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by scarab92 2y ago
Most big picture thinkers are like this. They see problems that exist and want to fix them, regardless of whether they are occurring in their own backyard or more broadly. His companies also employ tens of thousands of people in Europe. 11.
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Zero regulations is a sensible baseline. You then add any regulations with a clear demonstrated need. Otherwise, you're saying the baseline should be to keep regulations even if they aren't needed.
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Sales of EVs have fallen much further than sales of all vehicles in general. Electricity prices.
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They support legal migration, but not illegal migration. There's nothing extremist about that. It's a mainstream right wing policy, and one that is also popular with the general public.
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> He wasn't criticizing illegal immigration, but immigration full stop For someone criticising Musk for dishonesty, you may want to look in the mirror. Musk is supportive of legal migration, and wants countries to increase the legal
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> certified fascists in Germany. Their policies are mainstream right wing policies, like favouring legal migration over illegal migration. If you care about intellectual honesty, understand that the "fascism" label applied to A
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> Universal healthcare, social welfare, consumer protection, environmental regulations. This is a strawman. Musk isn't attacking these things. What he is attacking is excessive regulations imposed on new technology, often pre-emptiv
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He's been attacking European regulators, but not Europeans per se. He has business related objections to the Digital Services Act, and broader ideological objections about Europe's culture of regulation over innovation and blames
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You're right about Reddit. It has become hysterical since the election. If you want an example of what left-wing conspiracy theories look like, just spend some time in the default subreddits. That said, I doubt Musk's politics hav
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There's also been a significant increase in competition. BYD are competing agressively across the continent, backed by Chinese subsidies, and European automakers are increasing their EV offings. For example, Volvo went from having 1 EV
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"I would never sell a swastika tee because people could be physically harmed wearing it ... I love my fans and supporters," Kanye wrote on X before his account was disabled. Shopify took down Yeezy, because it was listing a produc
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It’s definitely not worse than reddit. Reddit has become a hysterical left-wing echo chamber. You cannot visit any default sub reddit without being bombarded with hyper-partisan conspiracy theories about politics and economic issues.
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It's amazing how everything is a debate in America, even blantantly obvious things like getting rid of the penny. The Nickle should also go.
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We should get rid of the Nickle as well. It also costs 3x it's face value to produce, and is also effectively worthless. Many other countries have 10c or 20c as their smallest denomination.
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Blind hiring studies tend to disprove that, at least in the tech industry. When you remove all indicators of gender companies hire fewer women, which means knowing that a candidate is a woman results in higher likelihood to hire than not kn
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Tech companies keep trialing blind hiring, then abandoning it, because it results in fewer women being hired rather than more. Women-only recruiting events exist. Companies incentivise managers to hire and promote women over men. I’ve seen
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That’s a great anecdote for you, however it doesn’t change the fact that for an average 20 year old, it will be substantially easier in this industry to be hired and promoted as a woman than as a man. The only reason people think differentl
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Unions standardise wages. That’s not much of a problem in most low skill roles where employee productivity exists in a narrow band, but it will never be tolerated by high skill workers. It’s not just unions, you also see this effect when em
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You're mistaking prevalence for bias. There's always going to be more men interested in this field than women, which means you'll see more men in class and more men in industry (read Damore's essay for why). However, tha
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Understand that discrimination is experienced individually. You cannot fix the discrimination an individual experiences by discriminating against a different individual in return. You cannot "balance" the discrimination a group of
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Of course they do, but as a cohort, young men experience substantially more discrimination than young women, because they are being punished for the sins of previous generations. If you look at the general experiences of a young men, you’ll
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The problem is you’re clearly talking about this from the perspective of a personal anecdote. If you look at the general experiences of a young men, you’ll see that they are discriminated against in university admissions, in early career hi
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I’m not sure if it’s automated behaviour, but I often notice my posts go to -3 within a minute of being posted then climb back to positive over time.
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Unions would be terrible for tech workers, because of the high variance in output between individuals. Your best workers would be underpaid and leave, your worst overpaid and stay.
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So basically, “discrimination is okay when I do it”. It’s concerning how many people don’t see other people as individuals and instead see them as classes. This intellectual laziness results in discriminatory outcomes because it presumes th
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> Women have been screwed over forever and still are. The first part of this sentence is correct, the later part isn’t. Women are now significantly privileged over men in educational and early career opportunities. The idea that this “ba
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It's all neural nets. The differences are just implementation details (i.e. whether the transistors are carbon or silicon based).
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What you'll find is that most people form a knee jerk opinion first, most often in opposition to change, then retrospectively seek reasons to justify their opinion after the fact. In other words, people, generally, cherrypick evidence
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Discriminate just means differentiate. The parent comment isn't talking about race, they are talking about discriminating between human and human tool (bot).
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That's a completely voluntary marketing decision. There's no law requiring manufacturers to identify hand made versus machine made, and often, there aren't even clear definitions for what hand made means.

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