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by bjl 9y ago
The 13th Amendment explicitly legalises slavery as the punishment for a crime, and its used all the time.
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by bjl 9y ago
Metal expansion joints can't hold a vacuum.
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by bjl 9y ago
Morally speaking, if your company can't afford to pay all of its employees a liveable wage, then it doesn't deserve to exist.
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by bjl 9y ago
That'd be true if all hedge funds were actually trying to just beat the S&P. The vast majority, however, aren't trying to do that all; they're trying to create different risk/return profiles than you get by just inde
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by bjl 9y ago
The paper proves that the smallest cardinality of a set of integers (such that every finite subset has infinite intersections and has no almost-intersections) is equal to the smallest cardinality of a tower.
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by bjl 9y ago
Not all uncountable infinities are the same cardinality.
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by bjl 9y ago
The most cogent criticisms of liberalism come from the left, not the right.
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by bjl 9y ago
When I entered my info I got a message saying they do not think I'd been affected by the hack. So if you get a different message, its probably safe to assume you're affected.
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by bjl 9y ago
No, because the idea that JP is a hack is not a controversial opinion among academics.
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by bjl 9y ago
Take everything Jordan Peterson says with a massive mound of salt. He has a long history of spouting off controversial opinions on topics without much (if any) evidence backing those opinions.
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by bjl 9y ago
Except your generality is not at all self-evident.
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by bjl 9y ago
Haidt's ideas are widely discredited among academics in sociology, psychology, and philosophy. He's peddling pseudo-science that just so happens to make conservatives seem more 'balanced' than liberals.
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by bjl 9y ago
> ...the absolute garbage that critical theory has been pumping out for the past, I don't know, 30 to 40 years. I've found that the only people who spout nonsense like this haven't actually studied any critical theory.
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by bjl 9y ago
It takes a lot of hubris (all too common in the software engineering community) to suggest that Marx and Hegel, two of the most influential philosophers of all time, produced nothing of meaning.
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by bjl 9y ago
> What if you run an online payroll service? Then you should already be treating your data in this way. If you're not, then I'm glad you're being forced to now. As for your other point, sure. Customers should absolutely ha
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by bjl 9y ago
> You will basically need to hire full-time compliance officers to deal with this. The big tech companies already have compliance officers, but GDPR is so massively invasive to businesses that even small companies now need compliance off
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by bjl 9y ago
Cuba's not really the best example. The highest literacy rates on the planet, some of the best doctors in the world, and zero homelessness, all while being embargoed by the largest economy in existence. Not really that shabby all thing
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by bjl 9y ago
> Solution: only allow trades that are in accord with the students' submitted preferences. That is, if Alice prefers Central to Devonshire, and Bob prefers Devonshire to Central, then we could allow Alice and Bob to switch if their
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by bjl 9y ago
Sexual orientation is a protected class. Being a Nazi is not. This difference isn't hard to understand.
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by bjl 9y ago
Cultural Marxism has been explicitly anti-Semitic from the beginning, and early adherents argued that it was necessarily anti-Semitic. So people who believe in the conspiracy now are either anti-Semitic themselves, or profoundly ignorant.
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by bjl 9y ago
In his Jordan Peterson interview he talks about it quite extensively.
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by bjl 9y ago
He explicitly mentions 'cultural marxism', which is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory from the 60s.
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by bjl 9y ago
Is it really worth the risk?
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by bjl 9y ago
Benchmark doesn't need to discredit Travis, he did a mighty fine job of that on his own.
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by bjl 9y ago
Why in the world would you want to make it socially acceptable to wear a camera on your face?
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by bjl 9y ago
Its simply not scientific consensus that the kind of differences he was positing actually exist. A handful of studies with tiny sample sizes and questionable statistical techniques does not a consensus make.
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by bjl 9y ago
The papers he cited are still extremely controversial, they aren't settled science at all. The rest of his sources were Wikipedia links.
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by bjl 9y ago
I understand the difference between the concepts. Im just saying the FCT result was not a 'surprising one', which the poster I responded to was implying.
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by bjl 9y ago
Everyone already strongly suspected that the FCT was true. Nobody was surprised by the result, it just took a computer to prove it.
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by bjl 9y ago
> I'm not saying you shouldn't do it (I wouldn't but you do you) or that you must have more exp to do it. I'm just recommending to be careful. Have fun and good luck! OP should also definitely consult a lawyer before

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