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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
But for Uber being allowed to seize the market with their ultra low prices, which are only possible because they class their labor as contractors, there would be companies more like Uber than like taxis but that treat their employees like e
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
How’s this for a start: the class of people who by their particular education and talent control tech platforms shouldn’t get to determine what political, scientific, and cultural content other people are allowed to consume.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
I’m not up on what the latest orthodoxy on this is. But plenty of people have transitioned back and forth. And haven’t we also been told that gender is “fluid”?
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
That’s not true. That is folk constitutional law. It might be descriptive of some areas of law as they currently operate, but that is not the constitutional federalism framework in the US. When the federal government acts in the areas where
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Are you going to blame the the Nazi regime and the Holocaust on the WWI victors who refused to make a reasonable deal with a defeated Germany? It’s hard to imagine WW2 without the horrid WW1 peace terms. But we rightly lay the blame squarel
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
“You obviously need an education” :eyeroll: Pretty fresh coming from someone who “obviously” missed the entire point of my post. No one claims that present wasn’t caused by the past. The question is who bears moral responsibility today for
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
You are confusing causation and fault/responsibility. They are only tangentially related concepts.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
By this logic, everything is a direct consequence of what came before. Let’s just blame all of our problems on the Roman Empire. Even if that’s true on some scientific level, human institutions, human social practice, and the human mind its
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Work is no longer a fun place to be. No jokes, no personal stories, no candid sharing of perspectives. Definitely no going for drinks with coworkers. One wrong word and you’re cancelled. The less time you have to spend in a coastal corporat
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
You can federate services in ways that allow entities in different countries to control their own user data, while still allowing interactions between users in different countries. Your private messages with other EU users might be stored o
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
At least within the US, I think sufficiently large platforms should not be allowed to censor on the basis of viewpoint. But that is exactly the kind of political question that nation states, not international forces, should be answering.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Maybe the Dutch should do the same thing. Or throw their lot in with a country or group of countries they trust (EU, EU+x, NATO, etc.). The geopolitics of this would be complicated. But that has been life for small polities for thousands of
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Should there be citizenship requirements for access to customer data at that scale? Background checks? Security clearances?[1] When you have so much private data and the ability to put words into people’s mouths, aren’t you a national secur
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
The number of residencies is set by a board which the AMA controls a majority of the seats on. They blame the lack of Medicare funding for additional residency spots, but that is such a preposterous excuse. American medicine is one of the m
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
A big function that universities play is circumventing some arguably bad interpretations of labor law. In the United States, it is essentially illegal to hire based on the results of an intelligence test. This is the result of various cases