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by nabnob 8y ago
Because without putting a name to it, you don't have the same level of organization. If you have a group of workers who organize collectively but don't have a real organization with a leadership structure, how do you vote and dec
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What? It's completely possible to be smart and still be able to relate and connect to other people. Your intelligence isn't what's isolating you, it's your mindset. I used to think this way when I was younger and it&#x
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I get into debates about this topic all the time. There are definitely people on the left who claim that sex isn't binary, and that the existence of intersex people somehow disproves the idea of male/female sexes.
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Agreed! In that course, they also mention how important recall is for learning - so anything where you quiz yourself, or explain concepts to another person, etc. When I'm learning a new subject, I try to make my study time as active a
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Full legalization increases trafficking and allows brothels, which are basically pimps who are able to operate legally. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/45198/1/Neumayer_Legalized_Prostitu... The Nordic Model - decrimina
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I don't think you can really compare the implicit "tracking" that occurs with face-to-face interaction with tracking through technology - there's a huge difference in scale. It would be like saying there's no diffe
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Or doesn't have health insurance.
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It's interesting to see a marxist/materialist analysis of labor and technology in a mainstream academic paper. Technology and automation increase the total productivity in an economy, but only people who own these technologies ben
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Why should a billion dollar corporation get to decide which opinions are acceptable and which views don't get a platform? I'm as far to the left as you can get. I used to support stricter moderation on social media platforms, but
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That...makes perfect sense actually. Would you happen to have any more information on this topic?
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Agreed. Consumerism is part of the problem. People don't want to think about the fact that we might have to accept a different standard of living in order to fight climate change.
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Does this have implications for other areas of biology outside of virology? These seems like it radically changes our understanding of how genes work.
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Activists successfully shut down the Child Youth and Family Gender Identity Clinic (GIC), in Toronto run by Dr. Kenneth Zucker, formerly one of the leading researchers on trans health, who led the team that wrote the DSM-5 criteria for gend
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I agree with you, what I was trying to say is that I've had an internal dilemma about pursuing my career or making it a priority to tackle those systemic issues. I know that my individual contribution to capitalism by working for a maj
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This is also happening with research on detransition - >Bath Spa University is conducting an internal inquiry into claims that it turned down an application for research on gender reassignment reversal because it was “potentially politic
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I agree with you, but I didn't particularly feel like getting into a debate over this topic at work :)
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I've been having the same existential crisis for a couple years now. I started working at a FAANG company right out of college, then after a bunch of personal health problems ended up taking a leave of absence that I didn't retur
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Wouldn't that introduce the possibility that a study gets the desired results just due to randomness? If you roll a die enough times, eventually you'll get a 6.
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Couldn't you just view your profile while logged out? Or using a browser in incognito mode?
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I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
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That's exactly what their plan is: >Fano sees WeWork buildings as one giant sensor for data collection, and he wants to map them down to the object. Understanding the space means understanding how to make it more efficient and bette
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by nabnob 8y ago
This is incredibly worrying. I understand that anti-vax conspiracy theories are dangerous, but I can think of a ton of ways banning "bad medical advice", as determined by a $10/hr contractor at Pinterest, Facebook, etc. coul
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by nabnob 8y ago
I find myself somewhere in between the two viewpoints - I think there are a lot of factors that lead women in the United States to pursue careers outside of STEM, and factors that cause women in STEM to leave their tech careers later in lif
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Just out of curiosity, do you follow any engineering blogs right now? What percentage of those blogs were written by a male engineer (since you're interested in their viewpoint)?
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Wow, this is the first time I've heard of side channel analysis and I'm super impressed by the creativity involved in these attacks. Based on reading a couple wikipedia articles, is it correct to say that most of these attacks req
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It's more noticeable for niche topics, which google tends to struggle with in general. I remember trying to google something about Sufism and its relationship to mysticism and the occult...and google brought up a bunch of results from
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I have the same problem. It's definitely the worst effect of information overload - being alone with my own thoughts is anxiety inducing. I've also noticed that on the days I spend too much time scrolling through Reddit and skimm
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>Searching for and writing about topics online deemed inappropriate are known to authorities within a second thanks to cooperating companies. This is already happening. I used to mock conservatives and free-speech advocates who claimed
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This is the type of reasoning that startups use to justify making employees work 60+ hour weeks for a tiny amount of equity and below-market pay. Most startups will not become billion dollar companies.
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I agree with some of the points being made in this article, but there's definitely better resources on this topic. The paper mentioned in the article, "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox", is very thorough and easy to read even

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