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by alfromspace 7y ago
>It's illogical to call a hundred year old concern, one taken up by no less than President Theodore Roosevelt, "Internet". He was concerned it was sacrilegious, not that it violated the 1st Amendment. Learn reading compre
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by alfromspace 7y ago
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the G
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Those who cause the innocent to suffer deserve vengeance and suffering. Why are we so concerned about the comfort of people who, the majority of the time, are in prison for violent crime? Before someone brings up "muh drugs" and
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Nice examples. Can we use some that are probably 100x more common at Google? Maybe you’re recruiting, and they let slip that they passed over a white male candidate because they're working on a new diversity initiative. Or maybe, aft
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by alfromspace 7y ago
This comparison is apples to oranges. Intra-EU immigration is mostly high-skilled labor, and the outside low-skilled migration situation is different from America's. In America, most illegal immigrants work in huge numbers in the ser
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by alfromspace 7y ago
The court acknowledged that this may seem “unfair,” but when police have to protect the public, they can’t be “burdened with the condition” that they compensate whoever is damaged by their actions along the way. Incredible. A stranger ca
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Meritocracy? Ha. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the middle class is being hollowed out. This administration certainly hasn’t helped as it amplifies its fear based rhetoric of migrants Migration was and is
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by alfromspace 7y ago
What do you do with the increasing share of people that do not have the capabilities to be productive in the economy? Nothing, then import twenty million more of them?
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by alfromspace 7y ago
What if the alternative is unemployment?
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by alfromspace 7y ago
If social media companies should be held accountable for the so-called integrity of our elections, shouldn't they presumably also be responsible for not censoring legal speech?
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Why are retirees expected to have such high incomes? I fail to see why 50% or less of their incomes isn't enough. Not trying to be difficult, it just doesn't match my blue collar parents' experiences. Most peoples' ex
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Sure? Please get back to me when there's more evidence of that than what I just outlined.
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Suppose there isn't really any such evidence, your opinion is all there is, your intelligence agency has an awful reputation and is infamous for steering the country into conflicts and crises through falsified evidence and statements,
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Yeah...but do they have diversity? We win. /s
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by alfromspace 7y ago
It seems like you're taking "reflective of a reality I don't want to acknowledge" to mean biased.
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Pointing and sputtering is not an argument.
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by alfromspace 7y ago
non-Jewish white: 33.0% vs 58.9% (0.56x) How strange - are these people allowed to benefit from affirmative action?
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by alfromspace 7y ago
The argument used to justify this racism is that a rich education requires exposure to diverse people and ideas, and so the educational mission of the school requires that they bring in sufficient numbers of otherwise-underrepresented raci
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Unless it's James Watson, then shut him up, fire him, and take all his awards away. Plenty of biologists see what happens, and toe the line so they can keep their lives and pay their mortgages.
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by alfromspace 7y ago
I'd say the same thing about the US judicial branch.
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by alfromspace 7y ago
broadly agreed I would say ruthlessly coerced.
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by alfromspace 7y ago
For the artist, ImageNet’s problems are inherent to any kind of classification system. If AI learns from humans, the rationale goes, then it will inherent all the same biases that humans have. Training Humans simply exposes how technology’
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by alfromspace 7y ago
I went from developing front-end only with the MEAN stack, to full-stack with Webforms, to MVC...and I was easily more confused with the transition to MVC than anything else. Even being accustomed to EF now, I still would bet money that I
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Say what you want about him, but Trump did run an anti-war and anti-military spending campaign. The budgets he's approved are a huge betrayal to his base. There's spending on border security and the wall that's not really h
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by alfromspace 7y ago
I'm staggered that you accuse me of lack of perspective and basic reasoning, then posted this. Why pretend as if I wasn't talking about a shitty wage relative to the market rate of the skills in question? Most tech workers wouldn
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by alfromspace 7y ago
>what are these displaced american workers doing for more than $80k? Being unemployed and making 0k. Avoiding hiring US employees for over $80k doesn't mean they're hiring those who accept below $80k. They're not being co
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by alfromspace 7y ago
It would be nice if we could criticize this as a shitty hiring practice that hurts US citizens without someone strawmanning the critique into being a personal attack on the character of H-1B workers. I wish them all the best, and would lov
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by alfromspace 7y ago
I'm no fan of Rep Ilhan Omar, but I find the antisemitism charges against her absurd. AIPAC alone spends almost $70 million per year, and we're supposed to pretend lobbying has nothing to do with our seemingly unconditional suppo
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Democracy is hard work. And as society’s “elites”—experts and public figures who help those around them navigate the heavy responsibilities that come with self-rule—have increasingly been sidelined, citizens have proved ill equipped cognit
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Nah. It's a really shallow analysis to call his statement "pro-taxation and pro-defense spending", and far more of an inaccurate generalization than how the quote's usually used. Franklin was writing to answer the prob

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