MikeUt

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by MikeUt 5y ago
Perhaps they should have chosen a slogan where the dictionary definition differs from the opinion of "a very very small niche".
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Many large companies serve the world (Xiaomi, Hikvision, Hitachi, Samsung, Mitsubishi..) while their employees in their home countries are overwhelmingly native. So if international customer bases are the norm, but only Google (or US compan
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The choice of hiring pool is part of the hiring process. Expanding that pool to other countries is itself an act of disfavor to US workers.
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Oh, okay. So we can keep claiming Google, a US company, favors white workers until when? Until less than 10%* of their US workers are white? Is that what being favored means? That companies in your own country look elsewhere to import w
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> Critics have long argued that Google and its tech industry peers favor white, Asian and male workers Google was 51.7% white in 2020, down from 54.4% in 2019 *. The US is 61.5% white, meaning whites are under-represented at Google, and
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Union and Confederate veterans shaking hands at reunion to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg: https://www.loc.gov/item/2018652225/ I get the impression Americans today are more divided t
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Those kinds of non-disclosure agreements should be illegal. Not just unenforceable, but illegal, with penalties for those that draft them. The public has a right to know the abuse carried out in the name of its legal system.
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I agree it's possible, but the developed world already has sub-replacement fertility. Each additional hurdle (freezing eggs, committing to fitness, avoiding other health issues, still having the desire for more children in your 50s, ..
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> The dreaded issue of the 'biological clock' is where cryopreservation - or egg freezing - has completely changed the game. Straight from the intro of Idiocracy. And say you have your 1st child in your 40s. What about 2nd and
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by MikeUt 5y ago
What's needed is a general defense against frivolous lawsuits. Something like a pre-trial phase where you're represented by a free public defender, and only if the plaintiff wins, can they move on to a "real" trial. Edit
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> Selective truth: restrictive use of data or facts to sway opinion that might not be swayed if all the data or facts were given. This is usually interpreted as presenting only half of a story, but the more common and powerful use is in
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by MikeUt 5y ago
That distinction is only relevant if talking about selling a patent from one patent holder to another. Instead we're talking about creating a patent. There's a big difference between a parcel of private land changing hands, and a
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Parcel of public land. An overworked bureaucrat probably shouldn't be selling those off cheaply, should they? Some private land is even subject to the right to roam*, so the public can still access it. * https://en.wikipedi
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> the law, designed to make violence [..] against LGBT people and disabled people, [..] a crime I am shocked to hear that that assaulting wheelchair-bound people is legal in Italy, especially given its aging population. I agree, this law
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As I said, a travesty.
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> The appeals court agreed, ruling that the judges performed important work without supervision and so were “principal officers” under the Constitution, meaning that they had to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
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The hardware is all generic. That leaves the software, and in the EU, software "as such" is not patentable. It would be (is?) a travesty if patents applied regardless, rendering that patent restriction meaningless.
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Of course due to the risks, it's corporations that should decide who is allowed to fix vehicles, and not some kind of state certification board, such as what is used for doctors/lawyers/teachers/nurses/drivers/
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If it wasn't for network and ecosystem effects, I'd agree with you. But much like I can't simply not visit websites with Facebook's or Google's trackers, without cutting myself off from a huge chunk of the modern wo
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You could get the same security if you voluntarily limited yourself to the app store, or never unlocked your iPhone. > apple doesn’t have an obligation to make it easy Nor do countries have an obligation to allow Apple access to their ma
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Is the risk of death or serious injury not incentive enough?
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> There are over 1 million Black people in Central Europe today. Most Europeans still don’t know of the long history of the Black Diaspora in their countries. As a result, there is a general assumption that Black people are a relatively
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by MikeUt 5y ago
It may help clarify the conversation if you both specified precisely which belief system you have in mind. I suspect there are perhaps small, but crucial differences between them.
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> England introduced the freezing orders in 1981, and by 1998 a [English] judge had ruled that they had global reach. > Since then, English [global] freezing orders, backed by international respect for England’s courts and London’s ce
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That does not seem to get in the way of complaining about "unrealistic beauty standards", or that "culture" dictates what we find attractive: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/when-food-is
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That you lost friends is a fact, that it was due to "fear of association" is speculation, one explanation among many.
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> Critical race theorists reject the idea that "race" has a natural referent. Who knew that heritability and geographic separation don't affect humans. Then these genetic distance maps [1], and certainly this one [2], are
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Together with mandatory insurance laws, is the government literally forcing us to let companies spy on us? Unless you're wealthy enough to afford the higher rates (for as long as those are offered).
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It may not have been the goal of governments or telephone companies, but I'm sure users would have appreciated it. There's a reason this was done so discreetly.
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Does it?

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