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by s73ver_ 9y ago
For one, the candidate pool is artificially limited. And, like I said, 3 schools does not the market make.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
You're the one using it, so it's yours to define.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Define "best".
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
If you want to one day start a startup, the huge paycheck you get from the big companies can definitely make that a lot easier.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I think it would be better for those candidates to make that decision themselves.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Who said anything about bias? Looking in places that you don't traditionally look isn't bias.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Well, for one, 3 schools do not the market make. For two, it means they're not making any effort to reach out to those in disadvantaged populations. It's a large problem that a lot of companies have.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Yeah, you kinda could. A lot of those things select for people with money.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
"On the other hand, I bet if you sat down and ran the numbers, recruiting from state schools isn't productive." I would not buy that for a second.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
It is when the "disagreement" is not only flat out wrong, but condescendingly so.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
But in this case, we're not talking about business. We're talking about the funding to pave our roads, run our schools, be able to fight fires, and all that other good stuff we need.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
"If you were to reduce the US corporate tax rate to 10%, a lot more profit would be booked in the US again." Which would do what, exactly, for most people? Precisely nothing. And they'd use loopholes to bring their tax burden
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Far too many mistake annoyances for challenge.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I don't think it's a lack of grit. I think a lot of it is a lack of motivation, or a lack of explanation of why they should continue.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Wow, that businessman is an awful person.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
The point is they're not going to win anyway.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I'm sorry, but we will never agree on this topic. Rape threats are not free speech, and saying I don't defend them does NOT mean that I am against free speech.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
"As the saying goes, "I don't agree with a word you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it."" The topic was racial slurs and rape threats. Are those things you want to defend, and is it honestly tro
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
But again, in the absolutism of free speech, you're ignoring things like violent threats and racial slurs. And when you do that, you end up with something like 4Chan. Most people don't go there, for good reason. And what consequen
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I don't believe you agree with most of it. But you're still willing to allow it, which isn't much better to me.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I don't believe either is ok. But remember, we're talking about Twitter, not the government.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
Again, no. I reject your absolutism. To say that someone is not a proponent of free speech because they don't believe those things are part of it is completely inane. We will never agree on this topic. In the example you give, I do not
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I do. The person I was responding to is saying that you have to defend those if you wish to be a proponent of free speech. I reject that absolutism in it's entirety.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I feel being shocked at how this person was treated is not just "armchair quarterbacking". Given the power and trust we place in police, I don't feel it's unreasonable to expect they treat people with respect.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I would be shocked if the unredacted video still exists.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
That would be a fair interpretation if that's all they did. However, we all know that law enforcement agents do lots of other things that the people involved would rather not be made public. A cop being a first responder to someone hav
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I mean, you can run your own instance, so I don't feel it's nearly that bad. And, if one instance becomes overrun with spammers, I think most would appreciate their instance's admin blocking the entire instance.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
No. To say that I'm not a proponent of free speech because I don't support those things is completely inane. And for you to equate civil rights struggles with sending women rape threats is quite mind boggling.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
So how would this work in practice? I'm s73ver_@foo. What happens if instance foo becomes unworkable, and I need to leave (it gets overrun by spam or something). I want to move to instance bar. But, there's already a s73ver_@bar.
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by s73ver_ 9y ago
I think it's because, if Twitter users can interact with Mastadon users, there's little incentive for them to leave Twitter. It's like when you could run Windows programs on OS/2. There was little incentive for developer

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