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by dalke 10y ago
I think you are right, that it's hard to show a pattern of discrimination. It's still a risk, and lawsuits like the age discrimination case at Google keep it in general awareness that it's something to be concerned about. Whe
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by dalke 10y ago
Let's assume I don't. Wikipedia's entry starts: > Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the inte
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by dalke 10y ago
"was deciding to buy a fridge" should be "was deciding to buy their first fridge".
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by dalke 10y ago
Perhaps we have different ideas of "take on." First off, what you describe fits neither my father nor my grandfathers. As far as I know, none ever played even a round of golf, much less pursued it. Golf has a reputation of being a
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by dalke 10y ago
> "Does the risk of a discrimination lawsuit cause managers to shy away from protected classes?" I do not understand. A company with a pattern of shying away from a protected class is in violation of the law, and risks a lawsui
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by dalke 10y ago
Slippers, cardigans and golf clubs are the sign of the 50 year olds of the generation before you. They are not something you take on when you get to your 50s. (As a clearer example, Chloe and Emma are popular names for girls. 100 years ago
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by dalke 10y ago
How would you measure the effectiveness? I think they have, based on reading through a dozen or two discrimination court cases, the EEOC guidelines (the EEOC "is a federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against
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by dalke 10y ago
No. My suggestion would be to find one of the groups already working in this field, get involved with them, and learn the ropes first, before starting your own group. You have no activism experience. You likely have no organization experien
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by dalke 10y ago
I swear, it's like people pass around the same handful of examples when they want to complain about irrelevant academic research. What they never do is justify the "becoming" part. For over a century, people have complained a
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by dalke 10y ago
Spamming is not illegal, if it follows the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. FB claimed that Power Ventures's actions fell under the CAN-SPAM Act, and was a violation of the act, and was a willful violation so FB could get 3x damages as restitutio
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by dalke 10y ago
"I doubt there will be a pressing need for getting close to even 100 km/s in the inner solar system for decades" Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Probe_Plus : > Solar Probe Plus or Solar Pr
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by dalke 10y ago
Even when considered only as an analogy, and not the serious point about trivializing "rapist", it's a lousy analogy. Consider a panhandler asking you for money on the street, someone passing out fliers in a mall, a street ha
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by dalke 10y ago
To the submitter, and quoting the HN posting guidelines: > Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. For the other H
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by dalke 10y ago
Yet another "there's waterfall and there's agile (structured around 'sprints (or daily scrums)') and nothing else" essay.
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by dalke 10y ago
[To the submitter/mods/reader; this essay is from 2008.] Belch. It starts with a combination of misogyny and ageism, as if calling people a "little girl" or "baby" were either demeaning or funny, while assuming
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by dalke 10y ago
What am I looking at? It appears to be a collection of comments from StackOverflow back in 2008. Nothing in there says "Either your interest in coding starts at a young age or not at all". There is a plot of "distribution of
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by dalke 10y ago
Something seems a bit off in this reporting. From this 2016 article at The Telegraph: > Dire predictions that the Arctic would be devoid of sea ice by September this year have proven to be unfounded after latest satellite images showed t
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by dalke 10y ago
I essentially agree, which is why I conjectured that plq was recalling incorrectly, based perhaps on second- or third-hand accounts of Shaw's problem. My hope was that plq would clarify either with a pointer or something else more than
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by dalke 10y ago
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/04/14/meanwhile-in-a-para...
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by dalke 10y ago
I'm questioning why you picked Cuba when most other developing countries are worse. I'm not saying it's great. I'm asking why you picked on the standard American boogieman country. > "'Longevity' is not
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by dalke 10y ago
Do you wear a helmet when going for a run? What about going for a walk? Most Dutch riders are cycling slower than a running pace. I noticed that you categorized bicycling as a sport. For most Dutch people, bicycling is not a sport but a for
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by dalke 10y ago
If people are convinced that funding other transport modes is a waste of money for projects that no one will use, then your precondition ("fewer drivers on the road") is not met. (Consider the beliefs of people living in suburban
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by dalke 10y ago
I know about https://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.o... where a bug in Fossil in trying to figure out what check-in to update to, followed by a user attempt to recover, ended up deleting edited/unc
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by dalke 10y ago
For your "sarcastic" comment, you happened to pick one of the developing countries known for doing well with limited resources, with child mortality and longevity rates comparable to the US. A country which, btw, is also promoting
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by dalke 10y ago
You argument is that single payer only works in countries with a small population. How come it manages to work with the British NHS and the US Medicare? Why can't those systems scale up by a factor of 10 to work for the entire US popul
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by dalke 10y ago
Insurance companies have a built-in asymmetry of information and bargaining power compare to you, and most areas have a monopoly or near monopoly of health care services, such that it is possible to pay more out of pocket than if you had in
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by dalke 10y ago
I think Uber drivers should be able to decide what "real wages and benefits" means, and they should have the right to make that decision collectively if they so choose. I think they get to decide it because they are the ones most
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by dalke 10y ago
"Surely the incentives & competencies would be better aligned the other way around." Or, make it easier for Uber drivers to form a union or do other forms of collective bargaining. If there is a more equal balance of power, it
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by dalke 10y ago
I think you might be downvoted because your complaint is not an intrinsic problem with single payer systems, nor is it common in those systems. I could turn around and point to poor people from rural communities in the US, who can't af
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by dalke 10y ago
There are still companies involved with "roads, electrical supply, water", even when they are part of the public infrastructure. It's not like there are no drug or medical companies in Switzerland. The evidence doesn't n

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