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by idrios 6y ago
Raising wage requirements just means companies will pay whatever the new minimum is for H-1B workers. Once employed, those workers are still locked into their job without freedom to jump to anther with better working conditions or a better
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by idrios 6y ago
nor did the parent comment say it was the US govt doing the censorship
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by idrios 6y ago
I think he's talking about the conversation going on about FB, Youtube, Twitter removing posts that are hate speech, inciting violence, spreading misinformation, etc.
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by idrios 6y ago
Yeah WhatsApp, Facebook, Reddit, Google Hangouts all banned in China. Pretty much anything not owned by a Chinese company, or anything that didn't go through all sorts of hoops to meet Chinese censorship criteria (and even then it&#x27
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by idrios 6y ago
Easy answer: to keep in contact with friends who are of Chinese origin. For example any international friends you made in college who moved back home after
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by idrios 7y ago
He's saying that there will always be anti-science people, but individuals who are anti-science will not always stay anti-science, so it is still worth putting in the effort to change their minds
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by idrios 7y ago
Because Facebook's news feed cuts out news outlets as middlemen. Though now Reddit, Instagram, LinkedIn and a number of other sites do too so it was pretty inevitable, but Facebook started the trend and before that the only way to get
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by idrios 7y ago
Additional friendly reminder that Bloomberg sees Facebook as the biggest threat to its existence and is extremely motivated to report negatively about them
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by idrios 7y ago
It's a bit late to be posting this April Fools joke
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by idrios 7y ago
I would argue that Windows phone lost the market because it joined late and didn't add anything of value that was not already available through Android or iPhone. But a privacy-focused smartphone already has unique value to me. That sa
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by idrios 7y ago
Not going to speak to whether moving in together is a good idea, but I've lived in a lot of shared housing situations so here's my advice on how to not hate each other after living together. - Clean up after yourself. Every fight
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by idrios 7y ago
I got pretty good at Android development and made a few apps that don't have many downloads but I'm still proud of and wanted to share with my friends and family. I regret that all of my friends and family have iPhones.
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by idrios 7y ago
"People who go to church have values", doesn't mean "People who don't go to church don't have values". He was just using it as an example of how people make (or used to make) friends. To your original poin
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by idrios 7y ago
I worked for a startup that was based on the east coast but trying to build their presence on the west coast. We looked into a lot of options including visiting several WeWork offices to look into having a virtual office or a mailing addres
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by idrios 7y ago
At some level, yeah the onus is on the user to determine which stores are safe. Still going with the browser analogy, you can install Firefox on your desktop, or you can install BobsBrowser v0.17. Obviously BobsBrowser won't have the s
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by idrios 7y ago
Presumably, app stores that do filter out apps with viruses, malware and spyware would still exist. But you'd have a choice in which app store you use, much like how if you're running Windows on a desktop you are able to install o
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by idrios 7y ago
I know that what you're going for is to solve inequality by working within the means of the established political system, and that you're wondering if there could be something like a startup or company that somehow makes a profit
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by idrios 7y ago
I believe what you just described is the NIH.
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by idrios 7y ago
I think you can take each one on a case by case basis. If health insurance companies lobbied the government to require that all citizens have health insurance, I'd take a ton of issue. But if health insurance companies lobbied to requi
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by idrios 7y ago
As someone who has never been to prison and not worked in any part of the legal system, my opinion holds limited weight. But I believe prisons were originally designed to act as dissuasion against bad behavior from regular folk, and a form
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by idrios 8y ago
While I wouldn't call Facebook content benign, I definitely try to be mindful when I see articles like these that news sites like Bloomberg are so eager to attack Facebook because Facebook is the biggest and most direct threat to their
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by idrios 8y ago
Along the same lines, imagine someone allergic to bees getting stung on the face causing their face to swell, so the system doesn't recognize them and they can't get into their apartment to grab their epipen. This system could lit
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by idrios 8y ago
Possibly, but American culture can actually be very good at taking collective action. In fact it can be so effective that often the way for special interest groups to push an agenda is to sway public opinion about a topic.
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by idrios 8y ago
Facetious is the word you're looking for. He made the comment in jest, not to be taken seriously
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by idrios 8y ago
But with the crackdowns happening on VPN there still needs to be legitimate options. In my case I was an English teacher, and often we'd need to find resources from the internet for supplementary teaching materials. Can't have VPN
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by idrios 8y ago
Myself and all my friends paid for ExpressVPN. Much easier to get working if you have it installed before you go there, but not impossible
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by idrios 8y ago
This actually surprises me for how much effort Microsoft puts into being compliant with China. Last year China took down Yahoo! too, despite Yahoo's relationship with Alibaba. I was an expat last year and with Google (& DuckDuckGo)
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by idrios 8y ago
This rides on the assumption that the benefits of genetic engineering will outweigh the detriments of income inequality
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by idrios 8y ago
Just to clarify, I said to break feedback loops that enforce class hierarchy. I agree that parents/families should do their utmost to give their children a leg up, but the game also needs to be fair for all players. Take universities
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by idrios 8y ago
> Good rule of thumb is that people should have the freedom to do anything as long as it doesn't violate other people's right. On the micro-economics scale, I would not only agree with you, but argue that a successful society d

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