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by rjf72 8y ago
Your comment is ambiguous here, but this ban is giving marijuana special treatment. It's completely legal to test your employees for e.g. alcohol use and refuse to hire them if they do use it. By taking away the ability to even test
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The current unemployment rate is < 4%. We're nearing never before seen lows. And that record was set in 1950, when the total labor force (as a percent of the population) was much smaller since women generally did not need to work. Y
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What do you base your first sentence on? Unsurprisingly there is now research indicating that female candidates are now twice as likely to be chosen as equally qualified men for tenure track positions in university science departments. [1]
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People do the analog of this all the time in cases where they believe an individual is receiving disproportionate accolade for a team effort. It's extremely common in entrepreneurial situations. As a typical example, take Elon Musk. Wh
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It's not just that they're pushovers, it's a completely one-sided affair. They only hear from the prosecution (the defendant is not present, let alone granted legal representation) and the prosecution is allowed extensive lee
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Something to keep in mind is that the government is not a whole. It's lost of disparate entities all working towards their own interests. This [1] is their AG and his own personal ideological perspective is what you'd expect for t
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Most of all major US based tech corporations today are part of various secretive government programs including PRISM [1]. Internal NSA slides, never meant to be publicly revealed, state that PRISM facilitates "extensive, in-depth surv
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And I'd also add that it's hardly even a well conceived process. Most people ideologically align themselves one way or the other and then vote that way, regardless of anything else. For instance Chicago has been exclusively under
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And, so what percent of the contemporary news media would you suggest is "fact based" and what percent would you suggest is "opinion based"? Keep in mind that opinion based does not simply mean the article begins under t
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When suggesting trying to solve the problem, I'd first consider what caused the problem. It obviously was not always this way. The stories of people in the 50s and 60s working their way through college with a part time job and then gra
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It's probably reasonable to consider regulatory capture the same thing, in practice. For instance this [1] was who the former president appointed to a newly created post, which he himself (the president) referred to as 'The Czar o
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In theory I'd agree with you. In practice so many people hold so many beliefs directly contradicted by completely unambiguous evidence that "it fits" is already a substantial step ahead of many individual's views. But mo
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Whether right or wrong, when I see "platform" the primary thing I think of is Android. Whereas "application" is more well defined. Personally of course I am aware that Google is engaged in extremely aggressive tracking a
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Because of insurance. It often leads the peculiar case that a healthcare provider might have no real clue about how much a person will ultimately end up being required to pay for some procedure they're undergoing. It has no clear conne
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It's really hard to imagine the scale at which we currently produce oil. In total we produce an average of 80.6 million barrels per day. This doesn't sound like a lot at first but consider that there are 159 liters of oil in a s
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by rjf72 8y ago
Just checked out millionshort and wiby. And those are absolutely awesome resources (click on remove top e.g. million in millionshort)! In my opinion there has to be widespread fatigue of Google just somehow managing to return a large chunk
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by rjf72 8y ago
A more optimistic view is that if nations hit on the centralized bodies hard enough, it may end inadvertently end up driving the creation and adoption of truly decentralized internet options. Consider how crack downs on things such as Kazaa
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Another important factor is that it's not just a matter of funding but a matter of motivation . So for instance imagine we just do away with market economics and decide 'Okay, from now on the government will distribute $x billio
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I think this is an overly glorified twist on a very simple and very possible "great filter" : pleasure. Sustenance of a species requires a major sex/procreative drive. If we stop having at least two children per couple, on av
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Another contemporary example was the CIA staging a "vaccination campaign" in Pakistan. They were pushing vaccinations, and then harvesting the DNA to try to track individuals related to Bin Laden. [1] - https://en.wikip
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At what point of poverty would you start attacking people you know to be innocent, to sustain yourself? For many people, as the number of homeless testify to, that point does not exist. It's obvious that a multi millionaire would not b
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by rjf72 8y ago
This is a bit of a misunderstanding of the problem. Imagine you took a car and you drove in a straight line in any direction in the US where you'd loop back at the end. And now imagine somebody else did the same thing. How likely would
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by rjf72 8y ago
You indirectly mentioned it in passing (through the corollary), but it's a very real issue: hospitals simply would not report anything. This would even encourage hospitals to do things such as ensuring that things such as this are not
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Yes you are talking about rights. You just said said literally, "there's no allowed way [for employees to organize]". This is obviously wrong. So now you're backpedaling and changing your story to it's technically
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Isn't the flat earth phenomena interesting? It's clear that almost nobody believes this, probably including many of those who claim they do. Nonetheless there seems to be relatively large numbers of people who at least claim to do
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This is inaccurate in a very ironic way. Not only are individuals specifically guaranteed the right to organize and discuss conditions/etc of work via company email [1], but this is a right that Google has been actively lobbying to res
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I think the answer becomes clear if you just ask yourself a simple question: was Google aware that having an ideologically diverse panel would spark some sort of protest among at least a healthy handful of their employees? I find it extreme
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One issue with this view is that such petitions tend to be spread with near perfect coverage. So only 2,000 people out of 98,000 signing does generally mean that the other 96,000 are more likely to be opposed/neutral to the 2000. And t
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by rjf72 8y ago
I fully respect the honest reply. That is surprising and refreshing. This is the point that most people begin to engage in mental gymnastics. The one thing I'd clarify is that I'm not critiquing what your opinion is. Everybody i
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A major issue with this argument is that consensus does not mean right. Take the scientific consensus at one point in time and Earth is the center of the universe, take it at another time and leaded fuel is perfectly safe, at another time a

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