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yeah somehow the guy trying to distribute mosquito nets and eradicate polio is the bad guy because he founded a company that brought computers into every home and radically improved the world and retained stock in that company
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policies shouldn’t be able to dictated by wealth in the first place or this wouldn’t be an issue. one solution to this is campaign finance reform. another is to not make your government powerful enough to make policies like that because the
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5y ago
> The study was centered around a Twitter field experiment in which a research team offered polite corrections, complete with links to solid evidence, in replies to flagrantly false tweets about politics. yeah i don’t really trust or bel
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5y ago
yeah amazon’s offers are amazingly bad. that being said their stellar stock growth has more than made up for it in the past
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5y ago
>>> Coming from the words doro, meaning “mud” and dango, a type of Japanese flour cake think they’re missing out in the context that dango are specifically a desert that’s shaped as tiny little balls. https://en.wikipedi
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5y ago
airbnb facebook stripe snap google uber lyft and others (not even including hft firms like two sigma or jane street or citadel)
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5y ago
not really. thats how you isolate a variable. people are postulating the reason for the gap is sexism. so you isolate all the variables until the only difference is sex. and then you see if theres a difference. its basic statistical methodo
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5y ago
ironically google pay is competitively low when youre at that tier. having worked there and other places google pays the least out of top tier companies. (no im not considering amazon or msft as the same level)
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5y ago
yes look at income statistics and career demographics, college admissions etc… asian women have a higher average income than white men who are supposedly the pinnacle of privilege
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5y ago
you can be guilty and someone else’s dna can be found on the murder weapon. both can be true. it actually seems pretty easy to not get your own dna on it
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5y ago
a lot of immigrants have both the experience of starting their life poor in their home country. starting poor in america and then ending their life rich. so we do understand what it’s like to be poor. and in a way i think sometimes we have
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5y ago
no you get this magical thing called a salary for your work. your compensation isnt woke virtue signaling. they arent "profiting off your labor because they got lucky on some seed money". youre profiting off their ingenuity and id
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5y ago
"domestic extremism" will slowly be defined as anything outside the center left/right consensus of washington. but i guess this is what everyone is begging for so let them have it.
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5y ago
lets see if it even ships in 2022.
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5y ago
i think they are different markets. cyber truck is for affluent city people who probably never had or wanted a truck before but like the design. f150 is more for normal people who actually just want a normal truck that’s electric
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5y ago
i wonder how long a car could possibly power a house
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5y ago
because the widely quoted figure of 79 cents to a dollar is only if you blindly compare incomes without adjusting for hours, experience, education, or even role. obviously a part time elementary school teacher with two years experience will
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5y ago
would be coool while walking. alot of cars already have HUDs like that overlayed onto the windshield
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5y ago
that doesnt really have any real sources for the two assertions. it references this: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6334/183/ which doesnt really have anything to do with the point. Just vagu
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5y ago
thats interesting but nonetheless has no bearing on these specific claims. if anything it counters the claims as it says a female voice is more authoritative whereas the original poster said it makes them seem like an assistant or submissiv
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5y ago
>> Having female A.I. assistants perpetuates the gender wage gap by creating the idea that assistant jobs are a women's role. is there any proof of this or does it just sound true therefore its true? Specifically theres two claim
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funny reading the naive comments here that think his statements reflect the real reason he stepped down and not that the CCP forced him to amid a broader crackdown in china on tech companies guess that’s what happens when you’re in a tech b
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5y ago
the fed has never not bailed people out, whether it’s money market funds or anything else even if not fdic insured
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“people keep saying this about bernie madoff but he keeps not going bankrupt. in fact you can withdraw your money right now” - poor sap 2007
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5y ago
protip: dont try engaging cultists. youd have more luck persuading a brick wall.
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>> I find it frustrating that crypto-currencies are judged by their energy usage, meanwhile traditional fiat currencies are secured by massive banking industries, governments, and militaries. The total energy required to maintain a se
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5y ago
yeah then what happens when you reopen international travel lol
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They say theres an albertsons a mile away. I guarantee they have fresh veggies and they can easily walk there.
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i don’t get how you can say corporate paper is part of your reserve. it’s very illiquid and you could be screwed if there’s a bank run. it also has duration risk. the whole point of a tether is it should be backed 1 for 1 by cash. that’s li
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they dumped in q1 without disclosing until earnings.
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