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by rbecker 6y ago
There's a big difference between a fine and a debt. The purpose of each is different, and fines can be set proportional to the persons wealth.
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But it does sound like "backlash" is a more accurate description than mere "criticism" in this case.
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> Wonder why the article is so light on details in that area. Probably the same reason they didn't cover his case at all the first time he was arrested, or any similar cases for that matter.
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> Cisco's HR lawyers decided Caste discrimination was legal A risky decision, since it's effectively ethnic discrimination: These groups remained genetically distinct, and the linguistic history of India suggests they spoke la
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by rbecker 6y ago
Could this serve as precedent regarding studios owning streaming platforms?
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> This was based on a few publicly cited examples of Twitter's photo framing using images of both light-skinned and dark-skinned people that skewed toward the light-skinned person. [..] And Zehan Wang, engineering lead at Twitter Fo
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by rbecker 6y ago
> I want the Rust community to have a shared set of values, a shared set of tradeoffs between them, and as much bent curves as possible. I'm sure finding a shared set of values between Rust programmers from places as diverse as the
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by rbecker 6y ago
Original paywalled article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/robert-borks-proud-legacy-and-t...
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Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork’s Proud Legacy and the Senate’s Shameful One(web.archive.org)
1 points by rbecker 6y ago|1 comments
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> In the film, Tunisian farmers describe how local seed varieties were superseded by inferior imported varieties, contributing to a landscape of agricultural neocolonialism and an assault on food sovereignty. Amazing how many ill effects
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by rbecker 6y ago
> to be valuable And selling lists of vegans to slaughterhouses is one way to extract that value. Similar for all the other abuses I listed. I assumed it was obvious.
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Until a company starts using this same data to screen prospective employees for unionization risk, or uses purchasing history to identify and filter vegans from slaughterhouse jobs, so there's less risk of those animal cruelty videos g
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by rbecker 6y ago
Because that is the experience people have shared online: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8e5m73/twitter_is_... https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?
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by rbecker 6y ago
> And the fall-behind strategy continues. Immigration restrictions from an administration hell-bent on destroying the single greatest source of American innovation China has far harsher immigration restrictions, and they're not fall
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by rbecker 6y ago
> an anonymous Twitter account Anonymity is also under attack on most major platforms. Twitter and Facebook now both require phone numbers I believe.
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by rbecker 6y ago
Must be unpleasant, having a foreign multinational corporation abuse its power to establish itself as the middle-man in most transactions, so it can siphon money and data out of the country.
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by rbecker 6y ago
> If you think your views offend a lot of people, doesn't that mean you should maybe examine why you have those views Why do you assume they haven't examined those views, and decided to keep them? Especially since it's pop
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'There will be blood': Xenophobia in S Africa routine and lethal(aljazeera.com)
2 points by rbecker 6y ago|0 comments
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All right, then lets doubt it. Lets try to massively cut emissions until we're sure they won't have catastrophic climate effects. If you're not sure whether you'll have a car accident or not, you still take precautions
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by rbecker 6y ago
> If we trained as much for black faces as white faces Doesn't Zoom have a large part of their employee base in China, and their US CEO is a Chinese immigrant? So perhaps you should replace "white" with "Asian"?
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> At every turn, Trump seems to have been outplayed and outsmarted throughout the global trade war that began shortly after he took office. It began long before that. Surely Bloomberg isn't ignorant of all the measures China took to
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by rbecker 6y ago
Your US experience differs from my non-US one, at least regarding how courses are named. Even when they focused on, or dealt exclusively with, our corner of the world, they were called just "History" or "Geography". Thou
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You don't think this implies deeply rooted, systemic discrimination against opposite-sex marriage? Edit: Corrected same-sex to opposite-sex, which is what I meant to write.
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> That is, what's called "music theory" should be called something like "Western Classical Music theory" (as one commentor says it done in South Africa). In Italy, Italian restaurants are just called "restau
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by rbecker 6y ago
When did focusing on one's own culture become "white supremacy"? How often is this standard, this demand for cosmopolitanism, applied to other cultures?
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by rbecker 6y ago
Only one side is allowed to use anecdotal evidence.
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The New York Times also has an article [1], but interestingly, they used "Princeton Admitted Past Racism" in the title. Only in the 6th paragraph do they correct the misleading impression of the title and mention that he was ref
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Princeton under investigation after president deems racism 'embedded' in school(washingtonexaminer.com)
4 points by rbecker 6y ago|3 comments
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Want to explain, for those of us not keeping track?
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There's nothing ad hoc about it - PCA is an extremely fundamental statistical tool, and commonly used in genetics, especially to evaluate population structure. A few random examples: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc&#x2

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