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You are literally saying “hide who you are, whenever I decide that who you are does not matter.” EDIT: OP literally says: “ I'm not saying hide who you are. But it's simply not relevant to the vast majority of discussions.” Again,
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7y ago
If you smile and ask the barista how their day is, then the interaction isn’t faceless.
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Conceptual artists
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A) By what process were those “small number of judges” appointed? By what process were the appointers appointed? B) Define “support”.
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7y ago
... somebody on the internet is wrong! ;) ... the question is who? Is it them? Is it me? Is it you?
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7y ago
Because nuclear power such a charged issue (pun intended), transparency and trust is especially important. The nuclear struggles with genuine transparency, which, imho, would go further than anything else to shifting the public's feeli
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7y ago
True. I would like to add, however, that just because they're not striking at the root doesn't mean they should stop hacking at the branch. It's still an evil branch, to use Thoreau's metaphor.
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I personally didn’t interpret the article as arguing for authenticity in and of itself, more that this lady beliefs her approach provides health benefits of a particular kind. Nothing spiritual is prominently mentioned. They do briefly ment
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When you say “play synth” ... Do you mean compose music with a sequencer or DAW like ableton? Or, read and play sheet music using a keyboard to control the synthesizer itself? The synthesizer and it’s means of control being separate make it
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Not quite the same as knowing you still can have decent health care if you are unemployed.
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Hmmm I do not know about that, the test real, meaningful control would be who gets the funding, no? Social sciences is nowhere near the top of this list. https://nsf.gov/statistics/2018/nsb20181/report/se
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It is different because in China I doubt there would have been any investigative reporting about the government and AT&T. And while AT&T doesn’t seem to have done this, other companies such as Apple have enacted privacy measures whi
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No doubt. That is why it is so important to acknowledge and critique the past, to work towards the present and the future being less atrocity-filled.
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Don't think that's an apples-to-apples comparison.
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What? I’m sorry but, no. Also, car ownership depends on the region. In Los Angeles in many parts of the city you can’t throw a rock without hitting a Mercedes or BMW.
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7y ago
Noooo.
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7y ago
Pretty sure that word was made up - Google draws a blank.
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Phd Graduate students seem to like labor unions - they have been organizing and striking for them a lot recently. And classical musicians (The Chicago Symphony Orchestra recently went on strike). Are they all stupid and listless?
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Does that mean you oppose all companies or business which are owned by more than a single person?
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> (like adding diversity to their governing board, seems designed to be exclusive to tech-startups that already have a bias toward that "value") I do not think the bias which you think exists is reflected by the actual makeup o
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7y ago
Movies, microcode, and pizza delivery.
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8y ago
Who gets to decide who is a scientist and who is not a scientist? Scientists?
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8y ago
If the knowledge is for all of humanity will you be incorporating as a B-Corp or some other form of social benefit corporation?
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8y ago
What about poetry, art, music, social movements, and, you know, culture?
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8y ago
Hi Jude, On your page you said "If an extremely niche topic is valuable to just a handful of people and positively contributes to society, it will have a home on Golden." Who will make that judgement call of what "contributes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice "Social justice is a concept of fair and just relations between the individual and society. This is measured by the explicit and tacit terms for the distribution of wea
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The PATRIOT act was named by the people who concocted it. The term "social justice warrior" was not created by activists or people involved in organizations working for justice in our society. So, no. One is self-branding. The oth
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IMHO AI ethics are a legitimate area of discussion, as should be any moral ethical issue w/regards to a business practice. And it sounds like Google is doing basically what you are saying.
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Which nations, specifically?
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Intentional sexism has worked quite well for the patriarchy.
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