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by jariel 6y ago
WTO has rules, as do nations with agreements in place. 'Allow' implies some degree of forgiveness or allowance of entity on the other side of the table. In this case, Ghana may probably face trade sanction/scrutiny for their
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So Saudi Arabia, UAE, Canada and Saudi Arabia are 'stuck' selling natural resources? I think it's probably a much better plant to extract a good deal of wealth from the natural resource and invest it in other areas of higher
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We managed somehow for 5000 years. The constraints that you highlight are entirely a construct of our ostensible 'modern life'. They are self imposed. There's no reason we can't live a high standard of living with 1 pers
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Losing 2/3 of the population over 500 years is the blink of an eye in historical terms. The issues is the speed but also the 'leveling out' threshold, i.e. if it drives downward, what's to say that won't stop. Final
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Of course most people are not making 'children decisions' around national or ideological objectives. And yes, it's possible to be 'overly concerned'. But there is something to be said about a species that doesn&#x27
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You mean the time when slavery was common throughout the world, and that literally every spot on planet earth was fundamentally ethnocentric? So yes, if we want to talk about racial issues during the foundation of America and world history,
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It was 1812-1814, a series of skirmishes, and from the UK perspective it was all just a side-show to Napoleon. The 'end' of the 'War of 1812' was not in the US it was at Waterloo.
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Except that China is actually brutally racist, and openly so. I loathe woke thinking, but I wouldn't deny that racism is a problem in the US. Paradoxically, I think you could safely say that China is a Han Supremacist state. Those that
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by jariel 6y ago
They are not nuances, and they aren't even 'curriculum'. They are a fundamental reshaping of our world view. 'America is a State of White Supremacy' is a pretty fundamentally different want to think about the US tha
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by jariel 6y ago
More apt: Can we agree on a simple, modern query language that is better than SQL, which is fine but a little antiquated? Because the issue is standardisation more than anything.
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The flaw in this line of thinking is that it's unreasonable to suggest this story is 'made up' or 'propaganda'. It's more like: if this is just the experience of a tiny handful of people, well then it's a
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Citing people's lived experiences as 'propaganda' is ridiculous, it says more about you than the content.
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Don Lemon encouraging us to 'Stay Woke' just a few days ago [1]. It's trending towards derogatory but still commonly used. [1] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/03/04/cnn_don_l..
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Airbus would not have grown up organically. At a certain scale, things don't come out of thin air. There's almost no chance of something like this happening on it's own, although the initiative is probably doomed, it could fe
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This needs to be illegal.
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Do people really have a hard time remembering their phone numbers, which are relatively private? Having one's date of birth signalled to the world is an obvious breach of privacy in the modern age, and since there is obviously no need
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by jariel 6y ago
Oh, $2 is a guess, I don't know the number, but it's low. Factors are non-market issue such as social welfare programs, incidental wealth (i.e. kids with upper middle class parents, living at home choosing not to work), general at
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by jariel 6y ago
SWE's have bargaining power, $100K is their market rate. Those without any leverage whatsoever, unskilled workers rate will be the 'absolute minimum required to survive'. Somewhere around $2/hour over the long haul. Mil
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Diversity in the West basically means 'Not Just White People' due to historical power asymmetries, and the fact that at least in the 'New World', 'race' is not supposed to be a defining feature of national iden
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The practicality is uniqueness of the ID. So date+increment is an easy 'citizen UUID'. In 1970 it makes perfect sense in 2020 not so much.
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Unions are given rights due to asymmetries in power. Professionals with credentials have some power in the market, they can command a price. Unskilled labour cannot. Without regulations, they would be paid $2 an hour, i.e. what the market w
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"This is not a speculation " It's total speculation.
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It would be a good idea to remove the 'date' from the number. Edit: because having your birthday right there as part of common ID number is an obvious transgression of privacy that wasn't probably thought of back when the num
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by jariel 6y ago
"but also sends a message to his students: that he doesn't whether they feel safe being there matters, " That is some very serious gaslighting. To suggest that somehow students would be 'unsafe' around writers such
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by jariel 6y ago
"Traditionally, tech diversity referred to gender diversity" This is definitely not true. " extend it to ethnicity ... gets all really arbitrary " I don't think so, the issues are very similar.
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Except the author did no such thing. A corporate entity IP owner did. Those entities are subject to a myriad of whims, much the same as Nike or Apple. It's laughably hypocritical in an era where pop culture is full of all kinds of &#x2
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by jariel 6y ago
Just the opposite, if what you were saying were even remotely true, we wouldn't attach names to anything, including scientific papers. To suggest that people should hide behind pen-names to discuss the most important ideas of any given
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by jariel 6y ago
By 'diverse' I meant 'PoC' mostly. Tech, particularly in the Valley has technically an under representation of non-PoC. (I myself have worked at companies that were 95% Asian, being almost the only 'White Guy')
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That doesn't make a whole lot of sense though as a fair hiring process, it's just brutal gender-specific hiring. Nobody ever doubted that there were 'good female writers' but there are 1000 writers for every 1 job, it&#x
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"lack of diversity actually works to the detriment of tech companies. " Tech companies are diverse, more so than most companies. You mean to say 'not the right kind of diverse'. The ridiculous, Monty Python conversation

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