mike10010100

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by mike10010100 8y ago
> See the link in the previous comment. That really doesn't describe a threat to the "white heterosexual Christian" identity. In fact, you're free to be a white heterosexual Christian at Google or anywhere else for th
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by mike10010100 8y ago
> Against treats to that identity. What, precisely, about other minorities existing threatens that identity? You keep repeating this claim of threats, but haven't been able to articulate any. > I don’t think the right way to solv
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by mike10010100 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_personal_is_political
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by mike10010100 8y ago
> Historically through there hasn't been many churches that successfully served multiple religions at the same time. My hat is off to those Muslims that will share pray room with nursing mothers at the same time. In our company, the
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by mike10010100 8y ago
Please educate yourself on the Paradox of Tolerance.
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by mike10010100 8y ago
> Being told that certain hobbies/beliefs I had were explicitly disallowed to be discussed Context is important. If we're talking about the hobby of being a KKK member, I'd say that it's perfectly reasonable for that
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by mike10010100 8y ago
> The solution is to calculate how much the prayer room cost, divide it per employee that wish to use it, and give each employee that money to do as they wish. No, the solution is to call it a "wellness room", and have it be op
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by mike10010100 8y ago
> the existence of animus doesn’t automatically bless or justify any and every political ideology that markets itself as “anti-Xist”. I'm confused. How does saying "LGBTQ people deserve respect just like everyone else" som
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by mike10010100 8y ago
> I've never seen any of these ideas openly expressed in the workplace, or for that matter, anywhere. Probably because none of them apply to you. > The ideas you're talking about aren't even the ideas being expressed by
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by mike10010100 8y ago
> But if the diversity training moves on to "you should have a positive view of gay marriage" or some such So, again, the concern is of a hypothetical nature.
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by mike10010100 8y ago
> You did: the position of neutrality. The position of not taking a stance either way. The position of actually doing stuff, like, in the real world, orthogonal to that of politics. The area outside of politics. Everything is political.
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by mike10010100 8y ago
It's about intent. Was the guy's intent to bring the site down? Does he have a track record of making such mistakes? Do they demonstrate a lack of concern or remorse? No? Then blame is irrelevant. It happened, they learned from it
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by mike10010100 8y ago
There are also large mega-corps who have vested interests in ensuring that their products don't get eclipsed by these kinds of solutions. Don't underestimate the shilling force.
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by mike10010100 8y ago
That's because the early version of the Kinect was a gimmick at best. A keyboard/trackpad is not.
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by mike10010100 8y ago
> If someone put 5K BTC up for sale on one day the price of the whole market would be disrupted https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/15/researchers-finds-that-one...
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by mike10010100 9y ago
> A death caused by shitty engineering (e.g. Tesla in this case) is not the same as a death caused by gross negligence on ones own part. The result is the same, no? Isn't the idea to save lives? Why does one life have more value tha
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by mike10010100 9y ago
> the USA has declared it illegal for any website to knowingly host any content that might be illegal Which law is this and when did it go into effect?
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by mike10010100 9y ago
It's because they're beholden to advertisers rather than their users.
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by mike10010100 9y ago
> First the evidence has to be established and legitimized without being attached to Trump at all It already has been. The bread crumbs have been laid out for years now, and all it takes is looking back at all the legitimate outlets that
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by mike10010100 9y ago
> We have different approaches but we're on the same side in case you haven't picked up on that. I did. I'm just more concerned with giving an accurate picture of what happened than trying to pass off some kind of false eq
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by mike10010100 9y ago
> I literally said "people tried to accuse Obama of all kinds of stuff" and my point was to the parent post who said "Its purely Trump hatred driving this". Right, but that's still comparing the current amount of
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by mike10010100 9y ago
>How is this different than what Cambridge Analytica did? The other company didn't spread fake news, conduct honeypot blackmailing schemes, and wasn't funded by one of America's largest geopolitical foes.
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by mike10010100 9y ago
> And I was trying to convey to the parent post that these issues of data use and disingenuous campaign practices would have come up, Trump or not, because it's happening and we don't like it as a society. Right, but then you s
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by mike10010100 9y ago
This. There's a lot of false equivalence going on in this thread.
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by mike10010100 9y ago
> (people tried to accuse Obama of all kinds of stuff, and don't even get started on what people were accusing the Clinton campaign of). It shouldn't distract from the fact that it's scandalous and sketchy and we should ke
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by mike10010100 9y ago
Reminds me a bit of how the Russian bots operate. Any indication whether or not this is in any way related? The more I think about it, the more it seems like the entire proliferation of cryptocurrency is an attempt to sponge money out of th
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by mike10010100 9y ago
> Should estate law just be modified and have all assets of a dead person go to the state? Why not? Why should a dead person continue to exert their influence in the form of cash after they're done personally contributing to society
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by mike10010100 10y ago
> Yes, some humans would undoubtedly exist somewhere. That's called survival.
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by mike10010100 10y ago
Finish us off? I doubt it. We're a tenuous species.
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by mike10010100 10y ago
Not really for humanity directly. We'd survive. But the plants and animals we depend on probably wouldn't have a very good time, and our biodiversity as a planet would significantly decrease. Not quite extinction level, perhaps an

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