tomlock

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by tomlock 10y ago
I don't think the suggestion is that she can change the future in the movie. My interpretation of the phone call is that it demonstrates the reverse causality that is now possible thanks to her new understanding. It doesn't mean
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A lot of genocides have been committed between races that, particularly from an outsider's view, are quite racially similar and nearby. For example: Hutu/Tutsi, Serbians/Croatians
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What this author is trying to say is separate from the narrative people may try and build off the back of this article. The narrative built could be that journalists are mistreating successful entrepreneurs by looking for stereotypes. Also,
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One potential narrative might be that silicon valley is a meritocracy.
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I don't think there's a different comment that you could have made that would make me happier. Thank you!
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What narrative do you think this guy isn't fitting, then?
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If discrimination is a real barrier to entrepreneurship - that contradicts the narrative that entrepreneurship is an objective meritocracy.
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Conversely, this article is one of the thousands written by black entrepreneurs that this website has chosen to upvote.
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Similarly - when reading an article that has a single-line quote from a magazine - people can read all sorts of nefarious motivations into it which conveniently fit their worldview.
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Actually the URL says news.ycombinator.com
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If there's an imbalance along racial lines, any reversal to that trend is better than nothing. The ideal world is one where there's no glaring unfairness, but maybe we can address at least some of that unfairness. I'm of the
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There are plenty of systems that benefit some areas of society and not others. It sounds from your comment that you're all for an even distribution of rewards across society. Is that a fair characterization? Why is this case particu
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And in the act of teaching Koko to talk - we changed Koko.
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That's exactly why affirmative action exists: It's wrong to give extra advantages based on genetics. Therefore, giving an extra advantage to someone who is not given those other extra advantages, evens the score.
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I wonder how much, if any, influence Elon Musk managed to have on this discussion and Trump's opinion of NASA.
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I don't really intend to blame consumers more than I want to blame a society where people are forced to make compromises to survive to the next paycheck!
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My perceptions in most coin-op laundries has been that they use different brands to consumers! Additionally, at least in Australia, my perception has been that most renters are required to bring or purchase their own washing machines and re
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Bias is a stats term. I think if we look through history - there has clearly been a change in treatment of women over time. Why is it that now the treatment is reliably indicative of some underlying quality that has remained static throu
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Isn't this largely driven by consumer demand? The prices of appliances has dropped dramatically in the last few decades. Building a long-lasting appliance often requires even marginally more expensive materials - many of which are high
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>Meanwhile, the working class remain staunchly conservative.
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Its frankly incredibly odd that you're seeing this question you've posed as the focus of discussion. Your initial claim was that the working class is "staunchly conservative". Your question doesn't change that cla
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So when you say "a lot", what you mean to say is that 7 astronauts did. That's equivalent to 15% of active astronauts who are currently active or 2% from the total amount of astronauts ever active.
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I also wouldn't broadly say that Democrats are liberal. I think most political dichotomies contain broad churches. As a result I also think claims that x political view is derived from y quality of those people are simple and clumsy
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I wouldn't consider most Trump supporters to be particularly Libertarian either.
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I'm not "appealing" to it, I'm making the point that nature isn't particularly aligned with Libertarian ideals. I wouldn't consider family or tribal preferences to be particularly cogent with the philosophy of
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The fact that african-americans, who are demographically typically more "working-class" than other groups, voted that way directly contradicts his claim that the working class is "staunchly conservative". Obviously it i
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What are you basing that claim on? >Meanwhile, the working class remain staunchly conservative. This flies in the face of the facts surrounding who voted for who in the last election - if you consider Democrats to be liberal. What diffe
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If you consider democrats liberal then perhaps you could help me understand why 88% of african-americans voted for Hillary? Also do you consider unions to be liberal?
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The article focuses mostly on the results of anonymous surveys.
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Depends on what you mean by Libertarian, or what you mean by Nature. Social primates generally have collective senses of justice (if my friend gets a grape I should get a grape too). Even on a single-cell level self-sacrifice for the colle

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