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by charlesu 6y ago
> Another interesting aspect I identified while reading the book was it's description of the emotions that one can expect to see when confronting white people about race issues: the description could have been used to describe any h
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by charlesu 6y ago
The Civil War was not about racism, it was about the South demanding that new states be slave states, which threatened the balance of power between the North and South. Lincoln literally only freed the slaves because he believed if would he
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You're right, telling people that they are good at something may very well lead them to perform better at it. But what if society subtly, almost subliminally suggested that some kids are gifted in, say, sports but not school, while oth
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by charlesu 6y ago
The great thing about modern racism is that no one can ever prove race was an issue in any particular case unless you confess it. As long as you don't express racist sentiments out loud, you'll always have some form of plausible d
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The difference is hundreds of years of slavery and institutional discrimination specifically target toward blacks and all the accompanying cultural baggage. Part of that baggage is a deeply ingrained suggestion that black people are intelle
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Should I share examples of reporters being shot at and arrested without cause? Also, the majority of those arrested were from out of state.
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It’s a lot easier to kill with a gun than without a gun.
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It’s not the criminal conduct of an officer. Police brutality is a recurring pattern in these communities. It’s large injustices like murder and small ones like unjustified traffic stops and fines. It’s continual and oppressive. People are
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The law conditions votes on fines or fees related to their sentence. There is no system for actually determining what’s owed, so some felons who could vote may not register for fear of committing another crime. Now that you’re aware of this
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by charlesu 6y ago
Where is this “idea that felons have opted out of civilized intercourse”? Spaghetti Westerns? North Korea? It certainly isn’t an idea aligned with American values. Imprisonment is meant for rehabilitation in addition to punishment. There’s
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That was a gun rally. A gathering of people with literal killing machines. Seems somewhat different than a normal protest?
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Bullets don’t have names on them and tear gas doesn’t discriminate between peaceful protestors and looters. The use of force should be a final response, not an initial one. It can and does hurt innocent people, inciting even more violence.
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I’m guessing you weren’t alive in the 1960s. Those are most certainly not the answer. Rubber bullets can blind or kill. Tear gas hurts like hell. The correct action is reform.
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Why should that matter? It's not like the businesses will evaporate. Equity will lose their shirts and we should let them.
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You’re talking about price. Price is not value.
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What amount of UBI gets us to $100 toilet rolls?
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Compensation is a representation of bargaining power. If anything, compensation for labor has an inverse relationship with actual value. Teachers get paid little despite educating future generations, sanitation workers contribute more to th
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As someone who's paid rent for several years, I've found that landlords don't need a reason to raise rent and prices tend to go up irrespective of wages.
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Is low employment meaningful in a low wage environment?
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It would be difficult to do if you intend to build your business around low-skilled work. As an aside, every mentor I've ever had that has started a tech consulting firm has advised me against starting one.
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FAANGM salaries aren't representative of the average software engineer's salary. Software engineering compensation is bimodal much like in the law field. There are a few making $300k+ (mostly in Silicon Valley, New York, and Seatt
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We absolutely should regulate that by increasing minimum wage. I'm all for it.
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That's a great point. Many people will find that the market doesn't value their labor much at all, so we should tax automation as well. We can use the funds to provide income to displaced workers.
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Make a law that all contract work must be above $X amount and put some process around it. Hiring individual contractors for low skilled work should be onerous, expensive or both. Do something. We shouldn't simply accept that anything w
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We would have to put some laws in place to keep executives from hiring the majority of employees as contractors, but this seems doable. CEO compensation is out of control in the US. We pay way more for executives who don't seem to be a
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by charlesu 7y ago
Scarcity: the state of being scarce or in short supply; shortage. That's the common definition. There's also an economic definition having something to do with limited supply and limitless wants. I'll leave that to the academ
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The USDA’s Economic Research Service estimates that 31% of food is wasted[1] while 1 in 8 families are food insecure[2]. About half a million people are homeless any given night[3], while 16 million homes are vacant [4], many of them perfec
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by charlesu 7y ago
You and the poster above you have fundamental differences in how you understand the world. He seems to believe in a world of abundance and you seem to believe in a world of scarcity, not simply limited resources but literal scarcity. Why do
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by charlesu 7y ago
I can't speak to other companies, but in my experience, inhouse recruiters have no incentive to pass bad candidates past the phone screen. I have no incentive to pass bad candidates to onsite. We want to spend as much time needed to fi
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by charlesu 7y ago
Underrepresented groups are actively recruited but don't get more attempts. If you think otherwise just ask an engineer from an underrepresented groups about their recruiting experiences. They would probably know better. All their inte

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