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by gmarx 10y ago
I agree in principle but I doubt enough rich people would ever get sent to jail to make a difference.
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by gmarx 10y ago
I don't see this as especially outrageous. The part that bothers me is that it isn't available to poorer criminals. But I don't agree with the ex-gang fellow who said getting your ass beat is part of the punishment. That seem
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by gmarx 10y ago
I've read this is why soldiers like combat deployments. I always figured war was something you were drafted into and were terrified most of the time. There is a subset of the population who enjoy soldiering and this is part of why
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by gmarx 10y ago
charles-salvia- the following is not directed against you because you seem to have some insight into your own prejudices. Just about everyone is bigoted against some group or other. The fascinating thing is that this now has a meta-componen
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by gmarx 10y ago
Funny (ironic?) thing is that each incremental advance in civilization may be a good thing in isolation and, given the choice between adding benefit X to their existing situation or not, most people would choose adding benefit X without hes
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by gmarx 10y ago
If I remember my science training properly "fact" is a synonym for "observation". One interprets facts in order to develop a model or "theory". So facts published in peer reviewed articles probably represent ob
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by gmarx 10y ago
and does biotech imply wet lab stuff only or is this including software? Does it include healthcare?
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by gmarx 10y ago
Do I understand correctly that every time you have pitched VCs in the past 5 years they wanted to give you money? If pitched to many VCs over the years and never been offered investment. The rest of you make it sound so easy
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by gmarx 10y ago
I can absolutely imagine an Uber manager speaking against ethics. I find it less plausible that a man in his 40s (my age group) refers to women as "sweetheart"...that seems like a thing someone in his 60s or 80s would say.
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by gmarx 10y ago
it makes a lot of sense. Americans are taught PC behavior. It is incorrect to assume that our local fetish is considered a universal good. In my experience it is one of the peculiarities of US culture that foreign born, especially Asians, i
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by gmarx 10y ago
One doesn't retain Eric Holder to investigate. When a company has a race problem they pay a high profile member of that race some dough to appear to set things right. Does anyone know of such a case in which things were actually set ri
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by gmarx 10y ago
I think he means the headline seems generated to get clicks and the underlying implied article isn't expected to contain any news.
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by gmarx 10y ago
Not trolling. I think you either call it African American History month and write stuff about blacks who were descended from American slaves or you call it Black History Month in which case the inclusion of a Barbadan(?) working in Canada m
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by gmarx 10y ago
why so sentientist?
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by gmarx 10y ago
The article is for Black History Month, a...holiday? here in the US which I think is now called "African American History Month". So does a guy from Barbados working in Canada not count now? I'm not good at that kind of math
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by gmarx 10y ago
That is such strange behavior my first instinct is to wonder if Kelly was having a brain health issue. Could she be having a stroke or a seizure?
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by gmarx 10y ago
Many people and companies are working on this. The major blocker, in my opinion, is that we don't really track outcomes rigorously and with out those, we have no way of categorizing the training examples. Yes we do some outcomes tracki
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by gmarx 10y ago
Almost all internet arguments are really the members of one group loudly asserting their shared identity. The principal means are hating the outsiders (while denying that your group would ever engage in something so distasteful) and either
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by gmarx 10y ago
I think you need to get a camera down there to monitor the progress of the solution
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by gmarx 10y ago
Or sand
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by gmarx 10y ago
I really enjoy the tone of this article. It's written like they are tracking down the steps that led a company to dump toxic chemicals outside a grade school. Considering I see Google self driving cars self driving all over the place a
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by gmarx 10y ago
The trick is you don't move someone to that bonus immediately. let them rise to that level incrementally and make them fight for every step. In the mean time they will be upping their lifestyle until $5 million just doesn't seem l
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by gmarx 10y ago
I think he comes across a little nuts in the interview but then I think, you'd have to be a little nuts to go up against those people.
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by gmarx 10y ago
Taking someone's work product under circumstances that they do not want you to is wrong. The fact that it is super easy to do and does not result in him possessing few physical goods at the end of the process does not make this an exce
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by gmarx 10y ago
I made no statement about whether or to what extent the law should punish this.
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by gmarx 10y ago
Ah yes, the old, "my one counterexample totally refutes your hyperbolic generalization response". I'll try to remember to include a paragraph full of statistical disclaimers the next time I contribute a generalization to an i
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by gmarx 10y ago
No, I'm not. I'm making two different statements about related aspects of the same act. I'm surprised, but shouldn't be by the down votes in this thread and the disturbing responses. You guys do in fact proudly believe i
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by gmarx 10y ago
Our society is doomed
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by gmarx 10y ago
You can argue about whether to call it stealing but it is breaking the law. It's shocking to me the way so many people, especially in the generation after me, have proudly abandoned any pretense to morals or ethics. Sure GenX has its s
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by gmarx 10y ago
I've never understood why it is okay for outsourcing companies to "own" HIB visa people. A colleague told me long ago that it was like indentured servitude unless/until you could escape to a regular company that was will

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