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mola
6y ago
This affects black students in many ways. For example, People suffer from biases as well. If you are a teacher and you mostly see black students flagged, you'll probably be biased to assume black students cheat more. It's not a ra
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6y ago
They're not allowed to threaten employees who want to unionize. They may refuse to give options.
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6y ago
American mentality embraces zero sum game as the only possibilty, so the end game is usually bad but stable results.
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6y ago
People will die, tesla will bring the full might of their legal team to prove somehow that the driver/injured party is at fault because of some disclaimer. Musk will continue to be heralded as humanity saviour. Kenya will be president.
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6y ago
Just a slight perspective, I'm not from the US, I'm from israel. We have a black jewish population here, they yearned their return to Zion(israel) for thousands of years. The state of israel, invested money and effort in organizin
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mola
6y ago
This sound like dogmatism. Markets fail, a lot. The fact a thing is a market is not a guarantee for the intended consequences. At most it adheres to a paradigm of thinking which is now very popular due to percieved successful past .
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6y ago
Such an obvious failure mode, thanks for articulating it.
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6y ago
Because software is the highest growing industry?
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6y ago
Too bad. Humanity will probably suffer. Imagine every street and every particle of air owned by a single business corporation. Are you its customer or vassal?
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6y ago
I have mix feelings about this. OTH the ban the plastic straws is silly. But I do think it's better than norms keep people in check rather than formal regulation. It's just that norms should not be meme based.
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6y ago
That's such a straw man. You don't have to build a huge commercial industry around the tech we make for our intelligence bureaus. The Israeli intelligence has become a way for greedy people to become billionaires at the price of k
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6y ago
South africa also had water pipes, so your country is an apartheid country. See? This is silly. Israel is in a tough situation where there are civilians with relative who swear they want to kill al jews. Israel tries to be fair in this scen
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6y ago
There are non jewish israelis in the IDF. Mostly Muslim...
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We don't have a constitution per se. We do have "fundamental laws" protected by an independent supreme court. The Israeli right wing is orchestrating a decades long campaign to discredit the supreme court and make it less ind
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6y ago
You are wrong, because trump didn't push israel to do anything. So the Palestinians got nothing, netanyahu "proved" that being an asshile is how you get good deals. And this situation get to fester while corrupting both our p
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6y ago
"Explicitly jewish" could be a democratic state with jewish majority. And it could be a jewish minority ruling over a non jewish majority. Most Israel want the former. A hard core minority wants the latter. The last few decades th
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6y ago
Arab(muslim/christian) citizens get full rights under law, vote like any jew israeli. On the flip side, in the occupied territories the Palestinians (arab muslims/christians) don't get to vote, and are basically under militar
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Yeah, well after the holocaust no jew will give up sovreignity and rule so it can be a minority in an islamic state.
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In the 90s, There was a majority of Israelis willing to give the Palestinians a state and recognition for peace and recognition. This was met with packed buses being blown away in major cities by palestinian extrimists during negotiations.
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6y ago
How do you call the short bets? Why is that not accumulating positions then used media to convince ppl to sell stocks making they're positions profitable.
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6y ago
Qualify of life is pretty high there, right? Are there many poor people? Do median people have access to good education and healthcare? They don't produce new billionaires via cutthroat competition, so? Please let me live in that sort
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Elected officials that can be fired by the company. Yeah, much freedom.
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Probably started that way, because it's a real problem. But then some enterprising DA understood the potential, and some BizDev ppl heard that lovely Kah Ching ringing in their ears. The rest is history.
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Israeli here. Their way of life is not threatened by a vaccine nor by lockdown. No more than any other citizen of israel. Their leadership still has ghetto mentality and sees the state as their enemy, so they always choose to go against it
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6y ago
There are many proponents of basic income, why choose a known racist? Probably not because you are racist. I'd wager it is because you are a troll out to illicit heated responses and get more attention. And I'm not sure it's
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So he shouldn't have written a highly publicized psuedo anonymous blog. He chose this avenue, as a rationalist he must have estimated the risk, and took it. NYT didnt doxx him, because he is the one who chose to publicized himself. Y
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6y ago
Perhaps it's meaningless, but fully within their purview.
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So why write a blog if this is a problem. If he is a psychiatrist and considers this an issue, he shouldn't have chosen to become a public persona. But, that is exactly what he chose to do. He himself says that his blog is only psuedo
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Of course, if he published by himself, and his name in publicly known, then yes, nyt has no obligation for source unannonimity. The fact that the anonymous source that published an editorial is a very different case. The anonymous source di
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6y ago
No one forced him to write about patients in a public blog nor write a public blog, he is a grown-up and he made that choice. He made efforts to be a public persona, but he can't grasp the fact that once he is a public persona, he cann
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