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by nvm0n2 3y ago
It's not illegal in the UK. Go read the Equality Act again. You're allowed to engage in racist and sexist discrimination if you're doing it to achieve affirmative action. That's why executives can say they discriminate a
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
It's not a US thing. If you think it is, you're just not being told about it by the news sources you read. Just a few days ago the head of a large UK insurance company stated directly to Parliament that she insisted on personall
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
That never happens. Once you accept the belief that you need fewer "white" men, discrimination and bar lowering always follows. Recruiters are given monetary incentives to discriminate and they find many ways to do it what claimin
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Reality can be uncomfortable but that's no excuse for what happened.
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The other reason they hate anonymous packets is that whenever that's been implemented by them thinking the result would be more women, the result is a swing towards hiring white men. Because it turned out they were already engaging i
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
It wasn't "one tree" was it, it was years and years of interlocking stories and scams, all of which were fake. The whole claim that Russia was promoting Trump was a part of that lie, but you don't seem able to let go of
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> Russiagate? It's one of millions of scandals where Russian influence is there for all to see Ah I see, you never became aware of how that story ended. Russiagate ended with the discovery that it had all been a lie, that there wa
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
That would only be the case if the EU imposed financial sanctions on the USA (forbidden transactions with US banks), which the US would retaliate against. Additionally, even if enforced, it just means European visitors would see ads for Ame
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Incredible totalitarian cope. The person who most presciently and effectively warned about the possibility of this situation was Donald Trump, a man who was democratically elected against the united wishes of the American and European estab
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
This is an organization that is overrun with secrecy. Making EU law is done in secret: https://euobserver.com/eu-political/136630 The process of selecting the current leader was done in secret. Even the single-option E
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
The tech companies are much more accountable than the EU. You can just not use Twitter. Nothing bad will happen to you. Good luck trying to just "not use" the EU if you happen to live there. That's much easier said than done.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
The president of the Commission can reject candidates as often as they want (not in theory, but in practice they do), so the member state's power to appoint someone is largely meaningless. The EU gets the kind of person it wants, every
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
It is tiresome how people promote this propaganda. > Ursula Von Der Leyen was appointed by the EU national leaders and elected by the EU parliament She was "elected" by the EP in a vote in which she was the only allowed candi
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> If you want to operate in the EU, you have to adhere to European laws and values. The EU institutions don't represent European values. The Commission doesn't run elections to find out what they are, can't even define w
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> Now, the above is factual, not an imaginary scenario It's an imaginary scenario. You know that the whole Russiagate multi-year farce turned out to be nothing but lies from our own governments, right? It's been proven many t
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Unfortunately one of the things that makes this sort of debate hard is that climatologists lie pathologically, and do so as a group over long periods of time. The moment you start citing information or arguments from them (eg. from Wikipedi
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
How is monetization the problem? The biggest issues with non replicable science are all in academia which is grant funded. Corporate labs don't seem to have unusually big issues with non replicable research. Obviously, add if they coul
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Reads like a journo hit piece honestly. A classic of the "journalists reporting on tweets so they can pretend their personal opinion is news" genre. One of the supposed "flubs" is a refusal to wade into US culture wars
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
So, 1. The word crisis implies some sort of immediate existential threat. Even the extremely biased people at the IPCC have to admit that their actual worst case scenario predictions are things like GDP being a bit lower than it otherwise w
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Arguably the dominant APIs in the server space are the cloud APIs not POSIX.
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The guy who wrote the post is an AI doomer who believes that the moment AI becomes "general" it will recursively improve itself into being a god and then immediately kill everyone, and that will happen so fast that there won'
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
That's not because companies and political parties are mindless paperclip maximizers. It's because there isn't actually a climate crisis and almost everyone knows it, but a quasi-religious sect of true believers goes mental a
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> Developing superhuman AI is a game you can only play once But that's not right. Stockfish is superhumanly intelligent at playing chess but it is not the result of a single match between its creator and itself. Humans played ches
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How is that a unique threat vs steroids?
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> don’t the Gazans at least have some form of sovereignty over their land? They just got ground invaded by an army they can't fight, so, no.
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I read that the pipes they dug up were sent as EU aid, which if true would mean they didn't (all) come from old settlements. > Be more at peace We have fundamentally different interpretations of what happened in October, and the d
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> so of course during such a ceasefire Hamas would have to stop the rocket attacks as well. But it is an absurd request, like calling for a ceasefire between Britain and Germany at the height of World War 2. Like "legitimacy"
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The IRA was a terrorist group, not the official government of Ireland. During WW2 the Allies did in fact blockade Germany. The blockade is legitimate and justified. The Palestinians do things like take water pipes sent as aid - which were a
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> Israel's explicit, public goal is the annihilation of Palestine No it is not. Israel got its own people out of the Gaza strip years ago and hasn't let them back in since. Israel supplies Gaza with water and electricity bec
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
It's a ground invasion in which they tell civilians to evacuate beforehand. How much slower and more precise do you want them to get, given that Hamas is maybe 10% of the population (so their supporter base is clearly much larger) and

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