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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
He said "stop using them so much", not "eliminate them completely".
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
There's so much context missing here. What did she post on Google Brain? What were the demands she made to Google? Are these in the public domain? (If they're not public then I imagine they'll be leaked eventually if this get
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
I was curious so I looked it up. According to Timnit Gebru's Wikipedia page she was born in Ethiopia but her parents are from Eritrea. I can't find it again but I saw something somewhere about "Timnit" meaning "wish
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
Well whether or not Reagan's strategy of "we win, they lose" was the cause, what's beyond dispute is that America won and the Soviets lost. To which I say, thank fucking God.
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
The fact that you are able to make this claim online (even anonymously) without any fear for your personal safety instantly proves that your claim is false.
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
You obviously don't know much about what China is up to if you don't think that description applies to China.
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
Have you ever spent significant time outside the US?
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
Those "concentration camps" (a ridiculous misuse of the term) only exist because people of all colors from all across the world are clamoring to move to the US for a better life. Someone had better get them the memo that the US is
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
I mean, it also led to the fall of a tyrannical regime that murdered tens of millions and was every bit as sadistic and evil as Nazi Germany. So there's that.
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
So bugging a political opponent's room is comparable to exterminating an entire ethnic group?
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
Facebook is, by far, the worst communication platform out of any that I use. Practically every aspect of the site is designed to be as impractical and user-hostile as possible. The only reason I use Facebook (which happens increasingly less
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
> Or have e-mail on your phone, making a sound whenever you receive an e-mail. Why on Earth would any sane person set their phone up to do this?
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
I've long viewed working for Facebook (or Twitter) as like working for a cigarette company. Your product makes the world a worse place and everything would be better if your company disappeared, but hey, something's gotta pay the
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
> "people are allowed to insult straight white males, but insulting other groups is off limits" No-one in the thread has said this.
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-wor...
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
It's Havel's Greengrocer all over again: https://pathtothepossible.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/havels-gr... If a corporation posted a black square on its Instagram earlier this year, that doesn't
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
The nation isn't prominently split over whether racism is bad or whether black lives matter. It is , however, prominently split over whether the specific, contentious version of "anti-racism" though promulgated by the likes
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
> I think that says nothing of a persons political views Rubbish - we all know what type of political activism is tearing these companies apart and we all know what political views are the only ones that can be safely expressed.
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
Well that's a ray of good news. My wife works for a huge social media company that you've definitely heard of, and some of her higher-ups have told her they're worried that the rise of employee activism is going to tear the c
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
I know many people will find your comment alarmist and hyperbolic, but you're understating it. I follow this issue closely and some of the crap that's being fed to schoolchildren in the US at the moment is jaw-dropping. Check out
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
This is what I love about Hacker News - it's the only forum I've ever read where the topic of discussion frequently shows up in the comments. Brian, I've never given two shits about crypto, but this announcement seriously inc
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
Have they banned the discussion of certain topics entirely? Or have they just said that they don't want the company as an entity to get involved with these topics? There's a difference between saying "we don't think it&#
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
Except that isn't what's happening at Coinbase. Coinbase is still making the same product it made six months ago. It's the activists who want Coinbase to start working on something else.
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by jiuahweruihawi 6y ago
The situation with Coinbase is the opposite of what you describe. Coinbase isn't moving into new territory that its employees find objectionable, e.g. by starting to develop crypto for the military. The activists at Coinbase are angry