Isn't this an argument against using TAI in certain applications though? i.e. if you're designing a system which relies on n
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> Human trafficking is part of the prostitution supply chain. Is that an inherent fact of prostitution or a function of prostitution's dubious legal status? One could make similar arguments about ultra-violent criminal cartels and m
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Seems like a bit of a leap to compare enabling prostitution (something that ~50% of Americans think should be legal [0]) to enabling industrialized mass murder and genocide. Backpage definitely enabled trafficking in some cases knowingly or
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Yes, if you're not diagnosed ADHD I would emphasize a _strong_ word of caution when even considering using amphetamines for productivity purposes. These medications are often strong enough and have enough addiction potential that even
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Some of the shady bitcoin exchanges and Bitcoin derivatives product offerings really do remind me of bucket shops that were popular in the early 20th century ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market) ) O
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This Amsterdam law only applies to houses (single family dwellings), as far as I can tell.
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Restricting home ownership as investment while not restricting apartment property investment or commercial property investment doesn't make things more fair. It just puts property investment out of reach of the average middle class per
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The law doesn't mandate building apartments either, so if the same people who build/buy houses as rental properties are unwilling/unable to invest in apartments (because building a 400-person complex is a lot more expensive t
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>I’m more than willing to give up a bit of my extremely affluent lifestyle if it would genuinely help those around me who haven’t had the same economic opportunities as me. All well and good. It's fine and commendable to personally
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>a small take home project with a reasonable due date (say 5-8 days) that is representative of the kinds of work that is expected on the job. Then, a 1-2 hour code walk through and presentation. Candidate should expect to build, run, deb
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by Macross8299 8y ago
All of these complaints about the various superficial reasons for Facebook's decline I think are missing the forest for the trees. The "grow fast monetize later" model that social media companies use, along with the user bein
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To add my own take on this, I think the reason that people who consider themselves "immune to advertising" are the most vulnerable is because they suffer from some sort of cognitive bias where they neatly classify things into &quo
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This actually sounds pretty ideal for someone early in their career. Having to do that much must have been a great learning experience -- one of the perks at working at a startup.
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I occasionally see ads for jobs that request absurd things like having x years of experience in a technology where x is greater than the number of years the technology has been around, but I strongly suspect that these type of ads are not s