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by d0lph 9y ago
To the contrary, non-slaves produce more value than slaves, therefore slavery is not only unethical, but also un-capitalistic. Capitalism explains many things, certainly people stopped Apartheid, but it can very well be both, slavery and se
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There's nothing wrong with that, capitalism would even things out, a company that is sexist will make less money than one that isn't. This is because the available talent for a company is more limited if you exclude women.
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> However, believing that a 90 degree angle is perfect doesn’t have much impact on the job performance of a senior polygon and there are lots of other questions that don’t predict job performance. So, I think this is not a meritocracy if
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The article doesn't pretend chatbots aren't hard to manipulate, and in fact mentions the case of the Tay Bot. I don't see anyone claiming that the bot has shown a deeper truth, although I would agree the Chinese government is
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Not necessarily, might just have been their policy.
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> In Warman v. Winnicki, 2006 CHRT 20, Karen A. Jensen found the respondent had posted messages to the Internet which were "vicious and dehumanizing". The adjudicator ordered the respondent to cease and desist his discriminator
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> the amendment also makes it a criminal offence to incite or promote hatred because of gender identity or gender expression Seems vague, what counts as promoting hatred? If someone makes fun of the 1000+ genders and counting, do they go
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> the notion they are pursuing keto with so much animal products is just gross Why? It is my understanding that the keto community, at least on reddit, is not vegan.
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To the contrary, there is a large amount of math to be learned from 2d game development(beginner level). Algebra, geometry, coordinate spaces, physics, perhaps even linear algebra. You are right that it is more engineering, but engineering
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There would probably be hard coded rules that could not be overriden by the AI. The 3 laws are pretty popular[0]. 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the or
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I think he meant things that are only bad in excess.
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By valid reasons, I mean other than the developers, read the link in my post. You may also appreciate this viewpoint: https://blog.codinghorror.com/php-sucks-but-it-doesnt-matter...
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There are valid reasons to not like a language, PHP being the easiest to pick on: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ As for the people using the language, I have inherited a
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A thermostat?
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Nitpick: C++ instead of C
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I think you'd have a hard time finding a political system that hasn't screwed people.
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Thinking the same, this is not really an on-demand consumer focused service. > "A high-tech garbage service may sound ridiculous to the uninitiated. But it’s no joke to customers like WeWork, Whole Foods and SoulCycle that have sign
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I mean yes, but why stop there, how many privilege points does going to a super market give you? Ordering pizza? Going to a restaurant? I'm certain we can find more areas where less privileged workers provide services for you. Also let
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That's definitely the case where tipping is a good thing. If tipping is not expected then it won't be that bad.
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Disagree, video games are some of the cheapest forms of entertainment per hour.
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Picking one or the other will be slightly discourteous to the other side, in this case this is an advantage only tabs hold.
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I think his point was that this is not an example of sexism because such people will talk over any gender. Now perhaps these types of people will talk over women more, but in this case it seems this guy is just a jerk talking over either ge
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Well then don't iterate quickly. Ideally they would introduce some automation that removes human error. I see what you're saying, but couldn't these same regulations be applied to private industry? You don't necessarily
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by d0lph 9y ago
Is this really that controversial? Competition only exists in Capitalism, if there's no competition, then there's little benefit to improve.
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Right, but part of efficiency improvements would probably include some level of automation, which would be more safe in the end.
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Private organizations are more efficient than governmental ones. Ideally the way they are managed/regulated will remain the same. It would be really neat to see some innovation here as well, with governmental agencies there really isn&
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"Just google it" >First google result
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A republic is basically democracy with a few extra steps added: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy
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The code's a bit rough, I have a bit of cleanup to go before I publish it.
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I have a script that logs into my bank's web interface, and extracts my current balance. I subtract out my upcoming bills/savings transactions to tell me how much money I can spend until my next paycheck. My next step is to have i

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