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by rbecker 6y ago
So VISA's actions don't violate the 1st amendment. That doesn't answer if they violate anti-trust laws, nor does it answer the more important questions of is this behavior, even if legal, also moral, and should we be worried
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by rbecker 6y ago
Not a monopoly, but they have enormous market power, which used to be sufficient to get into anti-trust trouble.
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by rbecker 6y ago
I, for one, welcome our payment processing overlords. I mean, they agree with me in this specific case, so what could go wrong!
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by rbecker 6y ago
The graphs at https://econographics.wordpress.com/tag/wages/ paint a less rosy picture. [1] is I think what is sometimes cited. Which does show growth, but slower than productivity growth. A quick glance at the gr
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by rbecker 6y ago
You only need a few examples to make the rest fall in line.
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by rbecker 6y ago
> We accept the status quo of countless racist tragedies occurring day after day. Do we? Because a company firing workers, even their own family, to avoid being seen as racist doesn't exactly scream "acceptance" to me.
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Thus Asians are definitely underrepresented in leadership vs employee population Only slightly - the graph in the article shows Asians are ~87% represented in leadership roles, compared to their (over-represented) numbers in tech. Mean
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by rbecker 6y ago
There are places where racial statistics are outlawed?
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by rbecker 6y ago
Correction: Asians are over-represented by 383%, not the 483% I first claimed. Their numbers are 483% of what you'd expect if representation was proportional, and I forgot to subtract 100% from that.
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by rbecker 6y ago
It's naive to expect all strata of society to change with immigration without any lag. The US was 83% white as recently as 1980, which could be the population that has had time to climb up to leadership roles - something that can easil
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by rbecker 6y ago
So when I see someone on TV holding an "abolish the police" banner, which context clues should I use to figure out what they really mean? The slogan makes many people think you're advocating an unreasonable idea that you&#x
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by rbecker 6y ago
But "abolish the police" isn't jibberish, and is what some people actually, literally, mean. So how can I tell?
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by rbecker 6y ago
Accepting such a giant restriction ('not allowed' implies no override) would mean you are at the mercy of whoever controls the self-driving cars. They can kidnap you any time you enter a car, or prevent you from using your car to
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by rbecker 6y ago
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
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by rbecker 6y ago
Low bar for Northwestern Europeans - almost no-one else was allowed in until the Hart-Celler Act of 1965. The article is again misleading in implying the pre-Hart-Celler Act restrictions were only enacted with the Emergency Quota Act of 192
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by rbecker 6y ago
I don't understand what the distinction between free speech and the 1st amendment has to do with your point (which I don't think you've explicitly stated, so I'm left guessing). Both state and non-state suppression of ga
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by rbecker 6y ago
You would prefer that, after being beaten up, they were also arrested and convicted of spreading "gay propaganda"? You are intentionally conflating homophobic violence with 1st amendment protections, to make it seem like they didn
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by rbecker 6y ago
According to [1], with [2] giving similar numbers, about half the news titles about police killings should be "Police kill white man", but it seems the versions with black or latino far outnumber them. In fact, I can't recall
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by rbecker 6y ago
Just in case someone finds the examples in the article all acceptable censorship, here's a few more off the top of my head: Evergreen professor forced to resign for opposing day of white absence: https://blog.usejournal.com&
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by rbecker 6y ago
And yet it's still a step in the right direction, and hopefully the start of a trend of limiting just how much companies are allowed to keep secret.
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by rbecker 6y ago
> It’s a contradiction to say the network effect protects Facebook but at the same time say they had to buy Instagram because they were successfully competing despite the network effect. It's not a contradiction if you allow that pr
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by rbecker 6y ago
If this graph [1] is remotely accurate, shouldn't we be seeing "Police kill white man" headlines about twice as often as "Police kill black man"? [1] https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/wp-content&#x2
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WSJ: Chinese with government ties funneled 100s of thousands to Trump campaign(rawstory.com)
4 points by rbecker 6y ago|0 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
It's 'harmless', until the same ways of thinking lead to believing homeopathy and rejecting modern medicine.
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by rbecker 6y ago
> How does such a small number spark this level of fear and protest? Because it's on the news, while the 51 unarmed whites killed by police in 2019 [1] aren't. [1] https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/nationaltrend
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Jewish groups decry Black Lives Matter platform’s view on Israel (2016)(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by rbecker 6y ago|1 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
Loyalty cards aren't required to sell coffee. Nor do they have to be tied to a person. We shouldn't go along with the framing that loyalty programs and retaining all this information about customers is required to run a business.
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by rbecker 6y ago
What part of selling coffee requires keeping records of your customers?
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by rbecker 6y ago
I believe so. But one can use "By continuing this call, you consent that it may be recorded" just in case.
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Pushing for an answer on how one of my apps can have a watch keyboard, but the other cannot, they could only "discuss via phone". What would Apple's response be if you started with "This call may be recorded"?

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