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by jevoten 3y ago
From what I recall of the discussion at the time, it's true - the Bloomberg article only looked at job growth, not all hires. Even so, only 6% of growth going to the 58% of the population that is white is highly skewed, and I don'
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by jevoten 3y ago
Do you also consider wind and solar as "high tech solutions that only postpone real action"? The problem is, simplified: consumption * environmental_cost_of_consumption < planetary_limits You need some justification to declare
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by jevoten 3y ago
To add to the sibling comments, Japan has very restrictive gun laws [1], but a suicide rate (12.2) similar to the US (14.5) [2]. Let me add that I find the instinct to restrict personal freedom as the very first measure very disturbing. As
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by jevoten 3y ago
In the same sense that it hurts workers if companies cannot (legally) pay them to commit fraud on the company's behalf. Yes, some worker might be paid less because of it, but we're all much better off not allowing the practice.
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by jevoten 3y ago
Can you point out the errors he makes, for those of us less familiar with US civil rights law?
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by jevoten 3y ago
> The reason the iPhone became so successful was not a fluke. Consumers and customers voted that the value proposition of the product was something they preferred, and they acted by purchasing iPhone and developers responded by building
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by jevoten 3y ago
I think many people agree that disinformation is a threat, but won't admit it. Because they know that anti-disinformation efforts will be (and have been) used tactically only to silence narratives those in power dislike, and not as a n
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by jevoten 3y ago
> On paper meritocracy sounds reasonably fair but in practice I believe we'll find it to be otherwise. In practice, the non-connected/wealthy Whites and Asians are faced with a choice between 'meritocracy' with all th
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by jevoten 3y ago
> There's certainly enough people on the planet to make up for any headcount-shortfall with immigration I'm just glad they're all perfectly interchangeable.
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine led her to ask about President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, “What is this, another Hitler?” I know it's like an iron law that the only historical comparison for bad people is Hitler, but on the speci
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by jevoten 3y ago
> The fact is the desires are harmful all by themselves. You only asserted this, but provided no justification. The desires are dangerous , yes, for the simple fact that someone may decide to act on them (with real children, not dolls).
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by jevoten 3y ago
It's a bad thing if it offers some measure of comfort to icky people. ToucanLoucan is concerned about child-like sex-bots - would he prefer their buyers instead focus their attention on human children? Or does he believe sexuality is m
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by jevoten 3y ago
Privacy, personal freedom, absence of victims, even absence of interaction with any other being (human or animal), will not keep society from interfering if they can portray the perpetrator as a modern-day witch.
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by jevoten 3y ago
The article is paywalled, but what I can read of it refutes your claims. It states that, according to (presumably Israeli) intelligence: around 10% of all of its Gaza staff have ties to Islamist militant groups 10% is a lot less than most
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by jevoten 3y ago
Allegedly 12 of the 13,000 UNRWA employees were involved in the attack. How many other organizations lose all funding if 0.1% of their employees, in their spare time, commit some terrorism equivalent act? Any aid organization would have to
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by jevoten 3y ago
If a single computer scientist can find exploitable vulnerabilities for a plausible attack, imagine what a nation-state (foreign or domestic) sponsored group could do.
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by jevoten 3y ago
Who will pay for gas-pump development and maintenance, if we allow drivers to pump gas from pumps not authorized by and partnered with their car manufacturer?
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by jevoten 3y ago
I would think it would be obvious why consumers should care about a handful of corporations acting like feudal lords and controlling what smaller developers can do, technically or economically. To spell it out: because you are affected. In
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by jevoten 3y ago
A Newton is a unit of force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(unit)
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by jevoten 3y ago
So it's not a problem until it's impossible to run any business at all without relying on "those 3" (for any value of "those 3")?
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by jevoten 3y ago
> That said, it intuitively feels like they do at least to the farmer from the tone of the article (and similar stories), and to me as well. Listen (but not blindly) to your intuition, because its sense of fairness is keenly honed to all
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by jevoten 3y ago
It's scary to think how easily a handful of giant corporations can destroy most smaller businesses, either through malice or indifference. If Apple/Google wipe your store or restaurant off their maps, or let only bad reviews stay
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by jevoten 3y ago
But it does mean other cartoon mice don't necessarily infringe on Mickey, even though nearly all could be argued to be "inspired by" him.
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by jevoten 3y ago
> a great many of Pokemon's earliest monster designs seemed to take... "incredible inspiration" from a variety of Dragon Quest enemies And animals, real and mythological. We have: An ordinary dragon, but with its tail on f
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by jevoten 3y ago
"Lash out" means the author dislikes the person, nothing more. If they felt neutral, they would write "criticizes", and if they were on Musk's side, they'd write "Musk debunks FCC's stated reasons for
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by jevoten 3y ago
They're not HP's printers - they're consumer's printers, manufactured by HP. If a random hacker did this, they'd go to jail. Since HP has the same claim of ownership over these printers as a random hacker, I expect
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by jevoten 3y ago
> As for the company denying the issue this means nothing. It doesn't mean nothing - if the company themselves claim it's not an issue, then they're admitting he didn't hack anything and didn't expose them to any
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Build something pink Yes, when people say they hate dull gray modernist architecture, what they mean is that they want garish pink buildings instead. Thank you for this strawman.
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Real conspiracies exist. They are NEVER discovered by conspiracy theorists. So what do you call the people investigating or shedding light on real conspiracies? And what would someone trying to discredit them call them?
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by jevoten 3y ago
> (you turn off some buyers who don’t like the look) Fortunately the modernist minimal grayscale look is universally beloved, so no-one is turned off by that.

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