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by lopmotr 7y ago
This seems bad seen through lens of "everyone should be treated fairly" but if you instead look at it as "America is a private club which accepts membership applications of people that it likes for whatever reasons" then
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There are many classes of people who have problems of discrimination. Short, ugly, ginger, etc. The intersections of all those classes are so numerous that everybody will have some disadvantage. But it won't be apparent unless you defi
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I wish this machine bias wasn't always presented in such divisive terms as race and "disadvantaged groups". It can affect anybody. If you happened to develop a writing style that looks like typical bad essay writers' sty
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What are wheelchair users vulnerable to besides physical assault? They can still travel just as readily as able-bodied people in planes, cars, trains, boats, etc. Neither can simply walk across the sea to another country.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Most mutations are entirely harmful. Those are included in the ones that we're promoting by saving young children. We've evolved to this point without saving children from them. So have all species. Surely the continual re-guiding
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If you're offended by questions, that suggests you have faith but not confidence. Sometimes the answer isn't so great like "shouldn't we use the most powerful antibiotics available in every case to maximize each patient&
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It would help if the 1990 and 2017 boxes were same-width bars because people are good at estimating relative lengths, but not relative areas. But it would also be uglier and asymmetric, so maybe not worth the trade-off.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I have a pet theory that saving children from natural deaths is harmful to future generations. Surely by intervening so much, we're giving unhealthy people as much evolutionary advantage as healthy people. If the whole world reaches we
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by lopmotr 7y ago
So you're happier that they were employed by the cruise line at all, but preferred they they be given more? I see. Giving them more than their market value is like charity. So perhaps my question should be "Would you give part of
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by lopmotr 7y ago
There are passive NLOS imaging technologies based on shadows: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.02444.pdf https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-new-science-of-seeing-aro... But animals can already "see&quot
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If you had the power, would you fire them and be the one to give them their notice in person? If they asked why, what would you tell them? "For your own good"?
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by lopmotr 7y ago
> This will sound like a quibble but I think that is a minor quibble. You're arguing against a point which is not really the important point. That is, that owning a license for the audio book means you also own a license for the pri
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Cocaine causes serious problems for black people. You're surely not proposing ignoring it? > It is to harass them to help maintain a racist status quo. Have you got some evidence for that? The idea of systemic racism is not that. It
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Why are people assuming racism? There isn't actually any evidence for that in this case, is there? He was pulled over for speeding just like anyone else would be, and was slow to stop which would have made the cops extra suspicious no
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The size of the country means extreme events should be more common and more extreme than in a European country even if it's no worse. Europe as a whole has its own problems, just of a different nature - like ongoing terrorism and sexua
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by lopmotr 7y ago
There isn't an easy balance. Blacks and Hispanics are disproportionately represented as crime victims because they live around other blacks or Hispanics. How can the police protect them without the focusing on the most likely perpetrat
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If you first ask why CO2 in the atmosphere is a problem, then you'll find the answer. It's the same time scale at which the change in atmospheric CO2 is a problem. It's only a problem because it's changing rapidly. It wo
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What's the logic that any of them are sidelining?
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How do you know it's not you who's wrong? Do you have access to secret information that they don't? Do you have superior intellect that enables you to understand what they can't? Or did you just happen to be exposed to d
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has some traction. They've been approved by the New Zealand government to perform marriages. https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/weddings/75107725/
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by lopmotr 7y ago
None of MRAs, TERFs, or Incels should be listed there. They don't hold beliefs about nature that can be judged as wrong. They just want things. But the author is apparently too entrenched in his political camp to see the difference bet
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by lopmotr 7y ago
This goes way beyond flat earth and the other beliefs he listed. People will laugh at you if you claim that rocks grow out of dead birds, but almost no-one really convinced themselves of where rocks come from or where dead birds go and that
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If you had that protection, what would you do if your phone was lost/stolen and you wanted the number transferred to a new SIM card? You lose your number forever if it was impossible to transfer. If there's some way to transfer it
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by lopmotr 7y ago
These gaps would be obvious if services displayed all their authentication options completely in some graphical or table form. I personally would like a logic circuit diagram showing eg: (password AND SMS) OR (password AND app) OR SMS --&gt
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No. That's where ad personalization was turned on.
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> but they are a far cry from what would have been there had the preexisting social orders not been intentionally decimated and if their resources had been spent on their own development rather than Europe’s. That's a big if. Of cou
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Well yes. And I don't really understand why a common currency between rich and poor countries is a problem. But people are saying that it won't work. I suppose it won't work if you depend on the government to be able to contr
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It's much worse for Africa than the EU. Here are the ratios of GDP per capita of the highest to lowest states in each region, excluding outliers DC and Luxembourg: US: 2:1 (Massachusetts $66,000 : Mississippi: $32,000) Eurozone: 4:1 (I
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Transistors in individual packages are called discrete components. Even if they use the same technology as ICs, they're still discrete. You can certainly build useful analog and power circuits with only discrete components. Somebody ev
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Perhaps there's a natural negative feedback where a higher CO2 concentration leads to more tree growth which reduces the CO2 concentration.

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