spaceseaman

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by spaceseaman 9y ago
The issue is that large corporations like these don't care about norms or morals. They only care about the law because as a collective they can shift any moral responsibility into ambiguity. No duder at paypal thinks they're moral
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
We can always ask people to not be jerks. Free speech is indeed a societal concept. In the context of This conversation on this subject however, it is a legal one. We are asking what Paypal should do . Paypal is a corporation. They sho
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
You collectively organize to make changes at a government level rather than a local one? That's why governments exist - You can't do anything mate. You must organize. > Why should I waste my life for other people that don'
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I'm sorry, of course he didn't use those words exactly you're correct. There's no need to be so pedantic though, clearly that's the concept the people he is responding to are talking about. A says that this should
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Yeah I meant in terms of what the forum can regulate on behalf of its members - not in terms of the forum's collective ability to speak. I worded that badly I'll admit.
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
We wouldn't want to waste our time and do something productive like encourage renewable forms of fuel would we? (via things like taxation which could account for the real external costs of fossil fuels). That would be ridiculous. Let
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> Nobody should get any praise for just not violating the law That's not people's point. Sorry but you're taking the wrong idea from the argument. The point is that there are no laws in the United States that demand privat
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Then why shift such responsibilities to the private sector in the first place? If they must be regulated as stringently as the public sector (especially in terms of things like free speech) then they should be public goods. I think it'
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
From my anecdotal perspective, at private institutions (especially the Ivy's) your statement seems accurate. For public universities tuitions have been skyrocketing without any increase in scholarship funding. In fact my school recentl
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> I am confident that by the end of the week we will hear substantive comments on the technical claims in the paper. I am amazed by the speed with which mathematicians are able to quickly congregate and debate such things like this. It m
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Neat! There seems to be some slight bugs with the input being not read correctly but this is kind of cool.
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I'm not saying you throw it out. Read more carefully, don't put words in my mouth please. > Finding several anecdotes from people who have seen the sky blue can never confirm my null hypothesis were my words exactly. May I ask
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rolls eyes Is there some reason programmers feel this need to bring up workarounds when I'm looking for an actual solution? If I could count how many answers on StackOverflow are just "well if you use JQuery..." or "We
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> I'd be willing to bet that we'll soon see comments full of anecdotes from people who have never seen sexism or this kind of harassment in their workplaces claiming that there is no problem. I think this happens because people
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I think they're trying to claim it's a pandemic in Silicon Valley culture, rather than a pandemic in business culture universally. While I haven't seen many hard statistics on the matter, the cultural interpretation is defini
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
DefenseOfTheAncients https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_the_Ancients
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
It's hilarious watching people struggle with this. The whole point is that you have to think about it - it depends on philosophy. In other words, it's all in your head. A real, physical, "negative apple" does not exist i
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Yes but this is looking from the micro-POV. The point is to look beyond your own achievements, since in the grand-scale they are really only yours. You should be proud of overcoming your challenges because YOU overcame THEM rather than eval
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> and no doubt a cartharsis for many Right-leaning Googlers And this is where I kind of break down on the whole argument. I've already made similar comments below, but I sort of what to expand on this sentiment. I do not think that
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
He's pointing out that you can use your argument as a counter-argument to yourself. As a result, your point is more or less moot, and all that remains is an appeal to cognitive bias (women enter these fields for "fun" or to f
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
- you mean political and sociological forces that unnaturally perturb so called "natural trends"? If you claim Iran could potentially have such factors that encourage women to enter the field in "above-average" numbers,
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I think your tone is a little smug but completely agree. To be frank I empathize with the writer of the article a bit. He worked very hard to achieve his position, and with that hard work comes a belief that the system he achieved in was in
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The whole point of his post is that ALL governments are founded on this idea. You would not have a need for government in the first place if it wasn't for undesirable people doing undesirable things. In the United States, we founded ou
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How so? The poster displayed a clear example of anti-intellectualism. It's a claim that there is no proof besides "pretty charts and cartoon graphics". Who exactly here isn't engaging? I suppose the old saying holds true
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Directly in the article: "What's especially intriguing is that this study reveals that people didn't like to see other people's fortunes reversed. So this isn't about selfishness or protecting what's yours. It&