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by kofejnik 6y ago
congratulations on missing the point of the whole thread. Also, for having biases, people are actually getting called evil (racist, nazi, bigot, etc) every day, and are expected to apologize/be fired/read more sacred texts/pa
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by kofejnik 6y ago
Sounds like you didn't understand my comment
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> Everyone has biases and prejudices. Everyone. Yes, that includes you. Everyone is a sinner (not the Pope, tho). Yes, that includes you! Go confess and do your penance
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> understand the unconscious mental processes that feed into racism and the nature of structural discrimination, even when unintended. I wonder how scientific this understanding is
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> I’m worried about the class divide turning violent reply it doesn't have to be if Marxists don't stir it all the time
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by kofejnik 6y ago
without profit as incentive, no homes would've been build. Or maybe they would've been, North Korea style.
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by kofejnik 6y ago
highly relevant fiction (fiction?): https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
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by kofejnik 6y ago
actually there are rules. Clearly, a TV network with 1B viewers would not be allowed to give unlimited free airtime to one party; but somehow Twitter seems to be immune (so far) to campaign finance laws
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by kofejnik 6y ago
if a news network with a 1B viewers only gave free airtime to one side, it would clearly be in violation of campaign finance laws, among others
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by kofejnik 6y ago
https://freakonomics.com/2007/01/05/we-are-not-the-only-ones...
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by kofejnik 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um5gMZcZWm0 https://freakonomics.com/2007/01/05/we-are-not-the-only-ones...
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by kofejnik 6y ago
except that child seats are mostly safety theater, of course
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by kofejnik 6y ago
Nothing unfair about that; salary is a very direct measure of demand for specific skills
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by kofejnik 6y ago
I fully expect cloudIBM to be mostly irrelevant with their watson and cloud vaporware; and boringIBM to do boringly ok with their IT services
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by kofejnik 6y ago
can I get a billion dollars of your unlimited salary?
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by kofejnik 6y ago
communism is still one of the dirtiest words around
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by kofejnik 6y ago
actual communism is no better than nazism
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> Unfortunately, most of the owners of Airbnb and other short-term rentals in Greece are non-Greek citizens who got a "golden passport" in the recent years, buying off a huge chunk of the apartment inventory in Athens and elsew
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by kofejnik 6y ago
don't speak for all locals, as some locals clearly wish to make money by airbnb-ing (also, the concept of privilege is overblown imo)
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U.S. Border Patrol Digital Forensics Programs [pdf](dhs.gov)
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Extreme Precommitment: Towards a Solution to Akrasia(old.reddit.com)
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by kofejnik 6y ago
used to this so, too; contrary to that, deadmau5 is pretty great even though he doesn't play any instrument or know theory, he just uses his mouse and keyboard to try stuff in Ableton. Watch his masterclass, it's pretty eye-openin
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> more insight into CBP's nationwide tracking database, which it purchased access to from a commercial vendor called Vigilant. I can understand, sort of, why a 3-letter agency might want to have access to vehicle tracking; but why d
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by kofejnik 6y ago
rich people are not a problem; if anything, they are more likely to finance this kind of project
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by kofejnik 6y ago
From early invite days, I have a super OG gmail account (so OG that it is often mistaken for a system account), and I get a lot of random resumes, driver licences mostly from people all over Asia, job applications, some people decide to use
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by kofejnik 6y ago
what about self-proclaimed Marxists, clearly they should be censored, now that even current POTUS is getting censored?
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> the surest way to make money is selling your body, and not by having any real talent or skills oh here we go again. Explain to me how OnlyFans models sell their bodies, but countless actresses who play shitty parts in shitty movies, fo
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by kofejnik 6y ago
nice, thanks! Now that we've agreed that Marxism is bad, we should ask Twitter and FB to censor certain leftist movements who are openly (and semi-openly) marxist, right?
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> Sometimes, despite attempts to obfuscate the fact, we do know which ideas are terrible. I don't disagree with any of the above, however, you managed to carefully avoid marxism-leninism/communism, a simple oversight, I suppose
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by kofejnik 6y ago
I personally know a molecular biologist whose research is published in Nature (among other things) who believes in homeopathy But how, I ask? I don't know, but it works for me, she says

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