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by quibbler 6y ago
"terror attack"
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by quibbler 6y ago
There is no law that says you have to enter a contract that only gives you the minimum requirements of the law. (ianal, though). If you are unhappy with a contract, don't sign it.
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by quibbler 6y ago
How do you create such conditions if you are not the government? Who does the creating?
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by quibbler 6y ago
What does "embodied in the world as a living organism" even mean? Being embodied as a machine wouldn't be sufficient? Living organisms are "just" machines. I also don't see any reason why embodyment should be a
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by quibbler 6y ago
We know that machines with AGI are possible - humans are such machines. Maybe you could discuss whether classical computers could achieve AGI, but I think overall the quest is to build machines with AGI, not necessarily in the form of class
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by quibbler 7y ago
The poor peole (on welfare) are mor likely to be trouble - they are on welfare for a reason.. Rich people pay good money to be shielded from trouble. Do you have children? Did you get a cheap flat in the poor part of town? Many families pay
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by quibbler 7y ago
The funny thing is, by state funding cheaper living in expensive areas, you are just giving state subsidies to rich people. You subsidize services for rich people. Without that, they'd have to pay their service workers higher wages, so
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by quibbler 7y ago
What if the "poor people" become a nuisance? Such articles always frame things in a rosy light, as if the evil rich planners are the only reason people are divided. What if the poor people are alcoholics, drug dealers, petty thiev
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by quibbler 7y ago
So why are you arguing? What are you arguig about?
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by quibbler 7y ago
You can protest whatever you want. But it should also be possible to fire you. Protesting against something doesn't magically turn you into a superior person that is exempt from mundane things like being fired or being disliked.
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by quibbler 7y ago
Maybe that is why Slack has become so popular. Also, do people just ignore your input, or do they feel they alrrady understood what you are trying to say? When I interrupt people, it is usually because I think I alrrady know what they want
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by quibbler 7y ago
Because it doesn't make sense to protect anybody who mentions an incident of sexual harassment from being fired. Because then everybody would be protected from being fired, because everybody can tell a story of some incident they read
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by quibbler 7y ago
She didn't report those incidents. She merely organized a generic protest.
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by quibbler 7y ago
Protesting against x = claiming x is happening. It is a smear campaign. Didn't Google just discover that they actually paid men less than women? Oopsie.
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by quibbler 7y ago
Organizing the women's march is like reporting sexism? I don't think so.
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by quibbler 7y ago
Not so attractive once you need medical attention, which most people will at some point. Also, lots of hard work.
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by quibbler 7y ago
If it can be rehabilitated, is it really so bad? Some are also coverted to lakes, in the hopes of creating attractive leisure destinations.
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by quibbler 7y ago
Unclear from the article how to prevent those injuries? I thought modern sports already tries to cover all the bases, so people also do supplementary strength training, for example. Maybe the issue is not specialization, but too much sports
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by quibbler 7y ago
Maybe it works because it ofyen doesn't matter. In cases where Data Science is a replacement for astrology ("just tell me some reassuring mumbo jumbo to alleviate the burden of decision making), the inevitable bugs may be irreleva
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by quibbler 7y ago
"In fact, median wages for writers are dropping quite quickly, down 23% from 2014 to 2016, which is a similar amount as the fall in earnings for book literary authors after Amazon launched its vertically integrated kindle e-book reader
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by quibbler 7y ago
Apparently their jobs had become obsolete. Why exactly should their employment continue? Framing it as "delivering more money to shareholders" is so misguided. Their salaries would be paid by the public anyway, factored into the p