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by MikeUt 5y ago
They should have been broken up a decade ago. That they are instead allowed to merge further is a travesty. In 1983, 90% of US media was controlled by 50 companies; as of 2011, 90% was controlled by just 6 companies and in 2017 the number
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Sure, you can improve it. But the point is that as you scale, even the naive approach doesn't get any worse.
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Well if it's the authorities, they can present you with a warrant and request that you disable your defenses. You should not be required to roll over and present your defenseless underbelly to everyone that wants to break in, in case s
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> My only reservation was that it won't scale If you get too much feedback, can't you just ignore part of it?
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Archive link if the article happens to be blocked, as sometimes happens with reason.com: https://web.archive.org/web/20210515230019/https://reason.co...
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Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Plans to Advance Diversity (2020)(reason.com)
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> The argument against racism/sexism to which I subscribe is that individuals within all populations vary so dramatically between one another, and individuals from every population seem to be capable of manifesting virtually any set
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Related: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge... I worry that Hyde’s analysis plays the same trick. She does a wonderful job finding that men and women have minimal differences in eg
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If being mean on twitter is "attacking the press", then what is this?
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> Why include the word "women" at all, though? Because that description was specifically to highlight how different his then-girlfriend was from them. > Replace it with "jews" or "gays" and see how it rea
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> "I do not want to get into the particulars of the range of complaints over the years, but I will note that a number of members of the executive committee and others have voiced concerns publicly on the listserv in an attempt to ma
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> British Trader, on the other hand, was the sort of woman who would end up a useful ally in that postapocalypse, doing whatever work—be it carpentry, animal husbandry, or a shotgun blast to someone’s back—required doing. - Also his book
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> considers you "useless baggage" because of how you were born? He considers people useless baggage because of how they were born? What are you basing this claim on?
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There's a documentary about one part of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Pill Or you could look at the most extreme examples the other commenters are trying to present as the norm.
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> Enough people at Apple said, "No thanks. I can be happier working with other people on other things." That sounds so cool and casual. Not at all like > “Given Mr. García Martínez’s history of publishing overtly racist and
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But ad-sponsored medical procedures would be so much more affordable.
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Why would I? My 'tune' is that anecdotes can be misleading, and statistics is the way to get a better picture. The anecdotes you mention don't change that.
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But the NSA did collect data on hundreds of millions of US citizens, knew about it, and lied about it to congress and the US people . That is the exact opposite of "unwittingly". That is the action of a domestic threat that has
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Would you change your tune if the anecdotes were instead about whites murdered by blacks? Given a large enough population, you can prove anything with anecdotes.
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All that "heavy investment", and they don't catch even the most obvious scams: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26888190 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26069660 https://n
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> They might decide ridiculing the incompetent government is worth the PR, e.g., their shows with the US gov. I hope you are not referring to judicial checks on executive power as "incompetence".
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Even with all relevant context given, choosing which incidents to cover has a massive biasing effect.
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> curtail hate speech and radicalization Would truth be a defense? If you're accused of hate speech, but you can show that everything you said is true*, does that make it legal hate speech? Or would truth also be curtailed, in the n
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> It's hard to argue with a video or a transcription. There is video of many things. Choosing which ones to show and promote is itself a point of view, and greatly biases the political slant of news.
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Today. But it had much higher fertility in the past, even relative to other countries back then: https://img.caixin.com/2018-09-13/1536823492774171.jpg Fertility at a single moment in time is meaningless, which is why
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> It's like blaming co2 emissions on fossil fuel companies But it's not. In this scheme, the emissions get assigned to the people driving, and not to the oil companies (except the emissions produced during oil extraction). The
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Why? We are told that having a child is the most environmentally damaging decision one could make [1,2,3,4]. And the developed world already has sub-replacement fertility - for about half a century now. But that counts for nothing? [1] htt
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> when you consider exports. Exports aren't a gift - they get something in return for them, just as for other economic activity. So why would you not consider their emissions?
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> Because a nation state has a duty to protect the safety of its own citizens first and foremost. I strongly agree, but that does not mean it has to be completely amoral in its interactions with other nations. Its own citizens may in fac
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The proposal itself [1] claims that dividing students into classes based on ability harms , instead of improves, the gifted students' outcomes. Which raises the question - what would improve their outcomes? Assuming that more advanc

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