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by pulisse 8y ago
> Trying to figure out how a cake baker with 1 store front is NOT allowed to discriminate, but multi billion dollar multinational companies are allowed to... ? In the US legal context, what determines the permissibility of discrimination
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by pulisse 8y ago
I agree that the behavior is unethical, as I described at greater length here [1]. I'm just trying to bring some analytical clarity about what the fault was. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17697128
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by pulisse 8y ago
> I always assume that journalists can, and should, have freedom to write what they want as long as it’s true and accurate. If I say to a journalist something is “off-limits” I assume it means I’ll end the interview and not engage with t
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by pulisse 8y ago
> It still seems like she said, I don't want to discuss X, Vice said, let's discuss X anyway. Even though that happened prior to publishing the piece, the meta-discussion of X shouldn't have made it into the final piece. I
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by pulisse 8y ago
This opinion piece is a response to a right-wing campaign to get Jeong fired from the NYT.
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Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines(graphics.wsj.com)
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A surprising campus free speech problem: left-wingers fired for their opinions(vox.com)
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How Tech Billionaires Hack Their Taxes with a Philanthropic Loophole(nytimes.com)
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The common thread in California's wildfires: heat like the state has never seen(latimes.com)
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Here's How America Uses Its Land(bloomberg.com)
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YouTube search results for A-list celebrities hijacked by conspiracy theorists(nbcnews.com)
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by pulisse 8y ago
Conditional assertion (that is, deducibility of B under the hypothesis A) is distinct from assertion of a conditional (deducibility of the statement that A implies B). This is a fundamental distinction in formal logic. See [1]. [1] https
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by pulisse 8y ago
That was, indeed, my point.
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by pulisse 8y ago
It's not a model. It's a correlational study. > Most of Chen and Tung's evidence for this comes from laying Atlantic circulation data next to global temperature data and noting that it looks like temperatures rose more qu
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by pulisse 8y ago
> In response to his Recode interview, Mark says "I believe that often the best way to fight offensive bad speech is with good speech." There's no way to fight speech with more speech when the audience your speech reaches
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Googlers threatened after fired engineer Damore identifies them in court filings(eastbaytimes.com)
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by pulisse 8y ago
> Seems like there's money and possibly NDAs involved, in that scenario. You think there's such a thing as an NDA enjoining silence about a criminal conspiracy?
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by pulisse 8y ago
Traces of the isotopes in question are detectable in the pigments used in recently produced art. Surface contamination isn't what's being tested.
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Publishing Executives Argue Facebook Is Overly Deferential to Conservatives(wsj.com)
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No intrinsic gender differences in children’s earliest numerical abilities(nature.com)
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Are students really more hostile to free speech?(yougov.co.uk)
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The Gates Effective Teaching Initiative Fails to Improve Student Outcomes(educationnext.org)
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Computing the minimal crew for multi-generational space travel(arxiv.org)
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GOP Senators Accuse National Science Foundation of Funding Climate ‘Propaganda’(huffingtonpost.com)
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6 Reasons Housing Is About to Become Even More Unaffordable(huffingtonpost.com)
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Americans grapple with recognizing facts in news stories: Pew survey(reuters.com)
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Most Americans’ Wages Have Actually Declined Over the Past Year(nymag.com)
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by pulisse 8y ago
> In theory, simply look at Lasik. Lasik 5 years ago, used to be 5k an eye. Now I can get it from a Pandora commercial for just $200.00. Thats capitalism. It drove prices down. I expect the same thing to happen with this. Competition wil
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by pulisse 8y ago
I think you're misreading Kant. He's not saying that it's impossible for a particular truth to be immutable; he's saying that every generation must make its own judgment about the truths that are handed down to it (whic
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by pulisse 8y ago
Nope. "Enlightenment" in German is "Aufklärung", which is not cognate with the German for light ("Licht").

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