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by bsanr2 7y ago
This has not been my experience. While it's true that some topics do seem to draw contrarian viewpoints immediately, not all do; and while reflexive reactions are most likely to be found immediately on almost all topics, they need not
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by bsanr2 7y ago
The problem is less that controversial subjects draw contrarians than it is that anything that even approaches race is controversial; even with subjects in which the facts and science are pretty much concluded - like, say, the devastating e
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Is it a matter of discussion there? Is there proper support for the people who live there? Do Canadian institutions, such as universal healthcare, make for different outcomes?
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Many of the comparable cases will involve cities that also had lead poisoning issues.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Glad to see Hacker News is again upholding Internet Rule 814: the comment section for any article alleging disparate impact of policy on a group presumed to be people of color will consist largely of posts attempting to contradict the artic
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SQL database of prominent Neo-Nazi forum hacked, published(twitter.com)
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>The solution to the Bay Area housing crisis is for employers to establish operations in places where housing is cheaper - not for housing to be confiscated from earlier purchasers through confiscatory taxation. It's actually both.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Do they? Retail is definitely subject to fairly predictable rush periods. All the while I was working at an electronics retailer, where my job was as much to educate or guide as sell, I wondered why we didn't have "sales hours&quo
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Don't sell yourself short. The economy could support everyone working four 8-hour days or five 6-hour days at the same pay (or, rather, with the same median pay, better distributed) as now. Our productivity gains over the past 4 decade
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>What do you mean ‘things are good for me now’ ? You own a home. Your housing payments aren't being thrown into a void. >Repealing prop 13 in order to take peoples homes away through confiscatory taxation so that people with high
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by bsanr2 7y ago
As with many of these sorts of profiling mechanisms, I assume that racial bias is baked into the process, yes? You know, like it is with credit, crime sentencing, airport security checks, college admissions, and presumably retail and reside
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by bsanr2 7y ago
You know, though, we train and incentivize people to be this way. For getting a job, we privilege interviews over, say, a written test. We conduct trials live, instead of collecting a series of documents related to a case and letting all th
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Whether or not Americans have protections isn't the topic. It's whether we differ significantly in whether competency know-how or network and camaraderie decide your job prospects. Also you can be fired for publicly complaining ab
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Corrections are part of any economy with a boom/bust cycle. Things are good for you, bad for us now. Repealing P13 would reverse that dynamic. Hopefully we regress to a livable and sustainable mean.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
It's true in America too, though. I'm sure it's not uncommon to see a competent worker get passed over for promotion multiple times while the boss's chums form a conga line through the position.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Re: the phishing example, it's roughly analogous to a business refusing to put up caution signs around dangerous areas like slippery floors or where there's construction. It's such a small thing that could help prevent enormo
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>Me having two children are not destined to be "burdens to society in need (sic?) for a longer period than people you can bring from outside". That is certainly not guaranteed. On balance, it pretty much is. Adult immigrants wi
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>accumulating wealth, and helping out everyone else along the way by growing the economy The latter doesn't follow the former. In fact, consolidation of wealth is a hindrance to volume of activity outside the bounds of the owner of
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Logically-speaking, why would you create people who will be a burden to a society in need for a longer period than people you could bring in from outside? It's a very similar issue to the adoption vs birth debate, which is exceedingly
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Because educating immigrants is cheaper? If you support immigrants, surprisingly, they tend to embrace the existentially important parts of your culture and integrate smoothly. But my guess is that you take issue more with their skin color.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
The problem is that you either incentivize higher economic volume or you get deflation. They tried printing money and giving it to the banks to loan because they're afraid to do the one rational thing there is and, in doing so, piss of
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by bsanr2 7y ago
And, unfortunately, it has been deemed more profitable historically to subscribe cynically to the bigoted aspects of conservatism. Whether it's truly more profitable or not is up for discussion, but fear of Middle American backlash has
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Because the networking thing is real, and often supercedes one's grades or demonstrated competence in a job market based primarily on networking.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>For people who want to go to college purely for rigorous academic study with the brightest young academic minds, this is going to be a shift. Will it? The academic cheating scandal and what we know about legacy admission tells us that m
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Well, no. These people, with their outsize influence, have aligned themselves with the wealthiest for political reasons: when they're grouped together, it's easier to fend off attacks on their income and wealth. The fact is that t
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I don't think it's necessarily emotional. The world does not have set inputs and outputs, and effort can be expended on activities that turn out to be arbitrarily fruitless. Decoupling expenditure of effort from expectation of rew
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Speaking from my rear, epigenetic influence on growth and development is too fundamental a force to be a random error heretofore untouched by selection. With humans being a social, communal species, adverse conditions tend to hit population
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Adobe Animate is the successor to Flash's animation toolset. Animators use a number of different tools today, many that implement tweening, depending on studio needs. Also, low or no-cost applications that are accessible to newcomers i
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by bsanr2 7y ago
That's an unintentional effect of the fact that prosecutors only tend to charge people they believe are likely to have committed a crime. Therefore, merely charging someone is to some extent prejudicial. That's partly why burden o
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I'm aware. I don't intend to engage with this sort of rhetoric so much as provide an example of how easy it is to defeat.

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