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by lsiebert 5y ago
Examples of Misinformation: scientifically debunked ideas like the idea vaccines cause autism Ideas with zero basis in reality like the idea that most or all mass shootings are actually faked using "crisis actors" Political conspi
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In 2008 Myspace had 110 million monthly active users worldwide, 74 million in the US. https://venturebeat.com/2008/04/24/one-small-step-for-myspac...
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There are airbnb investors as well, people buying properties in order to rent them out.
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I think you can sign up for a google account with any android device with google apps on it. Presumably that can be without a phone number if it's just a tablet.
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This isn't mental telepathy, this is using voluntary attempts to activate the vocal cords to produce text using an implanted device.
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Not exactly. Comas just indicate prolonged unconsciousness and inability to react (in terms of body movement) to stimuli, not minimal brain activity. https://www.brain-injury-law-center.com/blog/brain-activity-... A co
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by lsiebert 5y ago
A Coma is prolonged unconsciousness. These patients are awake, aware, and yet trapped in their bodies, unable to communicate. Most previous brain signal translation has been adaptions of typing in some form. This is directly translating sig
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Science fiction has always been the literature of the possible, the imagined. And just as we can imagine horrors worse then things are now, a monstrous AI intelligence torturing the last surviving humans, boots forever stamping on faces in
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I don't see how you can have political confrontation without optimism, or at least a desire for change to circumstances that allows optimism.
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You know how invested money can make money through investment in businesses or property which is then operated to produce profitable goods and services by employees, contractors, renters, leasees, slaves etc, rather than you having to make
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A free tier that didn't allow third party integrations might work if that's really your sticking point. But honestly nothing wrong with charging money for a service.
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AFAIK pay transparency doesn't require them to say who gets paid what specifically. In a large company, how would you even know?
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That would only work as proof if you believe that salary is a perfect metric for job performance, and that nobody is paid less than they could get elsewhere (IE that the labor market operates with perfect efficiency). I imagine we both know
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Nothing, but there's no need for that, because there's nothing stopping them from paying her 2x for the same position, based on the actual skills and experience someone has. You can totally pay people different wages under these l
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by lsiebert 5y ago
yeah, as best I can tell you absolutely can pay someone more if they are better at their job under equal pay laws. In California for example, the equal pay act requires 'equal pay for employees who perform “substantially similar work,”
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And gini coefficient for 12 countries with a higher gini coefficient than the US. https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-where-intergenerat...
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-social-mobility-...
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That experiment from her perspective. https://nickyknacks.medium.com/working-while-female-59a5de3a...
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I think China is happy to let in physical products like Apple, but it wants the internet stuff under it's control.
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Ah, you are reasoning from your own anecdotal experience to say that something is unlikely because you haven't yourself observed it. Maybe you should try an experiment? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-happened-
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> Dealing with rude customers is quickly learned. No, it's not, many workers I know face repeated and regular stressful abuse, which is almost always worse if they are visibly part of a marginalized group of people, who also get rac
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Doing this for HN asks you to login as an administrator.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
See my answer above. As for my argument above that about comparative morality, it's more complex and nuanced, but it boils down to the idea of agency and praxis, and the responsibility of those who have everything they need. Also a lar
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by lsiebert 5y ago
No, I was responding to the idea that the existence at food banks means nobody needs to go hungry. But I do think folks here have a lot of illusions about the nature of poverty and who is poor that they've gathered mostly by vague cult
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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/09/millennials-own-less-than-5p...
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And yet people still go hungry. It's a lot easier to feed yourself if you have money. Also not everybody has 5 and a half hours to wait in line. https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/S-F-hunge...
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Yes? as I understand it the general correlation between income inequality and crime is fairly well known, and the debate is on why it occurs and what can be done despite it. That said crime rates themselves are often more to do with reporti
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Hungry people will try to eat whatever they can. Tired people will try to sleep wherever they can. Unhappy people will try to feel better however they can. Criminalizing these activities is incredibly costly and doesn't truly solve any
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TL:DR Poverty is the true problem, and we need to think about things more holistically. Here we are on HN, once again debating criminalizing poor people for not having opportunities, about if it's better to fine poor people or imprison
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I want both a repairability index and a recyclability index, with increased taxes on sales of items that are less repairable or recyclable. Those items are more costly to repair or recycle, and thus more wasteful and inefficient. I think it

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