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by moosey 8y ago
While what you say specifically is true, using arrest rates to determine criminal activity by race (and the subsequent conviction rate, etc.) has been shown to have strong relationship to race; at least in the United States. There are enti
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> Is Trump’s America a dystopia? I would look at America over the last 40-50 years, instead of asking about Trump specifically. This is one question asked in the article, and I think that the author does a massive disservice here, while
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by moosey 8y ago
I live in the Inland Northwest, and I assure you what you mention is true. We have a forest, but generally the ground is brown and dry in summer, and the winters are long and hard. The Cascades are huge, and create an extensive rain shado
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> 57% of immigrant households (legal and illegal) use welfare. Fact: 57% of _homes with children_ where the head of household is an immigrant use welfare, where these are the welfare programs in consideration: "The welfare programs
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I grew up quite poor, and that makes this a near-and-dear issue.
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> They’re all well-funded, growing rapidly, and have competitive salaries for interns. Excellent. Unpaid internships should be illegal.
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I thank you for the opportunity to describe the changes necessary. People will test my statements: is it really that important to be vegan? How much does my travel impact climate change? With even a small amount of research, people will d
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by moosey 8y ago
I am a vegan. This is the first and most important sacrifice. I live in WA, eastern side. The fact that I live in a house is problematic, but we are keeping it cold inside. I must wear a jacket inside my house right now to be comfortable
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Well, "It's natural" can also mean that it's a state of things that we should accept. Or it could be a reference to a moral framework where virtues are applied to state. It could be arguing that what is happening in th
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I absolutely agree with you. My optimism is strained by what has already been lost, and the repercussions will be severe. We will have to start accepting some of the rules of nature, death, and population that the rest of the species of t
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by moosey 8y ago
I agree that we'll have to have an "Oh shit" moment and that moment will have to happen in the United States for things to happen. I don't deny there will be pain. I don't deny that time is short. I just think tha
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I'm going to disagree with "It's natural". We have created a business and government environment where it is likely to happen, but we can change that environment at any time, just as Reagan created the current business e
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I have gone through the existential angst that I read in your comment. The ugly depression, the hopelessness. I understand that outcome is a very real possibility. I also believe that humanity will defeat climate change, and before we lo
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by moosey 8y ago
I think that what MIT considers innovative and what Harvard Business schools thinks is innovative are different, and the models for getting there are going to be different from each school of thought. The HBR article touches on some things
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Normally a country that is the size of CA, and having the same economy, would have a broader tax base because it wouldn't be losing money to another government, in this case, the federal government of the United States. Of course, ther
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by moosey 8y ago
And that's going to require a cultural change - a cultural change that will be far easier without tons of people supporting the current state of the agricultural industries. Society-wide political action is definitely what is needed, a
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If you are looking for a moral/ethical imperative to stop eating animals, then the IPCC report covers enough of the carbon and ecological costs of animal agriculture that it is something that you should quit. If you are looking for an
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by moosey 8y ago
Growth without limits pushes up against Climate Change and physics. We have believed over all these years that we could make more efficient use of the land of our planet than nature could, and we're going to learn that wasn't real
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> Would it be fair for engineers in Apple to get 400k, while the same engineer in, say, Microsoft would only get half as much? While engineers are important, they are not the key to huge Apple's success. They are an essential compon
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Apple makes 400k per employee in profit, as an example. I imagine you will see similar numbers for Amazon, when you look at their reinvestment numbers. Sounds good, but still when someone uses your production to expand their business, it&#
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This is to suggest that the answer is local, and can be solved in the household. My argument is that our entire economy needs to reward this behavior, because the entire economy benefits from it. Localizing the solution prevents those who g
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by moosey 8y ago
The contrarian argumentation that I see on HN is always something to behold (I view it as a positive!). An article comes out yesterday about programmers being a problem: comment section points in another direction. An article comes out toda
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by moosey 8y ago
You made the suggestion that as programming work became a higher paying field that men suddenly looked for jobs there, due to "evolutionary psychology", without a lick of proof that it wasn't the other way around. Perhaps pro
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> She and her colleagues found that in the 1970s, women accounted for 59 percent of acknowledged programmers, but just 7 percent of actual authors. That decade was a pivotal time for the field of population genetics, when the foundations
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> Remember those 'X causes cancer' articles, should we phase out everything implicated, as a precaution? This is a problem with how the media reports science, not science itself. It's why so many people believe that scien
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> they cause a lot of pain and suffering Nothing compared to the US prison system, which is where we send people. It is entirely moralizing. Our prison system is the way that it is because of a specific morality in the US, just as so m
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> many drugs are illegal not because of the harm they cause to the user but because of the harm the user causes to others, and it's not feasible to make a "safer" dose because the nature of these drugs encourages addicts t
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There is vast scientific evidence showing that using sunscreen reduces cancer risk. There was a study that showed it could cause increases, but when analyzed further ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1
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And soon we'll be top dogs on a smoldering rock. We're doing really well.
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I do understand that women have a different experience than men in tech, and everywhere for that matter, regardless of age. I'm sorry for this, I didn't create the situation, but I live in it. I want to be part of that solution.

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