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by rosser 8y ago
> the older equality feminism even if its just a minority today. [citation needed]
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by rosser 8y ago
Then you (the general "you") need to take that concern up with people who profess those positions, and not throw it in the face of everyone who professes feminism of any kind. I'm a "women are people too" feminist.
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> There are minorities in positions of power, and they can use that to take racist actions. Which means the definition holds. Give someone power, they can be racist, and not merely prejudiced. It doesn't matter how much power obj
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by rosser 8y ago
That's a fair argument. Unfortunately, I wasn't appointed Plenipotentiary in Charge of How Controversial Terms Are Used in Academic Discourse, so my powers here are limited to explaining the position, as I understand it.
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> ...but it does always warrant further inspection. That's what I mean by suspicion: scrutiny, not dismissal. What, e.g., are the narratives in play, that enable someone to speak that casually, yet confidently, about a thing they&
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by rosser 8y ago
Because if you repudiate that definition, you can cry "Reverse racism!" with a straight face.
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by rosser 8y ago
Any position premised on "feminists" — or any other group — being a monolithic entity one can hand-wave about as suits one's narratives should be immediately, and extremely, suspect.
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No-one (who knows what they're talking about) says prejudice against the dominant group(s) isn't a thing. Anyone who does say that is, I submit, either confused, or trying to confuse. The position, whether you agree with it or n
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by rosser 8y ago
The presence of a cycle and its periodicity or predictability are not remotely the same thing.
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Then in deploying those countermeasures, they should know they're creating (sometimes significant) friction in the experience those legitimate users, who have legitimate reasons for using those tools, have of their site. Well-intention
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by rosser 8y ago
Of course it's true that most forms of media and entertainment have been subject to, "Won't someone THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!" responses from busy-bodies, fear-mongers, and others. That in no way mitigates the fact that th
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by rosser 8y ago
> Most tradie jobs require a car. It's very hard to be an electrician, plumber, chippie etc. that services homes as if you don't have a car. Then how do people do those jobs in countries that do meaningfully select for good
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> ... in the hope that you will find some triviality that is easier to attack than my core premise. That "core premise" is the very thing I want to see articulated here. What you've offered is your conclusion : that sin
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But, per that same study, "society" would net — inclusive, among other things, of pension funds not disbursed — lose ~€70k per individual, while saving less than €5k on medical expenses. Is that really a good bargain?
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by rosser 8y ago
Really? I asked in good faith for you to better articulate your position, not to be condescendingly told to read it again. Your post consists of a paragraph about externalities, some lovely-sounding "I believe that..." positions,
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by rosser 8y ago
I'm not following how sin taxes entail a bifurcated society. Can you elaborate on that?
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Early in my career, I worked at a shop that serviced credit cards for bottom of the barrel subprime customers. They got slapped by OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) for offering a card with a $300 limit, that upon issuance, al
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by rosser 8y ago
I wasn't talking about Minecraft, necessarily. But consider, for example, Zynga, or any of the makers of pay-to-play games that are designed with a thorough understanding of addiction psychology in mind. You didn't design the mech
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"Natural Gas" is primarily methane. In terms of Greenhouse effects, we would do vastly better to "burn off" any leaks than let them leak.
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So because the employer hires specialists in weaponizing people's brains against them (via manipulating addiction psychology, &c ), the programmer is somehow off the hook for implementing things that he now knows to be designed
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by rosser 8y ago
The idea that how we organize ourselves socially online might lead to echo chambers and deepening division was around long before the phrase "social media" had ever been used. That this phenomenon came about through the heretofore
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by rosser 8y ago
The first sentence in The Fine Article mentions Colombia, whose Peso uses "$" as its symbol, and currently has an exchange rate of ~2900:1 USD.
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Both that story and this one can be true. It can recommend unconsidered, more effective treatments just as readily as it can recommend unconsidered, dangerous ones — particularly if the system was as extensively trained using MSK's phy
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by rosser 8y ago
The case of the American cliff swallows, described in The Fine Article, offers an excellent response to the anti-evolutionist, "We've never observed it happening" position. That's it happening over decades .
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For maximum flexibility, and hopefully also some productivity gains, I'd implement a four-day work week by giving the employee ongoing discretion to use Monday, Wednesday, or Friday as their third "weekend" day, and encourage
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A few years ago, I interviewed with a company that did both: unlimited PTO with an enforced minimum.
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Than what, an entry in some table in the kernel that you can use to read bytes from the thing it represents and/or write bytes to it? That's what a "file" is in *nix. The on-disk notion of a file sits atop layers of that
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The point isn't that everything is a file; it's that you can treat everything like a file. Of course the abstraction maps varying degrees of well, but it also simplifies the hell out of the lion's share of the ways we int
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If you think for one second that not antagonizing the Saudi government by officially calling out their involvement in things inimical to US interests is a consequence of partisanship , you're paying a very selective kind of attentio
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Another (non-paywalled) article [0] on this says they're only denying/not renewing passports for people with at least $51,000 in tax debt. As such, this isn't exactly "picking on the little guy", and should probably

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